An Apostle of Alaska

Source: Reuters & The Asssc. Press

Founder of the AIP Damns America and It's Flag:

Alaskan Independence Party, Alaska Secessionist Party,

The 3rd most Powerful Political Party in Alaska and Todd Palin was a (7 year Registered Member) and Todd is constantly in the Governor's office and involved in her Affairs, such as the "Trooper Gate" Scandal, that is to Precede, though Mccain's Cronies tried to Stop the Process. Mccain is Incompetent, this Woman was not Vetted at all !!!

The founder of the Alaska Independence Party -- a group that has been courted over the years by Sarah Palin, and one her husband was a member of for roughly seven years -- once professed his "hatred for the American government" and cursed the American flag as a "damn flag."

The AIP founder, Joe Vogler, made the comments in 1991, in an interview that's now housed at the Oral History Program in the Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government," Vogler said in the interview, in which he talked extensively about his desire for Alaskan secession, the key goal of the AIP.

???They call themselves mavericks. Whoa! Truth is???they???re anything but. John McCain is hardly a maverick, when seven of his top campaign advisors are Washington lobbyists. He???s no maverick when he votes with Bush 90 percent of the time.

???And Sarah Palin???s no maverick, either. She was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it. Politicians lying about their records? You don???t call that maverick. You call it more of the same.???

The McCain campaign claimed in an ad released Monday morning: ???The original mavericks. He fights pork barrel spending. She stopped the Bridge to Nowhere.???

An Associated Press fact check found that exaggerated: ???She vowed to defend Southeast Alaska ???when proposals are on the table like the bridge and not allow the spin-meisters to turn this project or any other into something that's so negative??? ??? something that McCain was busy doing at the time, as a fierce critic of the bridge.???

Only in your wet liberal dreams will palin drop out. She has more guts than Owimpy he would lay on his back to have his tummy scratched by china, Russia, Iran, and Iraq etc. He has his head in the clouds of Yes we can. Obiden is going down.

Palin is no Goddess for America. She may be the Goddess of social cosnervatives. We don't fear this knucklehead who thinks the war in Iraq is God's task just as Hitler argued that God wanted him to kill all the innocent Jews. Palin does not live in the real world but in her own fantasyworld. If she tries to declare war on others as president because they don't want to be cowed into accepting her beliefs, then we'll have our Congress to go after her ass and bring her to a max security prison.
I have no hateful feeling toward Palin; after all, she is an American even if her dumb husband was a separatist. Cosnervative Republicans love her because she said the war in Iraq was a task from God and said other hypocritical, stupid things that make conservatives grin.
I am so tired of this country when it is taken hostage by the Republicans who care nothing about its security (they play national security just to scare up votes) and its ailing economy (it was a Bush Republican aide who called us a "nation of winers")... What the GOP cares is POWER, POWER, POWER, MONEY, MONEY, GOD, GOD, F--ING MORAL VALUES....

Economists and analysts pounced on the misstatement, which came before the government had spent funds bailing the two entities out, saying it demonstrated a lack of understanding about one of the key economic issues likely to face the next administration.

"You would like to think that someone who is going to be vice president and conceivable president would know what Fannie and Freddie do," said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "These are huge institutions and they are absolutely central to our country's mortgage debt. To not have a clue what they do doesn't speak well for her, I'd say."

The B!tch is Major Fraud an she will... QUIT !!!

This Woman was not Properly Vetted at All !!!

"I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere," she said in her convention speech last week.

That's not what she told Alaskans when she announced a year ago that she was ordering state transportation officials to ditch the project. Her explanation then was that it would be fruitless to try to persuade Congress to come up with the money.

"It's clear that Congress has little interest in spending any more money on a bridge between Ketchikan and Gravina Island," Palin said then.

Palin indicated during her 2006 campaign for governor that she supported the bridge, but was wishy-washy about it. She told local officials that money appropriated for the bridge "should remain available for a link, an access process as we continue to evaluate the scope and just how best to just get this done."

She vowed to defend Southeast Alaska "when proposals are on the table like the bridge and not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that's so negative" ??? something that McCain was busy doing at the time, as a fierce critic of the bridge.

Even so, she called the bridge design "grandiose" during her campaign and said something more modest might be appropriate.

Palin's reputation for standing up to entrenched interests in Alaska is genuine. Her self-description as a leader who "championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress" is harder to square with the facts.

The governor has cut back on pork-barrel project requests, but in her two years in office, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. And as mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million.

Sarah Palin should be exposed for the inexperienced governor that she truly is:

Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." The companies, as McClatchy reported, "aren't taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization."

Economists and analysts pounced on the misstatement, which came before the government had spent funds bailing the two entities out, saying it demonstrated a lack of understanding about one of the key economic issues likely to face the next administration.

"You would like to think that someone who is going to be vice president and conceivable president would know what Fannie and Freddie do," said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "These are huge institutions and they are absolutely central to our country's mortgage debt. To not have a clue what they do doesn't speak well for her, I'd say."

GAWD, what's that DEAD animal draped across her desk???! EGADS, a gun-touting religious nutter just a hare's breath from the Presidency? Ykes. I throw up in Holy Roller's general direction, ahhahahaahahaha!

McSame (the concept) is a "crook and a fraud" if I ever saw one!

UPDATE***

As of 10:07pm Tuesday, traders on the Intrade prediction market are selling the chance that Palin will drop off John McCain's ticket at 15.0. Check here for more updates as the market moves.

***UPDATE***
As of 5:29pm Tuesday, traders on the Intrade prediction market are selling the chance that Palin will drop off John McCain's ticket at 11.6. Check here for more updates as the market moves.

***UPDATE***
As of 1:45pm Tuesday, traders on the Intrade prediction market are selling the chance that Palin will drop off John McCain's ticket at 13.9. Check here for more updates as the market moves.

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The Intrade prediction market has opened trading on whether "Sarah Palin [is] to be withdrawn as Republican VP nominee before 2008 presidential election." At 8:55 am, Tuesday morning, the market is selling the prediction at 18 a share. That means traders think there is an 18 percent chance that Palin will be removed from the ticket.

Intrade predicted Joe Biden would be Barack Obama's running mate in August and its traders were also correct about every Senate race in 2006. It fell flat in predicting a Democratic majority.

Keep checking back through out the day for updates on the trading numbers.

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SARAH PALIN IS A TROJAN MOOSE!! Watch out America for the surprises that will pop out of this "horses" mouth!
THE FACTS: Palin did abandon plans to build the nearly $400 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport. But she made her decision after the project had become an embarrassment to the state, after federal dollars for the project were pulled back and diverted to other uses in Alaska, and after she had appeared to support the bridge during her campaign for governor.

McCain and Palin together have told a broader story about the bridge that is misleading. She is portrayed as a crusader for the thrifty use of tax dollars who turned down an offer from Washington to build an expensive bridge of little value to the state.

"I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere," she said in her convention speech last week.

That's not what she told Alaskans when she announced a year ago that she was ordering state transportation officials to ditch the project. Her explanation then was that it would be fruitless to try to persuade Congress to come up with the money

Hollyroller - I really wish you would get your facts straight and use your own brain instead of listening to what the media and the republican party tells you to believe! Obama did this for 3 years right out of college and then went on to pass ethics and reform laws in the State of Chicago and as a Senator for years? McCain has always been a senator - what executive experience has he had? That's what I thought - NONE!!

And as for Palin - she is inexcusably inexerperienced and underqualified to be VP right now!!

We are open minded. So open minded that we do use our brains and think for ourselves! We don't let one policitical party tell us a bunch of lies, make things up and then try to sell them as truth!! Talk about character!!

"The McCain camp has tried to again obscure the facts about Gov. Palin. 'She is a reformer and against earmarks.' No she isn't, when she was mayor of that town she hired a lobbyist to get earmarks... 'She was against the bridge to nowhere.' No she wasn't. She was for the bridge to nowhere first... She is a budget balancer. But she left the town in greater debt then when she became mayor, so she is not a budget balancer."

"She is a good person, she has tremendous potential but in no way shape or form is she ready to be president of the United States."

"She claims to be a reformer. " "And yet she is being investigated on the charge that she used her power as governor to fire someone who was going through a messy divorce with a relative of hers. Could you imagine if anyone else was doing the same thing in Pennsylvania or any other state? They would be calling for that govenor's impeachment." Imagine if Barack was in the situation - WHOA!! would the media and everyone come down on him.

What a hit piece. Well it is clear where Newsweek stands. Did this actually take a dozen of you guys to create? Newsweek has given the Governor in one article every little dig that could be thrown at her and she and her team can use these attacks as a road map to prepare for what is coming her way from the other liberals who hate her. Watch out. She knows rotten meat as well as anyone and someone as talented as the Governor will chew you up and spit out your foul taste as she has many times before. You guys have a tiger by the tail and I can't wait to watch the show. Face it, America loves this woman despite the best efforts from the posse of the dozen reporters you used to create this hit job. God Bless America and Governor Palin.