Where did they find this person?
The Alaska Independence Party calls itself the third largest organization in the United States. Its platform calls for the defense of “states rights,” to “seek the complete repatriation of the public lands, held by the federal government, to the state and people of Alaska in conformance with Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17, of the federal constitution.”
Basically, the AIP wants a vote on secession. According to the organizations’ website. “[T]hough it is widely thought to be a secessionist movement, the Party makes great effort to emphasize that its primary goal is merely a vote on secession, something that Party advocates say Alaskans were denied during the founding of the state.”
The AIP says that Gov. Sarah Palin used to be a member of the party. Earlier this year, Palin recorded a welcoming address to the AIP’s convention. [...]
[AIP vice chairman Dexter] Carter says that AIP members must “infiltrate” — his words — the other two parties and push for the cause of Alaskan independence.
Remember MEChA? Obama, al-Qaeda cat’s paw? Sully’s fifth column? It’s all here, folks, and it would be irresponsible not to speculate about the links between this and John McCain’s VC Manchurian Candidate problem. The only thing McCain can do to fix the situation is to literally throw Gov. Palin under the wheels of a speeding bus and then recruit Jeff Gannon to replace her. It’s the only way to keep this momentum going.
… Would it be irresponsible to speculate about the Palin family’s proximity to the militia movement in the 1990’s? Hells nah.
September 1, 2008 at 8:09 pm
From the AIP’s “Questions and Answers about Alaskan Independence,” the most pressing question of all:
One small note: Ambinder has the vicechair’s last name wrong. It’s Clark. He is also their Ambassador to the Middlebury Institute.
September 1, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Looks like the rats are fucking themselves.
If a day goes by between now and November that this is not brought up on the teevee by multiple Dems, then they do not deserve to win.
September 1, 2008 at 8:26 pm
If a day goes by between now and November that you are not spreading this crap via email, call-in radio & TV, anonymous bulletin board postings, smoke signals and sky writing, you will get the election results you deserve.
September 1, 2008 at 8:40 pm
The Eds. are absofuckinglutely right to change the subject of Charlie’s comment from “the Dems” to “you.”
Me, I’m pleased to say that at the bachelor party I was at this weekend, I made sure the facts about Palin’s (grand-)daughter were known by a dozen not-yet-drunk voters, mostly from Pennsylvania (swing state!) and several Repubs or undecideds, none of whom had heard them.
And let me tell you: That shit sells.
September 1, 2008 at 8:42 pm
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September 1, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Looks like the rats are fucking themselves.
What The Editors said at #3.
Or, alternatively, the Good Lord ratfucks for those who are already engaged in ratfucking…
No, let’s just stick with what The Editors said.
September 1, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Catch the second video in this post. http://www.samefacts.com/archives/palin_/2008/09/sarah_palin_and_alaskan_secessionism.phpOne of the fundamental tenets of the AIP: the American armed forces stationed in Alaska are “an army of occupation.” Ponies 4 evah.
September 1, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Amen bro. I have already targeted my folks, there is no way I will let them forget this. They are wonderful and have been very good to me… but they are completely brainwashed by Faux News. My stepfather really thinks that it’s important whether a candidate wears a flag lapel pin or not. They both buy that crap about how Obama didn’t have his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance.
If Joe Biden had once belonged to a secessionist party, you can bet your wingnut friends/co-workers/antagonists would have gone at that with a gusto not seen since John Kerry faked his wounds in Vietnam and Al Gore invented the personal computer.
Time to return the favor.
September 1, 2008 at 8:49 pm
By the way, don’t you just love McCain’s mavericky, shoot-from-the-hip decision-making? That is exactly what America needs, doubling-down on the last eight years of Bush’s going-with-your-gut style of leadership.
Sure is fun watching the GOP watercarriers work for their money AND having to cut short their holiday weekend to do it. They’ve been handed a double-stack shit sandwich and they have to insist to the press that it’s really a deeeeelicious Philly cheesesteak.
September 1, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Look, it’s just politics, people. John McCain had to pick Palin to shore up his support with the vital secessionist militia wing of the Republican party.
September 1, 2008 at 8:49 pm
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September 1, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Dude, when are you guys going to do another KK comic book about Palin? Leading the ALaska National Guard against Russian troops on a ice floe until the polar bears she doesn’t give a shit about eat her ass. Yeah, in them old horror movies they don’t do it enough but the funnest scenes are the ones where the monster tears the heroine into two pieces, starts eating one and drops the other on the ground.
You’re always trying to see exactly what’s left…
The Russian troops are advancing…what will Sarah “Failin” Palin do? She lines up the nubile women of her tribe and…grunt grunt…they CONCEIVE. And BEAR. Right there in the field, they start firing babies at the Russians. Sarah has two all by herself.
Suddenly she has an idea…she torches off all the oil drilling platforms in Alaska, raising global warming enough to send a glacial flood over the Russians. (Unfortunately Juneau is under water when she gets home, but hey…)
September 1, 2008 at 8:55 pm
I think that if Palin has foreign policy props, maybe it’s because she WORKS FOR THE RUSKIES! They too are conservative Christian with a lot of money.
An Independent Alaska would soon follow the course of South Ossetia and Abkhzia, crushed beneath paw of the Russian bear.
These clever Rasputinish fiends probably planted a link back in POW days right in McCain’s brain and programmed it to be activated by some specific female hormone mutation that they could later implant in American womenhood FOR THAT SPECIFIC TASK. OMG!
Maybe Cindy, too. OMG!11!
September 1, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Ah yes, a shit sandwich, served nice and warm.
September 1, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I notice the AIP has taken its case to the Russian press.
So close! But the dream lives on in our prized mole, called by some Sarah Barracuda.
September 1, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) “was once a member of their party, which since the 1970s has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not residents of the 49th state can secede from the United States,” reports ABC News.
The AIP platform states that the purpose of the party is to “seek the complete repatriation of the public lands, held by the federal government, to the state and people of Alaska in conformance with Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17, of the federal constitution …
To prohibit all bureaucratic regulations and judicial rulings purporting to have the effect of law, except that which shall be approved by the elected legislature … To support the privatization of government services …”
Here’s the big problem for Republicans: Marc Ambinder has a party official on video saying party members must “infiltrate” — his words — the other two parties and push for the cause of Alaskan independence.
Wack-o.
September 1, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Apparently Alaska is so far away from the 48 continguous states, that they haven’t yet heard how the US settled the question of secession in 1865.
September 1, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Dear co-worker,
There are dangerous forces at work trying to undermine the sovereignty of the United States. There are groups actively working to break up the United States, fringe groups that make it their mission to infiltrate major parties [insert link] and break this great country into pieces.
And the Republican candidate for vice president supports these groups. The specific group is the ALASKAN INDEPENDENCE PARTY. She was actively a member. [link] As GOVERNOR OF ALASKA, she stated that she was “proud of the contributions they made” to state politics [insert correct statement and links]. She supports breaking up the country, which is tantamount to TREASON against the REPUBLIC and all that it stands for. The Founding Fathers gave us “e pluribus unum” – out of many, ONE.
SARAH PALIN, who didn’t even follow the war in Iraq until 2006 – and didn’t even have an OPINION about a cause our SOLDIERS FIGHT AND DIE FOR – has lied to the American people.
SHE LIED about opposing the “Bridge to Nowhere,” and took the pork barrel money anyway.
SHE LIED about being a tax cutter as mayor of her hometown.
SHE LIED about using her political office to exact revenge on her former brother-in-law.
And she continues to run from the TRUTH.
Breaking up the United States happened in 1861, with enormous bloodshed on both sides. We cannot let it happen again.
We cannot afford John McCain, a 72-year-old senator with 26 years of experience in Washington, a man who suffered skin cancer and [insert other maladies] to let such a dangerous person take over these great United States.
Forward this email to everyone you know and tell them: keep John McCain and his traitorous running mate Sarah Palin out of the Oval Office.
[My best impression of a smear e-mail. Can anyone improve on this?]
September 1, 2008 at 9:47 pm
As Aretino eruditely observed,
>>> One of the fundamental tenets of the AIP: the American armed forces stationed in Alaska are “an army of occupation.” Ponies 4 evah.
Does that make Sarah Palin Alaska’s Nouri al-Milfi?
September 1, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Yes, for $10,000.
September 1, 2008 at 9:48 pm
;-)
September 1, 2008 at 9:52 pm
I think we should all take a moment and think about “Levi.” Good god, talk about more than you bargained for.
September 1, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Most people in Arizona don’t know that McCain likes to gamble in Vegas. He manages his losses but he is a high roller.
The choice of Palin was a roll of the dice and he turned up snake eyes.
Do we really want for president an ex-fighter pilot (who crashed a few planes), with his finger on the button and taking roll-of-the-dice risks with our foreign policy???
If the Dems/Obama play this unforced error correctly (even they can’t fuck this up… right???), then McCain just handed Obama the election right before the campaign kicks into high gear.
September 1, 2008 at 10:01 pm
My best impression of a smear e-mail. Can anyone improve on this?
You’ve missed the essentials of a smear campaign – that she’s a secret muslim, she shot herself to get a Purple Heart, that her middle name is “Saddam”, and that she left NYC on 9/10 after getting a phone call from Hillary Clinton.
September 1, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Jeff Gannon/Gunkert/Mangalang would be teh awesome VP replacement for continuing the political car wreck that is the Republican party. Every time we think they’ve hit bottom, they find the manhole cover to a whole new sub-basement.
It’s like it’s mirrors all the way down or sumthin.
September 1, 2008 at 10:03 pm
oooo… yeah, work with the “gambler” theme. “gambler”/”maverick” same diff.
September 1, 2008 at 10:04 pm
to literally throw Gov. Palin under the wheels of a speeding bus
The wheels have already fallen off that bus, my friends.
September 1, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Funkhauser – you’re on the right track, but you need to add misspellings, lots of capitalized words, and a whole bunch of exclamation points.
One of the fundamental tenets of the AIP: the American armed forces stationed in Alaska are “an army of occupation.
I’m guessing that the next wingnut talking point will be that Palin was commander in chief of the national guard forces opposing the American army of occupation.
September 1, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Apparently “guilt-by-pastor” is a valid form of argument in contemporary politics. Given this, you might want to ask The Great Gazoogle about “Joel’s Army” (to which Palin’s pastor subscribes). It is like a worm-hole into the Dimension of Weird.
September 1, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Sources inside the republican controlled justice department report that top McCain aides have alleged that casino interests linked to Sarah Palin’s husband are claiming responsibility for her selection as McCain’s running mate. Little known outside Arizona, John McCain’s gambling habits have long been a running joke among the Tempe cognoscenti, and speculation is rampant that A Las Vegas gaming cartel known as the “society” are calling the shots in the McCain camp regarding several key decisions in recent weeks. McCain staffers reached for comment said only that the V.P. selection was made after careful consideration, and in consultation with longtime McCain associates.
September 1, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Renato wisely and entertaingly observed
Apparently Alaska is so far away from the 48 continguous states, that they haven’t yet heard how the US settled the question of secession in 1865.
But then it hit me: we’re overlooking the tremendous _appeal_ adding Palin to the GOP ticket has to the secessionists. This will capture the all-important Confederate vote, not to mention the Lone Star and Bear Flag Republic votes.
September 1, 2008 at 10:31 pm
What, the racist hicks down South needed a reason not to vote for the uppity nigrah?
Um, I live in AZ and I can tell you that the average Arizonan (including those in Tempe) has no clue that McCain is a big-time gambler.
You have forgotten the Law of IOKIYAR. Either that or while I was on vacation this summer I missed the news that McCain’s candidacy had taken a huge hit due to his association with Pastor “the Pope is the Great Whore of Babylon and Catholics are not real Christians” Hagee.
September 1, 2008 at 10:34 pm
being a member of a secessionist party, strangely enough, is not something I think is going to hurt her at all. In the twilight zone that is american politics, lying about her beaty contest credentials and having a daughter who forgot to use a rubber are going to hurt her way more. I guess if you run on an anti-sex platform, those things become fair game. That, and McCain’s gambling. My friends.
September 1, 2008 at 10:55 pm
my crack at a viral e-mail on sarah palin here:
http://anothergreenworld.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-e-mail-please-steal-and.html
i did include multiple links. please forward to everyone you know.
September 1, 2008 at 10:57 pm
you forgot to replace one of your [insert link] ’s
otherwise very very good Robert but hey, you’re a professional…
September 1, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I can’t even describe how not-tired of this I am. Ponylanche indeed.
September 1, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Leaks from within the investigation of Sarah Palin’s malfeasance regarding the firing of a state trooper in Alaska have suggested that “the society” a little-known gaming organization in Las Vegas worked in conjunction with another shadowy group known as the council for national policy to pick Sarah Palin as the ideal candidate for John McCain’s running mate. Gambling interests have long sought to roll back Alaskan laws restricting the operation of casinos, seeing it as an ideal growth sector for the multi-billion dollar industry.
September 1, 2008 at 11:35 pm
It’s going to be a non-stop ponygasm for the next 8 weeks. We haven’t even gotten to the part where Old Man McCain loses his temper.
September 1, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Here’s my ten cents on communicating what Palin’s nomination says about the tickets philosophy.
You need to stress the relevant points for the average voter. What removing a third portion of government (fed. judiciary) did for Segregation , Jim Crow laws, the emancipation of citizens from their access to justice, the poor from services that lift them up, and how exploitation of minorities at the whim of the majority is anti-democratic. Point out the three branches of government and how checks and balances moderate the rate of progression in order to limit undue influence by the tyranny of mob rule. The Federalist Papers is replete with arguments that can be made salient to this issue of taking this unthoughtful ideological turn.
The AKIP know they don’t have the capacity to gain independence for Alaska, that’s a red herring, what they can do is promote extreme anti-federalist policy. This is all rich considering Alaska citizens get more fed dollars per capita then anyone and the feds make Alaska inhabitable.
Every state has a far-right party, when I lived in Sonoma there was a group that advocated statehood for Northern California, with the border at the north-point of the Golden Gate bridge. The real agenda was promotion of Pat Buchanon-esque, (whom Palin support in 2000) style constructionism, which is of course just a disguise for alienating the poor and otherwise disenfranchised citizens from their natural rights. As a political philosophy it’s a remanent of The Confederacy’s favorite set of lawyerly excuses.
This faction has been marginizled in all of it’s form-fitting custom forms in all fifty states to the scrap heap of history for a reason. It’s like Obama nominating a Green, or McCain nominating an American Independent or either a Natural Law member. They are more extreme, with more potential for unintended consequences for voters.
Point out what implementation of their platform would mean in the daily lives of voters. Extrapolate relevancy utilizing facts from history when this ideology was prevalent. Not so long ago the deep south promoted the same platform.
Any message must perk the interest of Catholics, (whom Evangelicals HATE) women, 30-50, who are HS educated, and live in the Industrial Midwest. This voters may be anti-abortion, but they don’t want some guy deciding for them. This voters were targets of anti-federalism as minorities when they were victims of suffrage. These women should connect to the gender gap in wages, the cost of health care, and every other consumable staple. Show how federal protections like the Postal system, FDIC and Medicare enrich their lives.
Focus on unintended consequences which connects to their primary value: economic security and security of person. Point out how such a construction wouls alienate them from their rights.
Be relevant with your historical facts as examples of implementation of this philosophy. Extrapolate what this philosophy “means”, to their daily lives and the lives of their susceptible loved ones.
September 2, 2008 at 12:19 am
When the natural majority, women, is so estranged from power as to become the minority, it whiffs of female apartheid.
September 2, 2008 at 12:30 am
Without Loving v. Virginia, Barack Obama doesn’t legally exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
September 2, 2008 at 12:48 am
Was is Pam Anderson who said,
“…Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”?
September 2, 2008 at 2:05 am
We bought Alaska from Russia. It did not arise from the mists of time being tamed by countryless peoples. The Russians stole it, and we purchased it from them. I’m sorry, but they have less of a case than they think. I would like to declare the entire place a Natl. Monument, that upon good behavior may aspire to Park status. Commence to eat it, Alaska chumps!
September 2, 2008 at 2:21 am
We haven’t even gotten to the part where Old Man McCain loses his temper.
You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.
September 2, 2008 at 2:41 am
It seems Gov. Sarah Palin is honest about not using contraceptives and little else. She piously promotes sexual abstinence outside of marriage for other people but didn’t practice it herself in the 80’s, as the full term birth of her older son eight months after her elopement proves. She no doubt hoped to keep Bristol’s defiance of abstinence quiet until after the election. Most parents I know would be leery of letting anything like this dysfunctional mess of a family any where near their kids.
September 2, 2008 at 2:52 am
This is totally different from the panick-worthy mythical movement to create LaRaza-stan across the Southwestern U.S.: The Alaskan separatists are white, clearly white, outstandingly white. Thus their cause harkens back to the most noble dreams of hard, white, hard-working white harding Americans.
September 2, 2008 at 3:50 am
this information is barely touching the surface of our problems in this country.
We need to wake up or we will continue the cycle which translates to us becoming fascists or worse, the depopulation of the planet.(aka you)
wake the fuck up!
http://www.dprogram.net Deprogram your mind! ‘Countering Propaganda’
September 2, 2008 at 5:32 am
If she’s some kind of weird Alaska nativist, did Palin need to have her baby in Alaskastan for citizenship purposes?
September 2, 2008 at 7:01 am
If she’s some kind of weird Alaska nativist, did Palin need to have her baby in Alaskastan for citizenship purposes?
OMFG. Everyone ask this on the call-in shows.
September 2, 2008 at 7:04 am
Kleber: when you’re done with that you can read them your unabridged copy of Finnegan’s Wake and teach them some simple calculus problems. :)
I’ll stick with: “These people are rightwing lunatics!!!!!!1!111!!!! (and McCain has a gambling problem)” My Friends.
September 2, 2008 at 7:38 am
Not to say that you aren’t exactly right about all that stuff, but the message has to be a little more digestible. I really like the “unintended consequences of picking someone on a whim. McCain’s a gambler who picked a loser this time”
To be clear I have no idea if McCain is a gambler or not (in the literal sense) but shit… until he proves to me otherwise I’m going to assume he is. It Fits.
September 2, 2008 at 7:55 am
Sarah Palin: She kept Alaska out of Russian hands! What better signal to our plucky little quasi-independent ally to the north than to honor their service by making her Vice President!
If they just start calling Alaska “East Ossetia,” the whole campaign begins to make sense.
September 2, 2008 at 8:31 am
Nice try, Pinko Punko, but the AIP is way ahead of you. They have no problem with public lands. Indeed, they support them, provided that they are held by the people of Alaska (and not the U.S. government) and that all Alaska residents enjoy the right “to entry upon all public lands within the state, and to acquire private property interest there in, under fair and reasonable conditions,” including subsoils.
You can’t beat the AIP!
September 2, 2008 at 8:32 am
I blew the link. This says nothing about the AIP. They are the force from the north.
September 2, 2008 at 9:17 am
If she’s some kind of weird Alaska nativist, did Palin need to have her baby in Alaskastan for citizenship purposes?
OMFG. Everyone ask this on the call-in shows.
I think it would be helpful to also insinuate that she didn’t want to miss a check from the Permanent Fund: https://www.pfd.state.ak.us/
September 2, 2008 at 2:25 pm
That message is HOW to MAKE, not a replica. The end-user is you. god damn it, son.
September 4, 2008 at 3:25 am
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