McCain hitches himself to the "Bridge to Nowhere" lie.

McCain defends Palin on Bridge to Nowhere

John McCain suggested today that Sarah Palin opposed the "Bridge to Nowhere" after coming to appreciate the vice of earmarks.

"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," McCain said in an interview with WWBT's Ryan Nobles, a reporter for the Richmond, Va., NBC affilliate. "I mean, that is just a fact."

McCain did the interview as part of a series of short satellite chats with network affilliates in key states.

Palin's record on the controversial project is a bit more complicated than McCain suggests. She supported it in her 2006 gubernatorial campaign and the came to oppose it only after the federal government decided not to fund it.

"It's clear that Congress has little interest in spending any more money on a bridge between Ketchikan and Gravina Island," Palin noted in 2007 when she announced plans to abandon the project.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/McCain_defends_Palin_on_Bridge_to_Nowhere.html

tsk tsk..

which is even worse actually.

After the project was scrapped, she kept the $25 million that had already been given for it. And this was after her so-called "earmark epiphany". If she didn't agree with getting that money via earmarks, why didn't she return it?

are told they don't question it and swallow it hook, line and sinker. They are so used to being dictated to by authoritarians they believe any lie that is thrown at them. On the other hand the Democrats could tell them the truth backed up by empirical evidence, science, video and architectural diagrams and they would reject it. You just can't get through to some people. It's a rare bird who makes the transition and takes information under advisement, listens and learns.