Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Sarah Palin And The Alaskan Independence Party

VPNILF Sarah Palin is under the microscope. Back in Alaska she has a past that will be used to find insights into her present day philosophies. Just as they did with Obama and a school he attended as a 6 year old, your past can be used out of context to portray a fear or stereotype. Maybe what you do an an adult has more weight? That's for people to decide.

Six months ago Sarah Palin told members of the Alaskan Independence Party in a videotaped speech to their convention in Fairbanks, "Keep up the good work." She has cheered the work of a tiny party that long has pushed for a statewide vote on whether Alaska should secede from those same United States, The Alaska First, America Second platform.

"She was an AIP member before she got the job as the mayor of a small town," says Dexter Clark, an Alaskan Independence Party vice chairman.

Palin's husband, Todd, was a registered member of the party for seven years. Palin and her husband attended the party's 1994 convention. Palin also spoke to the party's convention in 2006 when she was running for governor.

Acknowledging the problem with perception, McCain's campaign distributed Palin's voter registration records Tuesday to show that she had never been a member of the AIP.

So Palin has a separatist bent? As per the Right Wing playbook, deny deny deny. That will make the problem go away.

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