Turns out that Sarah Palin was not exactly honest about that either.
This comes via CNN:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin bolstered her fiscal-conservative credentials early in her term by putting her predecessor’s state jet up for auction online.
“That luxury jet was over the top,” she told Republican National Convention delegates when she accepted the party’s vice presidential nomination Wednesday night. “I put it on eBay.”
Since Palin was chosen as Arizona Sen. John McCain’s running mate last week, the story has become a cornerstone of the Republican effort to paint Palin as a reformer who took on her own party establishment.
“How many saw her speech a couple of nights ago? Wasn’t it fabulous?” McCain said Friday during a campaign stop in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. “You know what I enjoyed the most? She took the luxury jet that was purchased by her predecessor and sold it on eBay — and made a profit.”
But it turns out the twin-engine Westwind II was a tough sell on the Web — and the state eventually pulled it offline and sold it through an ordinary brick-and-mortar brokerage, for a loss, a spokeswoman said Friday.
Now I could set here in very easily rip on Sarah Palin for this. However, I am simply gonna say this. If Sarah Palin wants to be the Vice President of United States of America, she’s going to have to be much more more forthcoming in her gubernatorial experience in Alaska. Telling the people the United States of America that you sold a plane on e-bay and then to find out that you did not, is not a good way to endear yourself to the Independents here in America.
Misstating facts is one thing, but outright lying is another. And it’s obvious that Sarah Palin tried to float a little white lie past the media, and failed horribly.
I just wonder if Michelle Malkin and the rest of the herd of Conservative Bloggers will accuse me of being sexist for reporting this little fact? Of course, I don’t expect Michelle Malkin to even report this, seeing she’s taking funding from the Heritage Foundation and from the Neo-Conservative Jewish lobby.
She did put the jet on ebay.
(Um…. NO kidding, I wrote that. That’s NOT the point, the fucking point is, IT DID NOT SELL ON E-BAY, LIKE SHE SAID IT DID, In fact, they had to sell it through a broker, because IT WOULDN’T SEE ON E-BAY. So, Palin LIED ABOUT THAT!… Geez, fucking Republicans are such idiots! -Pat)
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