“That is one hundred percent untrue,” said the McCain official, who would only speak on the condition of anonymity in deference to McCain. “All those bills are from her personal attorney Thomas Van Flein, mostly relating to the Troopergate investigation and other ethics investigations. It is not legal to pay for those investigations out of general election funds, even if the campaign was so inclined.”

After checking comments on my latest HuffPo article, Palin-Bachmann Syndrome™ , I spotted a news item about Sarah Palin. It seems she was under a misapprehension that the McCain campaign had charged her $500,000 to vet her for VP. The McCain camp has issued a denial:

It makes sense; for $500,000, they should have known her liabilities. For all the surprises McCain got, I doubt the vetting cost $5,000 or even $500. I might even know people who’d do a more thorough job for $50.

Oh, and one of my commenters has given me a scientific name for Palin-Bachmann Syndrome™: