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Yet another question has been raised about Sarah Palin. It seems that she was a member of an Alaska splinter party that advocated secession. The “don’t call [themselves] Americans, [the] are Alaskans”. More than likely they’re tired of living off the dole on funds sent North from the lower 48. It is not unprecedented for candidates for President or Vice-President to advocate disunion, though the last time it happened the candidates in question were seeking to run the Confederate States of America. The motto of the Alaskan Independence Party is “Alaska First”, and Palin’s campaign slogan during her gubernatorial run was, you guessed it, “Alaska First”. There’s reason to believe that she’s still of that mindset. And who knows, maybe when she joined the Republicans she was just following the dictates of the party, which advocates “infiltrating” the major parties in order to advance the secessionist cause.

McCain’s slogan was, until recently, “Country First”, but that has apparently been shitcanned, along with all that talk about experience.

We have been bombarded with fact free assertions that Obama is at worst a secret terrorist, at best a politician who puts his own interests above his country. At all events he hates his country, we have been asked to believe. Yet Palin is a politician who belonged to a party advocating secession. Will the patriot police get on the case of an avowed secessionist? We all know the answer.

But who am I to complain? Finally, something I can sort of agree with Palin about. No, I am not in favor of Alaskan secession. I’m an agnostic on the issue. However, for years I have, only half in jest, advocated New England secession, which I actually consider more a case of the real America kicking out the folks who’ve ruined the country we New Englanders brought into being. I have elaborated on my views in prior posts, at my old blog address. I’m pretty sure were I to run for President as a Democrat those old posts would disqualify me from office. I guess I’d have to run as a Republican.