“Bridge to Nowhere” argument going nowhere?

Out on the campaign trail, Gov. Palin keeps using the argument that she killed the “Bridge to Nowhere” as an example of her anti-earmark chops. As a Republican though, when even Fox news hosts aren’t buying your talking points, it’s time to find another argument.

Here’s an exchange between campaign manager Rick Davis and Fox News host Mike Wallace on Fox News Sunday :

WALLACE: And she supported the “bridge to nowhere,” and it was only after the federal government dropped it out and killed it, the Congress killed it, that she then opposed it. And in fact, she still got the money for the approach, the ramp, to the “bridge to nowhere.”

DAVIS: Congress didn’t beat back the “bridge to nowhere.” That funding…

WALLACE: I know, but she accepted the money.

DAVIS: That funding was in the grant, and she said, “I’m not spending that money.” And what they did — they took a $500 million bridge and she turned it into a $2 million ferry. And that’s what she did on her own without any help from anybody else.

WALLACE: Well, actually, it was Congress that killed the money for the “bridge to nowhere.”

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