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The true information is certainly relevant and I think the American public should know the truth about this matter. I've heard nothing but lies from Sarah Palin and at the same time she professes to be a Christian and her husband Todd is really a dangerous individual and could very easily be a terrist. I'm surprised the RNC was willing to purchase the clothes he wore to the Republican National Convention.

I dont know why MAINSTREAM media spends so much time diging for dirt on Palin. Its like Joe Biden and Obama get a pass on everything they have ever said or did in their past. I would like to see some honest investigation on all the canidates equally. I am sure if CNN,ABC and CBS did that, the polls would not be where they are today. Obama is the most secretaive canidate I have ever seen. Demand to see his College records. I bet most people will not like what they see. how about some of the the things he has stated in his book, But dont worry the mainstream media has given the Democrats a pass, its not that important its only a presidential campaign. They have all jumped on the OBAMA train and dont care what he may do to our country. You will all feel very stupid in a few years when his time is over. I dont think Obama will be office more than one term, once eveyone see's his true colors.

Cheers to the AIP , anyone want to start TIP for Texans Independent Party? This government has made every lower and middle worker a slave, working our off for minimum wage just to pay income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, service taxes, usage taxes, license fees, renewal fees, inspection fees, registration fees, fines, fees, penelties, surcharges, auto insurance, helth insurance, interest, and more taxes. We aren't even left with enough to feed our families or pay for our homes. Then they have taken our rights away, they have taken our privacy.....

A turd wrapped in fine newspaper and sprayed with perfume and lipstick is still gonna stink.

My problem with Palin and McCain is that they are not the Christians that they profess to be. They lie, bear false witness and endanger human life by inciting their angry crowds into potentially violent mobs. McCain and Palin have done nothing to rebuke this preacher who describes all Moslims, buddhists and Sikhs of the world as "praying for the enemy" (referring to Barrack Obama. There are 7 million American Moslims. My husband is Buddhist - are we the enemy now? Wil we be persecuted if McCain and Palin win? If Republican Christians say they are afraid - try being us!!
Those Republican mobs are terrible people and the reason they are so poor? is because they are so thick.

The founder of the AIP, Joe Vogler, had this to say about America. This was before he was murdered during a sale of plastuc explisives gone bad.

"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."

"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. I'll be buried in Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home."

And she has the audacity to take Obama to task over his tangential link to Ayers??

hahahahaha, i cant believe how some of you commentators can justify Palin's treason by saying it that it occurred so long ago. It's like telling our government to let pedophiles, rapists, and terrorists out of jail for crimes they committed a decade ago; because it was....well.... "so long ago"

I am tired of hearing Conservatives whine about the "mainstream" ..er, elite liberal media. Palin has already given her ultimatum about how she "chooses" to speak, defining her terms, and whether or not she will answer, etc. Where's the outrage?

Re: Ayers. The Annenberg project was founded by Walter Annenberg, a lifelong Republican appointed by Nixon and Reagan.
The Annenberg board also included several civic, business and education leaders, many of them Republicans.
Former Illinois state Republican Rep. Diana Nelson calls the Ayers smear silly and ridiculous.

But Obama DID pal around with terrorists. Ayers bragged in his memoir that he bombed the Pentagon and other buildings. There's clear and documented evidence Obama had an ongoing relationship with Ayers.==============================The AIP accusations are nothing more than muddying the waters.========================
Question: What does Barack Obama and Osama Bin Ladin have in common?===============Answer: They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.==============Any attacks about Palin/AIP pales in comparison.

We cannot expect Palin to have the drive or courage to work with the bureaucracy of the US government when she is such an outsider and has so little respect for the laws and institutions of this country that she would support Alaska's secession. The leader of the Alaska Independence Party openly spouted hate for America. That is far more un-American than Obama's loose, minor acquaintance with Ayers.

How can the records showing members of the AIP not go back as far as 1995, but detailed records go back to the 1994 AIP convention showing who attended?

McCain/Palin need to drop associating Obama with Ayers and Rev. Wright when Palin is married to a man who is/was member of an organization that doesn't want Alaska to be a state in the United States of America. The AIP founder is quoted saying he doesn't need American or its damned institutions. Sounds like Sarah Palin's husband isn't proud to be an American.

McCain had a choice of many really intelligent republican women in the congress; why did he pick this unknown, finger wagging, winking, spiteful woman? Oh, yeah! I know. She lies so prettily with a smile and a wink and the republicans are so desperate they will do anything to win the White House again. God help the USofA. Our great country cannot survive four more years of Bush voodoo economics.

"He who is without sin, cast the first stone".
Sounds like McCain and Sarah haven't read their bibles.
"What goes around, comes around, and it comes back 10 fold". Perhaps they haven't heard of this one either.
I'd say these two better run for cover!

Palin has NOW opened a can of worms by recently saying Obama is "palling around with terrorists."

EVERYONE is now aloud to question The Palin's association with AIP; troopergate scandal, witchcraft practices; improper use of funds to pay for family trips...Palin started it....

I don't know when you guys at ABC and other news agencies are going to finally get it. This report is again based on hearsay just like the trooper story which everyone found out the truth that Palin wanted him fired for tasering his 10 year old step son just to show others how it worked.

Come on we all know most of the media is liberal and is doing everything they can to tamper with information to get the voter to vote Obama. It used to be that reports like this one were based on FACTS not hearsay. I hope you'll be eating these words again.

If I ever see a politician run on a platform that includes severe penalties for poor reporting like this I'll vote for him in a second! You guys have been no better than the rags that report on celebrities like the Enquirer! Certainly you aren't professionals.

To: Master Shake sorry meant for Azaelya
"This isn't a battle of race or sex as much as it is the wealthy vs the majority"

Where is the proof that the Republican Party is the party of the wealthy? The Democratic Party has as many if not more wealthy people than the Republican Party. George Sores, the vast majority of Hollywood, the Mainstream Media and I can go on and on with examples of people with money who are Democrats.

To: Master Shake

Where is the proof that the Republican Party is the party of the wealthy? The Democratic Party has as many if not wealthy people as the Republican Party. George Sores, the vast majority of Hollywood, the Mainstream Media and I can go on and on with examples of people with money who are Democrats.

Well, all the Nuts are losing it over Gov. Palin. Why the irrational anger? USA TODAY/Gallup poll shows McCain-Palin up by 10 with likely voters. The Messiah has a Freudian slip and mentions his "Muslim faith" in an interview with Steffi. LOL!

i think with the ludicrousness of this election comes some wisdom. This isn't a battle of race or sex as much as it is the wealthy vs the majority. Can they really buy their way to the white house again? Or have the masses grown too intelligent for this kind of control??

After Alaska's secession, Sarah can become Empress of Alaska, and Todd can be her Prince-Consort.

Go for it, Sarah!

I expect the press to go after Todd Palin's patriotism with the same venom with which they attacked Michelle Obama's or admit that they are as racist as I think they are. I'm horrified by these double standards.

Sarah gave a video speech at the AIP party convention **this year**. The AIP party wants Alaska to secede from the United States and becomes its own country.

In my mind, that is treason against the United States of America.

Sarah Palin is not qualified because of this.

Everything happened so long ago. Let's give Palin a chance.

Wow.

What a lot of B.S.
Democrats can not stand the thought of a strong Republican woman, just like They can;t stand strong Conservative Blacks. Non issues are wrestled with and stretched to make issues.

What a joke!

Well since McCain is an expert on breakaway republic like Georgia, he can deal with Palin and her AIP Breakaway Republic of Alaska, especially since theRussians are so close.

What a bunch of bull, Palin is a cynical prop.

oh please-don't use Hillary Clinton name in the same sentence with Palin! Hillary is a woman who has fought for the rights of ALL Americans-not a select group of people living in a state that actually gives a rebate check to the citizens because they have a surplus from the rest of the 49 buying a product from them ...OIL......America's Saudi Arabia......NO WONDER Palin doesn't support Alternative Energy....she might have to really taken on fiscal decisions in her state......if she didn't have the oil companies filling the state's treasury....

It is insulting to women everywhere that the Republicans believe that Sarah Palin is supposed to be an equal within John McCain's adminstration. Perhaps Cindy McCain and Sarah can exchange recipes..... This ALaska Independence Party "issue" really needs to be explored. If she were to take office...one must look at the Oath she is sworn to uphold....would she do this ...? To protect the UNITED STATES...read united...United States of America. Of course she had no problem taking pork barrel spending from the FED...now did she??
Wake up everyone! THis women is a threat to our freedom and way of life!

SHAME ON YOU JOHN MCCAIN! TO think I thought about voting for you not less than 3 months ago...

oh please-don't use Hillary Clinton name in the same sentence with Palin! Hillary is a woman who has fought for the rights of ALL Americans-not a select group of people living in a state that actually gives a rebate check to the citizens because they have a surplus from the rest of the 49 buying a product from them ...OIL......America's Saudi Arabia......NO WONDER Palin doesn't support Alternative Energy....she might have to really taken on fiscal decisions in her state......if she didn't have the oil companies filling the state's treasury....

It is insulting to women everywhere that the Republicans believe that Sarah Palin is supposed to be an equal within John McCain's adminstration. Perhaps Cindy McCain and Sarah can exchange recipes..... This ALaska Independence Party "issue" really needs to be explored. If she were to take office...one must look at the Oath she is sworn to uphold....would she do this ...? To protect the UNITED STATES...read united...United States of America. Of course she had no problem taking pork barrel spending from the FED...now did she??
Wake up everyone! THis women is a threat to our freedom and way of life!

SHAME ON YOU JOHN MCCAIN! TO think I thought about voting for you not less than 3 months ago...

hey "today":

you say "1994, that was so long ago. Who cares?"

Well, see... her husband was a member of the party until 2002 (only changed it when she started running for office). Oh, and in 2008 (rather recently, yes?) she addressed the AIP convention - saying she was "delighted" to do so. At that convention they referred to her as the candidate they had supported for governor.

Seems she's at least a little bit friendly with them even now. They want to secede. As in they are very definitely not pro-America.

That's why people care.

So with one fell swoop, John McCain, Mr. Shoot From The Hip Ask Questions Later Maverick, has picked a VP who in her first day on the national scene in her opening statement to the American people comes out with a bold faced lie about her stance on the bridge to nowhere, who sympathizes with, if not a closet member of, an anti-U.S. secessionist party, who as a proponent of abstinence has shown us how well it works, and she comes neatly packaged with her own little ethics investigation (which, by the way, McCain's lawyers are frantically trying to stall and obstruct). And yet they say she was thoroughly vetted. They say picking your VP is your first major test as a nominee and gives the world an idea of how you would do things. Well, whaddya think?

Palin is a non-issue to everyone except the far-right-wing of the evangelical-wing of the Republican Party.

There is ONLY one issue, and that is McCain had MONTHS to vet EVERY Republican that could even have possibly been considered. They vetted her (such as it was) the day before she was selected. This woman has more baggage than Santa does on Christmas Eve!

America CANNOT AFFORD to take a risk on a PRESIDENT that is that compulsive. McCain has PROVED he is intellectually and emotionally unfit for the office of President. Beyond that, his actions are an insult to America.

What was John McCain thinking? Did he know anyting about Sarah Palin when he chose her to be his VP?

Is he trying to sink the GOP?

Alaskan independence?

time to move to Alaska.

Am I the only republican who believes that there were.....hold on let me count...1,2,3...96 prominent, qualified people of our party who could have been McCains VP pick!!!! Am I the only one Ticked off???? Why not Huckabee???? Im voting for Obama to show my disdain for McCain, because Palin is just not the best person for the job. PERIOD!!!!

CBS News reports that Chryson who says Palin was at the 1994 Convention did not see her himself. Pretty weak source. What was that about vetting?

Can you IMAGINE how crazy the right wing would be going if Michelle or Barack Obama had been associated with a group like this? Sean Hannity would be talking about it every day on his program. Something tells me that when it is Sarah Palin or her husband they won't bring it up. I guess we can only question the patriotism of Democrats.

Why does Todd Palin hate America?

traitor. the party ticket should read the angry old man and the traitor.

Maryam says that Palin has galvanized the "base" and they'll come out in droves for Palin. But those same people also hate McCain, finding him to be too wishy washy on nearly every "base" issue. He's voted against bills he's written. He's not solid on any issue these days.

So, at *best* the Palin pick merely evens out the enthusiasm of the "base" a little, while scaring off people that were on the fence about McCain.

My bet is that she's off the ticket within a week. She's a nightmare, and McCain didn't know it because he had only just barely met her once before picking her.

This goes to show just how he'd run the whitehouse if elected. Scared yet? You should be.

I never knew how nervous the Democrats were becoming until watching their reaction to medias smearing of Palin. They are positively coming unhinged. Yet they are so wrapt up in the feeding frenzy that they can't see what Palin is doing for the Republican party base. She has singlehandedly galvanized the base and got them excited about a McCain presidency.

In November they'll come out in droves like never before and vote McCain/Palin into office.

It is not difficult to understand why the Democrats are so frightened of Sarah Palin VP pick but the delicious dichotomy is that their media's hyper-ventilated political hack job on Sarah Palin is finally energizing the Republican base like nothing else would!

This is an important story. Why isn't it being pushed more into the news?
Come on, after all the hooey about Michelle and Baraks patriotism. This is very germane to the discussion.

On another note, what about the gathering of over 10,000 people at the Ron Paul dissident convention? If they were "PUMAs", you would be all over it.

What about Mr.Palin's DUI's ??

Interesting,

The "Liberal Media Conspiracy" just pulled the link to the Palin AIP speech and left me with a dangling comment.

And to believe she would be a heartbeat away from being Commander-in-Chief if McCain dies. My God, what a country we would have then. I fought for the United States of America, I guess she wanted us to find for the Nation of Alaska and the other Red States. Blue Ones would not count.

I'm having a Deja Vu moment here...

Jude,

The less you know, the more qualified you are.

I guess Palin is actually more qualified than ANY Senator to be at the top of the ticket if you happen to buy that logic.

If you are like most Americans, there is hope!

Ouch,

That last round in my foot stings a bit.

Veracity? A bigger question actually, if
in fact she is playing both sides of the fence on the Alaska First issue.

Who says Sarah Palin doesn't have foreign policy experience? Indeed, if she and her husband and the AIP had their way, Alaska would be a foreign country!

I was ready to drop this with the lack of a paper trail... but witnesses are good enough for our judicial system.

Is there a reasonable doubt as to where her loyalties lay?.. A Question.

Is there a reasonable doubt as to her veracity? Not So Much

It's too bad, we're not looking at the right issues and assigning anger to the right person. McCain should be ashamed. He couldn't pick Lieberman, so he picks the weakest person he could. I guess figuring, well I can't have my way, I'll show you(Republican Party) He's been smiling and laughing ever since. If he wanted a female VP, I find it difficult to believe Palin is it. He doesn't really believe it. He's walked on the toes of every female qualified senator and he 's laughing at it. At one point, McCain was going to independent, leaving the Republican party. But he said, oh, heck I'll hang in there vote with Bush. Make it look like I can be a team player. Now for lots and lots of reason, he's picked Palin whom I understand after the fact, he's team is finally vetting. It's payback to the Republican party. If he gets elected, he'll get to thumb his nose at the entire country. Why? for being left for 5 1/2 years as a P.O.W. If he really cared, I believe he would have sought a qualified VP. So if you're upset, be upset with the right person and look right at McCain. After all he talked to her for 5-10 minutes, he knows her well.

I'm confused.

You mean to tell me that McCain couldn't find a VP candidate that didn't want their to seceed from the Union?

Big D,

What does that actually mean?

wonder when their records stopped going back that far

Leonard:

Something you have been lost your whole life...

It's typical of these republicans to attack Obama personally with lies rather then to want to debate the real issues this country is facing. Let's talk about Palin and what lack of vetting was done in selecting her. Lets talk about McCains age and health. McCain jumped the gun and chose Palin for the wrong reasons. I'm sure there is a more qualified vp candidate out there for McCain. But he didn't care. She wasn't vetted. Her last pregnancy was strange being that she didn't show physically at all. What does it say of her character and judgement to bring her 17 year old pregnant daughter on the campaign trail to be thrown under the bus..she just threw her to the wolves. Why tell the world she is pregnant and then say they want privacy. Yeah ok...?! Please come join the rest of us in the real world.

Big Daddy,

You lost me at #1.
If only all terrorists just had
"Terrorist" as their middle name
we could cut the CIA budget substantially.

The MSM ignores all of Obama's evil associations...even when there is video and audio. Yet they are willing to spread factless rumours about a woman. Shame on you ABC. I don't care what you say. I will be listening to Sarah Palin herself on Wednesday. I don't want my impressin filtered through the Obama MSM lens.

I guess Palin is actually more qualified than ANY Senator to be at the top of the ticket if you happen to buy that logic.

As a slight divergence from the thread, it just occurred to me that all of the "no experience" arguments that are being made against Obama would have been used verbatim against Hillary.

So what does that really say about the validity of the argument?

If the MSM can play 10-30 seconds worth of video of Jeremiah Wright for days and days on end, then they had better be able to make Sarah Palin's affiliation with a political party that supports a vote on secession from the Union for at least that much time.

The MSM should do its job and force John McCain answer exactly why and how he chose someone to be VP that may well believe that there should only be 49 states. If the answer is "I didn't know," he should explain in detail how he and his campaign could have missed such a staggeringly important fact, and chose his proposed #2 for the most powerful nation on Earth on the basis of what seems for all the world like nothing more than a rash whim.

Party registration does not equate to party membership. You could be a registered Republican without being a member of the party. Likewise, you could be a member of the party and not be registered for that party. Palin could easily have been a registered Republican while holding an AIP membership.

This has nothing to with Obama. This is all the MSM and anti-McCain bloggers. McCain hired the electioneer who smeared him in 2000 and is running with Rove. Don't believe for a second John's hands are clean.

Mary - There's video of Palin ddressing the AIP?!!!

McCain: "NO VETTING, NO WAY, TRUST ME"

How could the good senator have been so thoughtless and inconsiderate, here, with the VP choice?!

Democracy, in America, depends on a healthy and "functional" two party system.

This is a major disappointment.

America, touting her "Democracy", now, is going to look more foolish in the world's eyes!!!

According to Josh Marshall at TPM, the Alaska Division of Elections says that Todd Palin was a registered member of AIP from 1995 through 2002.

Why does Todd Palin hate America?

Why did John McCain make such a poor choice? Is this kind of knee-jerk decision making the steady hand America needs during these uncertain times?

It seems that the Palin choice is likely a bait thrown out to lure "old politics." A Rove playbook reversed.

Don't diss the foreign policy experience you get as Governor of Alaska! It appears that relations between the United States and Alaska have never been better, and we have this former secessionist and her challanging year and a half in office to thank for the solid relationship between Alaska and its number 1 trading partner, the U.S.

Considering that the media is "in the tank for Obama" how strange that a media study demonstrated that 70% of Obama coverage is negative. How strange, indeed.

This is ridiculous.

I'm so mad at John McCain and his joke of a campaign, I could spit.

The Republican party - MY PARTY! - is supposed to the party of patriots, the party of putting America first.

I think there's plenty wrong with Washington DC - and lately, neither party has done a damn thing to fix it.

But to secede?

No way. It's not often that I'll quote a Democrat, but read your history... Andrew Jackson had a pretty good response when he was asked what he'd do if a state's leader tried to secede - he said he hang 'em right on the White House lawn.

Way to go McVain... You've been stabbing MY party - not YOURS - in the back for 20 years, and now, you just put the cherry on top.

You pick a candidate for the Vice Presidency of the United States who, it seems, DOESN'T EVEN WANT TO BE A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES!

I won't vote for those damn liberals - Obama and Biden - but there is no way in HELL I'm voting McVain and his secessionist VP.

I guess it's writing in Duncan Hunter for me.

Ken M

You make a ridiculous comment about "skewed" polling, and I'm the one trying to "spin". Classic. Fact is, Dem's went last week, Republicans are going now. There will be a bounce. The Republicans always do better in the fall. Just ask Kerry, Gore and that idiot that posed in the tank. I'll say it again, you have a deeply flawed candidate that can't close the sale. In this environment, the race should have been over in June.

I find it fascinating that the media is on Day 5 of Rumor and innuendo against Palin's family, but when John Edwards story was the 900 pound gorilla in the room, they wouldn't touch it. Edwards and his campaign manager very probably committed crimes of campaign finance law and a fraud on donors, but the media claims it was a family matter, so hands off.

Brian Ross this morning was trying to call McCain a liar because a few Republicans went out partying last night, but no mention of the fact that ABC camera man was strangled trying to film Obama/Biden/Edwards money man Fred Baron, the one who paid hush money for Rielle Hunter. I'm sure the women of America can see the irony of a tale of two babies.

No Mccain, No Way

Let's see what what your side has to offer. First, you've got a community organizer/lawyer/author. If that doesn't scream White House potential, nothing will. Then you have a plagiarizing ###### that brags about being the poorest man in the Senate. Biden's financial records say he's in debt. On a Senator's salary? Is that even possible? So, either Biden's a congenital liar, or he's terrible with money.

Glen Hull

Nice try at the spin, son. The pollsters have said that the closeness of the two conventions and the timing of McCain's annoucement has skewed this election season's post convention polling.

The Labor Day weekend and Gustav are over and as more people focus on the McCain's monumentally flawed choice and incredibly poor judgment, the polls will slowly move to a double digit lead for Obama.

"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."

John "Country First" McCain had no idea Palin was a member of the Alaska separatist party because he never wanted her as VP and therefore didn't vet her. He wanted Lieberman or Ridge. But his Rove-protege political adviser panicked after the DNC went so well, and McCain did what they told him to do - go with a right-wing female in a desperate attempt to pull some votes.

"Country First?" Yeah right - picking someone who would be an unmitigated disaster should McCain's cancer get the better of him, just because your campaign guys say it will mean votes. Sorry McBush, the Hail Mary pass just landed about 5 yards outta bounds.

BLAME KARL ROVE, THE REPUBLICAN MASTERMIND.

Even though I never heard of her until 2 days ago, I trust her to run this country, win 3 wars, fix our crumbling economy, and cut taxes for hard working Americans! McCain's chronic health problems like cancer will work themselves out and if they don't Palin will be ready from day one!

She ran a city and its 50 employees, didn't she?? And her husband is a BP executive, he must know where we can find oil! And she obviously stands with all Americans in their fear of abortions.

McCain / Palin 08!
"It Can't Get Worse, Can It?"

Ryan C

Double digits? Oh, that's funny. If Obama couldn't open up a double-digit lead after wrapping up the DEM nomination against arguably a much stronger candidate (HC) than Mccain, he's certainly not going to do it after the Republican National Convention. It's that kind of mind-numbing logic by DEM supporters that have kept the Republicans in the White House for 28 of the past 40 years. This race will go down to the wire. Your candidate isn't strong enough to close the sale in September.

Ok its over folks.

US Weekly's cover all about Palin.

Headline: Babies, Lies & Scandal.

When US weekly is attacking you, you know you are the nation's punching bag.

I predict her speech concludes with a withdrawing of her name for nomination.

Jake,

Searching the Internet found out the "American Secession Project" a website that is (quoting) "Dedicated to placing secession in the mainstream of political thought as a viable solution to contemporary problems." This means opting-out of the United States of America. At this site I found a link to the Alaskan Independence website Party (AIP). There I checked out the History section, where I found this:

"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions." - Joe Vogler. and this "Vogler served as Chairman of the Party from 1986 until his death in 1993."

Mr Vogler's rugged mug in on the Memorial section

It should really be easy to settle the question of "Who among the Alaskan populace is or was involved with AIP?"

Despite Alaska being the size of Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and the United Kingdom combined (wikipedia), the residents there cluster around small, close-knit communities. Where family histories run long, deep and, unavoidably, intertwine. Histories that hang on the walls of dens, offices and foyers; filling family albums with old, cracked, sepia stained, photos.

"Know hope!" "Truth give birth in due time."

"And what about her fiscal responsibilities? "She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million."

That's a lot of money for a city with 5 or 6K inhabitants"

That's alot of money for a midsized city.

Thanks for the ehad sup on the article Willem (see I finally got it right)

How can their motto be "Country First" when the heartbeat away belongs to a nut fringe group that wants to SECEDE FROM THE UNITED STATES???

There will be much more to this story once it comes out that she has deep ties to the group and even attended meetings THIS YEAR.

Karl Rove made the decision to pick Palin as the Veep. McCain wanted Lieberman. This says a lot about how any McCain/Palin administration will be run.

jake...isn't the orig date, the date she registered to vote, not when she registered with a party/

And what about her fiscal responsibilities? "She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million."

That's a lot of money for a city with 5 or 6K inhabitants

Wait