Posted on 08/20/2014 3:28:50 AM PDT by Din Maker
Republican establishment favorite Dan Sullivan will take on vulnerable Alaska Democratic Sen. Mark Begich in the fall after winning his party’s hotly contested Senate primary on Tuesday.
Sullivan, his state’s former attorney general and natural resources commissioner, beat two Republican rivals for the nomination. He faced Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell and Tea Party favorite and 2010 GOP primary winner Joe Miller.
The Associated Press called the race with 80 percent of the precincts reporting. Sullivan had 40 percent of the vote, while Miller had garnered 32 percent and Treadwell placed third with 25 percent. Sullivan led Miller by over 7,000 votes out of over 86,000 cast. Treadwell had conceded defeat late Tuesday night, surrounded by supporters, including his three children, at the downtown Anchorage venue where election results were posted.
Sullivan, with millions of dollars at his disposal and major GOP players behind him, had been considered the front-runner in the race. Begich already was treating him as the presumptive nominee, with allies running costly attack ads against him.
Sullivan now assumes the GOP mantle as he competes for a major prize in the Republicans’ midterm playbook. The party needs six seats to flip control of the Senate, and Begich’s is one of their top targets.
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Very odd that Palin and Huckabee endorsed Miller too late to do him any good.
We can't figure a way to unite behind one candidate.
Can we pick up this race now???? I hope so.
That’s because too many conservatives are either purists, or combative, chest puffing, dick measuring blowhards who want to leverage their candidate to grab party control and satisfy their delusions of grandeur, instead of just getting a decent conservative candidate elected by siding with the best one.
It is not WE... I suspect the RINOs provide support to other candidates to muddy the water and win.
That’s because too many conservatives are either purists, or combative, chest puffing, dick measuring blowhards who want to leverage their candidate to grab party control and satisfy their delusions of grandeur, instead of just getting a decent conservative candidate elected by siding with the best one.
Anyone who takes marching orders from the Chamber of Amnesty is not a “decent conservative”. “Decent conservative” corportist GOPe are the ones standing by while we are assaulted by the IRS, assaulted by obamacare and economically assaulted by illegal immigration.
FRiend, if you going to advocate for GOPe statists then you need to own their agenda. All of it. Amnesty, obamacare exemptions, gay marriage, etc.
Conservatives are pigheaded about uniting behind one candidate, so they lose. They obviously like losing and will continue to do so. That’s why business interests back the winning GOPe candidates.
I haven’t followed Alaska. But Sullivan is a marine and was appointed by Palin as Attorney General. So he cant be all bad. Plus Begich is a fraud, backed strongly by Harry Reid.
Your exactly right. You can also use other names like ideologist.
Do you go with the ideologist(Miller), or the man that can do the most for the state(Sullivan).
No different from MS or Kansas. Or Virginia, except in VA the ideologist defeated the man that could do the most for the state.
The solution is simple...... have a conservative secondary.
The secondary event in convention or town meetings selects a conservative candidate for the primary.
Nice try at being slick, but don’t insult my intelligence with the crappy red herring. There appears to be two conservatives in this race, and nobody could coalesce around one of them. Happens over and over and over again, because of the reasons I mentioned.
I’ve done this game too long, and I know the reason people support loser candidates for the better one, if not for the purity, it’s because they want to be in the inner circle and leverage that to some kind of party power broker status after that. Even if that candidate wins it rarely ever happens that the delusions of grandeur work out that way.
Completely agree with both of your posts.
Conservative opposition to the GOPe is not about “purity”. It’s about wanting an engaged opposition party to the Obama agenda.
We’ve had one surrender party after another from Boehner & McConnell the past few years. They’ve shown time and again they are simply not interested in substantively engaging obama.
Your “purity” and other insults of conservatives tell me you are fine with that non opposition in historic times. Well, we’re not. Deal with it.
Again, two conservatives, split vote, moderate wins. What part of that did you miss?
At some point the high strung conservative wing needs to get over themselves and face up to the fact that they may be part of the problem, and that their egos and ulterior agendas are killing the movement. Stop picking loser conservative candidates and allowing superior ones to lose.
That’s reality. If you don’t like it that’s your problem. Live in denial - suffer the consequences.
Your lecturing sounds like Schumer giving advice to the GOP. I’m sure it’s just as genuine. No thanks.
Yeah, Sullivan is a real “RINO”, that’s why the fiscally conservative Club for Growth endorsed him. Honestly.
I’d have been fine with Treadwell too but Miller’s loss is a massive relief, his nomination would have meant likely defeat in November, he is a poor candidate. It’s unlikely he would beat Sullivan in a primary runoff if Alaska had one. He should not have run, it should have been a 2 man primary.
Miller was running dead last in primary polling, Palin’s endorsement seems to have helped him, if she had not endorsed him, Treadwell may have won. Horrible endorsement, her worst since she endorsed McCain in 2010, she’d been making good ones all year.
In other news Wyoming’s RINO Governor Matt Mead wins reelection over 2 challengers with a paltry 55% to 32% for Dr. Taylor Haynes (who was seeking to become the first Black Republican Governor) and 13% for very unpopular former Schools Chief Cindy Hill. It’s very likely a single strong conservative candidate would have upended Mead, who won a wide open primary 4 years ago with a very meager plurality. There’s a race we could have used a runoff in.
Thank goodness Cheney’s establishment Princess of a daughter quit the race for the Senate months ago, I couldn’t imagine have to deal with that idiocy for all this time.
Only 2 primary days left, AZ, FL, VT, and the OK runoff next week. And DE, MA, NH and RI on September 9th. Very late primaries. Many are far too early, Texas and Illinois back in March, but I don’t like the really late ones either.
Your post is illustrating exactly what I’m talking about. I’ll take the lack of substantive arguments to mean you’ve got nothing more here to add than just ego gratifying contentiousness. You’re flipping the bird just for the sake of flipping the bird and being stridently defiant to all comers, and cutting off your nose to spite your face.
You illustrate perfectly why conservatives lose, because you’re more concerned with showing your tail feathers than actually winning something, because your sense of self-importance is way bigger than your sense of reality.
The GOP isn’t interested in winning, why should be care about them?
They just want to play the opposition, and enjoy their perks without any of the responsibilities.
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