Another Palin Media Smear Debunked

First came the whole Trig Palin rumor.

Then came the rumors about Bristol Palin's boyfriend.

Now come the breathless reports that she was once a member of a secessionist political party.

It turns out that Palin has been a lifelong Republican, something substantiated by her voter record (available in PDF at that link). Alaska requires party identification to be registered and recorded, and Sarah Palin has always been a Republican.

Did she visit a convention of the Alaska Independence Party (AIP) in the 1990s? Who knows. I myself have been to Democrat conventions and pow-wows myself before (and her husband, who is part native Alaskan, was a member of AIP for a time), so it's entirely possible.

Did she record a video to the convention? Seems like it, but that's also hardly disqualifying of anything. Governors record video of or provide written perfunctory messages to conventions and gatherings all the time. (Remember Mitch Daniels' gay pride welcome letter? Yeah.)