Oh, this is too fascinating not to share!
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heidiIt 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:
She also said the following in a 2006 questionaire of all the gubernatorial candidates:
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]
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]
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Date: 2008-09-02 01:04 pm (UTC)1) Re: teenaged daughter. I CANNOT BELIEVE that this woman can stand up there and be all extreme Pro-life, Anti-education, "pro-family" and have this happen while attempting to be a real politician. Yes, yes, It's her daughter's choice to have sex and she has to face the consequences and find joy in it if she can (heck, my 17-year-old sister is having a baby in a month, and we are all awaiting Ambellina's birth) But Gov Palin is not running for Gov this time. If she's unable to maintain a healthy and safe home, how is she going to be able to maintain a healthy and safe country?
Also, If you are out there as a hard-nosed anti-education person and want people to take you seriously? YOU MAKE SURE THIS STUFF DOESN'T HAPPEN. Because this (and I do feel bad for Bristol and hope that her marriage doesn't end up a demonstration of statistics the way that her pregnancy is demonstrating this point)purely demonstrates what's wrong with abstinence only Education. And I don't mean it just as not having all the info available- I personally learned it via the internet- but that it reinforces stigma when people think about using contraceptives.
2) Re: Founding Fathers and the PoA: My mind seriously shut down for 5 minutes when I heard this. It was written more than 100 years after the founding- none of the founders were even ALIVE when it was written. We were around 20 years from our bicentennial when "Under G-d" was added- ditto about founders being dead. They cover this stuff in your basic high school US history now (not that anyone remembers it), and even if they didn't EVEN WIKIPEDIA HAS IT. It's unfathomable to me that there's a state with a Governor this uneducated about our history, let alone a VP candidate. Just. NO.
3) Re: secessionist tendencies: OH. MY. G-D. D-did they even do a basic background check on this woman before they picked her? Because um. How much fail is demonstrated here? TOO MUCH. I swear, this woman not only gives conservatives a
badworse name, she will make the internet explode with righteous indignation if we learn any more about her.Guess who's taking advantage of her British Blood-ties if this woman gets into office?