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.
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.
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.
Treadwell is more pro-amnesty than Sullivan.
Sullivan is like Romney and the Chamber picking Joni Ernst over the Kyoto candidate. A similar thing with Jack Kingston being endorsed over Perdue. Kingston was more conservative than Perdue.
They clearly made a choice out of the establishment candidates. If they backed Sullivan, maybe Miller would have won.
Sullivan at least says he wants a secure border and Treadwell is as pro-amnesty as his mentor Murkowski.
Miller was the only trustworthy choice.As it is now the ball is in his court to run third party or at least get Sullivan to make some concessions on immigration at least on the campaign trail. The GOPE won’t even use effective ads on immigration.
I think the last 3 Senate primary performances have been much better than expected.
The GOPE has 24 incumbent Senators to protect in 2016. McCain, Hoeven, Ayotte and Moran are strong contenders to be primaried.
That reminds me of what happened in California in 1986, when 11 conservatives split up the vote so that ultra-liberal Congressman Ed Zschau (rhymes, appropriately, with Mao) won the GOP nomination for US Senate with about a third of the votes. There was no runoff, so California Republicans were stuck with a standard bearer that made George McGovern look like Jesse Helms. Zschau went on to lose to Democrat Alan Cranston.