"To get along you go along"  Having your son go out to fight a war for a country you do not believe in and do not want to be a part of should show you sarah palin does not fit the profile of a person with the ideas you described.

                               " She was the individual the AIP hoped would get elected" Alaska is not the only state that has made the threat of secession and won't be the last. Some view It is a good bargining chip when one state is not treated as well as other state's. But anyway if you poll the rest of the world ( including Bin-Laden) I bet you would find they hope obama gets elected.A top hamas political adviser ( Ahmed Yousef) stated "they would like to see obama win" (that seems to have a bigger impact on us then the AIP), But that does not mean obama is part of that group??

                                 Anyway I agree with you on the last sentence you wrote , I am going with your "idea of trying somthing new"   somthing like McCain / Palin .