The unfunny Palin is chummy with a super right wing group of separatists who want Alaska to secede from the Union. She’ll fit right in when touring the Deep South.
This seems worth digging into a bit. The Alaska Independence Party, which was formed with the goal of seceding from the union and establishing Alaska as an independent state, says that Palin addressed their 2008 convention.
The AIP has posted video of what it claims is her address on its Web site.
It’s hard to gauge how fringe the group is. Its Website features this quote from one of its founders:
“The problem with you John Birchers’ is that you are too damn liberal!”
— Joseph Vogler, Founder Alaskan Independence Party[From TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Sarah Palin And The Alaska Independence Party]
via Greg Sargent who has an excellent roundup of this weekends bad news for McCain/Palin, including the fact that there is a team of 10 lawyers being dispatched to Alaska by the Republican Party to cover-up as much scandal as possible, and do a proper vetting of Palin, presumedly before she is officially nominated. I bet the RNC is happy they had a good excuse to cancel their speeches scheduled for today. Might have been awkward for Republican Party regulars to mention Palin so many times before cutting her loose ala Thomas Eagleton in 1972.1
The faux-pregnancy story turned out to be just a family affair, and perhaps a Rovian play for sympathy.
Bush and his buddy McCain celebrate Hurricane Katrina
Regardless, heck of a job on selecting your VP, McSamey.
Footnotes:- Eagleton wasn’t thoroughly vetted by George McGovern’s staff, and the press had a field day discussing Eagleton’s mental hospital visits [↩]