More drama from Sarah Palin

In the best Michele Bachmann/Carrie Prejean tradition, Sarah Palin is apparently out to settle old scores with those who she believes wronged her.  And her list, like Bachmann's and Prejean's is tediously long.  (For all their talk about the importance of self reliance, these folks sure do whine a lot about how others screwed them over.) 

Palin's new book is expected to list, essentially, the whole McCain for President campaign, Katie Couric, David Letterman, pretty much all the media, and Charles Gibson as the evil wrongdoers who kept the real Sarah Palin "bottled up" and prevented America from discovering the real Sarah Palin essence.

The most recent controversy is her claim the McCain campaign asked her to pay $50K in legal bills that were related to her selection as Sen. McCain's running mate. 

According to the book, Mrs Palin asked officials at the Republican National Committee and what was left of the McCain campaign if they would help her financially. She says she was told that if Mr McCain had won, the bills would have been paid, but since he lost, the bills were her responsibility.

Trevor Potter, the McCain campaign's general counsel, told the Associated Press the campaign had not asked Mrs Palin to pay a legal bill. (Link)

This seems like something that ought to be relatively easy to prove.  If Ms. Palin did, indeed, make the accusation in her book and the McCain campaign can prove that they didn't ask for the reimbursement, Palin's credibility is in the tank.  But, it may be something like the old question about the tree crashing in the forest: if Sarah Palin is caught in a lie, do any of her followers really care?

And on the accusation that John McCain and his campaign effectively "bottled up" Sarah Palin?  Let me be the first to offer my appreciation for some rare, but sound judgment on the part of John McCain.