The whole “Troopergate” issue was going on while the McCain camp was vetting her and her legal response to it, after being picked and which created those expenses, was created by the McCain campaign telling her to dig in a deal with it the Washington, DC way, with lawyers and no comments to the press. So while the McCain camp can split hairs over whether those expenses were part of the actual vetting process or not, those costs were created by the advice of the McCain campaign for dealing with an issue that came up in the vetting process and sticking her with that bill was wrong. Were people in the mainstream media watching the same campaign I was watching?
This illustrates exactly why I’m sick of Washington and still support Sarah Palin, even though I think she has flaws. What she says isn’t carefully parsed lawyer speech and may not always be technically 100% accurate but it’s accurate about what matters and you don’t need to be a laywer to parse what she might be hiding in what she says.
I have not read the book yet to know what the “vetting expenses” entailed from Gov. Palin’s point of view. It may be wholly different that what McBackstabber is saying.