Those were the words of Sarah Palin for an organization whose founder, Joe Vogler, said in 1991: "The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government. ... And I won't be buried under their damn flag."
According to the LATimes, "The McCain campaign denies that Palin ever joined the AIP." However she addressed several of their recent conventions and her husband, Todd, was a registered AIP member from 1995 to 2002. The AIP leadership certainly considers her one of their own.
As you'll see towards the end of this video, AIP Vice Chairman Dexter Clark, speaking of Palin at the 2007 North American Secessionist Convention, states that she was an "AIP member before she got the job as a mayor of a small town -- that was a nonpartisan job. But you get along to go along. She eventually joined the Republican Party, where she had all kinds of problems with their ethics, and well, I won't go into that." As you hear Clark goes on to urge AIP members to "infiltrate" the major parties.
Perhaps, Ed Koch said it best: "Palin to be vice president ... she's scary."
A Bad Disney Movie?
Matt Damon echoes the mayor eloquently:
I guess Matt, we're going to see how many Americans are either racist or crazy...
Palin: "Queen of Pork"?
While it is true that Governor Palin clearly "flip-flopped" on her support for "Bridge to Nowhere" when it comes to government earmarks in Alaska it's simply "business as usual". For a party that likes to bloviate that Democrats love the suck at the teats of big government, Alaska's Republicans grab the pork faster than they can wrap it, trade it or eat it.
Alaska costs the rest of us about $8 billion a year in federal expenditures. Granted it is a frontier state at the edge of nowhere but Alaskans get royalties from Big Oil and despite paying no state or consumer taxes currently have a budget surplus and a Permanent Fund of more than $39 billion. Yet, last year, as governor, Palin sought 192 million dollars from the Federal Government. If Senator Stevens is the "King of Pork" then Sarah Palin is the Queen of Bacon.
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