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September 02, 2008

Palin & AIP - Is a Secessionist an appropos Veep?

Alaska Governor and presumptive GOP Veep candidate Sarah Palin was a member of the pro-secessionist Alaskan Independence Party.

Any suggestions that her AIP membership was but a youthful indisgression are dispelled by the fact that earlier this year she recorded a welcoming address for the 2008 AIP Convention.

(Update: A commenter on a Lakewood Observer message board muses that perhaps Gov. Palin's desire to fly all the way from Texas to Alaska to give birth might be connected secessionist AIP views. Which, if it's anything akin to 19th century Confederate views about the Yankee North, actually makes some sense in a twisted sorta way.)

TPM has very good coverage of this.

Posted by Kevin at September 2, 2008 08:10 AM