Posted on 10/29/2008 11:49:10 AM PDT by BluntRM
Hey FR,
I'm trying to resolve an argument regarding Sarah Palin's involvement with the Alaska Independence Party, but I couldn't find coverage of any depth that wasn't written by people drinking the cool aid. Anybody heard anything on this?
I don’t think she was a member, but she did welcome them to the Capital for their convention. Todd Palin may have been a member. Big whoop.
I don’t know what is so controversial about the group. So they want to secede from the US?
If Obama wins the election, I will consider moving to Alaska and joining the secession movement, too. We can elect Sarah queen.
Secession is an ok thing when a country breaks its promise and abandons its core priciples.
cant blame good hard working Americans for wanting to distance themselves from the socialists in DC.
If Hussein is elected I will move to the first state that secedes.
Long ago debunked, she wasn’t a member- her husband dabbled in it before they where married.
Todd Palin was a member of the AIP, a long time ago. Sarah Palin is reported to have attended an event, or two, with him, at that time. Sarah Palin was never a member and Todd Palin is no longer a member.
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Yep! This was all debunked and the Alaska Independance Party has even said she was not a member.
Sarah Palin ADDRESSED the Independent Party but she has NEVER been an Independent.
Sarah Palin and the Alaska Independence Party. Palin addresses AIP convention
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI
I could have sworn she also explained this on a FOX interview. I can’ search for it now. Go over to FOX
The thing to understand about this, is that the party offered Walter Hickel, a former Republican Governor and member of the Nixon Cabinet their nomination in 1990. Hickel rejected the independence platform (he had been a big promoter of statehood in the 1950s), and was elected in a three-way race.
I assume that Todd Palin registered with the party as a way of supporting Hickel's opposition to some federal regulations on Alaskan land use. So to say that either of the Palins had been a secessionist or separatist would be wrong.
Welcome to FR. Mission accomplished, obamabot.
I agree, correct: whe the Federal government violates the US Constituton and abdicates its responsibility to serve the people, then secession (though it may sound traitorous, I believe defending the constitutional republican (small “r”) principles this nation were founded upon is very patriotic!) and I believe it (Peaeceful secession) is the last resort against tyranny..
I agree, correct: whe the Federal government violates the US Constituton and abdicates its responsibility to serve the people, then secession (though it may sound traitorous, I believe defending the constitutional republican (small “r”) principles this nation were founded upon is very patriotic!) and I believe it (Peaeceful secession) is the last resort against tyranny..
Thank you to everyone who helped debunk the lie that Gov. Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party. The MSM and their cohorts in slime never let lies die.
From where I entered the argument, the implication wasn’t that Gov. Palin was a member, but that she had ties as Gov. and also through her husband. But then that’s without any context as to Alaskan history and it’s a different implication once the discussion of Federal land issues are brought in... still, I’ll google it, but if anyone has anything on hand that points to what x posted that would be great.
My apologies, I misread your date of signup as 2008, not 2006. We’ve had a lot of October signups here lately, whose purpose seems to be to pose questions designed to sew division on the GOP side.
It's also doubtful that Todd Palin was working to achieve some secessionist or radical goal. We know he registered under that party line, but I haven't heard that he attended any meetings or passed out any literature.
Palin was trying to win votes from AIP members but I don't see any evidence that she supported the separatist or extreme views attributed to some of the party's founders. If one regards a group like the AIP as dangerous, is it fair to attack major party politicians for trying to win votes away from such organizations?
If somebody uses this to put down Palin, mention Obama and the socialist "New Party" in Chicago in the 1990s, and some of his other controversial associates. If Palin's barely existent "ties" are regarded as damning, then Obama's more real links would be still more damaging. If Obama's associations are no big deal, why should Palin's more tenuous connections matter?
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