Posted on 01/22/2021 1:39:02 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Friday said she would not switch parties as she revealed she didn’t vote for President Donald Trump.
A longtime moderate who is out of line with some conservative views, Murkowski was a frequent Trump critic who has expressed an openness to convicting him on the recently passed article of impeachment and called for him to resign. Trump remains popular among Republican voters and is considered by some the head of the Republican Party despite his loss in the 2020 election.
“I can be very discouraged at times with things that go on in my own caucus, in my own party,” Murkowski told reporters on Friday, according to Politico. “But I have absolutely no desire to move over to the Democratic side of the aisle. I can’t be somebody that I’m not.”
Murkowski, who is up for reelection in 2022, survived during the 2010 election after losing in the Republican primary by running in the general election anyways and winning the most votes.
“Now, some of the Republicans will say, you are not really one of us. Let’s define: What is the Republican Party nowadays? Now there’s an interview for you. But really, where are we, the Republican Party? Who really exemplifies the heart of the party right now?” Murkowski told reporters in Washington. “In many ways, we are a party that is really struggling to identify.”
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), perhaps the most moderate Democratic senator, also said recently he wouldn’t switch parties.
“I don’t think the Democrats will throw me out. Do you think? I’m not sure. Where are they going to throw me? I’m a good old West Virginia conservative Democrat,” Manchin said on Fox News.
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Alaska Democrats will make sure she wins her primary. If she does then freepers should vote her out anyway.
What she really means is that she can serve her evil masters better from the republican side versus the democrat side.
Still has to be done - this time will be very different from the last time.
NOT a “moderate.”
A traitor to the country and the party.
Hey murk, honey. Make me a damn sammich then follow your “moderate” leanings and join the green party.
[Murkowski and Manchin are both political whores. AK and WV need to vote these two lightweights out of office. ]
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That she has to state this speaks volumes.
"If this doesn't show them we mean business, nothing will." He then shot his AR-15 into the air as a warning shot to the Republicans about his plan to keep voting Republican no matter what.
If Leahy goes, the Senate will become 50-49 with a Republican Governor in Vermont to appoint his replacement. That will make it 51R-49D and Republicans will retake control.
Murkowski will have much more influence as a Republican in a 50-50 or 51R-49D Senate than she will as a Democrat in a 51D-49R Senate. At the first sign of voting with her former caucus, she will be punished so fast in a way that would never happen on the GOP side of the aisle.
-PJ
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Why would she switch parties when she can make so much money selling her votes to the democrat mega donors? If she were a Democrat, she would have to vote the way they tell her, or else. As a republican, she can sell her votes to the highest bidder and become very wealthy.
Palin made a video recently in which she warned Lisa that she might run against her.
Didn't they try that once? Beat her in the primary and she ran as an independent and won anyway?
Don't be so sure. The VT Governor is a very left-wing RINO. He'd probably appoint another Stalinazi Satanist Demonrat.
Because that dumb bitch is still smart enough to know that Demonrats have a poor chance of being elected in Alaska.
Bad news...
Although, basically she already is part of the newly elected Communist Party by staying with the current GOP...
Bad news...
Although, basically she already is part of the newly elected Communist Party by staying with the current GOP...
Yup. And Cheney will do the same thing. Trump’s team needs to seek out Republicans in other states, with the same names as incumbents, and relocate them to run in a primary, and as third party if necessary. It would be costly, but likely only slightly more costly than a full campaign. There is no way other than ugly, to disgorge embedded swamp creatures.
She’ll lose all her power if she goes dem, she’ll be forced to walk in lockstep, and won’t be able to play deciding vote.
This tranny hag needs to be cleansed from the Senate.
“Murkowski will have much more influence as a Republican in a 50-50 or 51R-49D Senate than she will as a Democrat in a 51D-49R Senate.”
Excellent point.
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