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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: chimera

There is a real disconnect in the country right now between “the people” and those in government (be it Democrats or Republicans). The ‘political class’ truly considers itself the “RULING CLASS”. We need to PURGE and CLEAN OUT ALL OF THESE TYPE PEOPLE from our political midst if we are ever going to get this country back on the right track.


121 posted on 09/15/2010 5:17:48 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA (Show me what Obama brought that was new and there you will find things only radical and destructive.)
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To: kristinn
Murkowski will announce Friday whether she will run as a write-in against Joe Miller in the general.

Sounds to me like she will run; otherwise she'd have already announced she won't. Damned petulant pain in the a**, won't take "no" for an answer. Good job raising her, Frank.

122 posted on 09/15/2010 5:22:27 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: Carling
Murkowski may as well be a Democrat.

She knows she can inflict more damage onto the GOP by running as a write-in independent. We're in the pay-back zone, now.

123 posted on 09/15/2010 5:23:48 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: NittanyLion
Murkowski-to-English Translation: "The LP told me to go pound sand."
LOL!!!!
124 posted on 09/15/2010 5:43:28 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: montag813
Let this selfish bitch run as a write-in. It will mean nothing. Joe Miller is the next Senator from Alaska. And Alaskans will forever remember Lisa Murkowski with disgust.
Excellent summary of the situation.
125 posted on 09/15/2010 5:44:25 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: chimera

RINOS=Rats.


126 posted on 09/15/2010 5:49:36 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (counter revolutionary)
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To: dynachrome

I hope all RINOS switch. Then we will have a clear choice between Democrats and Americans.


127 posted on 09/15/2010 5:50:46 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (counter revolutionary)
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To: bIlluminati

Thanks for the history less on 76 and 80. I was watching closely at the ripe old age of 18 in 80, but the smaller points and internal politics escape me in detail.


128 posted on 09/15/2010 5:53:15 AM PDT by rbmillerjr
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To: cotton1706

This poor behavior is why she was voted out of office. She did not learn, she has not changed. The MAJORITY is the minority in her eyes?

Talk about “entitlement to the seat”!


129 posted on 09/15/2010 6:01:51 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: kristinn
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

130 posted on 09/15/2010 6:07:19 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: kristinn
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
~ Barry Goldwater ~

Forgot to attribute the quote.

131 posted on 09/15/2010 6:08:57 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: kristinn

I’m in Anchorage right now and yesterday as I was walking down the street I saw a most pleasant sight. The local newspaper headline was “Libertarian candidate will not step aside for Murkowski”. Sweet!


132 posted on 09/15/2010 6:14:49 AM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: kristinn

Dear Lisa, you lost in a primary. Enough about how the party was hijacked. No such thing. The people spoke.


133 posted on 09/15/2010 6:21:55 AM PDT by Genoa (Titus 2:13)
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To: Cicero

Probably still sticking her finger in the wind and seeing how the internal polling comes back.


134 posted on 09/15/2010 6:26:43 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (No prisoners, no mercy. 2010 is here...)
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To: longtermmemmory

Well, they all have a cozy little coffee clatch down there, and they don’t like anybody making waves to mess it up.

Denying unanimous consent! Why that’s unheard of! Actually voting on things? Why we don’t do that! Critizizing another senator for his vote on the floor! Deplorable!

We can’t have people who do that in OUR body. So let us choose who the people can choose from. Then we will always have the same type of people.

Well, those days are over, Sally!


135 posted on 09/15/2010 6:28:54 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: sirchtruth

You misunderstood (as usual) my point. Miller is the nominee. He won the primary in a fair fight. For whatever reason, Murkowski didn’t get enough votes. When that happens, you lose. Murkowski is being a sore loser by floating this write-in crap. All that will do is draw votes away from Miller (cannibalism). The primary is over. We have a nominee. That’s the way it works. Now we have to decide if we will support that nominee and try to beat the ‘Rats, or throw it away.


136 posted on 09/15/2010 6:29:27 AM PDT by chimera
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To: kristinn

Sore loser. She needs to go away and retire with some amount of dignity. If she puts herself on as a so-called “write-in candidate” then it will give the job to the Dem. Lisa, stay home and call it a day.


137 posted on 09/15/2010 6:29:49 AM PDT by kevinm13 (Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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To: kristinn
Murkowski will announce Friday whether she will run as a write-in against Joe Miller in the general.

Of course she will.

I find it deliciously ironic that all these years we have been chided for entertaining such thoughts as creating or supporting a "third party" on the grounds that a vote for a third party candidate is a vote for the RAT candidate and, thus, paving the road to ruin for The Republican Party.

Lo and behold, look at who is now doing all the talking about and/or running as third party candidates: Dede Scozzafava, Charlie Crist, Lisa Murkowski. I'll bet there are others who I am forgetting.

Hypocrites! Ha haaaaaaa!

138 posted on 09/15/2010 6:53:02 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: kristinn

Murkowski has zero chance as a write-in. I’m of the opinion that every state should have a sore loser law, or at least the party should get every prospective candidate ON RECORD in the primary pledging to support the eventual nominee.


139 posted on 09/15/2010 6:54:23 AM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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To: kristinn

If believing that power should be in the hands of the American people and not in the hands of beltway born-into-power elitists is “extremist” then that’s what I am and I am glad to count Washington, Franklin and Jefferson as my “extremist” counterparts.


140 posted on 09/15/2010 6:54:49 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility ("In a time of universal deciet, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - Orwell)
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