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Murkowski: I’m Taking Everything Into Account On Kavanaugh — Including Trump’s Comments About Ford
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| 10/03/2018
| Allahpundit
Posted on 10/03/2018 1:53:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Fumbling away a chance to cement a solidly conservative majority on the Court for years due to pique over one of President Troll’s stinkier mouth-tweets would be very 2018.
She’s bluffing, though.
I think.
Interestingly, Jeff Flake took the opposite approach. He won’t consider Trump’s comments when weighing whether to confirm Kavanaugh, he told CNN. “You cant blame other people for what the President says, he wisely observed, adding that he thought what Trump said was “obviously insensitive and appalling, frankly.” The contrast between him and Murky here is a microcosm of the dispute among Never Trumpers as to what is and isn’t proper in opposing the president. Do you criticize him rhetorically but vote with him when you think his proposal/nominee has merit, or do you try to alter his behavior by voting against him until he shapes up? All Never Trumpers in Congress have taken the first approach, at least so far. What’s interesting in this case is that Flake is far and away a more vehement Trump critic than Murkowski is — yet she, not he, is the one hinting that she might choose to burn it all down in protest of POTUS’s actions.
Which is why I think she’s bluffing. What are the odds that Lisa Murkowski would suddenly emerge as the most hardass anti-Trump Republican in the Senate, and would take down a Supreme Court nominee in order to prove it? Not very high.
As for Collins, she seems to be taking a middle ground between the two. She’s shocked and appalled etc etc by Trump’s comments too but leaves it at that.
An uncomfortable possibility: Partly because the gender gap on Kavanaugh is so pronounced, women senators like Collins and Murkowski probably feel extra pressure to vote “the right way” than Flake does. If Flake ultimately votes yes, well, that’s to be expected. He’s a privileged white man, critics will say; bros look out for each other. If Collins and Murky vote yes, though, that’s a betrayal of the sisterhood. One way they can hedge against that is by being more forceful in their rhetoric, as Murkowski was here. Especially when it comes at the expense of an unpopular figure like Trump.
Here’s Lindsey Graham criticizing Trump for what he said too, albeit much less forcefully. The description of his remarks in the tweet below is a smear, by the way, although briefly a popular one among liberals on Twitter this morning who either didn’t watch the clip or didn’t get the reference he was making. His remark about dragging a $100 bill through a trailer park wasn’t his way of denigrating Ford; he was quoting an infamous crack made by James Carville 20 years ago to denigrate Bill Clinton’s accusers. (Carville remains a respected member of his party to this day, as does Bill, more or less.) His point was that Ford had been treated far better by Republicans than Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky were by Democrats, and although he disliked Trump’s comments about Ford last night, that disparity should be borne in mind. The fact that liberals are so ignorant of Carville’s and Clinton’s tactics back in the day that they’d hold the “trailer park” quote here against Graham tells you all you need to know about how seriously they object to misconduct towards women by powerful men.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; allahpundit; allahpunditsucks; banallahpundit; blaseyford; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; kavanaugh; lisamurkowski; mediawingofthednc; murkowski; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; scotus; smearmachine; zotallahpundit
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To: dfwgator
I say give it back to the Russians. If it weren't for all that oil and minerals.
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posted on
10/03/2018 2:49:05 PM PDT
by
Will88
(The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
Uh oh. The folding are sisters.
To: djpg
The President was doing well with statements about Ford until the rally. I really wish he wouldn’t have said what he said. Senate is working hard on getting his nominee in- and we need the two women to vote yes. It came off as mocking her- even though he repeated what she said. It just didn’t need to be said. Even as it appears her story is falling apart. Why poke the pig when it looks like you are winning.
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posted on
10/03/2018 2:51:45 PM PDT
by
Engedi
(The)
To: nwrep
Uh oh. The sisters are folding. All three of them.
To: SeekAndFind
The Alaska Voters really want her. Otherwise, how did she survive a lost primary and STILL win in a write-in campaign? This may be why:
Miller meltdown
Miller was soon being grilled about a range of issues. Farm subsidies. Low income hunting and fishing licenses. A state agricultural loan for farmland he never farmed. His tardiness in filing a mandatory Senate financial disclosure statement. A mysterious hideaway he owns near Willow.
In early October, serious questions emerged about trouble Miller had gotten into when he was a part-time attorney with the Fairbanks North Star Borough. Former borough mayor Jim Whitaker publicly revealed Miller had been disciplined for using borough computers to conduct political business, specifically an attempted overthrow of the state Republican Party chairman, Randy Ruedrich.
Alaska Dispatch filed a public records lawsuit to break free Miller's personnel file from the borough. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner sued as well, and other media outlets joined in.
Miller's response was to clam up. He told reporters after a debate in Anchorage that he would no longer answer questions about his background. A few days later, Alaska Dispatch’s editor was handcuffed and “arrested” by Miller's private security team when he tried to ask the candidate a question after a public town hall.
The Murkowski team reveled in Miller's missteps. Press releases, mailers and TV spots were cranked out underscoring Miller's questionable behavior. When his personnel file was finally released, revelations about the disciplinary action against him were nearly overshadowed by his admission in the file that he'd repeatedly lied about inappropriate use of the borough computers.
The news stories were like political manna from heaven for the Murkowski campaign. Local Alaska news reports were immediately sent on to national press contacts. The Nerdery made sure they went viral.
“We made him wear anything bad that came out about him,” Wackowski says. “We made sure people knew about it.”
“Whitaker coming out was huge,” he says. “We sometimes called Joe our sixth man. His campaign was going 60 miles an hour and the wheels just started falling off.”
The final two weeks of the campaign were dominated by Miller's borough troubles. The Murkowski camp let him “self destruct,” and changed its own advertising message for Murkowski to a soft and hopeful one, tagged simply as, “I believe.” https://www.adn.com/politics/article/alaska-senate-race-murkowski-gets-boost-miller-meltdown/2010/11/14
To: nwrep
Because of what Trump said, they will vote NO.
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posted on
10/03/2018 2:54:26 PM PDT
by
hsmomx3
To: SeekAndFind
PURE EVIL
I feel really good about the Democrats destroying themselves.
All this crazy talk about a depressed base if Kavenaugh doesn’t get confirmed.
No way. Just a shot across Republican’s bow.
I’m voting in ghillie suit.
88
posted on
10/03/2018 2:54:39 PM PDT
by
Eddie01
To: djpg
Or Evidence course
Irrelevant.
Besides, Trumps comments were spot on.
What was false about them, Lisa?
89
posted on
10/03/2018 2:55:20 PM PDT
by
A_Former_Democrat
("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
To: Lurkinanloomin
There was recently a case in Alaska where a 10 year old girl was kidnapped, sexually abused and murdered. They have a lot of rapes of girls and women in that state. I am not giving her cover, but just saying, lot of sexual abuse in the state she represents. I am sure the pressure is on her big time. I heard it on radio and the people there are really upset about it.
90
posted on
10/03/2018 2:57:20 PM PDT
by
Engedi
(The)
To: EnquiringMind
RE: Dated 9/28?
What has changed to make him vote ‘yes’ since?
I mean there’s nothing new really. Ford still does not have witnesses or evidence, or memory, Kavanaugh still denies the allegations.
The only thing that’s changed is we have a 7th FBI investigation into Kavanaugh’s background.
If after 6 investigations, Donnelly is still a “no”, how’s a seventh going to turn him into a “yes”?
91
posted on
10/03/2018 2:57:41 PM PDT
by
SeekAndFind
(look at Michigan, it will)
To: SmokingJoe
Wasn’t there also a belief that Murkowski’s was able to bring out a large block of support from the native tribes during the write-in vote?
I’m far from Alaska, but know I remember something about that, whether or not it was factual.
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posted on
10/03/2018 2:58:36 PM PDT
by
Will88
(The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
To: Engedi
Murkowsky would be an utter fool to vote down Kavanaugh on those grounds, and she is not a fool. She is looking for a pretext to vote No.. If it were not for Trumps remarks, she would find another one.
93
posted on
10/03/2018 2:59:30 PM PDT
by
djpg
To: Trump20162020
Yes, I said the same thing- refrain until after the confirmation.
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posted on
10/03/2018 3:00:36 PM PDT
by
Engedi
(The)
To: nwrep
“Uh oh. The sisters are folding.”
Hagatha and Nagatha.
95
posted on
10/03/2018 3:01:10 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: Qiviut
What is so GD hard about this ? McConnell has always had difficulties with Murkowski and Collins, Flake, McCain, et al. Why is it the Dems march in lock-step and never defy their leadership? Everytime DJT is attacked (non-stop), the GOP leadership never defends him. Could you imagine the Dems ever treating Obama this way?
I could not imagine LBJ having these problems as Senate Majority Leader. He would have had defiant senators horsewhipped (or worse).
To: SeekAndFind
To: Buckeye McFrog
Neither Murkowski and Collins are up for reelection this year. So they won’t get “destroyed at the ballot box,” not this year anyway. And next year, it may not matter (depending on how the GOP does in November)
To: Engedi
Everything President Trump said at the rally about Ford were direct quotes from Fords testimony. He was exactly right.
We are not going to keep bending over backwards while the Democrats destroy an innocent man. I am not worried about Murkowski and Collins. I am far more concerned about energizing the Republican base for November so we hold The House and equally important, increase our seats in the US Senate. Right now nothing energizes the base more than Kavanaugh.
Read this:
Poll: Amid Kavanaugh Confirmation Battle, Democratic Enthusiasm Edge Evaporates
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/654015874/poll-amid-kavanaugh-confirmation-battle-democratic-enthusiasm-edge-evaporates
To: pnut22
“The sisters had a lot of laundry.”
That washerwoman Moocowski looks like a long day.
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posted on
10/03/2018 3:03:12 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
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