The point isn’t that she delivered pork for her town–she clearly did. This is what you want your politicians to do, at least partly.
Brian’s point is hypocrisy
She endorsed the bridge to nowhere, then when Congress canned it she kept the money and spent it on her pet projects. She’s been presenting herself, and being presented as, a heroic campaigner against earmarks, but that’s now how she operated at all.
Now unless you think facts don’t matter, only image matters, you should find some moral disconnect here. In olden times we called this lying.
You’re of course free to do this to Obama or Biden. Biden has a record of bringing the pork home. But then he has not cast himself as the heroic opponent of pork barrel spending.
You guys like her, as far as I can tell, because she’s cute and she owns guns. Is that all it takes to be President of the US anymore?
If McCain had chosen Pawlenty, or Christine Todd Whitman, or any number of other people, none of this would be happening. He chose a barely known person and did not investigate her background . Then they started framing her in claims that turn out not to be true. No problem there?
My most recent favorite is she cut funding for programs for unwed mothers–that is, rpograms designed to make it easier or unwed mothers to keep their babies–while also being “pro-life.”
it was incredible to watch how poorly Bush planned the Iraq war. Not enough troops ,no strategy for governance. I don’t want to see that kind of thing again
