Sarah Palin's ties to Alaskan Independence Party are played down

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The McCain campaign denies his running mate supports the party's separatist bent.
By Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 3, 2008
Tonight, Sarah Palin will be nominated as the Republican Party's choice for vice president of the United States.

But back home, she has cheered the work of a tiny party that long has pushed for a statewide vote on whether Alaska should secede from those same United States. And her husband, Todd, was a member of the party for seven years.

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McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds said Tuesday that Palin did not support splitting Alaska off from the rest of the country. He sidestepped the question of whether she favored a statewide vote on secession.

"Gov. Palin believes that every American is entitled to their point of view, and their political beliefs," he said.

Bounds also did not directly answer the question of whether her husband supported the secession of Alaska.

"I can tell you that Mr. Palin is a proud American," Bounds said. "And he's excited that his wife has joined John McCain to reform Washington and make government work more effectively for all Americans."

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/campaign08/newsletter/la-na-aip3-2008sep03,0,763590.story

[lapfog_1]

1. Well, you might well be entitled to the view

and even carry on about it.

However, should you ACT upon it, I believe they call that treason.

But, more important, it's not exactly "Country First" now is it? Hmmm, Tucker, you little pipsqueak?

[Bread and Circus]

2. Well, from those responses you can tell something is there.