Posted by Jed Lewison on Sun Aug 31, 2008 at 10:01 AM Pacific

They will do and say anything

They just lie and lie and lie and lie...

Palin touts stance on 'Bridge to Nowhere,' doesn't note flip-flop

By TOM KIZZIA, Anchorage Daily News

When John McCain introduced Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate Friday, her reputation as a tough-minded budget-cutter was front and center.

"I told Congress, thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere," Palin told the cheering McCain crowd, referring to Ketchikan's Gravina Island bridge.

But Palin was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it.

The Alaska governor campaigned in 2006 on a build-the-bridge platform, telling Ketchikan residents she felt their pain when politicians called them "nowhere." They're still feeling pain today in Ketchikan, over Palin's subsequent decision to use the bridge funds for other projects -- and over the timing of her announcement, which they say came in a pre-dawn press release that seemed aimed at national news deadlines.

...and lie and lie and lie and lie.