This just in - Palin was a member of the pro-secession Alaska Independence Party, which challenges the legality of statehood and favors becoming a sovereign nation. Further, they advocate taking Federal lands and returning them to the state and residents. Here's the link to ABC news, who broke the story (even Salon has not caught up yet).
I can't WAIT to hear how they spin this one! Watch McCain turn on a spit and sweat!
UPDATE
The McCain campaign is just denying it and using Palin's voter registration as proof that she has been a Republican all along. (see ABC updated article here) And, more than one executive member or AIP has now confirmed that she attended meetings and in fact spoke at an AIP event earlier this year. Personally, I don't think a voter reg card proves anything.
But, whatever, the GOP seems to be covering it up, in spite of the fact that McCain didn't know and now is stuck with a self-involved, small-town machiavelli with deep closets full of inconvenient truths of the backcountry kind. You have to read Andrew Sullivan's reprint of comments by a Wasilla native very well acquainted with Palin, if you haven't already.
I will be totally surprised if McCain sticks with her, and I think even Rove would have lost control of this "bad-news buffet." But if they stay with Palin, it will just prove to me, yet again, that hypocrisy is the only thing Republicans do well, besides stealing and lying.
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Now we hear that the earmark-opposing Palin hired a lobbyist that brought in $27 million in earmark dollars to her community of 6,700 residents while she was mayor.
And hell, Palin has only been in the spotlight for five days. Who know what else may come to light.
It's clear that left alone, she'll do it all by herself.
What could be better? An anchor to the McCain campaign, an indictment of his judgment, and the destruction of a relatively young republican politician.
And we don't have to lift a finger!
I love it.
Will this be another Harriet Miers? Will she drop out/be forced out? Will John McCain stop thinking with his dick?
Republicans flailin'
and I am watching with glee.
No tellin' how far he
and Caribou Barbie
will fall from their apogee.
"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."
No, this is the real thing. I don't think even Obama's minister ever advocated secession.
Jeff- Caribou Barbie - love it, even if it is un-PC!
Check out their website: akip.org
I'm a Peaks Island secessionist, myself.
Interesting to watch the national GOP make asses out of themselves also. I used to be one.......not since the Shrub W was in office for 72 hours. I'm really sorry I voted for him the first time. Yu can fool some of the people all the time, but not me. Never again.
Here's the map was thinking of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jesusland_map.svg
The United States of Jesus Land.
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Your map has possibilities - I would move to BC anyway, if I had the money to emigrate. I like that you gave Nunavut a whole other province. But I'm pretty sure that Texas would want to own Mexico, not the other way around. And it's only my opinion, but I think Kansas and the south, what you are calling the USA, would jump at the chance to be in the Christian Confederation of North America!