There’s no love lost between Lisa Murkowski and Sarah Palin based on Palin’s defeat of Lisa’s father, longtime Alaska power-broker Frank Murkowski. Whether Sarah Palin can leverage her popularity with Alaskans to garner a primary victory for Joe Miller remains to be seen, but I can’t blame her for trying - and I hope Miller is successful.
Palin Takes on Two Old Foes in Alaska Primary
Real Clear Politics ^ | August 23, 2010 | Scott Conroy
Posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 10:26:31 AM by Hojczyk
In Going Rogue, Sarah Palin unleashed some of her most descriptive personal jabs against her former close aide turned bitter enemy John Bitney, whom she described as “a Blackberry games addict who couldn’t seem to keep his lunch off his tie.” Palin blamed Bitney for inspiring a still infamous comment that she made about state legislators during her early days in office and added, “the fact that his shirt was buttoned one button off and his shirt tail was poking through his open fly didn’t exactly inspire confidence.”
Bitney, now the campaign manager for Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), a fellow Palin antagonist, will have the chance to refute Palin’s portrayal of him as an incompetent slacker on Tuesday when Murkowski faces off against Palin-backed challenger Joe Miller in Alaska’s Republican Senate primary.