It just keeps on getting better and better. Now word is that the Palin's were part of a 3rd party called the Alaska Independence Party, a political party would put Alaska first by seceding from the U.S. She addressed that group -- this year. This is a very serious issue. The Jed Report has the details and the video:



Okay, imagine, just imagine, a Democratic candidate being a member of a party where people say they're not Americans. It would be over. Over.

This also means another warped GOP attack off the table, too. While McCain should have been vetting his running mate, he was instead attacking Obama's patriotism. That's over. McCain can never again even raise that issue when his running mate wanted her state to be its own country.

John McCain did not vet Sarah Palin. His running mate belonged to a party that wanted to secede from the U.S. When was the last time anyone on a ticket wanted that? 1856? 1860?

How far the Republican Party has come from Lincoln who led The United States AGAINST secessionists to now where a secessionist is nominated for the Vice Presidency.

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# In October, 2007, Dexter Clark, the AIP's vice chairman, was recorded on video saying that Palin had been a registered member of the AIP before switching to the GOP to be viable.

# In the same video, Clark says "the Federal goverment is just plain a monster" and "we don't say we are Americans, we say we are Alaskans."

# Clark's comments were delivered at "The Second North American Secessionist Convention" in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
# AIP's motto is "Alaska First. Alaska Always."

This stuff makes any Reverend Wright stuff the far right is planning on throwing out, look positively mainstream in comparison. Wright was just chastising America for it's inequality. These loons want to secede from it!

Both Jake Tapper at ABC News and Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic have covered the story now so it's growing past the blogosphere.. From what I hear there is also something on this up at the NYTimes.

UPDATE As I type:

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[SIZE=6]Todd Palin Was Registered Member of Alaska Independence Party Until 2002[/SIZE]
By Kate Klonick - September 2, 2008, 3:25PM

The McCain camp today disputed rumors that presumptive vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was ever registered with the secessionist Alaska Independence Party by releasing years of voter registration history . . . but it looks like that doesn't apply to her husband.

This afternoon, the director of Division of Elections in Alaska, Gail Fenumiai, told TPMmuckraker that Todd Palin registered in October 1995 to the Alaska Independence Party, a radical group that advocates for Alaskan secession from the United States.

Besides a short period of a few months in 2000 when he changed his registration to undeclared, Todd Palin remained a registered member of AIP until July 2002 when he registered again as an undeclared voter.



The GOP is denying Sarah Palin was ever a member and says they have proof of this in the form of voter registration cards of her's that all say she was a Republican. The AIP says otherwise as does the records of her husband, which don't implicate Sarah per se but do raise the question of what sort of influence does the extremist husband of her's play into her own philosophies.