Palin Still uses Debunked 'Bridge to Nowhere' Claims. But the Crowds Love It!

When does the time eventually come for voters to demand more of their candidates? The Daily Show interviewed convention goers in St. Paul and asked what qualifies Gov. Palin to be vice president. The “she’s just like us,” or “she had kids” and similar responses scared the daylights out of me. Even if these answers represented a small number of McCain/Palin supporters, one is too many. And now that the media has done fine jobs debunking the Palin statement that she opposed the “Bridge to nowhere,” would it be too much for the candidates to admit the lie and move on? Not according to this from the Washington Post:

Facing increasing criticism of her claim about opposing the "Bridge to Nowhere," Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin refused to back down, repeating … her claim to have stopped the project. "I told Congress thanks but no thanks for that bridge to nowhere up in Alaska.”

The Wall Street Journal wrote that "She endorsed the multimillion dollar project during her gubernatorial race in 2006. And while she did take part in stopping the project after it became a national scandal, she did not return the federal money. She just allocated it elsewhere." Sen. Barack Obama's spokesman chided her for repeating what he called a "debunked" claim. "On the same day that dozens of news organizations have exposed Governor Palin's phony Bridge to Nowhere claim as a 'naked lie,' she and John McCain continue to repeat the claim in their stump speeches. Maybe tomorrow she'll tell us she sold it on eBay."

But for many Republicans, a lie isn’t a lie if you say it isn’t.

As reported by the Post's Paul Kane, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, one of the biggest backers of the bridge and a man now under indictment for bribery, said he never thought Palin was a supporter of the bridge. "She was never really behind this," Stevens said.

Despite Palin admitting that she was for the bridge in a gubernatorial debate, I wonder what Stevens meant when he said “he never thought?” of she was “never really” behind it? Hardly shining examples of bridge opposition?