I wonder why Sarah Palin went out of her way to tell an obvious lie last night. She said she opposed the infamous Bridge to Nowhere -- which she did, after it became a subject of national ridicule. But originally she was for it. There is no debate over this. In fact she's angered the local folks by talking up her "opposition." See this Reuters piece from a few days, after she first touted her "position" on national TV:
When she was running for governor in 2006, Palin said she was insulted by the term "bridge to nowhere," according to Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein, a Democrat, and Mike Elerding, a Republican who was Palin's campaign coordinator in the southeast Alaska city.
"People are learning that she pandered to us by saying, I'm for this' ... and then when she found it was politically advantageous for her nationally, abruptly she starts using the very term that she said was insulting," Weinstein said.
It's not often a pol tells a bald-faced lie on such a high-profile stage. Even Dick Cheney uses ambiguous weasel words. I would suspect she'll pay for this one of these days.
