“I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”

(Joe Vogler; founder, Alaskan Independence Party)

This would be the advocacy group of which Sarah Palin was a member for two years in the 1990s, according to The New York Times.

Country first! Woo-hoo!

UPDATE, 10:20 PM: The New York Times now reports that it initially received erroneous information from the chairwoman of the AIP, Lynette Clark. Clark now says there is no documentation Palin was a member.