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[Gatsby]

I got to talk to Joe Vogler a couple of times and hear his spiel at the Alaska State Fair. He would reel it off to anyone who would listen. He actually made some sense. I, personally, would have no problem with Alaska becoming independent.

And I can tell you, I met Joe Vogler, and Joe Vogler would never have supported Sarah Palin.

The problem is the Alaska Independence Party got taken over by crooks like Hickel, whackos like John Lindauer, and political backstabbers like Jack Coghill. It is now used as a Republican suicide pill to prevent any pro-life Republicans from becoming governor; a fundamentalist Republican simply runs on AIP to siphon votes away from a moderate Republican. That's how bad the evangelicals want control of the Republican Party. And that's why Sarah Palin (and her husband) was a member, and kow towed to their convention -- she might have wound up as an AIP candidate.

Palin a reformer? Bull. She and the evangelicals have helped drive the real reformers out of the state Republican Party. The moderates and the ones who have pushed for ethics reform left the party.

The other problem is it is truly crazy for a person to run for VP who would support states leaving the union. Isn't it? Or perhaps we should just let the United States break up. On second thought....

Some of you may be skeptical about how far from the mainstream Palin is, religiously. Here's one of those Say Whats? from Doonesbury, today:

[mithridates]

Yet another link!

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card

[Gatsby]

OK I think I've got it figured out now.

Think. Why would Sarah Palin and her husband join the Alaska Independence Party, despite the potential damage to her reputation as a Republican politician?

Because if enough evangelical Christians were enrolled as members of the Alaska Independence Party, they could show up at the state convention (to which she sent a conglatulatory video) and determine the selection of candidates of this otherwise miniscule party.

If the evangelicals didn't like the Republican (and Democratic) candidate, they could put one of their own on the AIP ballot for governor, or another office, and at least sabotage the moderate Republican. They could also conceivably arrange for a candidate that might siphon votes away from a Democrat.

And even if they didn't do this, they could hold it out as a threat. This is sometimes called "extortion."

There was some talk much earlier in the year of evangelicals running a third party candidate if a moderate Republican emerged from the presidential primaries. This is evangelical SOP.

--- "Evangelical Christians of America -- You run, we deliver!"

[Gatsby]

[Gopher]

Gotta love Democratic thinking. So now J. McCain is analogous to A. Hitler. Yesterday, it was W. Bush. But today, it is J. McCain.

Go figure.

[kotakji]

Barring the fact that McCain is a pretty bad orator (although bad enough that its cute) I liked what he had to say in general. I was glad the attack rhetoric was minimal, even though I wish he had taken the high road and left Obama out of the speech completely. When talking about past politics he indited his own party about as much as the democrats which is laudable.

On a side note, the person (people?) who disrupted his speech really cast a negative shadow on their movement. How classless.

(Edit for redundancy)

[Gopher]

[fiveeagles]

[Nowhere Man]

[Gopher]

Can you people not permit us to celebrate our convention without your usual crude disruptiveness in the first place? Did we invade Denver?

[Nowhere Man]

[Gopher]

You are right. Looks pretty serious. What do you think we ought to do, Mrs. Gopher?

[Gatsby]

Republicans, the party of change?

If the Republican Party changed anything in their strategy for Presidential races, half their members would drop dead of shock.

[mithridates]

The RNC in a minute:

http://www.236.com/video/2008/watch_the_rnc_in_a_minute_8773.php

[catman]