Sarah Palin: Secret Buchananite? Secret libertarian?
Sean Scallon writes an interesting piece in The American Conservative asserting that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin once was a supporter of Pat Buchanan’s policies, but when he broke with the GOP to become the Reform Party candidate for President, she remained a Republican. He adds:
While remaining with the Republicans, Palin did have contact with non-major parties in Alaska, including the Libertarians and the Alaska Independence Party. In fact, she gave an unprecedented address to the AIP’s 2008 convention right from the governor’s office. (Imagine a Southern governor addressing a League of the South conference or Bernie Sanders giving a speech at a meeting of the Second Vermont Republic. No need to imagine with Palin—she actually did it.) But this shows more of a libertarian side to her, one that has less to do with Buchanan’s conservatism than the politics of Ron Paul, whom she called “a good guy” in a February interview. Her minor-party ecumenism also has much to do with the factionalism of the Alaska GOP. Republican politicians there frequently use minor parties for their own purposes, as former Nixon Interior Secretary Walter Hickel did when he won the governorship on the AIP line in 1990.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Secret libertarian?
http://dailysource.org/palin
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Palin has my vote for VP.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
only 1 Libertarian running and that is Bob barr
http://www.nolanchart.com/article5073.html
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Oh, oh, Jonathan, you are so strong, and so manly [stanly], and so decisive, and so stirring. And you are so great in invading all non BobBarr08 sites with BobBarr08 spam.
Oh, you make me swoon. Oh, oh, oh!
Ya gonna buy BobBarr08 a watch so he can make his appointments?
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Sarah Palin supports John McCain and believes in the intervention of the government in the economy. She wants the government to control who you marry, the drugs you can take. She is far from a libertarian.
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
The Alaska Independence Party got their candidate for governor elected one time, right? They sure became independent in a hurry. The AIP people strike me as the kind of people who talk big before they get into office.
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:46 am
Palin is about as “libertarian” as Bob Barf.
October 6th, 2008 at 2:58 am
Sarah Palin is way too stupid to be secret anything. Hello? She can’t even keep her Yahoo e-mail secret!
She’s far from a Buchananite or libertarian, or paleoconservative, that’s quite an insult to many who do consider themselves extremists in those ideologies.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
How is Palin a Paleoconservative? She’s pro-war and paleoconservatives tend to be anti-war and non-interventionist.
http://www.dailycal.org/article/19780/the_conservative_case_for_withdrawal