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[Ya-ta Boy]

In an article about his being subpeonaed, there was this intriguing tid bit:

Palin, cast at last week's Republican National Convention as a supportive husband, oil rig worker and championship snowmachine racer, has emerged in the days since as also a powerful figure in his wife's administration. Despite holding no government position, he attends official meetings and is copied on e-mails concerning state business.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/palin_troopergate

Considering that he twice registered with a secessionist party, I find the prospect of him anywhere within 3,000 miles of the White House distasteful at best.

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[Ya-ta Boy]

I find it puzzling that the media hasn't made a bigger deal of the AIP so far. It's a harder thing to explain away than earmarks, which every congressman does. I can't be the only one who is appalled at the prospect of a semi-secessionist sympathizer moving to Washington.

One of the things Palin needs to be asked on national TV is to what degree she agrees with the AIP.

Should McCain win, Palin will have to take the following oath: I, [Vice-President Elect's name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

It's clear Todd could not take that oath. I seriously wonder if she can take it without crossing her fingers behind her back.

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[Ya-ta Boy]

You might be on to something there. On our maps Alaska is always shrunk and tucked away down in a corner. I don't know how conscious we are of Alaska--not very, normally.

Besides that, small-government people have always had an incestuous relationship with secessionists. There isn't even a solid line between them, more of a dotted line that lets them scurry back and forth between the ideas. We haven't had a serious secessionist movement since 1865, so most people don't even think about it. The ones who do are the far right survivalist types who infest the Rocky Mountain West.

By the way, we have a $10 trillion debt thing going on south of the border. Does Canada have enough money in the bank to buy Alaska for a price that would put a dent in our debt?

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[Kuros]

She's not a secessionist. The AIP represented a whole lot more than secessionism, as it had to to become as mainstream as it is in Alaska.

Much more worrisome than Palin's association with a mainstream political party in Alaska is her whacko Christianism and her lack of knowledge of foreign affairs.

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[Kuros]

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[Ya-ta Boy]

I don't know if she's a secessionist or not, since no one so far has asked her about it. Long over-due question, in my opinion. I have a little bit of trouble accepting that as a Republican, party of Lincoln, she can be even remotely tolerant of the idea. But we won't know until someone asks her directly.

The AIP itself is coy about independence, but not very coy. Here is what their homepage says:

Until we as Alaskans receive our Ultimate Goal, the AIP will continue to strive to make Alaska a better place to live with less government interference in our everyday lives.
The Alaskan Independence Party's goal is the vote we were entitled to in 1958, one choice from among the following four alternatives:
1) Remain a Territory.
2) Become a separate and Independent Nation.
3) Accept Commonwealth status.
4) Become a State.
The call for this vote is in furtherance of the dream of the Alaskan Independence Party's founding father, Joe Vogler, which was for Alaskans to achieve independence under a minimal government, fully responsive to the people, promoting a peaceful and lawful means of resolving differences.


I'm not sure if 'receiving' is meant to be 'achieving', but the odds are...

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Ya-ta Boy]

That's not quite true. If the entire US wanted to put the question of Alaska leaving the union to a vote, that would be OK. But the citizens of a state are just a minority of the people, and do not have the right to take their neighborhood out of the union at their will.

[Ya-ta Boy]