Comments on: Q: Why does Sarah Palin wear a polar bear pin?

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By: J. Bowen

J. Bowen — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:33:14 +0000

I love Sarah Palin and I love her polar bear pin. I’m ordering me and my sister-in-law a pin. Regardless of whether McCain/Palin wins the election, I will always be a Sarah Palin fan. My husband and I both love her as well as both our families.

I have never laughed so hard in my life as I have over the jealous liberals and all the petty things they have found to criticize Sarah for since she joined the McCain ticket. You can’t find anything of any importance to criticize her for because she is beautiful, intelligent and honest (something Obama knows nothing about). We’ve never had a more dishonest person running for president in my life time and I mean democrats and republicans. GO SARAH!

By: daryl fenio

daryl fenio — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:13:33 +0000

Isn’t it funny that someone who accuses so many of being anti-american is married to a man that is a member of the AIP, a party whose platform revolves around wanting to secede from the United States of America? How much more anti-american could one be?

By: CapitalClimate

CapitalClimate — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:17:36 +0000

Dana Milbank reveals all in an online chat at WaPo: "I believe that is not a pin but an actual endangered Polar Bear pup pinned to her lapel. It was taken from its mother in ANWR. "

By: John Mashey

John Mashey — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:51:56 +0000

AIP is not the only entity within Alaska to have a polar bear as part of its logo. For example, U of Alaska - Fairbanks' athletics teams are called "Nanooks", after the Eskimo word for polar bear. I suspect it would be very difficult to prove the pin was an AIP shout-out. Orf course, it is also fashion-odd to choose a pure white pin to wear on a pure-white blouse. BUT, if you really want to follow Palin, and you haven't yet discovered Mudflats, that's often been ahead of the mainstream media by a few weeks, with lots of relevant local information. As typical, not always right, but often right&early. For a good recent consolidation of the AIP/Palin story, with many videos, see Salon Story, or videos from the CNN story, at DailyKos. Note: an issued raised somewhere is whether Todd's AIP membership, and Sarah's interactions with them would cause trouble for security clearances .... (probably not something that need be worried about ... but one wonders, what happens if someone is elected Pres/VP and they can't get an adequate clearance level?)

By: Dimples

Dimples — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:49:00 +0000

http://www.akip.org/conv08.html

By: Dimples

Dimples — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:41:39 +0000

This pin is the symbol of the Alaskan Independent Party and their Motto is Alaska First Alaska Always.

http://www.akip.org/

By: Alice

Alice — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:31:36 +0000

She wears it as a show of solidarity with the Alaksa Independance Party. The Polar Bear is their symbol.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:49:55 +0000

Maybe because a polar bear is the symbol of the AIP. Check out their logo on their website at http://www.akip.org/

By: clay

clay — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:48:46 +0000

I heard this week that the polar bear is the official sign of the Alaskan Independence Party. Don’t know if it is true, but it wouldn’t suprise me if she was wearing that pin to show her solidarity to their cause.