All About McCain

[Tenigma]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I think she said "Thanks but no thanks for that bridge to nowhere". She didn't say "I sent the money back because there was nothing valuable we could do with it". I think there is a distinction. She was against the wasteful spending aspect, bit using the federal funds to do necessary things to improve her state.

I think there is a distinction between opposing a project that becomes overwhelmingly unpopular, and then deciding on your own what to do with the money that was ear-marked for said pork barrel project. The money came from the feds--was it really kosher for her to be taking money that was approved for one project BY SOMEONE ELSE, and then taking that money and deciding on your own to spend it on something else?

Come on scaeagles, she is trying to campaign as a reformer, ergo spendthrift. Saying no to bloat. Cutting taxes. Not diverting tax money for your OWN pet projects.

I'm not saying governors can't take money earmarked for one thing to use on other projects. Well, I don't know if that's illegal... but my point is that it's something she is heavily campaigning on and I find it pretty hypocritical.

OK folks you are hearing this from me... whatever happens if it's Hillary vs. Palin in 2012 I will vote for Hillary (good lord I didn't think I'd ever say that).

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I think she said "Thanks but no thanks for that bridge to nowhere". She didn't say "I sent the money back because there was nothing valuable we could do with it". I think there is a distinction. She was against the wasteful spending aspect, bit using the federal funds to do necessary things to improve her state.

She said neither of those.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

She said neither of those.

She did indeed.

Directly from her speech at the convention -

I told the Congress, "Thanks, but no thanks," on that Bridge to Nowhere.

Now, I do think she was making the point that she was against earmarks, so the very next line of her speech is problematic for me -

If our state wanted to build a bridge, we were going to build it ourselves.

The first quoted line? Clearly saying they didn't need that bridge. Second quoted line? Certainly implying that she wasn't going to take the money.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

She did indeed.

Directly from her speech at the convention -

She said that she said it, but she didn't say it when she says she claims to have said it. See what I'm saying?

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

She said that she said it, but she didn't say it when she says she claims to have said it. See what I'm saying?

By the way, I was being ocmpletely thick headed earlier. I don't know why I couldn't see what you were saying earlier than I did.

[scaeagles]

I wouldn't expect anything else than you voting for Hillary, particularly if hypocrisy is such a turnoff.

[Morrigoon]

Hillary vs. Palin? Scary thought indeed.

Two floaters in the bowl, which do you pick?

[Alex]

So, it isn't that she's opposed to earmarks it is just that she was opposed to that particular earmark?

(And yes, I seem to be really off the wagon today.)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Except for the time she spent in favor of that particular earmark.

[scaeagles]

Yes. Got it.