Sarah Palin-an inconvenient truth

"Palin may have said “Thanks, but no thanks” on the Bridge to Nowhere, though not until Congress had pretty much killed it already. But that was a sharp turnaround from the position she took during her gubernatorial campaign, and the town where she was mayor received lots of earmarks during her tenure." That quote is from http://factcheck.org, a non-partisan organization devoted to truthtelling among the candidates. Palin's cocky assertion on national television that she said 'no thanks' to Sen. Stevens bridge isn't strictly true. If I understand the facts correctly, she spoke out against the bridge project after it had been killed. And despite the fact that the bridge had been killed in DC, the federal money for the bridge still went to Alaska which had to have made the "rejection" go down more smoothly. I also understand that Gov. Palin continued to support the construction of an onramp to the bridge after the bridge itself was no longer planned. Perhaps there were circumstances that explain that. Nonetheless, I have a picture of a steely-eyed woman who is resolute for victory, to the point that she will say with a straight face something that any of the rest of us would have blushed to say. It's kinda like the guy who brings a woman to all the big family events for a year, a woman who acts in embarrassing ways and says inappropriate things. At the end of the year, he tells everyone that he always knew she wasn't quite right, but didn't want to hurt her feelings. What he doesn't say is that he tried to give her a ring and she turned him down. That doesn't pass the truth test, and neither does Gov. Palin's bridge story. I'd say it's a bridge too far.