IS Sarah Palin Using the Republican Party for a Step Up for her own beliefs in AIP?

[Dems4me]

Is Sarah Palin using the Republican Party as a stepping stone for her personal
radical AIP beliefs? According to AIP Vice Chair, Dexter Cark...she is.


According to an interview with ABC News Sarah and Todd Palin were members of AIP.
Todd being a member until 2004. I am unclear on the stop and start of Sarah Palin
as she continued to speak at their functions even upto this year, for which she sent
a video to the 2008 conference.


Update: AIP Party Chair now denying Sarah Palin was not a member...
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From the ANCHORAGE DAILEY NEWS
Here are excerpts from a speech given October last year in Chattanooga, Tenn., by Alaskan Independence Party vice-chairman Dexter Clark.

The AIP Party vice chairman Dexter Clark addressed a gathering were Clark refers elsewhere in his speech as a "secessionist conference." A link to his speech is on the Alaskan Independence party website.
The basic argument of the Alaskan Independence Party has always been, the number one plank in our platform, is the question of our vote to become a state. The most glaring disparity in that vote was the definition of an eligible voter.
Among those qualified to cast a ballot were 41,000 American soldiers and their 36,000 dependents. Now to the Native population of Alaska, to me, these were occupation troops. . . .
Can you imagine the international uproar if the American troops had all went and got their purple fingers (by voting) in Iraq? There would have been (people saying) ... that's not an election, that's imposing your rule.
Our current governor, we mentioned at the last conference, the one we were hoping would get elected, Sarah Palin, did get elected. There's a joke, she's a pretty good looking gal, there's a joke goes around we're the coldest state with the hottest governor.
And there was a lot of talk about her moving up (in political office). She was an AIP member before she got the job as a mayor of a small town -- that was a non-partisan job. (Editor's note: AIP Party chair Lynette Clark recently retracted the claim that Sarah Palin was a party member.) But you get along to go along -- she (Palin) eventually joined the Republican Party, where she had all kinds of problems with their ethics, and -- well, I won't go into that.
She also had about an 80 percent approval rating, and is pretty well sympathetic to her former membership.
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He goes on to refer that Sarah Palin and people like Ron Paul put on a party badge (Republican) to get along politically.
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They clearly seem to claim Sarah Palin as one of them, insinuating she used the Republican party to get along politically. He also uses Ron Paul in the same light calling him "a dyed-in-the wool libertarian" and
using the Republican party to get elected.

[nichomachus]

1. The short answer is

Yes.

She is a user. The people she is a front for will use anyone and anything, say anything, do anything, tell any lie to achieve their ends. They will kill people if they have to.

For Christ's sake, she used her seven-year-old daughter as a human shield the other day at the hockey game. If she can do that, she is capable of anything.

I had a friend -- a mom -- who ran for public office. She did everything in her power to shield her kids from the crap of the campaign. Palin uses her kids as props and human shields.

[Dems4me]

4. totally agree. n/t

[firedupdem]

2. Sure she is! How would any Governor wish the organization

Good Luck if she wasn't? Would the Governer of Michigan wish a group good luck in trying to split off from the United States? Why this isn't ever covered in the MSM is beyond me. Why doesn't CNN mention it? The way they skirt around this major issue is beyond me.

[rocktivity]

3. Well, why else would she want to be vice president of a nation

she wants the state she's governor of to secede from?

:headbang:
rocknation

[ecstatic]

5. She is the TRUE threat to this nation. Everyone who has seen her lie

without batting an eyelash should be chilled at the thought of a Palin presidency.

[Dems4me]

7. The media has tiptoed around this stuff- I can't figure it out. n/t

[Essene]

6. No. I think she used them... and was just a small town girl

I think the AIP is probably a joke for most alaskans, but they reflect a deep sense of real independence from the rest of the USA that is likely very strong in alaska... esp the rural areas.

Id wager a lot of those people feel no more loyalty to the USA than they do Canada.

I think Palin is a vain opportunist. A provincial small town girl who just didnt know better.

And Todd's a genuine rebel who loved the notion of an independent alaska... till he realized he had to grow up.

I think she has some wacky religious views about her own importance, and i think she happily used the AIP guys as long as their interests overlapped.

[bridgit]

8. No. She's not smart enough. Todd maybe but not Sarah...