Palin explains Bridge to Nowhere reversal

Anonymous
Here is video of Palin 2 months ago (with, ugh, Ted Stevens) seeming to say that the politics of the Bridge to Nowhere were no longer tenable and that's why she stopped supporting it. Sorry I can't get the video linked in here, but I'm a ditz that way. Ambinder's take on it is interesting anyway, and he links to a site where the Dems in the Alaska legislature gave her credit for killing it. But the Dems have pulled that page now. Here 'tis:

[url]http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/palin_denies_shes_a_bridge_to.php

I didn't realize Congress killed the specific earmark but sent AK the money anyway. Can they send me some? I won't build a bridge with it.

Anonymous
I went to the link Ambinder provided to the longer video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flycRaoU5V8
The shorter quote is put in context and comes up 6 minutes into the longer video.

Palin's comments are at odds with the image of the anti-earmark crusader she portrays herself to be now. She simply says that there was a use for earmarks in the past when Alaska was younger but now the two presidential candidates are opposed to them so she can see the "writing on the wall." She really looks like someone who is just adjusting to the realities of national politics and so proposing the state use a different strategy than it used in the past. Hardly the behavior of a maverick.
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