She also campaigned against pork barrel spending when she was McCain's running mate.  (To his credit, McCain has never asked for a dollar of earmarked funds for Arizona.)
What a hypocrite!  According to the website,  https://news.spreadit.org/pork-barrel-spendingwhat-is-pork-barrel-spending/
" Before Sarah Palin became mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, the town got zero Pork-barrel spending. After Sarah Palin was named mayor, with the help of the Anchorage law firm of Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh, she got $67 million in Pork-barrel spending for the town of 6,700 residents that’s $4,000 per person.
While governor of Alaska, Palin asked for $550 million in Pork barrel spending in her first year in office, and for 31 Pork barrel spending line items totaling $198 million in her second year before she was forced to resign over abuse of her office."
And what about the state of Alaska?  Another website states:
What about the huge transportation bill of 2005?  Huge as the bill was, it wasn't quite huge enough for Republican Representative Don Young of Alaska, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. ''It's not as big as what he'd like," a committee spokesman said, ''but is still a very good bill and will play a major role in addressing transportation and highway needs."
One wonders what more Young could have wanted. The bill funneled upward of $941 million to 119 earmarked projects in Alaska, including $223 million for a mile-long bridge linking an island with 50 residents to the town of Ketchikan on the mainland.  The famous "bridge to nowhere", which Palin initially endorsed but later recanted her position after becoming McCain's running mate. How convenient! 
 Another $231 million was earmarked for a new bridge in Anchorage, to be named -- this was specified in the legislation -- "Don Young's Way."
There is $3 million for a film ''about infrastructure that demonstrates advancements in Alaska, the last frontier." The bill even doffs its cap to Young's wife, Lu: The House formally called it ''The Transportation Equity Act -- a Legacy for Users," or TEA-LU.
Though Alaska, one of smallest states in terms of population, leads the nation in pork-barrel spending, it is by no means the only state that has benefitted from pork barrel spending by Republicans.
All of these Republicans, while espousing eliminating government waste in the federal government, had no qualms about adding pork to this same bill to benefit their state.  .
Christmas didn't come early just for Alaska. Meander through the bill's endless line items and you find a remarkable variety of ''highway" projects, many of which have nothing to do with highways:
 Horse riding facilities in Virginia ($600,000).
 A snowmobile trail in Vermont ($5.9 million).
Parking for New York's Harlem Hospital ($8 million).
 A bicycle and pedestrian trail in Tennessee ($532,000).
 A daycare center and park-and-ride facility in Illinois ($1.25 million).
 Dust control mitigation for rural Arkansas ($3 million).
The National Packard Museum in Ohio ($2.75 million). A historical trolley project in Washington ($200,000). And on and on and on, all under a Republican President, by the way.
If Carl Sandburg had lived to see this massive avalanche of bacon greasing its way down Capitol Hill, he would have named Congress, not Chicago, the hog butcher for the world.
Or perhaps he would simply have seconded P.J. O'Rourke's timeless observation in ''Parliament of Whores": ''Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
To read more about Republican waste in government spending, go to:  https://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/08/04/the_republican_pork_barrel/
Now, we have these Republican tea baggers in Congress stating that they plan to eliminate pork barreling spending.  Well, guess who is giving them the most flak?  That's right!  Two "old bull "Republicans. 
“This debate doesn't save any money, which is why it's kind of exasperating to some of us who really want to cut spending and get the federal government's discretionary accounts under control,” avowed Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Whip,  on Face The Nation last Sunday.  RIGHT, Mitch!!!!
Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma was even more blunt. “The ban doesn’t accomplish anything,” he told POLITICO (https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40128623/ns/politics-capitol_hill/ 
Keep an eye on this. Even though I agree with them (I can't believe I'm saying this), it is going to be the first failure of the Tea Bagger candidates.   I promise, there will be more.