I'd love to know what she said to these people.

She was never vetted...bwahahhahahaha

Ed Schultz is going to Alaska to do a town hall on Palin...should be interesting

Greg - darlin - anything is worth looking into at this point.'

Absolutely anything and everything.

Thank you!

What the fuck is this bullshit about the "most grateful Americans"?

What grateful? For what? What the hell?...

Dobson and the wingnut extremists met in Minn last week to vet Palin!

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/1/24846/28141/Front_Page/The_Council_For_National_Policy_Meets_In_Minn_Vets_Palin
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The Council For National Policy Meets In Minn, Vets Palin
By Max Blumenthal Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 02:48:46 AM EST print story
Last week, while the media focused almost obsessively on the DNC's spectacle in Denver, the country's most influential conservatives met quietly at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis to get to know Sarah Palin. The assembled were members of the Council for National Policy, an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy.
CNP members have included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich. At a secret 2000 meeting of the CNP, George W. Bush promised to nominate only pro-life judges; in 2004, then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told the group, "The destiny of the nation is on the shoulders of the conservative movement." This year, thanks to Sarah Palin's selection, the movement may have finally aligned itself behind the campaign of John McCain.

Again, don't attack her directly but frame her as the tool of extremists.

More tarnish on the "Country First" slogan. Seems kind of treasony to me. Vetting ...

opposition researchers are doing a good job digging up information on Palin.

Because, according to the dKos diary linked to, the AIP instructs its members to "infiltrate" the major political parties in order to further AIP's agenda.

Remember how Palin insisted her son be born in Alaska?

Here's something interesting about the founder of the AIP:

Vogler was murdered under suspicious circumstances in 1993. Manfried West confessed to the killing the following year. Vogler was buried in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, fulfulling a wish that he not be buried under the American flag. His second wife, Doris, who died of cancer in January 1992, is buried next to him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Vogler

The newly elected mayor of Wasilla has asked all of the city's top managers to resign in order to test their loyalty to her administration. Mayor Sarah Palin sent the resignation requests Thursday to Police Chief Irl Stambaugh, public works director Jack Felton, finance director Duane Dvorak and Mary Ellen Emmons, the head of libraries. A fifth director -- John Cooper, who oversaw the city museum -- resigned earlier this month after Palin eliminated his position.

Date: October 26, 1996
Publication: Anchorage Daily News

So...who's patriotism should we be questioning now?

Or more appropriately, did the McCain Camp even google her before offering her the job? What does this say about his decision-making process as a whole?

Haha, now this is a Wild Conspiracy Theory I can get behind.

Sarah Palin is a Canada-loving member of a guerrilla territorionist group who has infiltrated U.S. politics in order to get to a position--such as the VP!--where she can secede Alaska from the United States, taking with it the oil and other natural resources that belong to Americans! At this point, everyone who was not born on Alaskan soil will be extradited!

It all makes sense.

Sorry i forgot to give you link to:
The newly elected mayor of Wasilla has asked all of the city's top managers to resign in order to test their loyalty

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=list&p_topdoc=31

We the People of America Deserve The whole truth (something the McCain camp has had no knowledge of all year) but things seem to be getting worst by the minute...

Palin explains her actions in Ruedrich case

Author: RICHARD MAUER
Anchorage Daily News

Staff
Date: September 19, 2004
Publication: Anchorage Daily News (AK)
Page: A1

Word count: 5695

Sarah Palin never thought of herself as an investigator. Yet there she was, hacking uncomfortably into Randy Ruedrich's computer, looking for evidence that the state Republican Party boss had broken the state ethics law while a member of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AS&p_theme=as&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=palin&s_dispstring=palin%20AND%20date(all)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=_rank_:D&xcal_ranksort=4&xcal_useweights=yes

There's an awesome graphic on AIP's website of a snake, emanating from the white house, eating Alaska:

http://www.akip.org/statehood-primer.html

Excerpts from conversation between Frank Bailey and trooper Rodney Dial
http://www.adn.com/monegan/story/493360.html

Well here more or less depending on how you see from the community

Video
http://community.adn.com/mini_apps/vmix/player.php?ID=2129729&GID=118

Alaskins speak out...HUH?

Video
http://community.adn.com/mini_apps/vmix/player.php?ID=2129729&GID=118

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What the fuck is this?

"Why is this Independence Party an issue if Palin is now a Republican?"

Jesus Christ on a cracker... Rev. Jeremiah Wright says "goddamn America" and Barack Obama has to spend weeks extricating himself from that mess, even though Wright himself served in uniform as a Marine fighting to defend the United States and our allies.

Now Sarah Palin delivers a cheerful, encouraging message lauding a political party that specifically wants to secede from the same United States that Wright fought for, and you can't see any teensy problem? A party founded by a guy named Joe Vogler, who says, “I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions" isn't a potential issue for the GOP VP candidate?

If Barack Obama delivered the same damn video message to an party based in the south side of Chicago that explicitly wanted Illinois to secede from the United States of America, what in hell do you think the Republican Party would do with that?

If the Obamaniacs have any brains whatsoever, they will have the appropriate commercial in the can tomorrow morning ready to run in markets across the country. All they need to do is combine Palin's address to the AIP with the statements on the AIP website, and end with the question: "John McCain and Governor Palin, why do you support the breakup of the United States of America?"

I'm sure there are 10 or 20 visitors to this site who have the ability and the resources to put it together in half the time for a fraction of the money that Obama's overrated communications "genius" Axelrod would charge.

Joe Vogler was murdered and left in a remote gravel pit.

Alaska politics is why I love politics - you can't make up most of it.

Sean Parnell, the Lt. Governor is essentially tied in the Republican Primary against Don Young (U.S. Rep) - if it ends up close enough, Parnell (as Lt. Gov. and Head of Div of Elections) would be charge of recounting his very own primary race.

Rich.

I guess in Alaska you don't lose your seat, just your turn.

Wandering Mind's comment absolutely nails this issue. PLEASE somebody pursue this story that will make Palin Eagleton II. The AKIP is a militia magnet. Their members will gladly blab about their suspicion and hatred of the United States government and their desire to pledge allegiance to a foreign entity: the unborn Republic of Alaska.
Palin's bizarre and dangerous journey to give birth in Alaska would suddenly make sense--if she wants her offspring to be a native-born Alaskan, in case the independence scenario takes off.
I have seen several on-line discussions with Ron Paul supporters veer off into their passionate defense of the South's right to secede in 1860 (not that they're in favor of slavery, mind you, but the right to secession from the Union trumps everything else). Scratch a true Paulbot and I guarantee you get an impassioned defense of secession. Lincoln is seen as a tyrant by them. Literally. Secession is a live issue in the Paul and AKIP milieus.
McCain is billing his campaign as "Country First", but he doesn't vet that his running mate's loyalty is actually to the United States?
Palin attributes the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Founders, but is she, or has she been, opposed to the "one nation, indivisible" part?
And what motivates members of AKIP (besides gun lust and the subliminal motivation that an independent Alaska will "control its borders" to keep out undesirable races, oops, I mean types)? They are sitting on a lot of oil, so they want to be Saudi Alaska and extort as much money from their former fellow-Americans as possible while the petroleum holds out. It sounds like a joke, but an independent Alaska, in their view, would have the right, and the motivation, to ally themselves with Putin's Russia and the oil sheikdoms to keep up oil prices.
Of course, AKIP's dream is psychotic fantasy. It goes without saying it cannot and will not happen, not in a million years. But apparently it was--and may still be--Sarah Palin's psychotic fantasy. She may have been--she may currently be--someone who would cop out of the United States if it could fatten up her oil dividend check a few bucks. And John McCain put her on his ticket.

This is a non-issue, and we'll look stupid if we try to make it into one. She addressed their convention as the governor of their state; she in no way supported the idea of secession, but referred to their party as "welcome competition" in the political arena. I cannot stand the idea of this woman in the White House, but we've got to be careful we don't try to turn her toenail parings into a stream of frenzied blogging and MoveOn ads. We'll just look like jackasses.

This is a non-issue, and we'll look stupid if we try to make it into one. She addressed their convention as the governor of their state; she in no way supported the idea of secession, but referred to their party as "welcome competition" in the political arena. I cannot stand the idea of this woman in the White House, but we've got to be careful we don't try to turn her toenail parings into a stream of frenzied blogging and MoveOn ads. We'll just look like jackasses.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html

ABC has the chairman saying Palin was a member and attended the state convention in 1994.

Story is now being reported by Jake Tapper, ABC:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html

JimmyBobby-

She did not JUST address the conference as governor...ABC confirmed she was a member through 1996...that's several years while she was under elected office as mayor.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html

Thier stinkin' motto is Alaska First...

From ABC:

Members of 'Fringe' Alaskan Independence Party Say Palin Was a Member in 90s
September 01, 2008 6:52 PM

The campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., likes to herald the independence of its new running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she 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.

And while McCain's motto -- as seen in a new TV ad -- is "Country First," the AIP's motto is the exact opposite -- "Alaska First -- Alaska Always."

Lynette Clark, the chairman of the AIP, tells ABC News that Palin and her husband Todd were members in 1994, even attending the 1994 statewide convention in Wasilla. Clark was AIP secretary at the time.

"We are a state's rights party," says Clark, a self-employed goldminer. The AIP has "a plank that challenges the legality of the Alaskan statehood vote as illegal and in violation of United Nations charter and international law."

She says it's not accurate to describe the party as secessionist -- they just want a vote, she says, adding that the members of the AIP hold different opinions on what Alaska should be.

"My own separate opinion as an individual is that we should be an independent nation," Clark says. Others in the AIP "believe that being a commonwealth would be a good avenue to follow." Some advocate statehood -- but a fuller statehood than exists now.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html

From ABC:

Members of 'Fringe' Alaskan Independence Party Say Palin Was a Member in 90s
September 01, 2008 6:52 PM

The campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., likes to herald the independence of its new running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she 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.

And while McCain's motto -- as seen in a new TV ad -- is "Country First," the AIP's motto is the exact opposite -- "Alaska First -- Alaska Always."

Lynette Clark, the chairman of the AIP, tells ABC News that Palin and her husband Todd were members in 1994, even attending the 1994 statewide convention in Wasilla. Clark was AIP secretary at the time.

"We are a state's rights party," says Clark, a self-employed goldminer. The AIP has "a plank that challenges the legality of the Alaskan statehood vote as illegal and in violation of United Nations charter and international law."

She says it's not accurate to describe the party as secessionist -- they just want a vote, she says, adding that the members of the AIP hold different opinions on what Alaska should be.

"My own separate opinion as an individual is that we should be an independent nation," Clark says. Others in the AIP "believe that being a commonwealth would be a good avenue to follow." Some advocate statehood -- but a fuller statehood than exists now.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html

The key issue is not that Palin is out of the mainstream, though most of the evidence thus far suggests that she is.

Rather it is that Senator McCain, in his first major decision as his party's nominee, selected a running mate who is utterly unqualified to be vice president or president. It appears that the Senator's campaign did not vet Palin or did a miserable job doing so.

Senator McCain's first duty to the American people, especially since he would be the oldest man ever to be elected to the presidency, is to select a running mate who is ready to be president in January, 2009. He did not do his duty.

McCain's selection of Palin gives every indication of being impulsive and transparently political (in the worst possible sense). McCain's choice is one more confirmation that he lacks the mentality, temperament, and accountability required of a president.

The Palin choice should be McCain's last presidential-type decision. And, the contrast, in process and substance, with Obama's VP selection could not be more stark.

Is this stuff SOP for Alaskan politics? Maybe Alaska is the last bastion of the wild west, and this is the way everyone, politicians especially, behaves. That's why Palin is the way she is, Ted Stevens & whoever else you can come up with. That isn't an excuse. It doesn't condone anything. It just explains it.

As a thought experiment, let's imagine the shoe on the other foot.

What if some nationally prominent Democratic politician, say, a Latino, were linked to some group or political party advocating secession for one or more southwestern states.

Think about how that would play in the MSM and the country as a whole!

Is this another case of IOKIYAR? (It's OK if you're a Republican -- and a white Anglo?)

My point is that this needs to be taken very seriously. I personally feel that advocating peaceful secession of any state is within the bounds of acceptible political discource, but should absolutely disqualify anyone from serving in the federal government.

Despite the McCain's camp denials that she was ever a member of the party, it is a FACT that her husband was twice registered under the Alaskan Independence Party. Of course the hypocritical campaign will claim that her husband's political affiliations are irrelevant, and no doubt chastise the Obama campaign for going after family members, but come on! They can make a HUGE issue out of Michelle Obama's ill thought out statement about being proud to be an America for the first time, but Todd Palin's deliberate decision to register with a separatist party doesn't raise legitimate concerns about patriotism?! Absurd! And whether or not concrete evidence is found connecting the VP candidate to this radical group, you can't distance yourself too much from it when you sleep in the same bed as a registered member! The Obama campaign should not back down from this issue, they should think about how the Republicans tore Michelle Obama apart and show them no mercy.