Palin: Beginning as she means to go on?

"She was for the bridge to nowhere when she didn't expect to get anywhere."

A great line from a commenter at Washington Monthly's web site, where they're discussing how Palin said

"I told Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that bridge to nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, I said we'd build it ourselves."

Problem is, she didn't say that when funding was still an option - she only gave up on the bridge when Washington did. As Bradford Plummer at The New Republic put it:

it sure looks like she was fine with the bridge in principle, never had a problem with the earmarks, bristled at all the mockery, and only gave up on the project when it was clear that federal support wasn't forthcoming.

In other words, Palin's out of the gate McCain style: lying in her first speech.