Another Palin lie (this time, on why she quit)

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Greg Sargent:

One of the chief reasons Sarah Palin has given for resigning as Governor of Alaska is that her state's taxpayers are being forced to spend money defending her government against ethics complaints that would otherwise fund teachers, cops, and road repair.

But in response to our questions, a spokesperson for the Alaska governor's office just gave us new information that casts serious doubt on this assertion. The revelation makes the resignation episode even stranger, and raises fresh questions about the real reasons for her abrupt departure.

Given how much she lies -- again, check out Andrew Sullivan's list -- it's hard to believe anything Palin says, and this is no exception.

We still don't know why she decided to resign. Presenting herself both as a victim (of elites out to get her) and as a defender of the taxpayer (from elites out to get them) was part of the spin, not the reality, and it played directly to the Republican base that loves her (and that hates those coastal elites that it imagines to be, in its Manichaean fantasies, its ever-so-threatening arch-enemy).

It's hardly any wonder her story is unravelling.