Post in Obama's Acorn Busted Again

Oct 10 21:15 UTC

When people talk about the "Alaska Independence Party", it reminds me of the
scene in "Red Dawn", where the KGB officer and the Cuban kommissar are talking
with the town's mayor about his son, who's fled to the hills to join the
resistance.

"Your son vas a member of an elite paramilitary group", says the gebist.

"Huh?"  responds the mayor, not comprehending.

"An 'Eagle Scout'".

Todd and Sarah Palin's "involvement" with the AIP was brief, ancient and very,
very shallow.  But "secessionist" groups, and other groups that are intensely
pissed at Washington, are endemic in the rural west; you don't even have to
drive to Alaska to find 'em.  It may be hard for the dominant "culture" on this
forum to comprehend, given that most of you are either wards or employees of
Mother Government, but the farther west you go (Seattle and Portland and
California notwithstanding), the less popular Mama Government is.  Sometimes
the opposition is tongue in cheek (like the North Dakota secessionist group I
hung out with - most of us for yuks); sometimes it's not (like the Posse
Comitatus that shot it out with the US Marshalls 30 miles west of my hometown,
25 years ago; the Feds earned themselves no goodwill, by the way, acting like
an occuping army during their manhunt).  For the most part, it's general
dissatisfaction with the notion that the Feds,
 in the west, are more likely to be oppressors than enablers.

And in a place like Alaska - a place where a lot of people move to get AWAY
from the stultifying aspects of too much government and civilization - it's
merely good politics to make nice with groups like the AIP; their vote counts
the same as yours does, and they are disproportionally strong in places like
rural Alaska.  Reaching out to the AIP makes as much sense in Alaska as getting
the votes of the homeless, the illiterate and the vacuously smug in the Twin
Cities; they're not-insignificant constituencies.

Oh, yeah; and when Fratto says: