You are talking to a 20 year Alaskan Resident. Be more spacific in how she took on the “Murkowski Machine” if you will.
You should know about her fight with the Murkowski’s that began on the Alaska Oil and Gas Commission when she saw the cozy relationship between business and government.
Randy Ruederich, the Murkowski chairman of the GOP in Alaska was caught violating the ethics rules and fined 10-thousand dollars.
In 2004, she supported Mike Miller against Lisa Murkowski in the GOP Senate primary and in 2010 she supported Joe Miller against Lisa in the GOP Senate primary.
By the way, back in 2004, the GOP insiders sent then Senator Rick Santorum out to Alaska to twist the Alaska Right To Life people not to endorse Pro-Life Miller over Pro-Abortion Murkowski.
Wonder why Rick is running for president in 2012??????????
So what gravy train did she pull you off to make you so damned mad?
Then you should know. She took a stand against the spending growth and the sweetheart deals with the oil companies. She ran for governor and whipped his butt:
"In 2006, when she was running to unseat then-Gov. Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary, Gov. Palin says she got a call from Ben Stevens, then president of the Republican-run Alaska Senate and son of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, the powerful Alaska Republican. "He told me, 'You're not just running against Murkowski. You're running against me, my dad, the whole state Republican party,'" Gov. Palin says.WSJ linkThe younger Mr. Stevens didn't return calls for comment. He opted not to seek re-election after his was one of six legislative offices raided by federal agents in 2006. Four other state legislators have been sent to prison or are awaiting prosecution in the case, which has focused on bribery and other influence by oilfield contractor VECO Corp., whose chairman and a top lieutenant have pleaded guilty to bribery and conspiracy charges. The elder Mr. Stevens, who handily won the Republican primary this week to face re-election in November, was indicted in the case and has pleaded not guilty."