By <a class="c-link lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-color-brand-primary:hover lrv-u-text-decoration-underline:hover" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/author/tessa-stuart/" > Tessa Stuart</a> <br> <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/robert-f-kennedy-jr/" id="auto-tag_robert-f-kennedy-jr" data-tag="robert-f-kennedy-jr" ><span class="lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-012">Robert F. Kennedy</span> Jr.</a> was appalled — <em>appalled!</em> — to learn in 2008 that <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/sarah-palin/" id="auto-tag_sarah-palin" data-tag="sarah-palin" >Sarah Palin</a>, then-GOP nominee <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/john-mccain/" id="auto-tag_john-mccain" data-tag="john-mccain" >John McCain</a>’s running mate, once had ties to the Alaskan Independence Party. <br> In a <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alaskan-independence-part_b_133261" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">HuffPost op-ed</a> titled “Alaskan Independence Party: The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel,” Kennedy excoriated Palin for continuing to “‘pal around’ with a man — her husband, actually — who only recently terminated his seven-year membership” with AIP. (<em>Recently</em> was a bit of a stretch: Todd Palin ended his affiliation with the party six years before Kennedy’s editorial was published.)<br> In the piece, Kennedy described the Alaskan Independence Party as a “treasonous cabal” whose members “aim to break our country into pieces and walk away with Alaska’s rich federal oil fields and one-fifth of America’s land base — an area three-fourths the size of the Civil War Confederacy.”<br> Today, the Kennedy campaign is seeking the party’s backing to appear on the Alaska ballot. <div class="admz" id="adm-inline-article-ad-1"> <div class="adma boomerang" data-device="Desktop" data-width="300"> <div style="min-width:50px;min-height:75px;" class="pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text" data-priority="10" > <div id="gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody-uid0" class="adw-300 adh-250" data-is-adhesion-ad=""> <script type="application/javascript">
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