Another AIP Official Says Palin Was at 1994 Convention*

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.