McCain and the AIP?

[Joanne98]

This is from a John McCain speech on the 19th, talking about what it’s going to take to solve the financial crisis:


… Even though Democratic leaders say they don’t know what to do, I believe the deep problems afflicting our financial system won’t be solved by one political party. There is only one candidate in this race who has a record of reaching across the aisle to work out the bipartisan solutions needed to move our country forward in times of crisis — and I will bring that same spirit of bipartisan cooperation to the White House. It took members of both parties to get America into this mess, and it will take all of us, working together, to lead the way out. …

I thought that was perhaps a funny reference to Democrats’ instant willingness to cave to Wall Street blackmail artists, but then I got to wondering if maybe he meant another party. He does, after all, already have a nearly bipartisan ticket. The man needs to specify whether or not he was talking about working with Democrats, or with his running mate’s former party, the Alaskan Independence Party.

The video to your upper right includes portions of Sarah Palin’s videotaped address to the Alaskan Independence Party’s 2008 convention, as well as tape of some private comments made by an AIP vice chair regarding her former AIP membership, as well as their continued, enthusiastic support for her.

I went and looked at the AIP’s website, and it didn’t say too much about the stock market. But considering McCain’s Tuesday conversion to believing in regulation, after years of working against it, I thought this section of their issues page was very interesting:


… The AIP wishes to prohibit all bureaucratic regulations and rulings purporting to have the effect of law, except that which shall be approved by the elected legislature.

Laws are enacted by the legislature AS. But when you need to deal with the bureaucracy you see that what you have to obey is ACC “statutes.”

The regulations were created by the unelected bureacrats, reviewed by unelected bureacrats, enforced by unelected bureacrats, and imposed on the masses as LAW.

Regulations are not law and can’t be enforced as law. …

Is the AIP the party the McCain-Palin ticket means to work with when they talk about reaching across the aisle? Does Sarah Palin believe this part of their platform and would McCain approve of her applying this refusal to recognize the validity of regulations to our nation’s finance meltdown? Does anyone know if the AIP has a position on whether this crisis is good for Alaska?

What else might McCain wish to cooperate with the AIP over, on a bipartisan basis? Consider point 16 of the AIP’s goal and platform statement:


To support the privatization of government services.

This is another issue McCain’s had a campaign trail conversion over. Long a believer in George Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security, many observers have commented that if radical Republicans had succeeded at that, American retirees would be looking at even harder times right now. But McCain has recently tried to deny that he wants to privatize Social Security.

McCain’s policy director, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, has also said that McCain wants to pursue a bipartisan alteration of Social Security, including a private accounts component. Is it Holtz-Eakin or the voters getting punked about McCain’s real position on Social Security? And it should be asked again, which party McCain is proposing to reach out to: that of his opponent, or that of his running mate. Because privatizing public services like Social Security isn’t a part of the Democratic Party’s platform.

http://sharpynews.com/politics/john-mccain/john-mccain-news/bipartisan-john-mccain/

[symbolman]

1. the chairpersons of the AIP are my Sister and Bro-in-law..

Small world, ain't it? :)