OK... the A.I.P issue has surely got to sink Palin.

[Puzzler]

Now that it's started to get traction. I can't see how they can spin their way out out this issue. After all, we're talking about a secessionist movement here. With so-called patriotism being the litmus test for any Democrat, Palin surely fails here in a huge way, former member, or not.

[Skittles]

1. fill me in Puzzler

night worker, out of the loop as usual :o

[geek tragedy]

4. AIP is an anti-American secessionist party in Alaska.

Palin used to be a member.

[Phredicles]

5. Sarah Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party,

a straightforwardly-named outfit advocating Alaska's secession from the US. Also a lot of militia-kookiness at work, of course. And now she expects to be VP of a nation she would dismember.

[connecticut yankee]

14. Gee

maybe she knows Bill Ayers.

[Skittles]

16. a northern secessionist

:rofl:

[skooooo]

2. It's over....

This scandal stinks to high heaven.

[WeDidIt]

3. She's Jed, Dim

Time to start speculating on a replacement.

[krkaufman]

6. Here's why it won't... Palin's running as a Republican ...

... and the patriotism of Republicans is beyond question, especially the patriotism of anyone endorsed by John McCain, a former POW.

[Greg K]

7. yep

[WeDidIt]

9. BEing the first Secessionist Nominee since Reconstruction

trumps that.

[RagAss]

12. Bullshit this is Sedition....every citizen needs to call for her to step down

[krkaufman]

18. Oh, I wholly agree with you on "needs" and "should"...

... but won't hold my breath.

You're entirely right, and this should become the main push... link her previous party membership with the recent YouTube videos of her praising the AIP... and the AIP head claiming she joined the Repubs to "go along" and that the AIP needs to "infiltrate" the major parties in order to move their agenda forward.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/4231/18477/878/581881
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/1/84544/50180/809/581942
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/sarah_palin_and_the_alaska_ind.php

YouTube - Alaska Governor Palin's Address to the AIP
YouTube - Sarah Palin and the Alaska Independence Party. AIP - Part 1
YouTube - Sarah Palin and the Alaska Independence Party. AIP - Part 2

[RagAss]

21. Scary stuff...thanks for the links !

[krkaufman]

26. vf scary. but it won't phase the religious fundies ...

... since they'd put all else aside to get one of their own into the White House. (I fear that Palin will make Bush look like an ACLU advocate.)

[connecticut yankee]

13. You mean

John McCain was a POW?

I didn't know that!

[krkaufman]

19. ; ) nt

[book_worm]

8. It shows that she is some kind of far right wing nut.

[Greg K]

15. yes, and those are the people she's intended to attract to the ticket.

[Bad Thoughts]

10. This sucks

I was hoping she'd be an anchor around McSame for weeks. She may be out before Wednesday at this rate. Of course, McSame has pissed off all the good VP picks, to maybe he'll get impulsive again.

[verges]

27. Hey! I'm willing to change

my party affiliation to run for VP. I'm just as qualified as Palin (I deliver Pizza's in NE Ohio), but without the baggage (Never been married, ergo no kids. And get along well with all my in-laws(even the Repub ones!))! I'll even try to avoid speaking to the President (since it would have to be McCain.) It would be a nice pay raise.

[L. Coyote]

11. Bull. more distracton from "It’s The Corruption, Stupid"

"It’s The Corruption, Stupid" = Abramoff, McCain, Palin & the GOP
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6870492

from dKos:

John McCain is not a reformer, a "maverick" or even a honest man. ALL of this is a carefully crafted myth!

And now McCain has a Mini-Me—a younger version of himself. The Republican Party has manufactured yet another "reformer with results’ in the mold of McCain and his patron, George W. Bush and now she is on the ticket.

I’m talking, of course, about the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin. And to become Governor, she defeated the only Republican ever to oppose Jack Abramoff BEFORE the Abramoff scandal became news.......

[musicblind]

17. It wont get picked up by the MSM so everyone will let it slide

because they'll never know.

:(

[WeDidIt]

20. ABC was the news source that confirmed membership n/t

[POAS]

22. SSSHHHHHH- message police forbid this topic.

[truthisfreedom]

23. My prediction: She'll be forced to renounce her association with the AIP and dismiss it as "youthful

indiscretion." She was 20, after all.

[WeDidIt]

25. Nope, she was in her 30's

It would be like Obama being in the ACP last decade.

[mucifer]

24. any tv info going out ? I know it's on ABC's blog website and Huff Post. But,

is it spreading anywhere in the newspapers or tv?

[AkFemDem]

28. I worry the media will not present it that way and instead

will just say she was registered Independant for some time, thus attracting even more Independant votes for McCain.