Sarah Palin owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. I officially label today a "Palin-palooza"!

Gov. Sarah Palin owes more than a half million dollars to an Anchorage law firm that has defended her against ethics complaints, and she may create a legal fund to pay the bill, she said Friday.

Legal bills have mounted fighting complaints that she called partisan, false and frivolous, starting with "the politically motivated Troopergate probe," Palin said in a written response to questions.

She said the legal bills all stem from her actions as governor.

"I must defend against these baseless ethics accusations out of my own pocket as the use of public monies to do so could itself violate state law," Palin wrote.

The debt is owed to the Alaska law firm Clapp, Peterson, Van Flein, Tiemessen & Thorsness, according to her financial disclosure.

The disclosure said only that she owed "hundreds of thousands of dollars." On Friday in the written statement, attorney Thomas Van Flein wouldn't give a precise number but said it was "a substantial debt." Palin said she didn't have an exact figure yet but "the debt is over a half a million dollars."

Palin continues to play the victim card throughout this article. It has become her favorite fall back position whenever anybody confronts her about the things that she has caused through negligence, vengeance, or arrogance.

Here is a PDF of the Palin's financial statement. It lists donations made out to Sarah, expenses form the McCain/Palin campaign, gifts that she and her family have received, and more. All in all it makes for some very interesting reading.

And here is a PDF of the questions Lisa Demer asked the Governor, and her lawyer Tom Van Flein, about this financial disclosure. VERY interesting stuff contained in this, and Sarah's defensive posture is quite evident throughout.

Now the part that really caught my eye was a claim that Barack Obama's campaign had contacted the Trooper's Union up here about the reassignment of Walt Monegan. It is further claimed that CNN reported this. I was surprised by that allegation, because though I remember that the McCain/Palin people claimed that Obama had operatives up here but I certainly never ran into them.

As far as I am aware the campaign NEVER contacted the union. So I searched to find where CNN had reported this. The only story I located was this one. But when you read the report the only reference you find to "Obama operatives" is right here:

Former Palin Press Secretary Meg Stapleton told reporters in Anchorage that the power probe has been "hijacked" by "Obama operatives" for the Democratic presidential nominee -- namely, Alaska state Sen. Hollis French, the Democratic lawmaker managing the investigation and an Obama supporter. French has denied working on behalf of the Obama campaign.

So the "Obama operative" they identify is Hollis French, an Alaskan legislator whose job it was to determine if Sarah Palin had indeed violated the trust of the Alaskan people? And because he is a Democrat, that supported the Democratic candidate for President, somehow that makes this a political hitjob? Even though the investigation was launched BEFORE anybody knew Palin was going to be chosen for McCain's VP? Well how paranoid is that?

And look who gave CNN that information.

Meg Stapleton.

So Sarah Palin refers to a report by CNN that "proves" that the Obama campaign hijacked the "Troopergate" investigation. However the source of this "proof" is Meg Stapleton, who was working for the McCain/Palin campaign at the time. Essentially Palin uses a report based on the lies that her people told CNN as "proof" that she was politically attacked by the Obama campaign.

Does this woman take personal responsibility for anything? Never mind, I already know the answer to that.