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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“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.”
These stories make for good hype among the supporters of the candidates but in the end I believe that Murkowski will not push any 3rd party run once the current election is finalized with the counting of the absentees and any recounts that could or should occur. I don’t know what AK law calls far in mandating recounts or if they even do. Murkowski’s chances of success are nil if the vote tallies continue to hold as they did on election day.
Doc, just think, you could have gotten a T-Mobile no contract phone with an Anchorage number and phone banked rural AK to get the vote out for Miller. All from the comfort of your front porch in the midwest. Or maybe the living room.
Missed your chance.
What is it with this country anymore? You lose, you LOSE. No fair squirming back in under or around the fence. These politicians just cannot lose gracefully anymore. Too much at stake for THEM, I guess.
“But...but...you can’t fire me! This is...this is my job!!
Somebody help me out here. If Murkie does this, I have to believe that the good people of Alaska will see her as nothing more than....
1. An opportunistic politician more concerned about her government job than the wishes of the people of Alaska
2. A sore, whiney loser and
3. One who needs to be bitch slapped and sent home.
Am I right or wrong? Won’t the people of Alaska reject her if she tries to pull a shenanigan??? Anybody???
Remember boys and girls, rinos never have to get out of the way, ‘for the good of the party.’
If it happened.
My bet is Alaska Libertarian Party membership would drop by 50% to 75% if the leadership pulled that move. There would also be an immediate move to oust the current leadership.
(My bet as a past LP county chair.)
She has an ego bigger than her Daddy’s - and that is saying a lot....
It's happened before. The Libertarian Party of Illinois ran a Buchananite Republican as their nominee for Governor in 2002, just to get someone with name recognition. He was all for the war on drugs and made no bones about it when he was the Libertarian Party's candidate. Also he ran heavily on socially conservative issues that the LP tends to ignore.
Speaking of Buchanan, Pat Buchanan himself took over Ross Perot's old Reform Party in 2000. And certainly Buchanan's politics are pretty far removed from Perot's. He succeeded in getting his loyalists to take over key party posts and nomination him -- though the Reform Party erupted into a civil war after the 2000 election and eventually faded into nothingness.
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