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Nice Vetting, Part II. Sarah Palin, Successionist
Rising Hegemon — Which is you know, a variant of treason if you want to make it plain: This next clip is the 1st of 2 parts from the convention itself. About half way through the speech(at 6:00), the Vice Chairman of the AIP, Dexter Clark, says this of Palin: "Our current governor who I mentioned at the last conference, the one we were hoping would get elected, Sarah Palin, did get elected . . . .and there was a lot of talk about her moving up. She was an AIP member before she got the job as mayor . . . " The AIP’s main aim is to secede from the United States, becoming either a territory or a ...

Does Palin Have A Connection To The AIP?
Daily Kos — "I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions." - Joe Vogler, founder of the Alaskan Independence Party What is Sarah Palin's relationship with the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP)? As user Liz Arnett informs us, Sarah Palin apparently has some close ties with this organization, and organization whose platform includes "complete independence and nationhood status for Alaska." Perhaps the question of whether Palin, who's a 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency, may want to make America a 49-state nation is something that should have come ...

Was McCain's VP Pick Ever An AIP Member?
Daily Kos — As detailed here and here, questions are arising as to whether McCain's candidate for vice-president was a member of or was in any way associated with the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP). The AIP is a political party whose aim, among other things, is to receive a vote on the secession of Alaska from the United States of America. In this video, dated October of 2007, the Vice Chairman of the AIP claims that McCain's VP pick "was an AIP member": "Our current governor who I mentioned at the last conference, the one we were hoping would get elected, Sarah Palin, did get elected . . . .and there was a lot of talk about her ...

Members of "Fringe" Alaskan Independence Party Say Palin Was a Member in 90s
Political Punch — Oh, That Joe! (No. 5 in a Series) -- Biden: Now is the Moment for me 'as a US Senator Running for President' to Put Aside Politics | Main Members of "Fringe" Alaskan Independence Party Say Palin Was a Member in 90s September 01, 2008 6:52 PM The campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., likes to herald the independence of its new running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she was once a member of their party, which since the 1970s has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not residents of the 49th state can secede from the United States. And ...

Not Just a Bimbo . . . But a Successionist,
Little Miss Attila — Not Just a Bimbo . . . But a Successionist, The subtext was, "go ahead and secede; then we can re-institute slavery. I'm particularly looking forward to owning Native Americans . . . like my husband."

"AIP-Gate?" Another Sarah Palin Scandal?
The Jawa Report — September 02, 2008 "AIP-Gate?" Another Sarah Palin Scandal? The "scandal?" Sarah Palin belonged to and/or encouraged the members of the Alaska Independence Party, a constitutionalist/secessionist third party in Alaska. The AIP platform is here ...

Palin & AIP - Is a Secessionist an appropos Veep?
Preemptive Karma — Merkley urges Oregonians to support disaster relief | Main | Bookies bet McCain will drop Palin September 02, 2008 Palin & AIP - Is a Secessionist an appropos Veep? Alaska Governor and presumptive GOP Veep candidate Sarah Palin was a member of the pro-secessionist Alaskan Independence Party . Any suggestions that her AIP membership was but a youthful indisgression are dispelled by the fact that earlier this year she recorded a welcoming address for the 2008 AIP Convention. TPM has very good coverage of this. Posted by Kevin at September 2, 2008 08:10 AM

This AIP Stuff
The Corner on National Review Online — Tuesday, September 02, 2008 [image] This AIP Stuff [ Jonah Goldberg ] About this allegation that Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party. At first I thought it was a big deal or at least a potential big deal. But, upon inspection it seems much less serious. For starters, it seems she was never a member. She's been a registered Republican since 1982. Okay, but lots of people are making a big deal about her address to the party convention. Okay, so I checked out the video. Eh. I'd be curious what some Alaskans think about this, but my impression from my various interactions up there, is that the AIP has always been something of a quirky ...

A Hasty, Misguided Decision
Firedoglake — John McCain's choice of Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate continues to amaze. Sunday, I wrote a fairly well-linked post about why his decision showed a lack of judgment. The pick betrayed McCain's discount of experience. It dishonored him and his campaign. It made his campaign slogan "Country ...

Palin's Address To The Alaskan Independence Party
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McCain's AIP Defense Raises More Questions
Daily Kos — "The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government...and I won't be buried under their damn flag." - Joe Vogler, Founder of the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP) In the wake of claims by AIP officials that McCain's VP pick was "an AIP member" in the early 1990s (see background here, here, here, here and here), the McCain campaign--realizing that having Sarah Palin tied to a secessionist group probably isn't going to win over voters--has gone on the defensive. As part of their push to prove that McCain's candidate doesn't have ...

Campaign 08: With Friends Like These...
The Nation: Top Stories — Can you imagine the reaction if Barack Obama courted or belonged to a political party that advocated secession from the United States? Conservatives and political commentators would go apoplectic. So why isn't Sarah Palin's affiliation ...

Country First?? No, Alaska and Big Oil First.
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION by Joel Badeaux Submitted September 3, 2008 How John McCain could pick Sarah Palin for Vice President is beyond belief. Besides the fact that she is just about the least qualified pick ever and has no foreign policy experience at all, her views on the issues are the most extreme for anybody ever considered for the Vice Presidency (yes, even worse than Cheney, who believes in gay rights). She is against abortion even in the case of rape and incest -- and, yet, she claims to believe in freedom and acts like she is taking up the mantle from Hillary and Geraldine Ferraro on women's rights? Not to mention the fact that the Republicans think we ...

Josh Horwitz: Is Sarah Palin "Mainstream" on Guns?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — The recent choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as the vice presidential candidate on the Republican ticket came as a surprise to many and has created an uproar in the national media as reporters and bloggers scramble to learn more about this relatively unknown politician. While Palin's staunch anti-abortion stance has been well documented, less detail is known about her position on gun control. The media's initial description of Palin as pro-gun stemmed primarily from comments she posted on her website when she ran for governor, including the following: "I am a lifetime member of the NRA, I support our Constitutional right to bear arms and am a proponent of ...

Sarah Palin: The Xena of the War Party
Antiwar.com Original — T he Palin-mania that is sweeping the GOP reminds me of the publicity surrounding " American Idol ," the popular American television program that catapults complete unknowns on to the national stage and gives them a chance at stardom: the anticipation, the gossip, the frenzy (and partisanship) of the fans. In the last days of the old Republic , this is what American politics has degenerated into: "reality" TV. Prior to being plucked from obscurity by the neocons who run the McCain campaign, Sarah Palin was a complete unknown. Today, she is the object of a burgeoning cult that proclaims her to be the virtual incarnation of the ...

The "Ins" and "Outs" of "Celebrtity" Politicians
Open Left - Front Page — My diary "John Ridley's 'Pocket Guide To Speaking Palin-guage'" drew attention to Ridley's dissection of the pervasive double-standards favoring the presentation of Sarah Palin. One of them was: If you spend 18 months building a campaign around the theme of "Change," it's just "empty rhetoric." If one week before your party's national convention you SUDDENLY make your candidacy about "Change," that's "red meat." A variation on that might be: If you spend 18 months building a campaign around the theme of "Change," attracting unpredented crowds to hear you speak, you're not a leader, just an elite "celebrity." If ...

Sarah Palin And The AIP: Not So Fast With The Exonerations, Please
Firedoglake — It’s now become conventional wisdom that Sarah Palin had nothing to do with the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party and is therefore clear of any associations with them. As usual, the CW is crap. FactCheck.org is the source for most of this line of refutation: She was never a ...

Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated "Grassroots" Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them
The Jawa Report —

Colonel Reb could learn a thing or two from Sarah Palin or Why is Rusty Shackleford so Angry
Jesus' General — Brian Ferguson Colonel Reb Foundation University of Mississippi Dear Mr. Ferguson; I was very sad to hear that Colonel Reb has been retired as Ole Miss's mascot. It's particularly tragic now that Sarah Palin is so close to boarding the Natural Causes Express to the presidency. She embodies the very values Colonel Reb embodied--seccessionism, treason, white supremacy, and passionate credulity. It's ironic that these cherished heartland values are suddenly now in vogue so soon after Colonel Reb's Appomattox. ...

The Palin Smear Goes Viral: "Viral attacks are where it's at in 2008!" -- Geekesque
The Jawa Report — September 27, 2008 The Palin Smear Goes Viral: "Viral attacks are where it's at in 2008!" -- Geekesque Looks like Geekesque, Chuck and Ethan Winner, and whoever is paying them is going to have their way after all. The "Palin is a right wing secessionist" smear has gone viral. Seriously, this has got to be stopped. We need to find out who is behind this. Not some of the more recent amateurish copycat videos, but the original video and the subsequent astroturfing campaign. This one is the worst of them all: Palin's Secret Allegiance ...

Yet another false, defamatory "Palin is a secessionist" smear ad is up on Youtube
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet — Yet another false, defamatory "Palin is a secessionist" smear ad is up on Youtube It's here , at least as of 5 p.m. EST. And here's the user page for unitedwestand5077 , who joined on Sept. 25 and posted the ad the same day: unitedwestand5077.jpg The Jawa Report has more details. This one doesn't seem to be as professionally produced as the previous one , but it's still a lie and whoever created it knows that. As Rusty Shackleford points out, the full quote they've truncated is, "I share your party's vision of upholding the Constitution of our great state. My administration remains focused on reining in government growth so ...

By Any Measure, Sarah Palin is a Radical Political and Religious Extremist
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — THE BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG By Mark Karlin, Editor and Publisher of BuzzFlash.com October 5, 2008 It’s hard to believe that the corporate media is headlining Sarah Palin’s warmed-over-from-the-primaries Sean Hannity smears against Obama ...

Palling with extremists, indeed
Orcinus — -- by Dave So Sarah Palin wants to call out Barack Obama for supposedly playing footsie with a former Weather Underground leader named William Ayers. OK, fair enough -- other than the fact that nothing Obama did either empowered or enabled Ayers in his extremism. But what about Sarah's own dalliances with extremists? Notably, she nominated one of her local militiamen/John Birch Society types in Wasilla to serve on the city's planning board. This is a big deal to "Patriot" folks, who consider local planning and zoning ordinances to be among the chief signs of creeping socialism, ...

Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for October 6, 2008
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE An interesting piece of information - "Sarah Palin is accusing Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists." But isn't her husband a former member of a political party which has treason against the United States as its central tenet? Answer: yes." An update: "Lynette Clark, the chairman of the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP), confirmed to ABC News that Mrs. Palin and her husband Todd had both been both members and attended at least one party convention." Note, "both been members"! And then there's this "The party has lobbied since the 1970s for the right to hold a ...

Dogwhistling to Secessionists?
Brilliant at Breakfast — An integral part of the extreme right-wing, black helicopter crowd has always been tax resistance -- or at least it was until a Republican took the White House in 2001. Funny how the militia types largely disappeared after that, isn't it? Funny how their objection to taxes only exists when there's a Democrat in the White House, eh? We already know about Sarah Palin's connection to the Alaska Independence Party: ...

Deep Thought (American Terrorist ed.)
Booman Tribune — Left Wing Radicals are terrorists because they are atheists who hate the Baby Jesus. If you brush up against one in the street or one lives in your neighborhood you will be forever tainted with their evil evilness and go straight to hell (which is what you deserve for associating with such anti-American commie scum). Right Wing Radicals are fine upstanding citizens because they are good Christian folks even if they do hate the United States of America and all it stands for. Having them as friends and political supporters is not a big deal.

The Lynch Mob Politics of McCain-Palin
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — MARK KARLIN'S EDITOR'S BLOG October 10 We watched an interview on "The Daily Show" the other night of patrons at a Wasilla bar responding to the vice presidential debate, and it wasn’t funny. The Sarah Palin fans were racists, homophobic and one even wished for John McCain’s death if he gets elected so Palin could become president. There was the raw smell of scary stupid ignorance in the air, and even Jon Stewart could barely conceal his disgust with what was supposed to be a comic sketch. Palin has been going around the nation inciting mobs with the kind of emotional appeals (although in a more coded form) that one used to find at segregationist rallies. A ...

BuzzFlash Mailbag for October 13, 2008
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — BUZZFLASH MAILBAG Want to join the conversation? Share your thoughts with other Mailbag readers by clicking here . You also may comment below; post articles yourself at BuzzFlash.net ; or send urls for BuzzFlash to post to: www.buzzflash.com/contact/newstip.html . Subject: Disappointed Republican Disappointed by the recent ugly slurs from the Republican party against Mr. Obama's character. He may have had poor judgment, but that does not make him a terrorist. If Obama does win, the Republican party is setting him up to be assassinated. They are promoting a mob mentality. They are the ones that should be questioning their own character if they are so ...

CNN, Sarah Palin, and the LA Times
Orcinus — -- by Dave The L.A. Times' James Rainey took out after CNN's Rick Sanchez this morning for his segment yesterday in which he interviewed me about the Salon piece I co-wrote with Max Blumenthal about Sarah Palin's past dalliances with Alaska's far-right fringe crowd. Writes Rainey: But Sanchez and the CNN crew instead ran their report off into the underbrush, reaching a low when the anchor tried to draw a parallel between the Alaska party and the forces behind the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995. "Not ...

If Sarah Palin isn’t a Member of the John Birch Society, She Should be
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — MARK KARLIN'S EDITOR'S BLOG October 27 Sarah Palin has got a pass because the corporate news media has largely let her off the hook for her radical anti-American beliefs. The mainstream press hasn’t explored the close relationship of Palin and her husband with the extremist, secessionist Alaskan Independence Party (AIP), because the McCain campaign says that she was never officially a "member." Of course, that’s a technicality because the Palins have been close to Alaskan Independence Party members, ideas and conventions, ...

Hannity Has A Hissy Fit Over LA Times' "Suppressed Video"
News Hounds — In concert with the John McCain campaign, Hannity & Colmes (along with other shows on FOX News) continues to make a big deal out of demanding that the Los Angeles Times release a tape of Barack Obama attending a dinner for Palestinian advocate and scholar Rashid Khalidi. The Times issued a statement saying it promised its confidential source it would not release the tape. But that did not stop "Great American" Sean Hannity from having a hissy fit that included baseless accusations that The Times is lying. With video. Alan Colmes began his portion by noting that McCain ran an organization that gave more than $448,000 to Khalidi's organizations. ...

On the Other Hand...
If I Ran the Zoo — I posted below about the Alaska Republican Party's continued support for Ted Stevens' re-election bid. Party leaders hope he'll keep the seat Republican so they'll have time to find a candidate for a special election if he resigns. Or gets the boot or goes to the Big House -- not that they mention those last two. Turns out Stevens isn't getting the love from Republicans on the national stage. More... Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is calling on Ted Stevens to resign from the Senate – and warning that the longest-serving Republican senator in history will face certain expulsion if he doesn’t leave on his ...

Nader Of The North
Firedoglake — graphic by twolf As Political Base points out, Mark Begich's current margin of victory in the Alaska Senate race (1,022 votes) is dwarfed by the 12,000 votes cast for the Alaska Independence Party candidate. Given that the Alaska Independence Party are on the right-wing survivalist end of the political spectrum, that ...

Remind me again why we have to cater to the wealthy
Brilliant at Breakfast — You know, the people into whose pockets the Bush Administration kept shoveling money (and the Obama Administration continues to)...the people that unemployed idiots say deserve their tax cuts because they "create jobs"? These people are the reason we bailed out the banks. These are the "chosen" people that the C Street gang talks about, because after all, God showers wealth only on those special enough to deserve it. At a time where patriotism has changed from "You're with us or you're with the terrorists" to advocacy of secession (and secessionists running for Vice President) and publicly wishing for the President's death, I ...

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Sarah Palin And The Alaska Independence Party
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 9/1/2008 — This seems worth digging into a bit. The Alaska Independence Party, which was formed with the goal of seceding from the union and establishing Alaska as an independent state, says that Palin addressed their 2008 convention. The AIP has posted ...

Palin Once Member of Fringe Party
politicalwire.com 9/1/2008 — Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) "was once a member of their party, which since the 1970s has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not residents of the 49th state can secede ...

Sarah Palin and Alaskan secessionism
WWW.samefacts.com 9/2/2008 — "I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions." That's from the late Joe Vogler, founder of the Alaskan Independence Party. It's not dredged up out of old news clips: it's prominently featured on the AIP ...

Sarah Palin: The Non-American Vice President that America Has Been Waiting For
lefarkins.blogspot.com 9/2/2008 — If this is true, my governor is a full-blown lunatic. Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she was once a member of their party, which, since the 1970s, has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to ...

Another AIP Official Says Palin Was at 1994 Convention
blogs.abcnews.com 9/2/2008 — An intense "she said"/"she said" has emerged over whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was ever a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, the third-largest political party in the 49th state. The AIP wants Alaskans to get an opportunity to vote...

McCain campaign: Palin a Republican since 1982
hotair.com 9/2/2008 — Yesterday, the New York Times reported that Sarah Palin had belonged to the Alaskan Independence Party in the early 1990s instead of the Republican Party. The AIP now exists mostly as a fringe political party, but had been mainstream enough in 1994 ...

Palin Was Not a Member of the Alaskan Independence Party
weeklystandard.com 9/2/2008 — In response to accusations that in the 1990s Sarah Palin was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party - a third party that seeks a vote on making Alaska a sovereign state - the McCain campaign has provided records showing that Palin has been a ...

Alaska First, Alaska Always
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 9/2/2008 — "I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions." The late Joe Vogler , founder of the Alaskan Independence Party. Sarah Palin and her husband are said to have been members from 1994 to 1996. ...

Key Source for Palin's Connection to Alaskan Independence Party Backs Off Account
motherjones.com 9/3/2008 — In the past few days, during Sarah Palin's rough introduction to the American public, it has been reported (first by ABC News ) that Palin, the governor of Alaska tapped by John McCain to be his running mate, was once a member of the Alaska ...

Todd Palin, Longtime Former AIP Member
blogs.abcnews.com 9/3/2008 — Gail Fenumiai, director of the Alaska Division of Elections, tells ABC News that regardless of the impression given to members of the Alaskan Independence Party, "Gov. Sarah Palin first registered to vote in the state in May 1982 as a...

dupe please delete — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News

Source: [b]ABC News[/b] The campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., likes to herald the independence of its new running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she was once a member of their party, which, since the ...

Members of 'Fringe' Alaskan Independence Party Say Palin Was a Member in 90s — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News

Sarah Palin, Secessionist? — Oliver Willis

That’s not exactly “country first” , is it? Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she was once a member of their party, which since the 1970s has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not residents of ...

Palin was not a member of the Independence Party — Israpundit

Alaska Party Official Says Palin Was Not a Member By The New York Times The chairwoman of an Alaskan political party that advocates a vote on the state’s secession from the union said Tuesday that she had been mistaken when she said Gov. Sarah Palin was a member of the group. A ...

The Alaskan Independence Party — Dean's World

There is interest being generated in the news about the fact that Sarah Palin’s husband was a registered member of the Alaskan Independence Party for a few years before becoming a Republican. That being the case, I thought I’d shed a little light on this group. Believe it or not, ...

Palin at the 2006 Alaska Independence Party Convention — The Reality-Based Community

Below, verbatim (I didn't even clean up typos) is the full text of an email from J.R. Myers, the press spokesman for the Alaskan Independence Party. It corrects AIP's earlier claim that Sarah Palin had been a member of the party. But it adds a tantalizing fact: that, as a candidate for ...

America Last? Sarah Palin Once A Member of the Alaskan Independence Party — The Hollywood Liberal

America Last? Sarah Palin Once A Member of the Alaskan Independence Party Palin used to belong to a party whose motto is "Alaska First -- Alaska Always." Alaskan Independence Party Ouch. ABC Political punch on Palin's unAmerican past: Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say ...

Undeclared — Daily Kos

He's currently registered as "undeclared," but the "First Dude," as Sarah Palin calls him, was apparently an AIP member as recently as 2002 : Todd Palin, husband of Sarah, was a member of the secessionist Alaska Independence Party from 1995 through 2002. That's the information we just got ...

Palin's husband was member of third party (Alaskan Independence Party) — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News

Source: [b]AP[/b] ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's husband, Todd, twice registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a fierce states' rights group that wants to turn all federal lands in Alaska back to the state. Sarah Palin herself was never a member of the ...

Secessionist Palin Story: McCain Camp Pushes Back — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed

Last night, ABC's Jake Tapper reported that officials of a fringe Alaska party once counted Sarah Palin as a member: Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she was once a member of their party, which, since the 1970s, has been pushing for a legal ...

Latest Palin Revelation: She Was a Member of the Secessionist Alaskan Independent Party — The BRAD BLOG

Guest Blogged by Margie Burns ... The wealth of material on Sen. John McCain's Veep pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, just keeps getting richer. Apparently the old saying that you can never be too rich or too thin applies to resumes. Last night, Brad covered a wide-range of recently emerging ...

Another Gov. Palin urban legend doused: she was not a member of the Alaskan Independence Party — Southern Appeal

From John McCormack at the Weekly Standard blog: In response to accusations that in the 1990s Sarah Palin was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party - a third party that seeks a vote on making Alaska a sovereign state - the McCain campaign has provided records showing that Palin has ...

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Loves Palin (Someone Should Tell Debbie Wasserman-Schultz) — Discourse.net

Here’s what incumbent GOP Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-18) said about McCain’s impulsive choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, “I thought ‘wow, what a great ticket’. I think it was needed for our Republican Party to reach out to women, to those independent voters ...

Country First or Alaska First? — Daily Kos

Now that it has been confirmed that McCain's VP was once a member of the controversial Alaskan Independence Party (AIP), a group that seeks, among other things, a vote on whether Alaska should secede from the Union, many questions remain unanswered (see background here , here , here and here ). ...

Recapping Palin's Secession Scandal — Daily Kos

If you spent yesterday at a Labor Day picnic rather than at the computer, you missed the story that broke here regarding Sarah Palin's 1990s membership in the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP). Note I said Independence not Independent. It's not just an "independent" party--it is a party ...

Palin Belonged to Alaskan Secession Group — Drudge Retort

Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that in the mid-'90s Sarah Palin was a member of their party, a group that since the 1970s has been pushing for a vote for Alaskans to decide whether they can secede from the United States.

John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin was in Alaskan independence party — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News

Source: [b]Telegraph.UK.com[/b] Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, was once a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, its officials have said. By Jon Swaine Last Updated: 12:07PM BST 02 Sep 2008 The party has lobbied since the 1970s for the right to hold a ...

Just One Day at Memeorandum: Any Questions About Media Bias? — Stop The ACLU

From Memeorandum Members of ‘Fringe’ Alaskan Independence Party Say Palin Was a Member in 90s — The campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., likes to herald the independence of its new running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. — Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so ...

Sarah Palin's membership in the Alaskan Independence Party — The Reality-Based Community

So far, I've seen no indication about whether Gov. Palin intends to deny reports of her membership in the Alaska Independence Party, which regards the United States as a hostile occupying power, and which still has its founder's words about "America and her damned institutions" on its website. ...

— Amygdala

AMERICA SECOND . Alaska is rich in natural resources, including humor : Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she was once a member of their party, which, since the 1970s, has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not ...

A Palin Joined Alaskan Third Party, Just Not Sarah Palin — NYT > Politics
Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband’s interaction with the Alaskan Independence Party has gotten attention because of its reputation as a secessionist group. >

Party Officer Admits Error on Palin in Group — NYT > Politics
The chairwoman of an Alaskan political party that advocates a vote on the state’s secession said that she had been mistaken when she said Gov. Sarah Palin had been a member of the group. >

Palin spouse was member of secessionist party — msnbc.com: Politics
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's husband, Todd, twice registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a fierce states' rights group that wants to turn all federal lands in Alaska back to the state. Sarah Palin herself was never a member of the ...

Sarah Palin's ties to Alaskan Independence Party are played down — L.A. Times - Politics
The McCain campaign denies his running mate supports the party's separatist bent. > Tonight, Sarah Palin will be nominated as the Republican Party's choice ...

Palin’s Husband Was Member of Third Party — FOXNews.com
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd, twice registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a fierce states’ rights group that wants to turn all federal lands in Alaska back to the state. Sarah Palin herself was never a ...