The sweet lady from Alaska just dropped several notches on my confidence scale. I thought every Conservative knew what a fraud Ron Paul is when it comes to earmarks and government spending.
His little trick is to latch onto a bill that is a lead pipe cinch to PASS both houses; load that bill up with earmarks for HIS district, and then VOTE AGAINST IT. Voila! Plausible deniability! He can always claim he voted AGAINST that big spending bill.
Yeah, man, earmarks are bad. We need to let the bureaucrats in D.C. decide where all the money is spent.