In March of this year, Palin recorded a video welcoming the convention of the secessionist AIP, saying "We have a great promise to be a self-sufficient state, made up of the hardest working, most grateful Americans in our Nation." This video can be viewed on the AIP website.
In October 2007, AIP's vice chairman Dexter Clark was recorded on another video saying that, "Palin had been a registered member of AIP before switching to the GOP to be viable." He continued by saying that "The Federal government is just plain a monster. We don't say we are Americans. We say we are Alaskans." Clark delivered these remarks at the October 2007 "Second North American Secession Convention," according to the Jed Report.
ABC News reported that officials of the AIP told them Sarah Palin was a member. Lynette Clark, the chairman, told them that she and her husband Todd were members and in 1994 attended the state convention in their hometown of Wasilla. They both also attended the 1996 convention. Todd Palin was a registered member for 7 years.
Then, mysteriously, the AIP posted the following questionable denial: "Contrary to initial reports, Vice-Presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin was never a member of our party. We stand corrected." They stand corrected by whom? The chairman of the party would certainly know who its members were. What or who could have caused this abrupt about face? I bet the McCain Campaign wishes it had done a better job of vetting this particular virtually unknown candidate.
Will Sarah Palin's alleged association in the Alaskan Independence Party be too tough a hurdle to overcome with the base of the Republican Party? She may have been able to energize the conservatives, but it looks like she may be just a bit too extreme, even them.
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