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• Thursday, July 2, 2009 02:46 PM

  @Joan

  I am not sure what you mean "uninformed", but if you are suggesting that there is in any way, shape or form the slightest possibility that she was not completely and fully aware of the secessionist nature of the AIP, you're mistaken.

  It would be impossible for a politician in Alaska--particularly who had grown up there--in Wasilla, no less--to have anything less than a complete grasp of who, what, and why the AIP is. I think what you were looking for there was "dishonest". She was flat out lying. The only reason she can get away with even suggesting such a thing is because nobody down here has any clue about Alaska; if she had made that statement in front of an Alaskan audience about the AIP not having secession in their platform and that lots of Alaskans check it by mistake, she'd have been laughed off the stage.

  You guys down here may think they are an obscure, little known party and find it plausible that she didn't know, but take it from an expatriated Alaskan: nobody--and I mean absolutely nobody becomes an AIP member by "accident". On a scale of plausibility it is the equivalent of claiming "accidental membership" in the Klan, the Nation of Islam, or NAMBLA: the marvel isn't so much that anyone would try such a ridiculously disingenuous argument, it's that anybody would conceivably believe it.

  —R.Thompson Read R.Thompson's other letters
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