How about that Palin?

This post is a reminder to those who are interested locally that the Wicomico County Republican Party is opening its 2008 Election headquarters at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning. The headquarters is located at 800 South Salisbury Boulevard in Salisbury, across from Giant and next to FedEx/Kinko’s.

There are two additional items of interest since we put the word out earlier this week regarding the opening. First of all, the time was changed from its original noon start to 10 a.m. in order to enable State Senator Andy Harris to attend – after all, his election is our primary objective locally. So voters will have yet another chance to meet and greet our next Congressman and the local media will have the chance to give him some face time. (Bet the Daily Times skips the occasion.)

Then yesterday I received the following in my e-mail:

You know, I think local Republicans are so fired up about the selection of Palin that they might just show up even if Hanna was a Category 5 hurricane. (Well, all right, that is hyperbole because we do have some common sense, but this little tropical storm doesn’t appear to be stopping us. On the other hand, hurricanes don’t come near Alaska because they know Sarah Palin is there, so if we invoke her name we should be in good shape.)

However, I have one other request from the McCain/Palin campaign. Perhaps you aren’t going to pay much attention to the Eastern Shore here in Maryland but if you sent Sarah Palin to Delaware with an offer to mend fences because of the jabs she took at the First State with her speech Wednesday night, it would be a shot in the arm to all of us around here. Anywhere south of Dover would be fine.

This also gives me an opportunity to address another purported allegation about the Palins, with wild rumors going about that Todd Palin was a member of a political party which advocated secession from the United States. While this AP story by Jim Kuhnhenn clears up the mud slightly, it brought up two things I hadn’t known but am pleased to find out.

First of all, while there were members of the party who favored secession, the Alaska Independence Party was officially in favor of having the federal government turn over land it controls to the state of Alaska. While this isn’t an issue in Maryland, for many states in the western part of the country federal control of land is a huge issue because Fedzilla has so much of it. Only Nevada has more land under federal control than Alaska’s 69.1% share; by comparison only 2.8% of Maryland’s land is federally controlled. While we on Delmarva joke about seceding from Maryland, these guys had a more serious aim.

The other really cool thing about Sarah Palin is her taste in Presidential candidates – no, not Pat Buchanan. Instead it was pointed out that Governor (then-Mayor) Palin was a Steve Forbes backer in 2000, just as I was. Perhaps she can clean up the taxation system in Washington as a side job since that was a prime Forbes issue. It’s just another thing to like about the woman from Wasilla.

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