I'm trying to decide which is worse: John McCain not knowing how many houses he owns or Sarah Palin having taxpayers pay for her to sleep in her own house.
Both are pretty bad and show that McCain and Palin are out of touch.
On which is worse, I'm leaning towards McCain not knowing how many houses he owns.
But, it is almost comical to see the contortions the McCain campaign is going through to justify Palin getting paid to sleep in her house:
Ms. Palin’s staff and the McCain campaign said the charges to the state were entirely appropriate under Alaska rules.Um, just because she could do it, didn't mean she should do it. Isn't that their whole argument on earmarks? Elected officials can do them, but shouldn't?
“Every action taken by Governor Palin was open and transparent,” said Maria Comella, a spokeswoman for the McCain-Palin campaign. “It is only logical that if she is traveling for the government, that her expenses be paid for.”
Ms. Comella said that Ms. Palin’s travel expenses were “80 percent below” those of her predecessor, Frank H. Murkowski, and that she had achieved this savings by selling the state’s plane, flying coach when traveling on the state’s business and driving herself to work.
“Her actions mirrored her promise when she went into office of assuring accountability and transparency in government,” Ms. Comella said.
Ms. Comella declined, however, to release the details of Ms. Palin’s travels as governor and the per diems that she had received.
