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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:54 PM
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Confirmed! Todd Palin Was Registered Member of Alaska Independence Party Until 2002
Todd Palin Was Registered Member of Alaska Independence Party Until 2002
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.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/todd_palin_was_registered_memb.php
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grannie4peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:55 PM
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1. probably scrubbed her record
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:01 PM
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19. Yep . . . we'll just have to wait for the photos from some meetings to come out. nt
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:55 PM
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2. And the gifts keep on coming........ How many gifts today I count
3 or more.
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NotThisTime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:12 PM
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39. We need a running tallie, I'm losing count of it all!
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:55 PM
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3. Oh no!!!

They're infiltrating the federal government!
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glancingthefuture Donating Member (266 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:58 PM
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10. :-)
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:55 PM
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4. Her husband isn't a Republican? Oh, this just keeps getting better and better.
Michelle should start shopping for drapes this afternoon.
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darius15 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:56 PM
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5. Damn
when polls show Obama up 10 points, how will the MSM spin it?
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Dawgs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:56 PM
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6. Hey MSM, 'Is Palin's husband something other than a Republican?'
Seems like this article begs the question 'Is the Republican VP's husband a Republican himself?'.
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starroute Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:04 PM
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49. Her husband and son are both independents
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:57 PM
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7. turn out the lights, the party's over
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:57 PM
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8. holy fuckmeister

McCain puts up a defense on the AIP and its gone within an hour.


This is moving at the speed of light
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:59 PM
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13. what's gone??
What do you mean?
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kennetha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:57 PM
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9. And this matters because...
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Teaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:59 PM
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12. her husband is a secesh
that won't play well.
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kennetha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:02 PM
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21. her daughter is pregnant
her husband once had a DUI 20 some years ago. Plus he once belonged to a fringe political party. And she faked her pregnancy (oops.)

We're losing focus here. This inane stuff is not going to move anybody one way or the other. Keep the eye on the prize.
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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:05 PM
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30. I'm sorry but the AIP issue is not inane.
It is infinitely more serious than the pregnancy and DUI issue...and the one issue that will likely and rightly bring her down.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/02/politics/animal/main4407224.shtml
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FatDave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:22 PM
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44. Have you been in a coma for the past, oh I dunno, 30 years?
Only the inane stuff moves the vast voting bloc known as Idiot America. We can go on and on and on and on about policy, and the morons won't pay one bit of attention. Not a single bit. But give them a pregnant teenager or a fake pregnancy and holy shit, this stuff is serious!
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:20 PM
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43. The man sits in on his wife's Cabinet meetings
it's not like he just happens to be married to the governor and stays out of her way.
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:00 PM
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15. Because secession is a form of treason?
It pales in comparison to what PNAC and the Bush Crime Family have done, but it still should be enough to disqualify someone from the vice presidency.
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:00 PM
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16. the AIP is a seditious group that is dedicating to undermining the United States of America

The are also on tape encouraging their members to infiltrate major parties so somebody that is a recent member needs to be asked what their feeling is now.

It also blows away the McCain defense given in the last hour that she was a member a long time ago.


And lastly it raises questions on whether the Palins would qualify for security clearences.
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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:02 PM
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20. Maybe you're comfortable
with having the potential VP married to someone who openly supported succession of the one of the 50 states. I suspect most Americans are not.
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JBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:04 PM
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27. Can you imagine the repub outcry if Michelle Obama had belonged to such a party?
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:09 PM
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33. Are you kidding??

You think we should give up Alaska?
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glancingthefuture Donating Member (266 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:29 PM
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46. I do not think it does: Lets get to the issues of importance instead of looking desperate



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080902/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_palin_politics

<snip>
The McCain campaign released voter registration documents Tuesday dating to 1990 in which Palin lists herself as a Republican. Campaign spokesman Brian Rogers said Palin has been a registered Republican since 1982, and has never been a member of the Alaskan Independence Party.

Palin addressed the Independence Party's state convention by video earlier this year, welcoming the party to Fairbanks. She gave no indication of a current or past connection to the party.

"Your party plays an important role in our state's politics," she said in the video, which is posted on the party's Web site. "I've always said that competition is so good, and that applies to political parties as well."
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book_worm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:59 PM
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11. So what was her connection to the party? wasn't somebody high up in the party quoted as saying she
was a member too?
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:00 PM
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14. Pardon my stupidity but what does this mean?
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:03 PM
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23. That party hates Murka!
& wants Alaska to succeed from the Union.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:04 PM
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26. Thank you!
:hi:
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:03 PM
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25. Todd Palin is a Secessionist
Teh Secessionist leaders claim Sarah was also a member of their little group.

The Secessionists have been pushing an agenda of infiltrating the two major parties.

Sarah Palin recorded an address for the Secessionists 2008 CONVENTION!

Boom
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DangerousRhythm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:00 PM
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17. Oh, NICE.
:toast:
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:01 PM
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18. BOOM!
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samuraiguppy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:03 PM
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22. her husband is a
fucking successionist--he doesn't give a SHIT about this country. And with her fundie religion--HE calls the shots---WTF--how could anyone vote for her?

What do their campaign signs say? Vote for me--I am a piece of ass?

I am so angry---let me tell you--if they steal this election I am so out of here (Amerika)
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Blue Gardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:57 PM
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51. Good point
In fundie world the husband is the head of the household and the wife is supposed to submit to him.
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:03 PM
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24. Palin... the first secessionist VP candidate since Jefferson Davis tapped Alexander Stephens
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:05 PM
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28. Don't forget, HE is KNOWN as the "Shadow Govenor"
in Alaska.. Ooooh, this is BAD for Seceesion Sarah and CO..

He was getting CC'd on ALL Emails relating to Gov BIZ, and THAT is maybe not so legal either..

Don't know if folks know that the ChairPeople of AIP are my Sister and Bro-in-Law :)
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:13 PM
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40. The GOP's pick to be VP hates America enough to be a secessionist?
Jeez.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:22 PM
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45. if your folks have pix of Palin at some rallies or meetings, they're sitting on a gold mine;
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:42 PM
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48. Jesus
never thought of that.. I may make up to them :)

And they actually ARE sitting ON a Gold Mine, they mine their property.. life's wierd huh?
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demobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:05 PM
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29. wow!! great job, jeffdem!
amazing! k&r!
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:08 PM
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31. Be Sure To Note This -

The freeptards think the AIP is A OK.

The McCain campaign calls it a "smear".

The AIP tells their people to move up in other parties. That's what Sarah Palin did.

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habitual Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:08 PM
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32. OK, let's put this together with his inside advantage
where he gets to see classified info that she protects under executive priv. we have a winning combo. He MATTERS because she clearly comes as a package with him.

BOOOOM HEADSHOT!
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:09 PM
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34. I read somewhere that she gave a speech at one of their
annual get togethers in 2006.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:10 PM
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35. Here's her address to the 2008 AIP CONVENTION!
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hasssan1 Donating Member (439 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:11 PM
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36. K&R and Send it to Media
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crickets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 04:49 PM
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50. Yowsa
She gives good code: says everything juuust shy of outright endorsement, but close enough to please and encourage. I hope somebody downloads that in case it gets scrubbed.
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kwolf68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:11 PM
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37. Obama should be ashamed

I mean, where does Obama get off flying up to Alaska and secretly inserting a Todd Palin membership card into the AIP file cabinet?
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:11 PM
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38. The Republican Party was practically born fighting secessionists.
Abraham Linclon held our union together after the secessionist rebellion led by South Carolina.

Hundreds of thousands of American boys died because of this thinking.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:13 PM
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41. Sarah Palin will be the FIRST Secessionist Nominated Since Reconstruction!
Wrap your brain around the Party of Lincoln doing THAT!

And that historic moment happens tomorrow night!
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vanderBeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:17 PM
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42. Uh-Oh
The S.S. Palin is sinking.
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 03:30 PM
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47. COUNTRY FIRST!
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