“Like a Cat Covering Up Crap in Its Litter Box”: A Local Alaskan’s Response to the McCain Campaign’s Attempt to Whitewash Sarah Palin’s Connections to an Alaskan Secessionist Group

Lynette and Dexter Clark, officials of the Alaska Independence Party, claim that Sarah Palin was a member of their party for two years in the 1990s.

The McCain campaign has come out this morning denying this.

But few seem to dispute Palin’s informal association with the party, or her attending of one of their conventions.

Of the McCain campaign’s downplaying of Palin’s connection to the group, Lynette Clark says:

This is like a cat covering up crap in its litter box.

See here for the article in which Clark’s quote appears: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/another-aip-off.html .