This is real, not just a scandal someone cooked up. The Palins are (or were) associated with actual anti-American interests in Alaska.
Their leader said, "My government is my worst enemy. I'm going to fight them with any means at hand."
We've really reached a new level of stupidity when it's seriously asserted that being able to see another country constitutes foreign policy experience.
When I first heard it I was sure it would be quickly dismissed, that is, if it wasn't acknowledged as a joke from the first. But they've repeated it a few times, that Palin can look out her window and actually see the Putins hanging laundry on their clothesline.
I believe she also said Putin makes regular flyovers -- he likes to buzz Alaska's capitol building -- and drops propaganda leaflets, so maybe there is something to it.
Ouch. McCain's motto is "Country First," but Sarah Palin's is "Alaska First," as in perhaps wanting it to be an independent country.
It's been hinted at for a couple days, that Palin had been a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, but has now been confirmed.
Lynette Clark, the chairman of the AIP, told ABC News that Palin and her husband were members in 1994, and then in 1996 Palin became a Republican and left the party.
The McCain-Palin campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.How about, "D'oh!"
We all heard Sarah Palin the other day say, "In fact, I told Congress — I told Congress, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’ on that bridge to nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, I said we’d build it ourselves."
That's a great claim to make, if it's true. But it appears to be false. Check out this article from Think Progress.
Palin had other things to say about the bridge to nowhere back before she had any idea she'd be McCain's VP pick.
The Anchorage Daily News asked her about it in 2006, whether she was still in favor of state funding for it. She said, "Yes. I would like to see Alaska’s infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now–while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist. "
How much different is Alaska from Hawaii? As far as being foreign and exotic?
I don't know if I want to trust a vice president whose next door neighbor is Russia. When you go borrow a cup of sugar from the Russians what kind of quid pro quo do they expect?
So, Alaska. I'm going to have to agree with Cokie Roberts on this one. That's not America!
