DISQUS

sullivan · 1 year ago

I predict her name will be with drawn soon!
The repugs are digging in and trying to justify her nomination but it is looking really sad, just like the republicans!

bluestockton · 1 year ago

Nah, her withdrawing would invite comparisons to McGovern and Eagleton, and they don't want to go there.

shrrrr · 1 year ago

This story started to surface yesterday when everyone was consumed with the pregnancies. The AIP story is whats going to bury her, though. This is a very big deal.....enemies, foreign and domestic.

Bubbles · 1 year ago

This association actually explains why she risked her pregnancy to get back to Alaska to have her baby. Some of the things I've read suggest that AIP members make a distinction between Americans and native born Alaskans.

EmGD · 1 year ago

You need to listen to McCain closer, he says "Put 49/50th's of America First" so this is all consistent with his pledge. Nothing is wrong. All is well.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

Bubbles · 1 year ago

Country first. Turns out, that country is Alaska.

tbhull · 1 year ago

Maybe McCain's crack staff will select Lydon LaRouche or Alex Jones as a running mate after Palin falls to the wayside.

It is becoming apparent that the Palin choice was used to soothe over Ron Paul supporters.

tbhull · 1 year ago

Lyndon LaRouche

luvboxer · 1 year ago

Is McCain losing it! My God its one thing after another with him. How can the republican party justify this woman. If this would be a dem no let up at all. I think the dems need to start going after her big time. She's running for office she wants to play with the big league...let's play...

AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago

I think the Republicans HAVE to stick with Palin. They know they have to court Conservatives.

It's Palin all the way (to a monumental loss).

Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago

I want to hear from McShame's own ghoulish lips just how he explains this issue away. It so totally proves McShame's operatives did NOT thoroughly vet Sarah Palin, per haps did not vet her at all before the announcement. It also proves she is a liar, at least in NOT telling the whole truth about her background and past involvements. The woman is a publicity-hungry tramp and I think McShame picked her solely as eye candy, in a fit of pique because he apparently could not have one of his own choices. He becomes more odious and offensive as each day passes.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

It seems, at least to me, that Palin is beginning to emerge as a woman who will say or do anything to get elected. She will tell your group what they want to hear and then reverse it.

tbhull · 1 year ago

Will old bearded Alasksa miner man introduce Pailin at the convention?

moreleesafer · 1 year ago

hahahaha! you may kid but there are a lot just like him up there in Wasilla.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Okay, McCain attacked Obama on his friendship with a member of the Chicago 7, mind you a "friendship". Obama was too young to even be remotely connected to the Chicago 7 YET McCain has made a big issue of this.

Sarah Palin was part of and engaged activities of the AIP whose motto is Alaska First. The Republicans are saying she was never a part of this party so that makes ALL people that knew Palin as a member are liars OR deaf and dumb. You cannot sweep this away by saying "she has always been a Republican".

moreleesafer · 1 year ago

It's the double standard! "I can do it, but you can't" attitude.

KiPA · 1 year ago

What's more infuriating than IOKIYAR hypocrasy?

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Joe

Thanks for this post.. This really needs to be the next big blog push. It is the only thing the MSM seems to respond to lately--blogs doing the jobs that SHOULD be done my the MSM.

gsthomas606 · 1 year ago

It's like in the Olympic gymnastics or diving when it comes to patriotism. The Republicans automatically have a high start value up around 9.5.. you know because they are republicans and obviously love America... whereas Democrats have a start value of around 3.5 so even if they do everything perfectly they still probably burn the american flag in their sleep.

lilybart · 1 year ago

Very good analogy!! They also just assume REPS are corrupt, so it is not news when they lie. WE on the other hand have to be white-glove clean.

vkobaya · 1 year ago

Whereas the Republicans dream of flying a red flag with a black Swastika while rendering it a straight armed salute.

pdxcraig · 1 year ago

Palin on jet for Arizona the day before her Vetter’s arrive?

This was spotted on a right wing blog all excited about her potential choice………


http://www.squidoo.com/sarah-palin

News flash! Mrs. Palin was spotted (by me personally) on Wednesday 8/26 on a corporate jet heading to Arizona….What does this mean?
Posted August 27, 2008
JohnB

NYT
A Republican with ties to the campaign said the team assigned to vet Ms. Palin in Alaska had not arrived there until Thursday, a day before Mr. McCain stunned the political world with his vice-presidential choice

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Alaska Separatists are white supremacists; just scratch one inch below the surface. They also HATE sharing oil wealth with the lower 48. So they are also greedy pigs with no sense of commonwealth. They want to be left to their own inbred, provincial, xenophobic, racist, Christianist devices.

moreleesafer · 1 year ago

yup. that was my impression. Some folks would not even shop at the Safeway because it was a "Lower 48 store" and only shopped at Carr's Grocery. But then Safeway gobbled up the chain.....

and the "It's our oil" attitude is spot on.

The white supremacist thing....yeah, the town of Wasilla had exactly 2 black families when I was there. And mine was the second one.

larz · 1 year ago

Can we let Alaska go if they take Texas along with 'em?

If they hate "liberal" US so much why would they consider joining Canada? I think that Palin ditched this group cause even she knew she was smartest person in the room - it only took her 5 years to figure that one out.

LiberalFL · 1 year ago

And how appropriate that, while running a campaign against a black man, John McCain's running mate joins the secessionists ranks, which have historically included national politicians who opposed the abolition of slavery.

Johnny Mac the knife, right into the heart of his campaign.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

WOW,
The only thing missing was "God Damn America" then it would have been Rev Wright all over again.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

Yes, this needs to be the next blog push

MarkoSparko · 1 year ago

I've also noticed she says "these" United States a lot. Wasn't that the common tern used before the civil war when states thought themselves more as independent nations - rather than a province of a greater nation? I have gut feeling of which side she'd be on back then...she's definitely a states rights lady!

bluestockton · 1 year ago

Not sure about "these United States," but before the Civil War, Americans said "the United States are." Afterward, "is" came into use.

Bit of trivia: Queen Victoria treated "news" as a plural noun and would say "the news are good."

MarkoSparko · 1 year ago

Perhaps that's what I'm thinking of.... history isn't my best subject! ;)
I think the British actually still use "are" in a lot of case where we Americans would use "is" ...like: "the media is bias"...they'd say "the media are bias". I think!? lol

hawkseye · 1 year ago

In British English, any noun that represents multiple parts, such as the parliament, is treated as a plural. We used to have collective nouns in American English, too, but some wise publishers and dictionary compilers got rid of them.

KiPA · 1 year ago

Some old radio broadcaster for baseball would say The Giants is winning! Grammatically correct, since The Giants is a singular team.

dad · 1 year ago

why does sarah palin hate America?

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

This information will only be relevant if the Democrats use it.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

According to Tapper at ABC, the McCain campaign is calling Lynette Clark a liar, saying Palin was never a member of the AIP and did not attend their 94 convention. Let's see what Eskew and the Boys do to delete that from the tubes of the internets today.

hawkseye · 1 year ago

It's like a Keystone Kops movie. I am enjoying every minute of the self-inflicted Republican carnage. All the Model T police cars are going to crash as they meet in the next intersection. And Sarah Palin will elude capture once again.

mikep · 1 year ago

I think you might have it a bit backwards. "Real" Americans believe in freedom, independence, self-determination and human rights. That's why we're working so hard to get out of a union that is so strongly opposed to these things, and is committed to using violence to suppress them. No real American would possibly advocate continuing this union, which has done so much damage to this country and the world at large. The sooner the federal nightmare ends the better off we'll all be.

"When was the last time anyone on a ticket wanted that? 1856? 1860?"

Actually it's 2008. There are millions of Americans who are disgusted and want out, especially in the west. Only liberals and neo-cons who love war want to continue the union.

shrrrr · 1 year ago

Perfect. Let Palin's placement on the ticket stroke this kind of bullshit. If the Dems don't use this AIP connection they will be throwing away an opportunity to expose just how warped the Republican party has become. It would amount to political malpractice for the Dems not to drive this one home.

bluestockton · 1 year ago

Joe, much as I'd love to see a smoking gun on Palin, the fact is that all politicians meet with, and make speeches in front of, constituents whom they don't always agree with or even like. Unless it can be proved that Sarah paid dues to the secessionist group in 2007, this may be a non-issue.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Oh please, this is NOT a non-issue. More than a few people have been interviewed and ALL agree Palin was part of the AIP with the motto " Alaska First". So you too are calling all these people liars????

HereinDC · 1 year ago

GUESS WHAT.

Why you type in "pregnant "on Google...

Sarah Palin's face is the on the very top!!!

LOL


And to think PregnantGate is soooooo yesterday!

Carl_Lloyd · 1 year ago

I await Sean Hannity's wild-eyed obsession with these radicals!

bluestockton · 1 year ago

Good luck to the Alaska-Firsters if they do secede and Putin decides that Russia made a terrible mistake selling Alaska in 1867, just as it did in recognizing Georgia's independence.

Scottsdalian · 1 year ago

If these AIP folks, Palin included, are anti-America.....doesn't that, by republican definition, make them "TERRORISTS"?

McCain/Palin slogan - "Terrorists you can believe in!"

hawkseye · 1 year ago

Being a secessionist is an important issue, indeed. However, I hope Sarah Palin stays on the ticket. If we want to be absolutely sure of a big win in November, she's a dream come true.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

McCain has to keep her.

The Fundies love her, and without their help, he'd have trouble scraping into the 35 percent range.

hawkseye · 1 year ago

If he gets rid of her, fundraising will come to a screeching halt, and if he keeps her, he looks like an idiot to all but the other inmates.

TheOriginalLiz · 1 year ago

The more I hear about Palin et al, the more I'm convinced that if McCain gets elected we will be seeing a junk car up on cinder blocks in front of the VP mansion. The GOP has gone from 3rd rate actors to trailer trash. Talk about appealing to the lowest common denominator.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Yep that is exactly who the Republicans are going after, the lowest common denominator.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

The phrase Valley Trash is a common one in Anchorage to refer to Palin's little world.

vkobaya · 1 year ago

Please don't denigrate the poor. There is nothing wrong with being impoverished. What we need to hold against the right is not that they are based among the poor but that they appeal to the values of rednecks, uneducated and stupid people. They bad mouth Blacks and Hispanics as too lazy to work and pay taxes, but I know one such redneck family that didn't not pay income taxes for 20 years, also didn't get drivers licenses for the family members, nor register their cars. Daughter ran a red light, got into car wreck that wrapped her 280Z around her, but somehow managed to escape with only minor bruises and scratches, but was unconscious when cut out of the car and taken to the hospital. Fortunately, accident was within blocks of their home as her brother managed to sneak through the police line and remove her 45 revolver from the wreckage before the car was hauled away by the wrecking company. Many, many other typical redneck stories about that family even more outrageous. They never were poor.

TheOriginalLiz · 1 year ago

Not talking about wealth or lack thereof. Trailer Trash is a state of mind. There is plenty of rich trailer trash out there.

bunnyjump · 1 year ago

Does Palin always wear a US flag lapel pin?

If not......she's UNAMERICAN!

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

I believe she wears an Alaska pin. Her motto is "Alaska FIRST!"

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Frankly, I think she's STILL working for the AIP.

That's why she went after so many Repubs in her state.

She's their Manchurian Candidate.

vkobaya · 1 year ago

Dee Dee Meyers thought that Obama vacationing in Hawaii was an exotic and unAmerican place. At least, Hawaiians acknowledge they are part of the 50 states and welcome that. But this candidate is a supporter of a separatist movement in Alaska ... how is that not unAmerican. I suppose the skin color is telling. All those darkies in Hawaii. Whereas in Alaska, the perception is that it is largely a White state.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

If Obama had belonged to a party like that, or Biden, then Andrea Mitchell and other Republican cheerleaders would be SCREECHING about it 24/7 and asking every Democrat they interview about this horrible scandal. I can hear the questions, "How do you expect Americans to trust Obama when he selected a running mate who wanted his state to secede from America?"

jdeisenberg · 1 year ago

Unfortunately, the spin on this will be: "See? She's really a maverick. This is proof that she's not tied down to the Beltway/Washington insider mentality." (And if Alaska did secede, there would be her foreign policy experience right there...)

rexkc · 1 year ago

I wonder when she first started loving America.

Cjeffery · 1 year ago

I want to know when/how we can get the MSM reporting on this I know the times touched on it but not in as much detail.

CZ_1 · 1 year ago

I am fascinated by this story about Palin and the AIP, but it doesn't seem to have any legs in MSM. ABC is reporting on it, sort of: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09... But the McCain campaign is denying it completely. They've got a record of Palin as a registered Republican going back to when she turned 18, it looks like: http://hotair.cachefly.net/images/2008-09/palin... How is this story ever going to break in a big way?

moreleesafer · 1 year ago

WOW ABC's blog has it. this story may be just what sinks her. um, I mean, makes her want to go spend time with her family and no longer serve as a distraction to the election. yeah, that sounds good.

Indigo · 1 year ago

Whatever. I'm curiouser to know to what church Ms Palin pledges allegiance. Her theology is strangely like a trailer park variation on Sunday Morning Television Churchianity. First Alaskan Church of the Backwards Bible? Does she speak in tongues? Does she practice snake-handling? Does she clap and dance and sing and jump up and down? Does she play lead guitar for the church choir? Tambourine? What?

Joneses · 1 year ago

At this point, I do not believe anything the repugs say and do. If they can steal elections they can lie about this and drum-up documents that, frankly are not true. I put nothing pass these jerks.

TomJoad · 1 year ago

This is bizarre...as you say in the part of flag pins, and lotsa mouth flapping and jingoism, someone belonging to a party that says they don't want to be American....I had read bits and pieces, but didn't realize she had done that video in 2008!!!

NAIL THEM with this...

OriGuy · 1 year ago

I googled the North American Secessionist Convention. That led me to a website www.secessionist.us. AIP is listed there along with Christian Exodus (the bunch that want to make South Carolina a theocracy), League of the South, Parti Quebecois, and a bunch of others.

moreleesafer · 1 year ago

sooooo Obama got in trouble for having ben a member of a church where the preacher made a speach about America's abuse of black folks....and he get 24/7 coverage and he wasn't even IN the church at the time.

This witch actually was an AIP member that advocated a split from the American union and the MSM doesn't touch it.

And it's Michelle and Barack who have to convince everyone that THEY love America?


twisted, dude.