Posted on 09/01/2008 5:26:49 PM PDT by buckeye12
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 while McCain's motto -- as seen in a new TV ad -- is "Country First," the AIP's motto is the exact opposite -- "Alaska First -- Alaska Always."
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
The lefties are borrowing a page from the Carter/Mondale playbook. They’re trying to make Palin a scary, ultra-extemist type the same way Carter tried to portray Reagan as a warmonger and a loose cannon on deck.
The difference, of course, is that the media (pro and amateur) is a lot more sophisticated and omnipresent now than in 1980. That cuts both ways, though, and I think Palin has already handled the smears well, and will win over a lot of people with her convention speech.
Fifteen years ago she was in her late twenties? FGS, when I was that age, I was a liberal.
The left is throwing everything they have at her. She’s still standing.
Fifteen years ago she was in her late twenties? FGS, when I was that age, I was a liberal.
The left is throwing everything they have at her. She’s still standing.
It’s like poop-tossing day down at the orangatan paddock.
She says it’s not accurate to describe the party as secessionist — they just want a vote, she says, adding that the members of the AIP hold different opinions on what Alaska should be.
What interests me in all this is not what they are finding, since they aren’t finding anything, but the fact that they are trying so hard just to find *something*.
The press, as I sometimes like to point out, isn’t biased toward the DNC, the press “is” the DNC.
So watching them scurry and scratch and claw doesn’t surprise me, the nastiness of it doesn’t surprise me, its who they are. I smell fear. Their candidate is melting away right in front of them.
What would they have to find for it to be a deal-breaker for me? I don’t know, that Palin had met secretly with the Viet Cong, maybe? Or that she had drowned her lover. Or that an amazing number of her associates had died strange deaths. That might worry me. But to discover that her husband drank beer when he was a kid, no, thats not going to do it.
Will there be anything left to uncover tomorrow? My word they’re blowing their wad and none so far of any consequence. They are really really scared!
A new slogan: “MSM in the septic tank for Obama”
yawn...
Big deal! I was less than enlightened in my younger days. I voted in the ‘88 primary for Al Haig and then in ‘92 for Pat Buchanan (I’m still ashamed of that one.)
When I lived in Alaska, there was one of these goofy parties who used to “raffle off” the same airplane year after year after year. They would just paint it a different color each year. The damn thing never left the place in town where they had it parked. I wonder if it was these asshats.
lets see the USSR funded such seperatist movements.
See Russia/Georgia today.
As for Alaska seperatist. Key West has the same goofy type of movement.
I could have no posted it here, that way it could get shopped around to media outlets without anyone questioning its authenticity, or merit (like we do here).
But hey since I’m a newbie, I’ll stop trying to help
Yep.
Yeah, and one here in Virginia too. I wish we had a government and governor and legislature and Senators and more House Reps in Virginia and representing Virginia that were Virginia first instead of Democrats first and taxes first and themselves and their power first...
This group is probably why Alaska is prospering and productive and takes care of it's own...unlike my birth state of Michigan and my suffering childhood friends that have watched it circle the drain these past several years.
The Ronald Reagan didn't switch parties until 1962, he was 51!
meant to type “not”...ooops
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
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