Reverend Wright was just a flag-waving, patriotic Boy Scout compared to the guy who headed up the Alaskan Independence Party, which advocates secession from the United States. (How's that for putting country first?)
The founder of the group, Joe Vogler, gave a speech in which he said that "the fires of Hell are as icebergs compared to my hate for the American government." He also said, "I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."
See here.Lynette Clark, the chairman of the AIP, tells ABC News that Palin and her husband Todd were members in 1994, even attending the 1994 statewide convention in Wasilla. Clark was AIP secretary at the time.
"We are a state's rights party," Clark -- a self-employed goldminer -- tells ABC News. The AIP has "a plank that challenges the legality of the Alaskan statehood vote as illegal and in violation of United Nations charter and international law."
Palin doesn't even want to be an American. She and her husband believe that Alaska isn't even legitimately a state of the United States.
And the GOP is endorsing this lunatic?
The best part, for the Democrats:
Palin kicked off the 2008 AIP convention EARLIER THIS YEAR by delivering the welcoming address and telling them to "keep up the good work."
See the video of her AIP welcoming address here.
