[UCFRoadWarrior]

This is really starting to sound like the DU....I mean defending a politician for taking $27 mil federal aid (for a town of 6700).

Obviously Palin isnt really that conservative, when it comes to federal money...

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Well, the DU folks have a martyr complex, and given the nature and slimyness of the concerted nutroots attacks on everything Palin over the weekend, can you really blame anyone for being defensive?

Our candidate is being subjected to what the DU’ers only imagine happens to theirs.

[tiredoflaundry]

No, DU would have said ,”she accomplished this only by giving out sexual favors.”. If you are going to compare us to DU, get it right.

[old curmudgeon]

I hope you meant that in sarcasm.

Otherwise, you miss the point.

There is a real difference in lobbying for money through the front door and getting earmarks, which are essentially through the back door, or if I might be more to the point, under the table.

[jch10]

The grants Palin’s city received sound like sensible requests to me. It doesn’t look frivilous or greedy. She didn’t ask for salmon diet funds or money for establishing a uses for melting snow center. She asked for money to maintain her city for all the citizens.

Obtaining available grant money is what city officials do. The mis-use of these funds is where the problem lies.