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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (134106)	9/3/2008 6:15:25 PM
From: SeachRE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

1)Palin favored the bridge all the way till the pressured Feds stopped pouring money in that black hole(She needed about $350 Million additionally) 2)Masilla is NOT a city but a little backward town(around 7K)with nothing, a few dozen miles outside Anchorage. 3)She did not actually win the election but obnoxious Murkowski LOST it. He would've lost to my cat. 4)Alaskans almost always support Republicans with high approval rates, but they hated Murkowski(R) at the end of his term. Palin's approval rate has been dropping significantly since the Troopergate scandal surfaced, and latter is likely to get uglier 'cause she did the same in little Masilla, something unheard of in those parts. 5)There is a lot more. Every day something POPS like her daughter's "MONONUCLEOSIS" and absence from school for several months...Were they hiding something or planning whatever? So much for the truth-seeker in you...

To: one_less who wrote (134106)	9/4/2008 10:03:10 AM
From: SeachRE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

ALASKANS: PALIN LIED ABOUT BRIDGE -- It garnered big applause in her first speech as Republican John McCain's vice presidential pick, but Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's assertion that she rejected Congressional funds for the so-called "bridge to nowhere" has upset many Alaskans. During her first speech after being named as McCain's surprise pick as a running mate, Palin said she had told Congress "'thanks but no thanks' on that bridge to nowhere." In the city Ketchikan, the planned site of the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere," political leaders of both parties said the claim was false and a betrayal of their community, because she had supported the bridge and the earmark for it secured by Alaska's Congressional delegation during her run for governor. The bridge, a span from the city to Gravina Island, home to only a few dozen people, secured a $223 million earmark in 2005. The pricey designation raised a furor and critics, including McCain, used the bridge as an example of wasteful federal spending on politicians' pet projects. When she was running for governor in 2006, Palin said she was insulted by the term "bridge to nowhere," according to Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein, a Democrat, and Mike Elerding, a Republican who was Palin's campaign coordinator in the southeast Alaska city. "People are learning that she pandered to us by saying, I'm for this' ... and then when she found it was politically advantageous for her nationally, abruptly she starts using the very term that she said was insulting," Weinstein said. Palin's spokeswoman in Alaska was not immediately available to comment. National fury over the bridge caused Congress to remove the earmark designation, but Alaska was still granted an equivalent amount of transportation money to be used at its own discretion............ She kept the money to make a road to nowhere and a little bridge also to Gravina island (pop. 14, I repeat fourteen). McBush is well aware of this FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY.