Update: Thanks Fox News for Being Honest About the REAL Reason Palin Quit

We all know why Sarah Palin left office, but in her usual babbling manner she tried to point attention towards other things.

Well, Sarah Palin tried to give the excuse that she was leaving office because of all the money that Alaska was spending on her ethics complaints.  It was a waste of resources she said.  It’s taking money away from other, more important, things she said.  Well, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

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.

During her resignation speech last week, Palin presented herself as a heroic defender of the taxpayer. She said that money being spent on government lawyers to defend against these “frivolous ethics violations” could be “going to things that are very important, like troopers and roads and teachers and fish research.” Palin repeated exactly the same point this week.

But David Murrow, a spokesperson for the Governor, said in an interview that much of this money was budgeted to the lawyers in advance and would have gone to them anyway, even if state lawyers hadn’t been defending against these ethics complaints.

-From Who Runs Gov-

So, I guess her only excuse now is how she was treated by David Letterman.  Yeah, she’s ready to be the President of the United States.  As long as no one in the entire world says anything that she finds offensive.  She still has three ethics complaints open, and maybe a fourth on the way.