MEET SARAH PALIN'S RADICAL RIGHT WING PALS: ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/10/palin_chryson/index.html
On the afternoon of Sept. 24 in downtown Palmer, Alaska, as the sun began to sink behind the snowcapped mountains that flank the picturesque Mat-Su Valley, 51-year-old Mark Chryson sat for an hour on a park bench, reveling in tales of his days as chairman of the Alaska Independence Party. The stocky, gray-haired computer technician waxed nostalgic about quixotic battles to eliminate taxes, support the "traditional family" and secede from the United States.

So long as Alaska remained under the boot of the federal government, said Chryson, the AIP had to stand on guard to stymie a New World Order. He invited a Salon reporter to see a few items inside his pickup truck that were intended for his personal protection. "This here is my attack dog," he said with a chuckle, handing the reporter an exuberant 8-pound papillon from his passenger seat. "Her name is Suzy." Then he pulled a 9-millimeter Makarov PM pistol -- once the standard-issue sidearm for Soviet cops -- out of his glove compartment. "I've got enough weaponry to raise a small army in my basement," he said, clutching the gun in his palm. "Then again, so do most Alaskans." But Chryson added a message of reassurance to residents of that faraway place some Alaskans call "the 48." "We want to go our separate ways," he said, "but we are not going to kill you."

Though Chryson belongs to a fringe political party, one that advocates the secession of Alaska from the Union, and that organizes with other like-minded secessionist movements from Canada to the Deep South, he is not without peculiar influence in state politics, especially the rise of Sarah Palin. An obscure figure outside of Alaska, Chryson has been a political fixture in the hometown of the Republican vice-presidential nominee for over a decade. During the 1990s, when Chryson directed the AIP, he and another radical right-winger, Steve Stoll, played a quiet but pivotal role in electing Palin as mayor of Wasilla and shaping her political agenda afterward. Both Stoll and Chryson not only contributed to Palin's campaign financially, they played major behind-the-scenes roles in the Palin camp before, during and after her victory.

Palling Around With a Pal of a Terrorist - McCain's campaign is now intimately tied to Saddam Hussein's murderous regime in Iraq with William Timmons overseeing his transition planning and team. Under McCain's own rubric then, he himself is palling around with a pal of a globally malevolent terrorist who, over decades, killed tens of thousands. Let's break it down further: McCain continues to assert that 9/11 and Saddam Hussein's Iraq are fundamentally linked. Under his own standard, McCain has on his staff, in one of the most important jobs on the campaign, a man, Timmons, who aided, abetted and promoted a regime, which, in McCain's mind, had a hand in the murder of thousands of Americans on September 11. Using McCainian logic, he has hired an accomplice to 9/11. Now if that doesn't call his judgment into question, I don't know what will.

McCain has once again put country last during a critical moment in campaign decision making. The McCain/Timmons situation is the Obama/Ayers connection on 100% pure anabolic steroids delivered straight to the vein. And hopefully, the media will jump on this, not because it is some political ploy by a desperate campaign as is the case with McCain's Ayers argument, but because this is a completely shady, improper and duplicitous breach of trust towards the American people, reflective of a leader who simply has no good leadership qualities left.

Between Palin and Timmons, it's downright terrifying to think who McCain would appoint to important positions at a presidential level.

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[TedVoron]

Al Gore's Movie inspired a LEFTIST TERRORIST to take hostages & point guns & bombs & demand DISCOVERY CHANNEL to never show babies on TV again because babies are PARASITES!

The authorities were afraid the AL GORE worshipper/Democrat would kill the babies in the DISCOVERY CHANNEL day care center.

[kurtoconnel]

WOULD THE BABY BOOMERS DIE OFF ALREADY...YOU GUYS ARE ALL FUCKIN NUTS....

[collins1188]

@TheEvolver311 "she also said that she agreed with them 100% when she spoke to them wile running for gov."

Sounds like a cut quote to me. Nobody can agree with anyone 100%.

[collins1188]

@FuckYouLetMeLogIn

"Hey fucktard. Who was presided over the when the collapse of the world economy Might it have been... BUSH???"

You know... quoting this should be enough of a refutation in and of itself but I will address it as if it were an actual legitimate argument. When the economy collapsed... the house and senate were controled by the democratic party. George Bush vetoed a total of 5 bills his ENTIRE PRESIDENCY. So... everything the dems wanted, they got... yet what happened?

[FuckYouLetMeLogIn]

@collins1188 "If you take all the debt from George Washington to George W. Bush and add it up, it will still amount to less than Obama has spent in his first 6 months in office. But the debt is obviously from the war.:

Hey, fucktard: Who was presided over the when the collapse of the world economy Might it have been... BUSH??? And who did Bush leave a huge fucking mess to clean up? Could it be... Obama?

If you have something constructive to add, then speak up. Otherwise SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE!

[TheEvolver311]

@collins1188 she also said that she agreed with them 100% when she spoke to them while running for gov

[collins1188]

@TheEvolver311 "biggest danger to our sovereignty is the massive debt for paying for our wars" I just love the hypocrisy coming out of the left regarding national debt. You do realise that conservatism states that we should have limited federal spending and liberalism is THE EXACT OPPOSITE! If you take all the debt from George Washington to George W. Bush and add it up, it will still amount to less than Obama has spent in his first 6 months in office. But the debt is obviously from the war.

[collins1188]

It's so funny. Sarah Palin out right says that the AIP is "in competition" with her ideology. CNN is such an objective news source. Of course they didn't play that portion of the tape because they want to create hysteria over NOTHING! This is so absurd. This ranks right up there will MSNBC's race bating of the tea-party goers bringing guns to events. The person in the clip WAS BLACK yet they say it's due to race. Of course they cut the clip so you couldn't see the man's skin.

[fletchdies]

Please tell me your drunk or have a weird sense of humor?

[PD413PD]

In your fantasy world