Posted on 10/11/2010 7:51:25 AM PDT by Hawk720
IN ANCHORAGE "Fill in the bubble! Write in the name! Fill in the bubble! Write in the name! Fill in the bubble! Write in the name!"
So the chant went at a rally for Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski outside the public library here on a brisk recent Sunday - the soundtrack to one of the more striking and peculiar dramas of this year's fluky election season: the write-in campaign of a sitting U.S. senator.
After her loss in an August primary to tea-party-backed lawyer Joe Miller, Murkowski's senate career was assumed to be over. Another head-in-the-sand incumbent who just didn't get it.
But then, against all advice, including from fellow Republicans, Murkowski decided that she did get it - and was willing to fight for it.
Now, despite the hurdles in the way of a write-in victory, Murkowski is stirring passion and energy. It helps that the "entrenched incumbent" is suddenly the underdog, turning the year's throw-the-bums-out theme on its head. If she succeeds, Murkowski will join Miller, of all people, as one of the year's unlikeliest winners.
"It's kind of fun," Murkowski said during a recent campaign trip down Alaska's majestic Kenai Peninsula, where she went from a senior center to a cocktail reception to a firefighters convention with the urgency of a long shot. "It's fun to be turning the tables on your primary opponent, who was making such a big deal about how he is running against the establishment, and now he has been embraced by the establishment. I've been kind of booted off, and we're now the insurgency."
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This woman is just plain creepy.
What do the journolistas have, a list of gargoyles to write p.r. stories about?
She is a woman of strong convictions
Her primary conviction being that she is entitled to be a US Senator
Predicable “strange new respect” from the Post for Alaska’s sore-loser pink elephant.
She better be ready to embrace unemployment
“Don’t Cry for Me, Alaska!”
Evita Murkowski
This woman is a nightmare!
those RINO’s are just a bunch of demmycrybabies!
M I C K E Y .. M U R K O W S K I...
What does that spell?
She’s got dem... CRAZY EYES
ya, why have rules if everybody breaks them... people are going to give up on this voting crap if nothing is real, if politicians can’t live by the standards that we all agree to live by, ones which they themselves set in place. this country will fall to total anarchy or total dictatorship... one before the other...
Not a real catchy mantra. Plus, she might have a little more luck getting write-ins if her name didn’t require people to spend a half hour in the voting booth to spell it out. She should ask the board of elections to just let her appear on the ballot as “Bitch.” Easier to spell. Plus, her slogan could be something catchy like “Rehitch the Bitch!”
Big money is backing Lisa
Unions
Native Corps (Who pay how much in taxes???)
Big Oil
The latest of some new ads for Lisa Aired this morning
I would swear she was a DEM candidate - her ads sound like they were written for Bammy..
Did you know Joe Miller was:
Going to end Social Security - all by his own bad self?
Going to stop all FedGov spending in Alaska?
I know ‘cause Lisa told me so.
This women and her parasitic supporters are incorrigible.
Big money is backing Lisa
Unions
Native Corps (Who pay how much in taxes???)
Big Oil
The latest of some new ads for Lisa Aired this morning
I would swear she was a DEM candidate - her ads sound like they were written for Bammy..
Did you know Joe Miller was:
Going to end Social Security - all by his own bad self?
Going to stop all FedGov spending in Alaska?
I know ‘cause Lisa told me so.
This women and her parasitic supporters are incorrigible.
Forgot to add
Send Joe some dought so he can tell Lisa she's gotta go!
Joe Miller should participate in the write-in campaign too. His appeal should be, “Write-in the name Joe Miller. It’s easy to spell and easier on your wallet.”
She’s running on the Heir Apparent Party ticket.
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