Earlier this year, Palin sent a video message to the AIP for its annual convention, where AIP vice chair George Clark told the small crowd that Palin "was an AIP member before she got the job as a mayor of a small town -- that was a non-partisan job.  But you get along to go along -- she eventually joined the Republican Party, where she had all kinds of problems with their ethics, and well, I won't go into that.  She also had about an 80 percent approval rating, and is pretty well sympathetic to her former membership."

Given the theocratic orientation of the Constitution Party, it should come as no surprise that Palin would have found a home there and that here views would continue to reflect those of many if not most CP members as well as its platform.

She is a creationist; is as the CP folks say, 100% prolife, meaning no rape or health of the mother exceptions for abortion and no stem cell research; anti -LGBT rights (and not just marriage equality). These are not single issues but outgrowths of her world view.

Palin's recent history with the Constitution Party and more importantly, the far, theocratic right orientation of her politics are likely to become one of the major issues of the 2008 presidential campaign.

(And just in case anyone thinks that the Constitution Party is not a factor, consider that party leader Howard Phillips is one of the featured speakers at Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan on September 2nd, along with Jesse Ventura, Grover Norquist and Barry Goldwater Jr.)