Posted on 08/27/2010 3:29:41 AM PDT by Zakeet
Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Senator who apparently lost her GOP primary in a shocking upset to Tea Party candidate Joe Miller, could be weighing a fall campaign on a third-party line.
Final results from Election Day voting show Ms. Murkowski down by 1,668 votes. Many of the absentees left to be counted are from military voters, who probably lean to Mr. Miller. Her chances of making up the necessary votes are slim.
But the Daily Beast reports that the Murkowski camp is weighing the options of running on a minor-party line or as a write-in.
"We are going to take a look at them and see whether the option is there or not, but it's a decision she (Murkowski) has to make," a source close to the Murkowski campaign said. The senator herself calls such talk "premature."
Since the deadline for running as an independent has passed in Alaska, the only ballot line open to the senator would be Libertarian. David Haase, the Libertarian Party Senate nominee, told the Anchorage Daily News he's willing to listen to any proposal. Scott Kohlass, the state chair of the Libertarian Party, claims "there's a chance" the party could replace Mr. Haase with the GOP Senator. But such a move would likely be very unpopular with the party's antigovernment members. Ms. Murkowski's moderate voting record was the major reason Mr. Miller was able to beat her running as a "Constitutional conservative" in the primary.
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Good point!
Great idea. I nominate a real loser, Bob Beckel, as the chairman or head strategy guy.
Sore Loser Syndrome.
Are the Democrats paying the losers to stay in?
A-men.
The absolute first goal of any bureaucracy is to preserve itself. Tops all other considerations. The organization first. And if there’s a little something left over for the population they are supposed to be representing and helping, well OK. We’ll just try harder to use it all on ourselves next year.
Their slogan is “If you’ve got what it takes, we’ll take what you’ve got!”
There needs to be state laws across the country. If you join a primary, that’s it!
No backing out after polls show you getting crushed (like Crist). And no joining another party after losing (like Murkowski).
What a joke.
There needs to be state laws across the country. If you join a primary, that’s it!
No backing out after polls show you getting crushed (like Crist). And no joining another party after losing (like Murkowski).
What a joke.
I’ve really not paid much attention to this race. But that picture of Murkowski and all of those reporters just gave me a chill down the back. Look at those eyes of hers... Reminded me instantly of the Sith Emperor in the Star Wars movies. Really creepy.
Too stupid to make it outside her Government job.
She will never get a job at Hooters thats fer sure, maybe hanging sheetrock or a dog washer. Lots of dog wash shops being built in Alaska...and don’t ask me why its suddenly so popular.
Murkowski looks shell-shocked, I love it! If she runs on a third party platform she will end up getting beat. The regular 2 party rules don’t count in Alaska, and the voters are ornery to begin with up there. She was not that popular to begin with, hence her getting beat in the primary. If you were to give Miller another couple of weeks he would have beat her by 5 percent.
She and Bill McCullom could Chair the Loser Party. He’s threatening to back Democrats since losing the Governor Primary in Florida.
Time for her to go bye, bye !
Well you have to wonder this, “Why would libetarians want her?” She is not for any of their core values.
It looks like daddy’s little girl doesn’t like to play by the rules
re: worried about her meal ticket
You bet she is. And the NRC is hustling to her aide because they know very well the Millers of the world will not be their friends once they’re in office. I love it.
In the world of politics there’s something invigorating about the smell of liberals’ and RINO’s FEAR in the air! They KNOW their facing “Take it to Them Tuesday” and there’s not a damn thing they can do to stop the momentum. And that’s the difference between winners and losers. Winners know how to spot the trend and find a way to ride the wave. Losers know nothing more than how to be a spoiler when things don’t go their way.
The NRC really shows its colors when it sends legal assistance up there, not to assure a fair election, but rather to advise an incumbent on holding a seat despite the vote of the people. There’s no other way to see it.
The NRC has become little more than another bureaucratic enabling organization that went from being an effective advocate for its cause to a danger to its cause. It eventually happens to every such organization. Think of groups that have been around for five decades or more. It’s impossible find one that still embraces, in practice, the goals of its founders. AARP, NAACP, AMA, ABA, NOW, NEA AFL-CIO, NFL, the list goes on and on.
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