TIMING IS ALMOST EVERYTHING

According to the website for the Alaskan Independence Party today....

"Contrary to initial reports, Vice-President candidate Governor Sarah Palin was never a member of our party. We stand corrected. We issued a press release today. It is posted here to those members of the media who did not recieve it. Todd Palin was registered as a member but never participated in any party activities aside from attending a convention in Wasilla at one time.
We had several hundred people attend that convention and nothing of noteworthy status took place outside of nominating the most conservative candidate up to that date to ever run for Governor of Alaska. That candidate was the sitting Lt. Governor, Jack Coghill. This man was one of the authors and signers of the Constitution of the State of Alaska."

However, according to ABC news, she and her husband were members....

"Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she and her husband were once 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 State."

And, according to an op/ed piece in today's L.A. Times...

"Palin may dispute attending the AIP convention in 1994, but there is no denying she not only attended the convention in 2000, and not only attended, but addressed their conventions in 2006 and 2008. In fact, this year she told the convention attendees...."I'm delighted to welcome you to the 2008 Alaska Independence Party convention....Keep up the good work."

What work? Actively supporting an initiative for Alaska to secede from the union. So much for Palin's lack of foreign affairs experience.....How many candidates can boast they once flirted with the idea of helping a state become a foreign country? And, it should be brought out that they wish to secede in any way possible, or as their founder, Joe Vogler once said...."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." Kind of makes Reverend Wright sound tame in comparison doesn't it?

Not enough proof for you? Here is a quote from AIP Vice Chairman Dexter Clark (and the husband of the retraction linked above) describing Governor Palin at the 2007 North American Secessionist Convention....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." Again from the L.A. Times, Clark then went on to urge all members to "infiltrate the major parties."

Did Palin (either as a member, or casual observer and addressee of the conventions) share Mr. Vogler's "burning hatred for the American government? Needless to say, Palin has a lot of explaining to do. Let's hope ABC doesn't go soft on this issue. If he does, Biden's may just mention it a time or two. Come to think of it....does she wear an American lapel pin????