Palin Was for the 'Bridge to Nowhere,' Too

Mythbusters, start your engines! A key rationale that John McCain uses to justify his choice of Sarah Palin as anything but a crass, cynical play for disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters, is that Palin is a reformer who opposed the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere."

The problem? Palin fought for the bridge before she fought against it. As George Stephanopoulos pointed out to a flat-footed Lindsay Graham:

But Senator, she turned against that, only she campaigned for it in her 2006 race, and turned against it in 2007 only after it became a national joke.

Watch a video compilation, via ThinkProgress:



This is all more evidence the Palin was not properly vetted for this job, and reinforces the image of John McCain as a reckless decision maker. Even his most central claim about Palin turns out not to be true. For further viewing, here's Palin addressing the secessionist Alaska Independence Party, whose founder once proclaimed:

"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."

Add the word "God" and you've practically got Jeremiah Wright!