Palin Admits To Her Bridge To Nowhere & Earmark Lies; Flip-Flops On Clinton & Global Warming

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Palin blows it in latest part of ABC interview...

Palin's interview with ABC tonight was a trainwreck. The vast majority of her answers made no sense. After spending weeks claiming she was against the Bridge to Nowhere and making a big show of it with her "thanks, but no thanks" line, she admitted now that she was for it originally. After spending weeks claiming that she has always been against earmarks, she admitted now that she requested (and got) hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks for Alaska, including millions of dollars on CRAB RESEARCH, and went on to DEFEND it. How does Alaska wanting money for crab research differ at all from other states wanting money to research animals and environments local to their state? I'd say that 99% of all earmark requests are for things just as important, if not more so, than Alaska crab research. McCain is on record as saying he is against all spending of that kind, yet Palin not only did it, she defending doing it tonight.

The most striking answer though was when Gibson asked her to list three ways she would fix the economy. She said she'd cut taxes. Bush already did just that. She said she'd rely more on the private sector. Yep, that's also what Bush did. And she'd say she would control spending (but, of course, we cannot cut the extremely important Alaska crab research) so we can get out of debt even though every economic expert is on record saying that BOTH McCain AND Obama's economic plans would INCREASE the debt (the reality is that we won't get out of debt unless we raise taxes or if we cut huge chunks of spending on things like the military, social security, medicare, and veterans benefits -- cutting minor programs here and there won't erase a $9 trillion debt when the majority of our spending goes to a handful of things). So basically, her economic plan is the EXACT economic plan Bush had in 2000 and what Bush has, for the most part, implemented over the past eight years. And if you think Palin is going to reduce government spending while defending millions of dollars in spending for crab research in Alaska, I have a bridge to sell you.

But the thing that really exposed Palin as totally transparent in her motives were her comments on Hillary Clinton. She praised Clinton for showing "grit" and "grace" during the primaries. Is she serious? During the actual primaries, before Palin became the VP nominee and before she was enlisted to pick off Clinton supporters, she called Clinton a whiner for crying sexism and for complaining about media coverage during the primaries, going as far as to say that Clinton was doing women an injustice. But now all of a sudden Clinton is her hero. Right.


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"she stopped the bridge to nowhere".

They need to be called LIARS every single minute of every day until the election.

They are FUCKING LIARS.

this morning she had dropped that claim.