McCain Campaign Piles Up New Falsehoods On Bridge To Nowhere

[dkf]

McCain and his advisers are now conceding that, yes, Sarah Palin was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it -- but they're casting this as more proof of her reform credentials.

In so doing, the McCain camp is piling new falsehoods atop the old ones.

McCain himself rolled out the new push-back on the campaign trail today, saying the following:

"The fact is that Gov. Palin learned that earmarks are bad and she did say, we don't need our bridge to nowhere, and we will pay for it ourselves if we need it. I mean, that is just a fact."

Meanwhile, McCain adviser Tucker Bounds appeared today on MSNBC, where he acknowledged that Palin used to favor the bridge, but said she turned against it for good reasons.

"But as it became more wasteful, the budget ballooned, it became a staple for wasteful spending, she said No," Bounds said. "And she was the one that drove the nail in the coffin that killed the bridge to nowhere."

Nope.

It's bogus to say that Palin turned on the project because the costs ballooned. The real reason she came around to opposing it was not that the overall costs went up -- the project was always a boondoggle, and costs were always going up -- but that one particular element of the project's cost ballooned: The portion that Alaska would have to pay, instead of getting the money through federal pork.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/mccain_campaign_piling_up_the.php

[BOSSHOG]

1. I think Mark Twain said it best

ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH AND YOU WILL NEVER HAVE TO REMEMBER ANYTHING. Gosh, the mccain camp might have to hire memory coaches.

[wilt the stilt]

2. hammer they kept the money n/t

why were they allowed to keep the money

[rucky]

3. I guess Ted Stevens isn't such a bad guy, after all.

:rofl:

[ErinBerin84]

4. "thanks, but no thanks....we'll be keeping the money."

[City Lights]

5. She kept the money, John.

End of story. No reformer. No results. No Mavrickism here. Just more Mooselini. You, John Sydney McCain III, are a shameless liar. You have no honor. You have no integrity. You have no decency.

[Bread and Circus]

6. They heap a couple new lies to cover their other one...

if anyone thinks McCain and Palin represent a change and a chance for transparent government, they are really misinformed.

[pdxmom]

7. She learned? How many years did she get earmarks for Wasilla? And

how many earmarks has she gotten for Alaska just this year? She's learned nothing except how to play politics and lie like all the other Repukes.