Palin's Mixed Messages on Patriotism

WHERE ARE THE REST OF SARAH PALIN'S TAX RETURNS?

Palin owes America 8 more years of her tax records, like the other three candidates. So far, Ms. Palin, who loves attacking Obama on tax plans, has shown that she herself doesn't like to pay taxes and is possibly even guilty of "fixing" her tax returns.

The election is just over two weeks away - - WHEN IS AMERICA GOING TO GET TRANSPARENCY ON THE REST OF PALIN'S TAX RETURNS?

Palin's ties to the Alaska Independence Party seem to be off-limits for most of the media. How else could Palin get away with the insinuation that Barack Obama does not sufficiently love America while she herself has long standing ties to AIP?

With Palin slights on the patriotism of many Americans, and recent comments by Michelle Bachmann, we are witnessing, as Katrina van den Heuvel put it, the rebirth of McCarthyism. John McCain is perfectly content to go along with this.

If Sarah Palin so loves her country as she says. Then why was she a member of AIP along with her husband Todd.This outfit wanted to take Alaska and make it a country of it's own They Sarah and Todd hung around with a terriost who lost his life buying material to make bombs to use against America. He stated that he hates America and doesn't want his bones buried in America.

I THINK THAT THERE IS AT LEAST ONE THING THAT YOU CAN SAY WITH CERTAINTY: SARAH HAS ALWAYS BEEN PROUD OF HER COUNTRY.

The worst VP pick ever. She will be the reason John McCain loses.

Palin's most patriotic move is DROP OUT for America!!

In the interest of full disclosure, McCain should explain his relationship with "Joe the Plumber." Joe Wurzelbacher from the Toledo event is a close relative of Robert Wurzelbacher of Milford, Ohio. Who’s Robert Wurzelbacher? Charles Keating’s son-in-law and the former senior vice president of American Continental, the parent company of the infamous Lincoln Savings and Loan. Now retired, the elder Wurzelbacher is also a major contributor to Republican causes giving well over $10,000 in the last few years.

I do not point out Palin's palling around with members of the AIP a secessionist party with ties to the KKK. There are times in youth that one experiments with ideology. The problem is, how can you do this and then point out as a weakness a friendship with an antiwar group member of the Vietnam war era. American has not forgotten the political dynamics of the war in Vietnam and there is not one among us who were of draft age who did not protest or have associates who protested the war and subsequent draft.The same cannot be said of the KKK. I personalty have associated been friends with former members of the KKK although I am diametrically opposed to their stated goals.Hypocrisy is at the foundation of the problem most have with Palin.If you want to have a person in the position of vice president with hypocrisy as a stated theme then vote for Palin.

Web search Alaska federal lands. you will see that you can't even put a road between two towns without crossing federal land. While waiting for permission to put that road in, you have to also fight in the courts with all the environmental groups in the nation. This partially explains why almost all Alaskans at one time or another have paid lip service to the idea of secession. But when Alaska want to manage their fisheries, lumber, oil, etc., we have to deal with people who know absolutely nothing about the state. I have talked to people from the lower 48 that don't even know what hemisphere Alaska is in--and because most of our land is federal owned, that means that idiot may actually have a say in what we do here. The fact that Todd Palin belonged to a party (AIP) back in the late 90's only tells me he got fed up with the restrictions at that point and reacted by changing politcal parties. He changed back to undeclared in 2002. He may not even have known that the AIP stand for secession. I'm sure that there is much more than that in their parties platform. Do you know everything in your parties platform? I really doubt that you do. But to use the fact that he was at one time a member of AIP to "prove" that his wife is unpatriotic is ludicrous. I read the statement in our state election pamphlet from the AIP and it said nothing about secession. It said they are for bringing the troops home now, defending the US boarders from illegal entry, pro 2nd ammendment, pro life, against free trade agreements and for energy independence. Sounds pretty radica to me.

I don't know where "very concerned" gets his/her information. I changed party affiliations and it was a standard form. You have to choose which party you wish to join and then sign the form. You cannot be tricked into picking the word "Republican" if you don't want to.

Tim,
You have learned a lot from Sarah Palin. You ignore the questions you don't want to address and try to frame the discussion according to your own opinion. Just to get your question answered: No, I don't believe the govt. screws up everything it does. Now, can we get back to the real point. Is McPalin qualified to be President?

I'm getting a bit tired of these politicians who think that only small towns and rural areas are where "real Americans" live. Doesn't anyone else find that insulting? My husband and I were both born & raised and con't to live in NYC and we're probably more patriotic and "real" than Sarah Palin and her pro-secessionist husband.

I wonder what Sarah Palin thinks of the 9/11 firefighters - including the ones who gave up their lives. After all, they were New Yorkers. Does she think they weren't patriotic?

Can you imagine John McCain cabinet? scarier

While many other countries in world is trying hard to better themselves academically, intellectually, economically..., we are happy to be just the "average". If we continue to hold on to this false sense of superiority and refuse to look and think out of the box, then please, step aside and let other country lead. One cannot demand respect but commend respect. If we think Sarah just-an-average Palin is the one to represent and re-iginte the American Dream, all I can say is "dream on...!" God bless America.

I find it quite troubling that Senator Government's campaign is now asking for federal investigations into people who accuse ACORN of voter fraud.

Not investigations of ACORN's voter fraud, but the people who make the claim that ACORN is committing voter fraud.

I repeat, Senator Government wants you to be subject to federal investigation if you accuse ACORN is committing voter fraud.

Posted by: Concerned in OH | Oct 18, 2008 10:58:33 AM

How about this:

Dozens of newly minted Republican voters say they were duped into joining the party by a GOP contractor with a trail of fraud complaints stretching across the country.

Voters contacted by The Times said they were tricked into switching parties while signing what they believed were petitions for tougher penalties against child molesters. Some said they were told that they had to become Republicans to sign the petition, contrary to California initiative law. Others had no idea their registration was being changed.

It is a bait-and-switch scheme familiar to election experts. The firm hired by the California Republican Party — a small company called Young Political Majors, or YPM, which operates in several states — has been accused of using the tactic across the country.

Election officials and lawmakers have launched investigations into the activities of YPM workers in Florida and Massachusetts. In Arizona, the firm was recently a defendant in a civil rights lawsuit. Prosecutors in Los Angeles and Ventura counties say they are investigating complaints about the company.

karen...

ok i get it. you dont like sarah palin. you obviously believe that her associataions in the past are why you dont like her. thats fine. i understand. but is that the real reason you are not voting for the mccain/palin ticket?! let me ask you the same question i asked the last person who came in here talking about her past associations: how do you feel about barack obamas past associations? no names necessary.

Posted by: tim | Oct 18, 2008 1:35:46 PM

The same way I feel about McCain's associations. They all have their dirt so none of them should be throwing stones at each other.

How come no one mentions Palin's backers in Alaska? John Bricher's, milita's, secessionists who wanted to start their own little oil fiefdom in Alaska? Isn't that called traitors?
Sarah and her first dude supported them and they lanched her Governer campain.
Again shows how little Repubs think of America by making her VP. .
Jerry

This great country of ours? Where? I haven't seen it in eight years. Under Bush and Cheney we've been living in occupied America, the mean-spirited American that instead of church and state and liberty for all spies on its own citizens and tries to impose the religion of some onto all. Well no more, and no to McCain/Palin. It's time for this country to get back on track the way the founding fathers designed it.

The reason McLame doesn't want to discuss Rev. Wright is because his closet is filled with skeletons when it comes to racist political figures. McCain stated he won't bring it up because he doesn't want to be known as a racist. Well when you look into his past it is rittled with racist people. Recently Civil Rights leader John Lewis stated McCain campaign reminded him of Wallace. He wasn't comparing McCain to Wallace he was referring to the effects of the the two campaign. However, George Wallace was a racist, and McCain was one of his biggest supporters. I'm an older American and I remember those days. Does that make McCain a racist? If Obama is a terrorist than McCain is a racist.