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The Salon story that sparked a Palin-McCain feud

Palin asked McCain staff to lie about her husband's involvement with secessionists, and Steve Schmidt said no
Joan Walsh

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  • Thursday, July 2, 2009 02:50 PM

    Worse than Secessionist

    .."But that wasn't enough for Palin. She dragged out the Big Lies -- secession isn't what the AIP's about, and anyway, Todd wasn't really a member."

    At the time Plain was running for VP various people in Alasaka reported on her husband's membership in the AIP. At the time I checked out the AIP online. The AIP is a secessionists group also connected to the white Aryan movement. AIP tried to tone down their rhetoric and hooked up with the Christian right for the sole purpose of getting into the mainstream political arena.

    They are about secession and even worse.

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