It turns out that Sarah never sold a plane on Ebay. This is sorta reminds me of Clinton's Bosnia tale.
According to Jason Linkins at the Huffington Post, the plane was sold by an aircraft broker.
Via Radar, the facts are these:
After going unsold for months, the jet was put into the hands of Turbo North Aviation, an Anchorage aircraft broker, which put an asking price of $2.45 million on the nearly $2.7 million jet. It quickly sold to Alaska businessman Larry Reynolds for $2.1 million ($31,000 of which went to Turbo Aviation). Today the Westwind II jet spends its days ushering wealthy hunters around Alaska and Russia
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So why on earth would Palin lie about this, knowing that it would bring scrutiny to this story, and knowing that the scrutiny would reveal that a) the auction wasn't successful, b) she lost the State of Alaska's money on the deal, and c) the state's valuable resource had basically become a luxury for wealthy elites? I have no idea! But whatever! It's definitely not the worst lie she's ever told.
Since Palin won't be taking any questions from the media, it looks like we will never get an explanation on this one.
Since Palin and the GOP decline to define Palin themselves, looks like we have to do it.
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Update 2x: Link to video saying she "auctioned" the plane http://www.youtube.com/... I think people who are getting riled by the semantics of "sold", "put up" or "auctioned" are missing the point.
They have made this a character election and this goes straight to the issue of character.