Was Sarah Palin a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, which seeks a vote on whether to remain American?

Question

WTF???

Is this woman crazy?

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

Answer 1

-  Well for starters, the AIP is not solely built around succession. It certainly has people in the party who are in favor of succession, but that is not currently on the party platform.

-  Sarah Palin hasn't confirmed the claim, but I imagine it to be true. Before she was the mayor of Wasilla, the governor of Alaska was a member of the AIP. He was friends with Sarah Palin, and he endorsed her when she ran for governor. The AIP governor served from 1990 to 1994 (when SP was ages 26 to 30). Sarah Palin was elected mayor of Wasilla in 1996.

- Anyway, what if it is true? The AIP is a legal registered party that even had a governor elected. There is an independence movement in Hawaii also. It isn't treason. She left the AIP and joined the Republican party when she was elected mayor in 1996.

Answer 2

YES the 1990's and has maintained contact till just the past few years.

Great choice McCain!

Answer 3

You referenced a blog. That's plain low-class.

On a different subject, if I lived in Alaska, I would rather not have anything to do with the US either, but I think her outlook is rather business-like, straightforward and agreeable. Better than me.  

Answer 4

I don't think anyone really knows the answer of this question.  The McCain campaign has done a crappy job of vetting this candidate.  This is the RNC's moment to shine, and now they must start to ask each other just who is Sarah Palin.  

Answer 5

Your source is a BLOG?

Answer 6

Your thinking of the Puerto Rican move for Independence.  Puerto Rico stopped when they found out that the Democrat Welfare Payments would stop upon succesion.

Answer 7

Looks like somebody did not do a full investigation of her.

Answer 8

The facts are that she attended two of their conventions, she sent a video greeting to this year's AIP convention, and the AIP chairman says that she and her husband used to be members.

In short, I think that means "yes", but she will distance herself and give some mumbo jumbo about how all political groups need to be heard, yada yada.

She'll dodge this bullet, but at the rate skeletons are falling out of her closet the Republican ticket is fast becoming a freak-show.

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

I've heard about that, not sure if it's true or not. If it is true, there could be trouble. the people that run the AIP are also associated with several neo-Confederate groups (they have the same aims) which would come back and seriously bite her.  Not good if it's true, but I'm not sure if it is or not.  

Answer 11

Word is, YES.

Just like she stole her daughter's first baby after pretending to be pregnant.

Just Loco.

Answer 12

Yep.  Palin does not love America, pretty much a fact now!  

Answer 13

Yes, she was.  

Answer 14

The jury is out on whether she is crazy.  But the jury is in on McCain - and the verdict is guilty of all kinds of crazy for this stupendously stupid VP pick.

Answer 15

she should have joined planned parenthood instead