The AP has posted an interesting review of Palin’s speech at the GOP convention:

PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere.”

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation.

Ooops. So much for the truth. In fact, Palin seems to have supported residents who requested funds for the bridge, until she found herself in a national spotlight. Then she turned her back on the small community asking for a bridge and started echoing the “nowhere” line.

It does not help to read that she called the Iraq War “a task that is from God” and said that “God’s will” is to get a gas line built in Alaska.

Palin is a thoughtless fundamentalist puppet, who misuses religion and physical charm to compensate for a lack of ethics. She appears to be as crooked and unscrupulous as Pendergast and if elected will seriously undermine freedom and security in America. Robert Mugabe might as well have been nominated VP.

Clearly McCain was being very disingenuous by suggesting all that matters is experience.