Those "millions of dollars" Palin claimed were being wasted on lawyers defending her against frivolous ethics investigations? That money would've been spent on those lawyers anyway.
But there's new evidence to suggest the argument is just factually wrong. Greg Sargent reported that the governor's own office conceded yesterday that money used to respond to the ethics charges are part of fixed costs that would have gone to the same lawyers, whether the charges were filed it or not. The funds wouldn't have to go schools, police, or transportation, as Palin claimed. The $1.9 million "was arrived at by adding up attorney hours spent on fending off complaints -- based on the fixed salaries of lawyers in the governor's office and the Department of Law. The money would have gone to the lawyers no matter what they were doing."
Why is she so desperate? Why is she continuing to make stuff up? What's she hiding?