Palin palling around with secessionists

13 comments October 7th, 2008

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Pastor Hagee says a stay-at-home dad like Palin’s husband is “a bum” and “worse than an infidel”

20 comments September 4th, 2008

The Rev. John Hagee (above left), a FORMER PAL and endorser of John McCain, has no use for dads who stay at home to take care of the kids while mom goes out and works.

He SAYS they’re going to hell.

Imagine if Obama had been linked to this group

14 comments September 2nd, 2008

Last evening, I quoted ABC News as reporting that Sarah Palin and her husband were members of the quasi-secessionist Alaskan Independence Party in the mid-1990s.

Today, the McCain camp produced records indicating that Palin never officially registered with the state as a member of the AIP, but other records SHOW that her husband, Todd, belonged to the group for most of seven years. And there’s a REPORT that Sarah attended the party’s 1994 convention in her hometown of Wasilla, where she later served as mayor.

There also surfaced today a report on something AIP founder Joe Vogler once SAID:

“The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government…And I won’t be buried under their damn flag.”

That was in 1991, and it would be unfair to hold either of the Palins even remotely accountable for such a statement. Nor is that my intention here.

I just want to pose this question: If it were Barack Obama or his spouse who had been associated with a group whose founder employed such rhetoric, what do you think would be the reaction among right-wing Republicans? What would the Limbaughs and Hannitys and the others have to say? What would even the mainstream media have to say?

I’m guessing it likely would be something akin to their apoplexy over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

If Palin doesn’t get roughed up over what Joe Vogler once said before her husband belonged to the group – and she shouldn’t be roughed up over it — don’t forget the treatment Obama likely would get in the same circumstances. The pseudo-patriots of the Republican right would go berserk, and the inflammatory words of Joe Vogler would be repeated over and over.

Who can doubt that? That’s what the smear merchants of the radical right do. That’s what they’re about. Just ask Barack and Michelle Obama — y’know, the couple famous for the terrorist fist jab and for hating America.