HANNITY: Well, let's talk about some the attacks. For example, people have attacked -- all right. The RNC spent $150,000 on clothes. That's been an issue that's come up lately, and another issue, as well, the travel account for your family has been, I guess, billed to the state of Alaska.

PALIN: I'm glad that you brought up both of those. First, the RNC spending money on clothes. Those clothes are not my property. We had three days of using clothes that the RNC purchased.

If people knew how Todd and I and our kids shop so frugally. My favorite shop is a consignment shop in Anchorage, Alaska, called Out of the Closet. And my shoe store is called Shoe Fly in Juneau, Alaska.

HANNITY: Yes.

PALIN: It's not -- you know, it's not Fifth Avenue type of shopping. But RNC purchasing some clothes that are all going -- they are either returned or they're going to charity. It's not my property.

HANNITY: I heard they might be put up for auction, too.

PALIN: I think that they should be. And I think charitable organizations should be the recipients.

Three days worth of clothes for $150k? She's been wearing those clothes since the convention. How is she going to return clothes she's already worn? [Added: She may have meant return them to the RNC instead of to Neiman's and Saks.]

She is such a dissembler. In almost every answer she includes at least one "fact" that is false and a distortion of her record. Take this:

HANNITY: Travel with your family.

PALIN: About the travel with the family. Every Governor has traveled with family when it's -- when it's a first family function. And it's always been charged to the state. That's part of the job.

What I did was sell the Governor's jet so that we could fly commercial and save the state a heck of a lot of money, which we have. We've cut the state's travel budget by about $400,000 by flying commercial. And it's nothing that's -- it's not unprecedented.

She ignores that the accusation is that she had the state pay for her childrens' travel to events to which they were not invited, that were not "first family functions." Is she saying that because she saved the state money by reducing the travel budget, she's entitled to a portion of it in the form of payments for her children's non-government related travel?

From the AP report (The Bismarck Tribune October 22, 2008):

Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.

The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old Bristol for five days and four nights in a luxury hotel.

In all, Palin has charged the state $21,012 for her three daughters' 64 one-way and 12 round-trip commercial flights since she took office in December 2006. In some other cases, she has charged the state for hotel rooms for the girls.

Alaska law does not specifically address expenses for a governor's children. The law allows for payment of expenses for anyone conducting official state business.

As governor, Palin justified having the state pay for the travel of her daughters - Bristol, 17; Willow, 14; and Piper, 7 - by noting on travel forms that the girls had been invited to attend or participate in events on the governor's schedule.

But some organizers of these events said they were surprised when the Palin children showed up uninvited, or said they agreed to a request by the governor to allow the children to attend.

Several other organizers said the children merely accompanied their mother and did not participate. The trips enabled Palin, whose main state office is in the capital of Juneau, to spend more time with her children.

On the economy, she tells Hannity last night we need a spending freeze. She's frequently criticized Democrats and Obama for wanting to spend money on their special projects saying we need to rein in government spending.

We need a spending freeze so that we can get this 10 trillion-dollar debt under control. We've got to quit digging ourselves in a hole there.

What did she do today? Promise new federal spending for special needs children. From her stump speech today during which she outlined her new plan:

Under our reforms, federal funding for every special needs child will follow that child. ...

In a McCain-Palin administration, we will also fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. To his great credit, it was President Gerald Ford who signed the legislation that became the IDEA -- establishing new standards of respect and inclusion for young Americans with disabilities. From that day to this, however, the federal government's obligations under the IDEA have not been adequately met. And portions of IDEA funding have actually decreased since 2005.

This is a matter of how we prioritize the money that we spend. We've got a three trillion dollar budget, and Congress spends some 18 billion dollars a year on earmarks for political pet projects. That's more than the shortfall to fully fund the IDEA. And where does a lot of that earmark money end up? It goes to projects having little or nothing to do with the public good -- things like fruit fly research in Paris, France, or a public policy center named for the guy who got the earmark. In our administration, we're going to reform and refocus. We're going to get our federal priorities straight, and fulfill our country's commitment to give every child opportunity and hope in life.

In other words, if it's her pet project, it's okay to spend money. And yet, when in Colorado last week, she told a local news station she opposed the initiative on our ballot this year that would provide extra money for special needs kids, because it was in the form of a one cent sales tax increase on every ten dollars spent.

She routinely misrepresents the truth in answering questions about TrooperGate, saying she was cleared of all allegations of misconduct. She's even changed the name to TaserGate.

DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE UNIT CORRESPONDENT: There's one thing that's followed you negatively.

GOV. SARAH PALIN ®, VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Tasergate. Right. Right.

GRIFFIN: You call it Tasergate...

PALIN: We sure do.

Who is we? Who calls it that besides her and right wing bloggers? From "Tasergate? Palin borrows silly phrases from right wing blogs", The Minnesota Independent October 8, 2008:

The term has its origins in the right wing blogosphere, where a commenter named Teflon Dad apparently recommended the label in early September. From Teflon Dad, the term ascended the right wing food chain, from Glenn Reynolds to Rush Limbaugh to Fox News, ... Carl Cameron apparently mentioned it on-air.

Since the legislative inquiry pertains to Palins alleged abuse of power and not to the actions of State Trooper Mike Wooten ” who did in fact taser his own stepson“ the phrase makes little sense.

I can find no newspaper or mainstream media source besides Carl Cameron referring to the investigation as TaserGate on Lexis.

In the same interview she lies about the outcome of the legislature's investigation:

I don't think that it was an abuse of power of my office at all. And I was very thankful that that report cleared me of any illegal dealings or anything else.

As I quoted from the report here, the findings were the exact opposite.

She also has a tendency to pick odd phrases when she's grasping for words. Hannity asks her about Biden's comment about Obama being tested as a new President.

Palin: Now I don't want a president who invites that kind of testing. We cannot afford that on the homeland. So, that's a very discouraging to hear, Barack Obama's only running mate proclaiming that, that Barack Obama would be inviting an international crisis that would adversely effect this country, is what he was saying there.

"On the homeland?" His "only" running mate? Has anyone else had more than one running mate?

The oddity of her language aside, here's my point: From her lies about being cleared of wrongdoing in TrooperGate and her spin to rename it TaserGate to her promises to put in a spending freeze one day while promising to increase federal funding for her own pet projects the next, candidate Sarah Palin is, in my constitutionally protected opinion, disingenuous at best, a dissembler and a distorter of her own record. I wouldn't buy a used car from her let alone a used blouse.

It's time to send her packing with her new but used clothes.