Posted on 10/07/2008 1:39:12 PM PDT by steve-b
“The myth of Governor Palin’s membership in that party has been busted. Why even post this here?”
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Gov Palin was not a member of the party, her husband was. She did produce a video while governor where she opens the party’s convetion and welcomes the delegates. other then that there is no connection to the Palin’s.
And I believe that the first dude has not been a member for a while.
The problem is as an independent nation there would be no guarantees that Russia wouldn’t attempt to pluck Alaska back, declaring “Seward’s Folly” as an illegitimate nation. There would be no guarantees that the US would defend Alaska as an ally!
Wow! Sounds pretty radical to me. Probably don't even want to allow a mother the right to murder her own children!
In 1991, Walter Hickel, who had been Governor of Alaska and Secretary of the Interior, ran for the Governorship again on the Alaskan Independence Party ticket and won.
Vogler had offered Hickel the nomination, but Hickel repudiated the independence platform and didn't share in the radical anti-government sentiments of die-hard AIP members. Some of them even wanted to impeach him.
I suppose that was about the time Todd Palin registered with the AIP. And as happens, people forget to unregister afterwards.
It's as though Lowell Weicker or Joe Lieberman chose to run on some fringe party ticket and won. You wouldn't expect voting for them to constitute an endorsement of some more extreme views in that minor party's background.
Whenever you see the AIP mentioned in reference to the 1990s without mention of Hickel's winning run for Governor, somebody is probably trying to deceive you.
So did that party bomb buildings and kill people?
This Vogler guy wasn’t even really ‘anti-American’, just against the federal government, which is a far different thing.
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