Let’s take the Sarah Palin bridge to nowhere story. At the Republican convention the story was she stopped that earmark positioning her as a rebel against government spending.
Now we learn that she first supported it, then stopped it but kept much of the money and it was used for other road projects.

Ok, not different than most other state governments would do, but how dumb can they be not figuring out that the truth would not come out and everything would be scrutinized.
That tells me that politicians of all ilk hold the average American voter is pretty low regard.
