For more than two decades, Sarah Palin tethered herself to a fire-breathing husband peddling bitter, secessionist "Alaska liberation ideology" in the name of self-reliance. Behind the "maverick" image was a grievance-mongering husband animated by the voracity of secesh. And understand this: Todd Palin and Sarah Palin were not merely passing "ships in the night" - they were husband and wife, snowmobile champ and beauty queen - with fates and fortunes intertwined.
(With a tip o’ the hat to Michelle Malkin)
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For twenty-some years, while using the mayor’s office of Wasilla to build her Alaska power base and credibility in the right-wing community, Sarah Palin turned a deaf ear to black helicopter conspiracy theories, federal domination rants, anti-California and anti-wolf raves, and "Fcuk America" diatribes. These weren’t occasional outbursts. They are the bread and butter of the Alaskan Independence Party. Now, Sarah Palin blames "fringe bloggers and the liberal media" for exposing Todd’s secesh-based rancor. Maverick, indeed.
On Friday, Sarah Palin attempted to minimize the extent to which she had been exposed to Todd’s poisonous politicking from the front seat of the snowmobile. "None of these statements were ones that I had heard myself personally on the snowmobile," she told Minor Parrott of Fox News. "What is it exactly that the vice president does every day?"
Yesterday, Sarah Palin changed her tune saying that although she shared the Alaskan Independence Party’s vision, she had never actually been a dues-paying member. What’s more, although she was required to be at the 2000 AIP convention in Wasilla in her capacity as mayor of that fine metropolis, she had, most certainly, not attended the 1994 convention – or, at least, not that she could recall.
The clever Gov. Palin has attempted to erect a firewall of protection from probing questions about which remarks she heard and tolerated and failed to object to while sitting in their conventions. Dwelling on what she knew and where and when, she argued yesterday, would be "to suggest that she believes that Alaskans should achieve independence under a minimal government, fully responsive to the people."
But it is Sarah Palin’s husband (perhaps "invisible" husband, if he becomes political baggage) who holds a warped view of reality. And it is Sarah Palin who distorts the truth by likening this Jefferson Davis of the Alaskan Independence Party to a charming, outdoorsy fellow who means well.
"I can no more disown my husband than I can disown my connections to Big Oil," she said at a news conference in Lower Fishnet, a small community of hookers in the Alaska panhandle. "I cringe to think that some of my insider dealings that rewarded friends at Matanuska Maid might come to the surface."
Glad to know something made Sarah Palin cringe.
Even as she denied that she was justifying and excusing Todd’s demagoguery, Sarah Palin was doing just that by invoking family, hunting, religion, and, yes, even the "Bridge to Nowhere", to explain how we get to the Alaska Independence Party spewing "Fcuk America" every day.
"These people are my rabid, right-wing base. And they are a part of Alaska, this state that I love," Sarah Palin declared rather stiffly as she stood self-consciously in front of more Alaskan flags that she has ever been placed in front of this campaign season.
Well, you can’t pick your nose, but you can pick your husband. And Sarah Palin picked the wrong one if she aspires to be the vice-president of all America — an America that includes citizens of all the states who cringe at self-serving right-wing rationalizations masquerading as moral salvation.