Gov. Palin's candidacy attracts mainstream media interest in secessionism

Christopher Ketcham wrote an interesting piece on secessionism for the Los Angeles Times. The amazing part is that the Times printed it (also, take a look at the comments, which show us just how shallow the thinking is among knee-jerk unionists). While I doubt that Gov. Palin is really a secessionist, her husband's membership in the Alaska Independence Party and her own address to it have proven to be a publicity coup for the American secessionist movement.

Mr. Ketcham concludes with this interesting observation:

"Secession worries the staid opinion gatekeepers of the major media. Sarah Palin's 'flirtation' with the AIP should make us 'uneasy,' as Rosa Brooks warned in these pages. Palin's secessionist ties raise 'serious questions,' averred the New York Times. A more honest assessment is that the separatism of the Alaskan Independence Party is not so weird or wacky -- or out of keeping with what appears to be a sentiment rooted in that loveliest of American predilections, our crotchety contrarianism."

Virtual buckeye to Carol Moore.