We Get Searches

September 3rd, 2008 | by Craig |

Tons and tons of searches.

First up: “mtpolitics” obama muslim.

What’cha doin’ there, slick? Tryin’ to catch me passing along slime? Like the whole Sarah Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence party meme that they keep trying to pass along over at Theft in Pennsylvania? (Psst, guys. It’s been debunked. But don’t let that stop you from repeating it.)

Oh, yeah, back to the searches.

Next: Montana Boob Blog

Well, the best candidate I can think of is — again — Theft in Pennsylvania.

Sorry, but it’s true.

  1. 13 Responses to “We Get Searches”

  2. By Matt Singer on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply

    Honestly, Craig, when did you take up illiteracy? I just checked all our posts (and last I checked, I’ve been the one writing about the AIP connections and I live in Montana) on the AIP connections and I didn’t use the term member once. I talked about her connections to the AIP. She may be a card-carrying Republican, but she recorded videos for them, attended at least one (and possibly two) of their conventions, and her husband was a long-time member.

    The Constitution Party candidate for Clerk of the Supreme Court in ‘06 is running as a Republican for state legislature this year. It isn’t beyond the realm of the possible that a Republican would play footsy with the far-right and by all indications Palin has.

    You gonna find some evidence that she never attended a convention, that libruls faked her husband’s voter reg info, and that she didn’t record a video for them?

  3. By Craig on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply

    Better read again. Pennsylvania Jay has taken up the cause — unless you deleted the post.

    Oops. You didn’t.

    Details about the Alaska Independence Party are coming out — and it’s ugly. “The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government,” said AIP founder, Joe Vogler. Palin courted this group over a number of years, once attending their convention. Her husband was a member.

    Check here.

    It isn’t beyond the realm of the possible that a Republican would play footsy with the far-right and by all indications Palin has.

    So, how are you doing flirting with the far left?

    Speaking of living in Montana, and knowing how concerned you are about out-of-staters, when are you going to give Blue Jay the boot? Or does he honestly represent Montana, having lived in Missoula for a whopping 2 years?

    Just asking.

  4. By Jay Stevens on Sep 4, 2008 | Reply

    That’s pretty low, Craig.

    BTW, I lived in Missoula 15 years. I married there. I had my kids there. I bought my first house there. I can’t think of a better place to be, and I wish I could have stayed. It’s a great f*cking town, and I really felt a part of it.

    I’m blogging at LiTW until the general election. I got some stuff started there, I thought I would finish it out. Of course I wrote about that already.

    Not sure why you want to pick this fight. Kind of makes you look like a jerk.

  5. By Craig on Sep 4, 2008 | Reply

    I stand corrected, Jay. You’re right, it is a bit of a cheap shot, but I was kind of in the mood for one, since you felt compelled to take one at me a while back.

    I’m curious, though, in all your years in Missoula, and Montana, did you ever spend any time east of the Divide? Talk with the ranchers out in Miles City? Take in Makoshika Park? Spend any time up in Glasgow, Malta, Plentywood or any of those towns? I mean besides drive through on your way to somewhere else?

    I ask this without rancor, as I am curious.

  6. By Shane C. Mason on Sep 4, 2008 | Reply

    More than connections. More than connections.

    Ms. Palin remained a Republican and never joined the Alaskan Independence Party, but returned to its convention in 2006 to speak as candidate for governor. After she had been elected, she recorded a video greeting that was played at the party convention this year. “Good luck on a successful and inspiring convention,” she said. “Keep up the good work, and God bless you.”

  7. By Craig on Sep 4, 2008 | Reply

    Oh, well, there you go. This has to be the only example anywhere of a politician pandering to groups who may vote for him or her. It’s so uncommon.

    Let’s go get us some rope and a dunkin’ stool and get after it.

    Never mind that, for Alaska, the AIP is pretty mainstream.

    Are you sure you want to go down the guilt by association road?

  8. By Shane C. Mason on Sep 5, 2008 | Reply

    Craig, the last ‘mainstream’ group that sought succession led to the bloodiest war in American History. This group seeks Alaska’s independence from the United States via secession and Palin says “Keep up the good work.”

    Are you sure you want to go down the guilt by association road?

    You forget that you have already went down that road many times Craig. In the spirit of this post, I will show off a bit of my own google foo.

    After so many years of candidates from the right being pounded for their various pastors, isn’t it delicious to see the shoe on the other foot?

    That’s a rhetorical question, but I’ll answer it: Yes. Yes it is.

    and in the comments you say:

    But let’s be intellectually honest and compare apples to apples, shall we? The only way this is a valid comparison is if McCain actually attended that church for 20 years, and called Hagee an uncle.

    So, yeah Craig, I do want to go down that road. I did not see you railing against anyone for judging Obama based on his association with Reverend Wright.

    I guess whatever is convenient at the moment, we’ll go with that.

  9. By Craig on Sep 5, 2008 | Reply

    You’re saying that someone attending a church for 20 years, and saying “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community” is equivalent to one video attaboy?

    Are you serious?

    That’s why I asked you if you wanted to go down that path. If, by virtue of one — just one — little video, you can draw this connection about Sarah Palin, then it seems to me that Obama’s association with Wright is, by your definition, even closer.

    So, by your logic, am I justified in calling O-O-Bama a black radical?

    It would seem so.

  10. By Shane C. Mason on Sep 5, 2008 | Reply

    You cry foul at calling one guilty by their association, but I am saying that the road is a rocky one and it runs both ways.

    BTW, I missed the part where you pointed to the place where Jay actually said “Sarah Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence party”. I either missed that or the retraction…

  11. By Jay Stevens on Sep 5, 2008 | Reply

    To answer your question, Craig, no. I’ve tarried in places on the near side of the divide, like Bozeman and Dillon and the like, but as for the eastern part of the state I’ve only passed through, as you’ve said, but never stayed long. I’m definitely a Western Montana guy and a Western Montana booster, no doubt.

    So if you want to ding me on that, I’ll offer no complaint. : )

  12. By Shane C. Mason on Sep 5, 2008 | Reply

    Jay, are you suggesting that western Montana secede from the United State of East/West Montana?

  13. By Craig on Sep 5, 2008 | Reply

    Jay–
    Consider yourself dinged. There’s 2/3 of a state out there that you totally missed out on.

    Shane–
    The point I’m getting at is motes and beams. Double standards. For me, but not for thee. Etc. Further, if you can show me where secession is an actual platform of the AIP, I’d sure be interested in seeing it.

  14. By Jay Stevens on Sep 7, 2008 | Reply

    “Consider yourself dinged. There’s 2/3 of a state out there that you totally missed out on.”

    No arguments here. One of those things I’d always thought I’d get around to, sooner or later. Oops.

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