Sarah Palin: Voted Most Likely to Secede

Sarah Palin has, until recently at least, charmed the nation. Her enthusiastic soccer mom brand of patriotism has been a balm for those arch-conservative Republicans who suspect that John McCain is not truly one of their own, however much he might insist that he really, really is. Palin serves McCain's desperate need for a token extremist to please gun toting, evolution denying, abortion banning, NASCAR fans everywhere. However, Palin's almost painfully squeaky-clean appearance and perfectly adequate teleprompter-reading skills conceal a darker, more disturbing figure than the one we see botching interviews with Katie Couric

Certainly, we all know by now about the hypocrisy of Palin's reaction to her teen daughter's pregnancy (and the resulting shotgun wedding), the investigation into the possibly illegal actions the governor took by firing a man she just didn't like very much, the fact that she apparently feels that women should pay for their own crazy luxuries (like rape kits), as well as the exorbitant sums spent by the Republican party's fashion commandos to insure Palin didn't arrive in the lower 48 wearing moose hides and a coon-skin cap. But one item in her resume seems to be unknown by the majority of Americans, since it has gone virtually unreported by most of the mainstream media. This is the fact that Sarah Palin would actually like for the state of Alaska to secede from the United States and become its own sovereign nation. That's right.

And this isn't just some nutty tabloid rumor like the ones about Bigfoot's wedding or Elvis being alive and working at a Taco Bell in Atlanta. Palin's husband Todd was, for a number of years, a card carrying member of the Alaskan Independence Party (the AIP), whose avowed goal is getting a vote for secession on the ballot in Alaska, and passed as quickly a possible. Sarah Palin herself can be seen in a DVD she sent to the AIP's convention, welcoming them and effusively praising their efforts to dismember the United States.

Given Palin's recent efforts to characterize herself and her supporters as "real Americans", and thus implicitly suggesting that those who don't support them are nothing but filthy traitors, the fact that the governor has no problem with a party that actually advocates real treason seems rather strange, to say the least. And it is certainly the height of hypocrisy on her part to suggest that it is Barack Obama who pals around with terrorists and traitors when, in fact, it is Sarah Palin herself who embraces those who would like to turn their backs on this nation.