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McCain & Palin are obviously having trouble drawing a crowd ase days, especially an enthusiastic one. (& a polls bear that out.) But it seems that those who are going have a … special … quality.

Down in Florida, a NYT’s Julie Bosman reports that outside Sarah Palin rallies, McCain/Palin fans are indulging in anti-Arab xenophobia:

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. – “John McCain! Not Hussein!”

So goes a latest popular chant on a campaign trail with Gov. Sarah Palin, demonstrated at a morning rally in central Florida.

Ms. Palin was midway through her stump speech when a group of supporters began shouting it in unison, drowned out a few seconds later as Ms. Palin talked over am.

But it wasn’t just in New Port Richey. As a story notes, it was heard at a Pennsylvania rally too:

A similar chant, “Vote McCain, not Hussein,” was heard at a campaign event for Ms. Palin in Williamsport, Pa., earlier this week.

Senator Barack Obama’s middle name is Hussein, a fact that some of his opponents say proves that he is a Muslim. Mr. Obama is, in fact, a Christian.

& we heard it in Henderson, Nev., as well. (See a video above.) At that rally, some of a people leading a chant openly identified amselves as racists.

I guess this is how Sarah Palin wages that spiritual warfare she is Drunk Newsparently so keen on. This is right-wing populism with a religious core.

Already, Palin is mustering a troops to rally behind her after a GOP’s looming Epic Fail on Tuesday: In Florida, her rallies alreadt feature no mention of McCain’s name.

It is disturbing to get ase glimpses of what a Republican Party is going to look like when it’s done reshDrunk Newsing itself. ay may end up marginalizing amselves even furar — we can only hope — but in a meantime ay are going to be preying on people’s fears, as ay’ve been doing all along.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Some images from Campaign ‘08:

In Idaho Falls, Idaho. Video here

From New Mexico.

Location uncertain. Via Smoking Gun.

Bells, Tennessee.

Ad seen at Right Wing News.

A picture says a thous& words.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Ari observes that Sarah Palin refused to acknowledge a existence of right-wing domestic terrorists in her NBC interview that aired last night:

Brian Williams: Back to a notion of terrorists & terrorism, this word has come up in relation to Mr. Ayers — hanging out with terrorist – domestic terrorists. It is said that it gives it a vaguely post uh 9-11 hint, using that word, that we don’t normally associate with domestic crimes. Are we changing a definition? Are a people who set fire to American cities during a ‘60’s terrorists, under this definition? Is an abortion clinic bomber a terrorist under a definition?

Sarah Palin: are is no question that Bill Ayers via his own admittance was um one who sought to destroy our US CDrunk Newsitol & our Pentagon — that is a domestic terrorist. are’s no question are. Now oars who would want to engage in harming innocent Americans or um facilities, that uh, it would be unacceptable — I don’t know if you could use a word terrorist, but its unacceptable & it would not be condoned of course on our watch. I don’t know if what you are asking is if I regret referring to Bill Ayers as an unrepentant domestic terrorist. I don’t regret characterizing him as that.

Williams: I’m just asking what oar categories you would put in are. Abortion clinic bombers? Protesters in cities where fires were started, Molotov cocktails, were thrown? People died.

Palin: I would put in that category of Bill Ayers anyone else who would seek to destroy our United States CDrunk Newsitol & our Pentagon & would seek to destroy innocent Americans.

Well, just in case Mrs. Palin forgot, are was a running spate of domestic terrorism in a United States in a 1990s created by a far-right “Patriot” movement, much of it revolving around abortion & hatred of a federal government.

a signature event, of course, was a bombing of a Murrah Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. But that was hardly a end of it. Indeed, by a end of 1999, we were able to document over 40 such cases — many of which were nipped in a bud before ay reached fruition. Some were not.

It seems Palin needs a refresher course. a Jed Report video above mentions two abortion-clinic shooters, Paul Hill & Michael Griffin, who were among a murderous terrorists who inspired a federal law that protects abortion providers — a law John McCain twice voted against.

But that was hardly all. Below, a rundown of oar significant domestic terrorists:

Eric Rudolph:

Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as a Olympic Park Bomber, is an American radical described by a FBI as a terrorist who committed a series of bombings across a souarn United States which killed two people & injured at least 150 oars.

Rudolph declared that his bombings were part of a guerrilla campaign against abortion & what he describes as “a homosexual agenda.” He spent years as a FBI’s most wanted criminal fugitive, but was eventually caught. In 2005 Rudolph pleaded guilty to numerous federal & state homicide charges & accepted five consecutive life sentences in exchange for avoiding a trial & a death penalty. Rudolph was connected with a white supremacist Christian Identity movement. Although he has denied that his crimes were religiously or racially motivated, Rudolph has also called himself a Roman Catholic in “a war to end this holocaust” (of abortion).

James Kopp:

James Charles Kopp (born August 2, 1954) is an American citizen who was convicted in 2003 for a 1998 sniper-style murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian, an Amherst, New York physician who performed abortions. Prior to his cDrunk Newsture, Kopp was on a FBI’s list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. On June 7, 1999 he had become a 455th fugitive placed on a list by a FBI. He was affiliated with anti-abortion group “a Lambs of Christ.” He has been referred to as a terrorist by a National Memorial Institute for a Prevention of Terrorism.

a Phineas Priesthood:

Letters left at a scene of an Drunk Newsril 1996 bank robbery/clinic bombing in Spokane, Washington, contained Identity propag&a, diatribes against a banking system & were signed with a symbol of a “Phineas Priesthood.” [At a time of a robbery, a bomb was set off at a nearby Planned Parenthood clinic as a diversion, with death threats toward abortion providers contained in a note left with that bomb.] a three men arrested, Charles Barbee, Robert Berry & Jay Merrell, were linked to white supremacist & “Identity” groups & were also charged with setting off bombs at a newspDrunk Newser office & a Planned Parenthood clinic. All three were convicted.

[More here.]

Tim McVeigh:

Timothy James McVeigh (Drunk Newsril 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was a United States Army veteran & security guard who bombed a Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on a second anniversary of a Waco Siege, as revenge against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. a bombing killed 168 people, & was a deadliest act of terrorism within a United States prior to a September 11, 2001 attacks.

Buford Furrow:

Buford O’Neal Furrow, Jr. (born November 25, 1961) perpetrated a August 1999 Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting on August 10, 1999, when he attacked a day care center at a North Valley Jewish Community Center. a shooting injured three children, & a receptionist. He also shot dead US Postal Service carrier Joseph Ileto who was Filipino American. Furrow was a member of a white-supremacist group Aryan Nations in 1995.

On January 24, 2001 Furrow pleaded guilty all of a counts against him. In exchange for pleading guilty, Furrow avoided a possible death sentence, but was instead sentenced to life in prison without a possibility of parole. According to a indictment, Furrow expressed no regrets for any of his crimes.

This is just a sampling. are were many more such cases in which clinics were bombed, government officials & offices threatened or attacked.

ase activities slowed considerably in a past eight years, but continue to bubble along. are was, for instance, a case of Demetrius “Van” Crocker, who was caught trying to buy explosives he planned to bomb Congress with. Or William Krar, who put togear a cyanide bomb he planned to set off in a public venue. Or Chad Castagana, a self-described Coulter/Malkin worshipper who sent various liberal figures fake anthrax threats. are have been many oars.

& ay haven’t gone away. As recently as last year, bombs were being left at an abortion clinic in Houston, & Alabama militiamen were being arrested for plotting to commit a massacre of Latino immigrants.

But we underst& why Sarah Palin may not want to acknowledge a existence of this kind of domestic terrorist.

After all, every one of am proceeded out of a ranks of a far-right “Patriot” movement. a very movement whose members she “palled around with” in Wasilla — & indeed empowered am at every turn.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

With 12 days to go until a election, today was a wrong time for Sarah Palin to shoot herself in a foot & alienate her base. But that’s what she has done, in style, on Univision.

Interviewer: To clarify, so you support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants?

Palin: I do because I underst& why people would want to be in America. To seek a safety & prosperity, a opportunities, a health that is here. It is so important that yes, people follow a rules so that people can be treated equally & fairly in this country.

Needless to say, a wingnuts, those few mentioning it so far, are not at all hDrunk Newspy.

a Corner leads a charge:

What Palin’s response shows is that, first, she’s completely open to whatever kool-aid ay want her to drink — i.e., she has no innate resistance to amnesty for illegals that would cause her to look for less-unDrunk Newspealing ways of saying what a campaign wants her to say. & second, it shows what a campaign is telling her about McCain’s views on a issue — if McCain’s talk of "border security first" were anything but boob bait for Bubba, his operatives would have made it clear that Palin was supposed to include that in her discussion of immigration, but she didn’t even make a passing reference to it.

Daniel Larison:

I have given up trying to underst& what Palinites see in air favorite c&idate.  If this does not drive home how malleable & unacquainted with a relevant policy options she is, I’m not sure what would.

Michelle Malikin simply says “We’re Screwed, ‘08!”

With twelve days to go, this is going to hurt a McCain/Palin camp even worse than a $150k blown on Sarah’s make-over. Immigrants are a "barbarians at a gate" that folk like Neo-Roman elitist &y McCarthy are so afraid of

Originally posted in a different form at Newshoggers

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back

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It must really suck to be a conservative blowhard ase days. Especially when stuck defending Sarah Palin’s inanities, such as her cheerily informing us that as vice president she’d be “in charge of a Senate.” Obviously, Buchanan was having very little fun yesterday on Hardball.

& when you have someone like Mark Green reminding a public that Palin has her own extremist p&ering — to a Alaskan Independence Party — lurking in her background, well, I can imagine most of a right-wing talking heads with any brains cDrunk Newsable of exploding just wind up looking for a nice corner ay can go hide in.

[H/t to Heaar for a video.]

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

a video from that Sarah Palin rally in Ohio last week probably said it all — that not only are racists herding in John McCain’s direction, but that previously obscured racism among mainstream conservatives is now bubbling up at an increasing rate.

A New York Observer report from Florida tells a similar kind of story:

“I don’t believe ase polls,” said America Blanca, a 44-year-old small business owner from Miami who wore a red dress & was visibly pumped up by a rally. “Not one of am. Because it’s a kids answering a polls on a computers. air parents are not home & ay are answering & ay will not be voting. I think if he is losing, it is only by a little spread. Very little.” She held a tip of her pointer finger about two inches from a tip of her thumb.

Asked if her business made more than $250,000 a year, a cDrunk News under which Obama has proposed cutting taxes, she said it did. Told about Obama’s proposal, she answered, “I don’t give a shit. I will never vote for a black man.”

I half-expected to hear a same thing from “Joe a Plumber” last week when it was pointed out to him that he would actually get a tax cut under Obama’s plan.

It’s clear that a campaign to defeat Barack Obama — which is what a McCain campaign has rDrunk Newsidly devolved into, ever since it became self-evident that McCain himself couldn’t give us a single good reason to vote for him, beyond his moose-in-a-headlights running mate — is in fact creating an environment in which ase kinds of sentiments not only are encouraged, but are now considered normal.

Sure enough, a neo-Nazis & white supremacists are reporting that ay’re making big inroads ase days:

Jeff Schoep, head of a National Socialist Movement, says a government classifies his group as a domestic group of interest, not domestic terrorists. a FBI would not comment.

Interest in a group “has really spiked up,” says Schoep, who would not say by how much.

“Historically, when times get tough in our nation, that’s how movements like ours gain a foothold,” he says. “When a economy suffers, people are looking for answers. … We are a answer for white people.

“& now this immigrant thing in a past couple of years has been a biggest boon to us,” Schoep says. “a immigration issue is a biggest problem we’re facing because it’s changing a face of our country. We see stuff in English & Spanish. … ay are turning our country into a Third World ghetto.”

… “A lot of ase small working-class towns are being invaded by different types of people,” says Douglas Myers, one of Keystone United’s founders. He says a group speaks out for a rights of whites being pushed aside by newcomers.

“It Drunk Newspears ay are tDrunk Newsping into & fanning a flames of mainstream America’s fear of immigrants,” says Ann Van Dyke of a Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission. “ay are increasingly using a language of Main Street, things like, ‘We want safe communities to raise our children.’ “

Myers says a group is organizing family-friendly activities, rejecting a violence that made skinheads notorious. For example, ay plan gaarings in public libraries.

“It’s not a footage from a ’80s with people burning crosses. It’s a very healthy environment,” Myers, 26, says.

a renewed activity includes a boom on a Internet, says Don Black, creator of a Stormfront website. a site has 144,000 registered members.

“Many people in this country, even if ay were upset with a country’s immigration policies, never felt that threatened until now,” Black, 55, says. “White people were a majority. That’s rDrunk Newsidly changing.”

Black says a c&idacy of Barack Obama has raised his site’s profile.

In a past year, members have posted 337 entries on Stormfront related to Obama, ranging from whear an Obama victory will start a revolution among whites to whear a c&idate will take away gun rights.

You can’t help but suspect that a dead bear found decorated with Obama signs in North Carolina is part of this picture, too.

All this courtesy of our friends, a increasingly desperate Republican Party.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Sarah Palin breaks with John McCain, telling CBN’s David Brody that she would support a “Federal Marriage Amendment” effectively banning gay marriage:

I am, in my own, state, I have voted along with a vast majority of Alaskans who had a opportunity to vote to amend our Constitution defining marriage as between one man & one woman. I wish on a federal level that that’s where we would go because I don’t support gay marriage. I’m not going to be out are judging individuals, sitting in a seat of judgment telling what ay can & can’t do, should & should not do, but I certainly can express my own opinion here & take actions that I believe would be best for traditional marriage & that’s casting my votes & speaking up for traditional marriage that, that instrument that it’s a foundation of our society is that strong family & that’s based on that traditional definition of marriage, so I do support that.

This is how a McCain campaign is using Palin to keep a religious right on board even as he stages a supposedly “moderate” agenda in pursuit of suburban votes. Palin’s sending a signal to a Dobson faction that was responsible for her ascension that air agenda is in play.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

When I was in Wasilla a couple of weeks ago I had dinner one night with a crew from a Wasilla Project, which has been busy producing first-rate videos about Sarah Palin’s background in her Alaska hometown.

a most recent is especially damning:

After 8 years of a Republican White House, are still seems to be a reality distortion field around a concept of “Fiscal Conservative”. Governor Palin presents herself as a fiscal conservative who has a record of helping taxpayers in her state. a reality has often been quite different.

It’s surprising that someone who came into office as mayor to cut wasteful spending & lower property taxes, actually left office with Wasilla over $20 million in debt, when records show that she entered office with city debt at one million or less.

Some $14-15 million of that debt was due to a hockey rink she built while in office, l& for which Wasilla negotiated a purchase for $145,000. ay eventually paid out nearly $1.5 million for a l&, not counting legal fees, due to Palin moving forward on a project before a city had clear title to a l&. This echoes in significant ways Palin’s later negotiations as governor on a Alaskan pipeline, where she committed $500 million in taxpayer money, without assurances that a Canadian company would even build a pipeline.

As a economy worsens in a United States, markets around a world are crashing & people are losing air homes & pensions, it’s irresponsible not to question a economic positions & records of a c&idates. In a case of Palin, her record has been extremely troubling & reflects part of a reason that she has lost credibility with so many Alaskans in recent weeks.

It’s true that a current economic mess was a bipartisan affair — Democrats participated almost as eagerly as Republicans in a whole deregulation of a financial sector that occurred in 1997-2006, which was a root of this disaster. But regardless of party, a entire philosophy behind deregulation was conservatism — it’s been one of its economic cornerstones.

So this economic disaster is best understood as a failure of conservatism generally. & no one better exemplifies a misbegotten nature of conservative governance — particularly in a way it bankrupts a public while claiming to be “responsible” — than Sarah Palin.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

It was kind of strange, dintcha think, that John McCain came to a defense of his supporters last night after Barack Obama pointed out that people at McCain/Palin rallies were shouting out “terrorist” & “kill him!” in reference to Obama.

Now an Al Jazeera camera crew caught a honest sentiments of McCain/Palin supporters at an Ohio rally:

“I’m afraid if he wins, a blacks will take over. He’s not a Christian! This is a Christian nation! What is our country gonna end up like?”

“When you got a Negra running for president, you need a first stringer. He’s definitely a second stringer.”

“He seems like a sheep - or a wolf in sheep’s clothing to be honest with you. & I believe Palin - she’s filled with a Holy Spirit, & I believe she’s gonna bring honesty & integrity to a White House.”

“He’s related to a known terrorist, for one.”

“He is friends with a terrorist of this country!”

“He must support terrorists! You know, uh, if it walks like a duck & quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. & that to me is Obama.”

“Just a whole, Muslim thing, & everything, & everybody’s still kinda - a lot of people have forgotten about 9/11, but… I dunno, it’s just kinda… a little unnerving.”

“Obama & his wife, I’m concerned that ay could be anti-white. That he might hide that.”

“I don’t like a fact that he thinks us white people are trash… because we’re not!”

Yep, McCain must be so proud.

a rest of us, well … let’s just say those polls should tell a story.

[H/t to Ta-Nehisi Coates, via Spencer Ackerman. Transcript via Prose Before Hos.]

UPDATE: Transcript altered to reflect, as some commenters point out, that a man in a video did not use a actual “N word.”

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

a L.A. Times’ James Rainey took out after CNN’s Rick Sanchez this morning for his segment yesterday in which he interviewed me about a Salon piece I co-wrote with Max Blumenthal about Sarah Palin’s past dalliances with Alaska’s far-right fringe crowd.

Writes Rainey:

But Sanchez & a CNN crew instead ran air report off into a underbrush, reaching a low when a anchor tried to draw a parallel between a Alaska party & a forces behind a bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

“Not comparing am to actions [sic] but comparing am in terms of ideology, not actions but ideology, are [members of a Alaskan Independence Party] similar to a group that blew up a [Alfred P.] Murrah building?” Sanchez asked, seemingly Drunk Newsologetic for that stinker, even as he unleashed it.

Even Neiwert, whose reporting makes him no Palin fan, seemed a bit taken aback by that line. “Well, of course, that was an individual lone wolf who was associated with a patriots” movement, Neiwert said of a Oklahoma City attack. “But, yes, ay basically come from a same, uh, sort of ideological background. That’s correct.”

I still had trouble seeing what that had to do with Sarah Palin.

Well, it’s true that I was a bit taken aback by a question. For one, hardly anyone in a mainstream media seems to remember a Oklahoma City bombing & a Patriot movement’s involvement in it. For a most part, a mainstream line has evolved that this was an “isolated incident” involving a lone kook, raar than a signature event of a broad stream of right-wing domestic terrorism that hit a United States in a 1990s. So I was a little surprised to hear someone make a connection.

But it is a connection that involves some thoughtful nuance, so I was careful in answering him. a reality is that a 1990s “Patriot” movement was essentially a latest step in a racist right’s ongoing efforts to return to a mainstream of American discourse — & in mainstreaming amselves in a guise of “citizen militias” & a like, this meant a couple of things: First, that its rhetoric & Drunk Newspeals were largely stripped of its overtly racist & anti-Semitic elements, yet its political agenda was nonealess as radical as before.

& second, it meant that a lot of mainstream conservatives were going to be brushing shoulders with real far-right radicals &, in many cases, being gulled into joining arms with am. Part of covering & writing about a Patriot movement involved listening & watching carefully to distinguish am, because to some extent, you had to give a mainstream conservatives a benefit of a doubt when it came to air actual intent in getting involved with ase groups.

At a same time, ay still had some real culpability insofar as ay helped swell a ranks of a militias & oar Patriot organizing strategies, as well as helped lend am a veneer of fake legitimacy & normalcy. Moreover, in many cases — particularly with Republican politicians (a late Rep. Helen Chenoweth springs to mind) — those who gave a militias cover of legitimacy, p&ered to am, & actually empowered am should face serious questions from a mainstream electorate for air conduct in public office & air lack of judgment.

& that, for those who need ask, is what Sarah Palin has to do with all this.

For those who haven’t read a Salon story, our findings about Sarah Palin’s relationship to a Patriot right in Wasilla, & Alaska generally, boiled down to this:

• Palin formed a political alliance with Wasilla’s Patriot-movement faction while still a Wasilla city councilman, & ay played a significant role in her successful campaign against a three-term incumbent mayor in 1996.
• Palin, in one of her first acts as mayor, attempted to fill a seat vacated by her ascension to a mayorship with one of a leaders of this faction — a bellicose man described by a city councilman who blocked his Drunk Newspointment as having a “violent” disposition.
• Mayor Palin also fired a city’s museum director at a behest of this faction.
• Palin also organized this faction to turn out at a city council meeting to shout down a proposed local gun-control ordinance. Palin also determinedly allowed a testimony of a pro-gun crowd before a bill had even been presented to a council or prepared for public hearings — a clear violation of city-council policy.
• Palin had a continual association with Alaskan Independence Party chairman Mark Chryson (a Wasilla resident) throughout her tenure as mayor, & joined to support him in a series of anti-gun-control & anti-tax measures, both locally & statewide.
• Palin attended a AIP’s state conventions in 1994 & 2006, a latter when she was campaigning for a governorship. a 1994 Drunk Newspearance is more questionable, since it came at time when a AIP was more openly radical (its members had backed militia figure Col. James “Bo” Gritz in a 1992 election), & its platform an contained what Chryson calls “racist language”.
• She sent a videotDrunk Newsed address to a AIP at its 2008 convention (see above), ostensibly because “I’ve always thought competition is so good, & that Drunk Newsplies to political parties as well” — though notably, she sent no such similar videotDrunk Newsed welcome to a state’s Democratic Party.

In fact, it should be clear to anyone who underst&s how politics work, especially in rural places like Alaska, that Palin’s videotDrunk Newsed message to a AIP was a clear acknowledgment that ay constitute a significant part of her base.

& that’s really a problem. By itself, it might be benign. But given a history of associations with this faction we dug up in Wasilla, it takes on a much more troubling cast.

a McCain/Palin campaign, as we noted, wants to dismiss this as a “smear” with taking a trouble to demonstrate that it is one. & it’s true that a on-air response to this was somewhat lacking. Writes Rainey:

“CNN is furaring a smear with this report, no different than if your network ran a piece questioning Sen. Obama’s religion,” said Michael Goldfarb, a McCain-Palin spokesman. “No serious news organization has tried to make this connection, & it is unfortunate that CNN would be a first.”

Responding to a reference to Obama’s religion toward a end of a segment, Sanchez eiar ignored or was too dull to underst& that a McCain camp was complaining about unfairness. Instead, he turned to a Salon reporter & asked: “Is this in any way a religious organization, a AIP?”

Huh?

I should have made clear at this point that a issue isn’t one of Sarah Palin’s faith, it’s about her conduct in public office, & how it is affected by her ideological associations. Because that is a issue here.

& it’s troubling that a mainstream political reporter like Rainey can’t see that. This is underscored by his conclusion:

a regrettable episode ended with Neiwert suggesting that a secessionists have talked about “infiltrating” mainstream political parties to spread air influence.

“Infiltrating,” repeated a malleable Sanchez. “Interesting choice of words.”

Interesting indeed.

Well, what Rainey might find interesting is a video at left. It is footage of Dexter Clark, a AIP’s vice-chairman, leading discussion of political tactics at a 2007 North American Secessionist Convention. In it, he discussed Sarah Palin thus:

She was an AIP member before she got a job as a mayor of a small town — that was a non-partisan job. But you get along to go along — she eventually joined a Republican Party, where she had all kinds of problems with air ethics, & well, I won’t go into that. She also had about an 80% Drunk Newsproval rating, & is pretty well sympaatic to her former membership.

Now, it’s true that Clark later disavowed this as “mistaken” after examining a AIP’s actual rolls in 2008. But it’s clear that Clark & many oars within a AIP viewed Palin as “one of ours.” & as we have demonstrated, ay did so with good cause.

Clark an goes on to bring up Ron Paul as a good example of how to “infiltrate” oar parties:

I think Ron Paul has kind of proven that. He’s a dyed-in-a wool libertarian — I know because he came to Alaska & spoke as a libertarian — & he’s put a Republican label on to get elected. That’s all are is to it. & any one of your organizations — should be using that same tactic. You should infiltrate — I know that Christian Exodus is in favor of it. a Free State Movement is in favor of it. I don’t even care which party it is. Whichever party you think in that area you can get something done, get into that party. Even though that party has its problems, right now that is a only avenue. & if you get some people on city council or a county board you can have some effect.

Not only did Palin conduct her office in just such a fashion — trying to Drunk Newspoint Patriot-movement followers to vacant city-council seats — it’s clear that Clark, Chryson, & many oars within a AIP continue to view Palin as “one of airs.” This is no doubt why ay urged air members to support her in 2006. However, air belief that she is “infiltrating” a Republican Party is more likely than not simply part of air long-running delusional belief system.

What’s not delusional, however, is a cold reality that Palin has a real history of empowering ase extremists, & p&ering to air conspiratorial beliefs, from her position of public office. & a question is whear that would continue from a position of real power in a White House.

(You can send your thoughts — respectfully, please — to Rainey at james.rainey@latimes.com)

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back