Posted on 09/01/2008 7:13:27 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Short Streaming Video of VP Sarah Palin recently supporting an independent Third Party (conservative) in Alaska, welcoming the Party and sharing their ideas, also supporting independent parties' to challenge the two established parties.
The Party welcomed here on this video did in fact go on to have a successful convention, as Mrs. Palin urged them, and ultimately officially endorsed and affiliated with conservative CHUCK BALDWIN (on the national ticket for Constitution Party) for President of the United States in 2008.
OK, I understand where you’re coming from. I have a low opinion of McCain, too. And it’s tearing me up inside that Obama is being proven to be so blasted dangerous that I feel forced to vote for McCain.
But I will, because I am terrified of Obama becoming President.
And because I have to vote for McCain to keep Obama out of the White House, I am thrilled that Sarah Palin will be McCain’s VP.
"Thanks, sir" said in Japanese to you Mr. Robinson, from very far away.
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Chuck Baldwin is nuts, but she wasn’t endorsing him, she was just sending a welcome message to that Alaskan party. There’s absolutely nothing controversial with anything she said in that video.
Fringies always need a place to go and that is a good thing.
Otherwise you have domestic violence lol. Look at those anarchists today in St.Paul.
You are sincere, and we are quite aware of your reasons and rationale. I understand. I do not agree but I understand, let me put it that way. I see a different path.
She welcomed them beforehand. She welcomed third parties in the political process (at least in her state). She agreed with their principles. She welcomed political independence from the two major political parties. They had their convention. And they nominated Chuck Baldwin. All in that order. You are correct.
I certainly think both Sarah Palin and Chuck Baldwin are MILES AHEAD of John McCain. Ol Juan is not fit to carry either of their Aquafina bottles. A TOTAL ZERO in my book.
You must be sarcastic.
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Oh, of course :-) -— she is top notch and the Marxist libs are scared to death of the fact she is NOT a Beltway Bozo who is beholding to everyone, but God.
She is a jewel of a pick.
Heck, a lot of freepers here were going to take that route before Palin was put on the McCain ticket.
I’m betting she’s voting for the Republican party nominee now.
I ate some rich, succulent, wild Alaskan Salmon yesterday to celebrate, no doubt the Salmon was caught between Sarah Palin’s teeth, which made it all the more enjoyable.
I understand.
I hardly consider Sarah Palin a “fringe”. Is that what you infer?
quite an image you got going there!
Lets just start from ZERO. ;-)
Dare I say that she’s a MAVERICK?
Here is the video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI&feature=related
It’s the Alaska Independence Party. It’s already being said that she was a member of this party before she became mayor of Wasilla.
“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.”
Lynette Clark, the chairman of the AIP, tells ABC News that Palin and her husband Todd were members in 1994, even attending the 1994 statewide convention in Wasilla. Clark was AIP secretary at the time.
“We are a state’s rights party,” says Clark, a self-employed goldminer. The AIP has “a plank that challenges the legality of the Alaskan statehood vote as illegal and in violation of United Nations charter and international law.”
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.
“My own separate opinion as an individual is that we should be an independent nation,” Clark says. Others in the AIP “believe that being a commonwealth would be a good avenue to follow.” Some advocate statehood — but a fuller statehood than exists now.
She doesn’t know what Palin’s position was.
“It never came up in conversation,” Clark recalls. “But when she joined the party, our platform was right under her nose.”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html
This will probably be all over the news tomorrow.
"Conservatives are now questioning her affiliation with an extreme breakaway political party, causing deep rifts in the Republican ticket. The seemingly untouchable goddess of the right is now under scrutiny".
I sure am glad I don't support the above, which will come.
Actually, we picked the story up about an hour before you guys did ;)
"Extreme breakaway party" is right. The Alaskan Independence Party doesn't just want to break away from the Republican Party, it wants to break away from the United States.
It's strange, though. For quite possibly the first time since 9/11, the far left and the far right are reacting in the same exact way to an event: both are absolutely thrilled with John McCain's VP pick. In liberalland, many of us are starting to suspect that this is in fact some kind of practical joke, and that any moment now McCain will announce that he was just pulling our legs and his real running mate is Lieberman or Romney or whomever. Meanwhile, here in Freeperville, there are people fantasizing about Palin frolicking through Alaskan streams.
We should take a moment to savor this rare bipartisan mirth.
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