Oh, this is too fascinating not to share!

[heidi]

It seems that Sarah Palin has been a member of the Alaska Independence Party.

ETA: Ah, not actually a member of the party in terms of her voter registration, but her husband was registered as a member of that party until 2002, and she has attended their events at least once and possibly more than that; she sent a message on video to their most recent meeting. /eta

Here's what their platform includes:

* A belief that "the vote for statehood was invalid because the people were not presented with the range of options available to them" and that "the federal government has since breached the contract for statehood on numerous occasions in over a dozen serious and substantial instances."
* A belief that there should be a vote on Alaskan secession.
* Remaining "steadfastly opposed to environmental regulations and actively promotes the private ownership and widespread development of Alaskan land."
* A platform which includes:

[A]mending the Constitution of the State of Alaska so as to re-establish the rights of all Alaskan residents to entry upon all public lands within the state, and to acquire private property interest there in, under fair and reasonable conditions. Such property interest shall include surface and sub-surface patent.

[F]oster a constitutional amendment abolishing and prohibiting all property taxes.

[S]eek[ing] the complete repatriation of the public lands, held by the federal government, to the state and people of Alaska[.]

She also said the following in a 2006 questionaire of all the gubernatorial candidates:

Q: Are you offended by the phrase "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not?

PALIN: Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance

As Daily Kos said, "when John McCain's grandfather graduated from the Naval Academy in 1906, the Pledge of Allegiance, as first written, was only fourteen years old. It would not be made the official pledge of the United States until 1942, six years after John McCain himself was born. When John McCain was born, the words "Under God" were not in the Pledge. They would not appear there until 1954, during McCain's senior year of high school."

Is John McCain a founding father now?

And let's not even get into the issue of how well abstinence-only "sex ed" worked for her daughter (who I sympathize with a thousand per cent for having to deal with this in the public eye, which she obviously never sought for herself).

So, a poll, title courtesy of Starship, of course.
[Poll #1252017]

Comments

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

"This was clearly a plan by the Republicans..."

Geez, if so, that completely sucks not only for Gov. Palin, but more so for her daughter, whose teen pregnancy has now become the stuff of tabloids and feverish Internet discussion.

I don't agree with all much ANY of Palin's political stances, I think she has some worrying things in her background, and I firmly believe that she's not prepared to lead (although, can I tell you how much it pisses me off to see people making cracks about lactating veeps and drawing conclusions about her capabilities? It's just milk, it doesn't require quarantine!! er, ahem). HOWEVER. If McCain, Rove, & Co. invited her into this maelstrom without telling her it was a ploy... that's just sheer cruelty. No one deserves that. And her daughter definitely doesn't deserve it.

But, sadly, I have sunk so low that I can see them doing it.

*clutches her "I deeply resent the way this administration makes me feel like a nutbar conspiracy theorist" totebag for at least a few more months*