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Lisa Murkowski Calls Tea Party Group "Extremist"
CBS News ^ | Tuesday, September 14, 2010 | Brian Montopoli

Posted on 09/14/2010 6:01:43 PM PDT by kristinn

SNIP

In the statement, Murkowski said she would not run as a Libertarian candidate, which means that if she does run it will be as a write-in candidate. In explaining her decision, Murkowski had some harsh words for the Tea Party Express, which backed Miller.

"...After meeting with the Libertarian candidate last week and considering that option, I cannot in good conscience seek the Libertarian nomination," she said. "As disappointed as I am in the outcome of the Primary and my belief that the Alaska Republican Party was hijacked by the Tea Party Express, an outside extremist group, I am not going to quit my party. I will not wrap myself in the flag of another political party for the sake of election at any cost."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: joemiller; lisamurkowski; palin; rino; scum; sorelosers; teaparty; teapartyexpress; traitor; vichy
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To: kristinn
See my new tag line.

After Karl Rove's performance and the declarations of the NRSC, combined with Murkowski's pronouncements, it is clear.

81 posted on 09/14/2010 9:02:45 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (aka, us).)
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To: Seven plus One

“Since they consider themselves nobility, it is then their duty to become a permanent pain in the ass. That’s what she is doing now. She is no longer a Republican, Alaskan, or arguably even American. She is the fading center of her own shrinking universe, at odds with all outside it. Politicians can be some really sad sacks of shit.”

So accurate. Anybody notice that the Rino’s are as much a vanguard for the Democratic Party as the media itself?


82 posted on 09/14/2010 9:02:57 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: kristinn
Sorry Kristinn, but...

Lisa who?

83 posted on 09/14/2010 9:04:56 PM PDT by upchuck (If we let the federal gvmnt live beyond its means, we will soon have to live below ours. ~Joe Miller)
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To: pissant
lol, go count the tears in yer beer, Lis!
84 posted on 09/14/2010 9:07:01 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (Primaries are where we fight to get rid of the RINOs.)
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To: GnL

Great picture ... Right on ... Catches the message almost all members of Congress deserve ... overtly shows Benedict Arnold’s reason for changing sides ... Congress hated Arnold for the same reasons Congress critters hate Sarah Palin.


85 posted on 09/14/2010 9:07:04 PM PDT by OldNavyVet (One trillion days, at 365 days per year, is 2,739,726,027 years ... almost 3 billion years)
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To: kristinn

Seems to me all these losers running as Independents and write ins are the ones splitting the Party because they have no interest in what the voters have to say, yet it’s always the Tea Party “extremists” who get the blame.

Lisa needs to go fly a kite in a lightening storm.


86 posted on 09/14/2010 9:08:26 PM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan ("Sorry I'm late. I had to stop by the wax museum to give the finger to FDR!" C.Hill (Palin '12))
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To: sourcery

If a politician is unwilling to pledge their life, fortune and sacred honor to uphold the principals of the Declaration of Independence, they can rot in hell. Enjoy the heat Lisa.


87 posted on 09/14/2010 9:08:41 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: rbmillerjr
I wonder if the Establishment acted like this in 76 and 80 toward Reagan?

Yes. In 1976, the pundits said Reagan couldn't win. It was actually good that he didn't, as Jimmy Carter was the one and only President who did not name a single Supreme Court justice. In 1980, the same, and it was a close race vs. George H.W. Bush. His opponents threw everything Reagan, including that he had been an FDR Democrat, was Hollywood, divorced, and not too bright.

In truth, he left the Democrats while dealing with the Communists in Hollywood. Demonrats hate and vilify those that leave their embrace, much like vampires and Muslims. A President has to be bright enough to ask for advice from the best, and tempering that advice with what is politically possible. By that standard, Reagan was brilliant in 1981-1982, and not so bright in 1986, when he signed the biggest tax increase in history (until 1993) sent to him by Bob Dole, Senate Majority leader and self-proclaimed "tax collector for the welfare state", and the Demons re-took the Senate in the 1986 elections after Dole had been Majority Leader less than two years.

Oh, and in 1980, with less than one week to go, all the press said the election was "too close to call", which was closer to the truth than "Castle leads by 30".

88 posted on 09/14/2010 9:14:44 PM PDT by bIlluminati (Don't just hope for change, work for change in 2010.)
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To: kristinn

Doncha just despise SORE LOSERS!?


89 posted on 09/14/2010 9:40:05 PM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military Men And Women)
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To: kristinn

She may get 2% of the vote. RINOs are such butts.


90 posted on 09/14/2010 9:55:05 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: kristinn

Don’t go away mad, Murky. Just go away.


91 posted on 09/14/2010 9:56:14 PM PDT by Lou Budvis (Refudiate 0bama '12)
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To: MEG33

It’s turning out that RINOs are even worse sore losers than Democrats — so at least that’s one difference between ‘em.


92 posted on 09/14/2010 9:56:43 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (0bama: Captain 0blivious)
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To: kristinn

Lisa Murkowski is an idiot. The ONLY reason that fool is even in the Senate is because of her daddy..Good riddance Lisa


93 posted on 09/14/2010 9:57:10 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Red Steel


Joe Miller dispatches Lisa Murkowski in the senate primary in Alaska
-News Item
94 posted on 09/14/2010 9:58:26 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: kristinn
Sounds like she's posturing for a better buy-out.

She's daddy's daughter after all.

95 posted on 09/14/2010 10:03:42 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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To: BigEdLB

Excellent representation.


96 posted on 09/14/2010 10:08:57 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture (RINOs: The CANCER within the G.O.P.)
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To: kristinn

FULM RINO Quisling B****!!


97 posted on 09/14/2010 10:14:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I don't need a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber.)
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To: kristinn
Lisa Murkowski Calls Tea Party Group "Extremist"

Members of my family call me an extremist simply because I am not a democRAT.

98 posted on 09/14/2010 10:16:09 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a long tradition of tolerance." ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
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To: Constitution Day

LMFAO!!!!! Very Good!!!! LOL!


99 posted on 09/14/2010 10:17:56 PM PDT by ColdOne (November and Beyond!)
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To: chimera

I only see RINOS running against Conservatives when Conservatives win Primaries.

Remember Skozoforza or whatever her name was - coming out for the Dem after losing?

Repub leadership better wake up, or we will have 3 parties.


100 posted on 09/14/2010 10:26:13 PM PDT by Eldon Tyrell
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