Great article today on Salon.com re: Sara Palin and the men who helped launch her political career
http://www.salon.com/...
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While the honorable Gov. Palin has been questioning Barack's patriotism and truthfulness because he so called "launched his career in the living room on an unrepentatent terrorist", she has a lot of balls when her past isn't so squeaky clean itself.
Let's take a look at one of those men Mark Chryson:
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."
WTF?!!!!
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.
What is this? They helped launch her politcal career?! Wait a minute...isn't this the exact same thing Palin is accusing Barack of?! It just keeps getting better....
In Wasilla, the AIP became powerful by proxy — because of Chryson and Stoll’s alliance with Sarah Palin. Chryson and Stoll had found themselves in constant opposition to policies of Wasilla’s Democratic mayor, who started his three-term, nine-year tenure in 1987. By 1992, Chryson and Stoll had begun convening regular protests outside City Council. Their demonstrations invariably involved grievances against any and all forms of "socialist government," from city planning to public education. Stoll shared Chryson’s conspiratorial views: "The rumor was that he had wrapped his guns in plastic and buried them in his yard so he could get them after the New World Order took over," Stein told a reporter.
And now for the money quote:
Palin was well aware of Chryson’s views. "She knew my beliefs," Chryson said. "The entire state knew my beliefs. I wasn’t afraid of being on the news, on camera speaking my views."
So Gov. Palin KNOWINGLY aligned her self with an anti-american, far right wing radical...interesting...isn't it?