Palin's bridge to flip-flop

Are you really going to base your vote on a "bridge"? How rediculas is that, there are more important issues to worry about like not allowing a muslim terrorist to take over our country! PLEASE!

I'm glad some wrote something about her so I didn't have to write a discussion. First of all the more I read about this women the more and more I dislike her. For one I still think this is a stunt by John McCain to gain the female vote. Before last week I didn't know who this lady was. That's like me becoming the VP nominee. Who the hell knows me other than people around me. Would you vote for me? Most likely not. Grant it she is known by the people of Alaska but to everyday Americans that don't live in Alaska we know nothing about her except her daughter is pregnant. And we only got two months to learn enough about her to see if see is fit to be VP. 2 MONTHS. Thats not enough time to decide on a VP that we know nothing about. It is a lot more time then it took McCain to choose her as VP. Considering it took him under a week to pick her as VP. Second of all, she had not showed any intention of running for President more less the Vice President. I mean at least Hilary Clinton showed her interest in being the President grant it she was not selected the nominee for VP either but if she would have been then people would have seen her ability to be a VP. Sarah Palin hasn't none anything to show the people of America that she wants to be VP or President other that excepting the nominee. Hell if I was selected as VP I would except it. Doesn't mean I know what the hell I'm doing. Does it? NO! I think a good VP should be someone who has a interest in being President because thats what the VP becomes if something happens to the President. But no she has not showed any interest what so ever in being the President. This is just my opinion.

_ I would like to beg any future posters on this subject to actually research what the bridge to nowhere is before they say anything. ...That said, I already knew that she actually supported the bridge. I didn't know she was actually saying she didn't, last I heard McCain was saying that for her. But still. *thumbs up* Thanks for posting this.

Bingo! You caught on to that too! Some good nosey reporter is going to dig deeper and deeper...she had better watch what she says. There is always a record or paper trail...

Yup, the very first 'credential' the GOP used to qualify Palin has been exposed as a grade-A shameless lie. I guess that's what happens when the VP pick is someone the nominee has only met once in person before (oh, and spoken on the phone with once for five minutes too). Oh, and did you hear? Some of Palin's earmarks are ACTUALLY on McCain's infamous "pork list": http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-earmarks3-2008sep03,0,6145252.story Talk about irony! Could the Republican campaign have chosen (because you can tell this wasn't McCain's choice--McCain wanted Lieberman, but Rove said no) a worse complement for McCain?

I didn't know anything about this bridge to nowhere business. But, it doesn't surprise me to hear that politicians flip-flop. In particular, the Republicans seem to flip-flop and self rationalize on pretty basic issues. For example, Clinton lied about getting a personal favor from Monica.. "IMPEACH HIM!" cries the Republican. Bush lies about their being weapons of mass destruction or any tie between Iraq and Bin Laden. Deafening silence. :) Republicans would really attack the "moral fiber" of a democratic candidate who had a pregnant teenage daughter. But, when it happens to one of their people it is.. "a personal matter." (Which, by the way, yes it is a personal matter.) ... That said, I think we have to accept that people do sometimes change their minds about issues. What might have seemed to make sense before the election might have ceased making sense after. While it is tempting to see this as hypocrisy.. maybe it was just a case of looking at the issue more closely. In the bridge controversy, I can see every justification in wanting to call Palin out on the reversal. I just, personally, don't think I'll attack this one.

*Singing* "Oh this is never going to end, and it will go on and on my friends..." Yes, I have heard about Palin's "Bridge to Nowhere", and she said that she was against it, but then funded it, and then took back the money. McCain and Palin "The Campaign to Nowhere".

From Palin's speech tonight: "I told the Congress "thanks, but no thanks," for that Bridge to Nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, we'd build it ourselves. When oil and gas prices went up dramatically, and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska." http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/sarah_palins_address_to_the_rn.html If she messed with that money she'll have to explain herself because in the vice presidential debates Biden will bring it up. Bet on it. And from now on it would be nice if you list your sources.

Amazing how quickly someone will believe something about a person they dislike without doing any research. This seems to be happening on both sides of the political spectrum. Shame on those doing it.

I am overwhelmed by your love for President Obama! I hope we can instate the new Marxist Regime quickly to change America for the better as fast as possible! Vote Obama 2008!