Debt

As mayor of a town around the same size as mine, Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin managed to rack up a large amount of debt -- at least partly, it seems, by not buying land early in a construction process, but instead encouraging a company to buy it, and then leasing: only to discover that the town couldn't do that, had to buy the land, and in the process, ended up paying out a huge amount extra.
Anyway, the debt is apparently on the order of $3000 per capita: a figure that even puts Geo. W. Bush to shame! A true conservative!

Yours, unimpressed by her,
N.