Palin won't back off bridge claim, despite criticism

[RamboLiberal]

LANCASTER, Pennsylvania (AFP) — Sarah Palin refused Tuesday to back off claims that she blocked the much-derided "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska, despite mounting criticism that the Republican vice presidential hopeful is exaggerating her history of slashing wasteful spending.

The Alaskan governor has made her rejection of the federally-funded bridge project, which would have linked a handful of Alaskans to an airport at vast expense, a key part of her stump speech, and repeated the line again Tuesday at rallies in Lebanon, Ohio and Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

"I told Congress thanks but no thanks for that bridge to nowhere up in Alaska. If our state wanted a bridge we were going to build it ourselves," Palin told the cheering crowds.

Rival Barack Obama's campaign immediately shot back with an email to reporters highlighting articles in publications such as The Wall Street Journal disputing Palin's claim of full responsibility for canceling the project, which she initially supported, and noting that she never sent the money back to Washington but instead spent it on other projects.

"On the same day that dozens of news organizations have exposed Governor Palin's phony bridge to nowhere claim as a 'naked lie,' she and John McCain continue to repeat the claim in their stump speeches. Maybe tomorrow she'll tell us she sold it on eBay," Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor said in the statement.

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Keep it up shitbag! A liitle more of this & the voters will say "Thanks but no thanks"

[1corona4u]

2. Psycho....

[BrklynLib at work]

3. Wasn't KKKarl Rove who said that ifyou keep repeating alie long enough people

will start believing it is the truth?

And from what I have heard about the barracuda, it is not in her nature to admit a mistake or a lie.. She will stick to her lies until she is under the quicksand..

Great article about Rove and his lies
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/889705/karl_rove_a_genetic_misfit_.html

[bklyncowgirl]

9. No, I believe that was Nazi propeganda minister Goebels

Rove is a mere disciple to the master.

[Bleacher Creature]

4. She doesn't just repeat the lie, she uses the same line over and over again.

It's both disingenuous AND unoriginal.

[Cosmocat]

11. CHRIST SAKES

If this was a god darned D, the media would be KILLING her, but they kind of just do what they do - Gregory actually implied it was "good strategy" for her to keep doing ...

WHY THE F IS IT "GOOD STRATEGY" for an R to lie, but if an R propogates some specious BS about a D that is no way reality, they take the D to school for it!

NOT TO MENTION, as you noted, she KEEPS USING THE SAME GOD DARNED LINE!

[Bobbie Jo]

5. Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, I rest my case.....Bush Twin

separated at birth.

[justiceischeap]

6. I wonder if she's still using note cards for this speech she's given, what 20-30 times now? (nt)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. Wheels go round and round.... let me know when they cure

some of the homosexuals in Alaska.... jiminy cricket where is the republican party going with this one???

[Blarch]

8. Why should she back off ?

The American people will believe anything.

[and-justice-for-all]

10. typical GOP tactic...

She knows she is lying, but she has to keep up the lie so it then becomes 'false'. Tell a lie long enough...

[Fla Dem]

12. Mary Matalan really spun the whole bridge to nowhere on David Gregory's show.

Really made her sound like a serious, deliberative executive. They really have their spin down for all the inconsistencies that have been dug up in the last 10 days.