Murkowski the Jerk
Few Americans outside the beltway and Alaska knew much, if anything, about Lisa Murkowski , but we all do now. In her decision to mount a write-in campaign for her apparently lost Senate seat, she has become the poster girl for that great politician’s personality disorder — pathological narcissism. In plain English, back in the pre-psychiatric age, she is what we used to call a jerk.
Glenn Reynolds puts it in a more uptown manner: “The Murkowski story embodies what’s wrong with the traditional GOP: Self-centered, dynastic, and looking to lobbyists as primary allies.”
In other words, a jerk.
Meanwhile, Ed Morrissey has a good roundup of some of the usual suspects thumb-sucking on whether the Alaska senator could possibly win this write-in candidacy, but I think they all miss the point. In this year of extreme populism, voters are ultimately going to gag on someone like Murkowski arrogantly trying to tell them it is business as usual, as if she has some form of droit de seigneur for her allegedly magnificent service in the US Senate.
Yes, I know some polls are showing her with a decent percentage and, yes, she has money in the bank, but it’s hard to imagine a significant number of those people finally making the effort, and it is an effort, to write in the name of such a person. Unlike Joe Lieberman, who ran successfully as an independent in Connecticut, she has no cause, other than herself. (And Lieberman was actually on the ballot.)
Oh, okay, she has the cause of a tired Republican Party that no one seems to want anymore.
And that’s the point. We live in an exciting time when the possibility of change (real change — not rhetorical change) is in the air. Murkowski comes along like Mrs. Scrooge and tries to squelch it. How pathetic.
One last word to the lobbyists (Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Marath0n Oil, etc) who apparently received email from Murkowski’s chief of staff, alerting them an hour early to her imminent campaign. We live in a New Media Age where your behavior is being watched as never before. And, as you know, you have already been outed in this instance. Karen Knutson, Murkowski’s chief of staff, showed herself to be a trigger-happy dolt by sending that premature email. One of you probably leaked it. Signing on for the Murkowski campaign is now bad news for your company. Stay away.
Right you are Roger. The Kow is pretty much a textbook example of what is broken with establishment Republicans and politics in general.
And I will personally pledge to boycott any company that donates a dime to the Kow.
It’s not about personal power. It’s a way of discouraging the next Right-wing candidate from making the effort. The same applies to the never-ending slander of Sara Palin and other serious Rightists. It might not bother Sara, but what about a successful family man who wants to make a difference? Is he gonna subject his wife and kids to personal attack and even assault? Like economics, it’s the impact on the marginal candidate that’s important. If the femmes hadn’t outlawed duelling, we wouldn’t be dealing with this crap.
No hope to de-socialize America at this late date.
But wouldn’t it be prodigious if this signals a wave of defeminization of America?
When I consider the actions of (Write me In) Murkowski, (Third Party) Crist, and (I may support Coons) Castle; I have come to the conclusion that the Tea Parties have proven themselves to be better judges of “Sincerity” (See Dick Morris’ take on 2010 for a full explaination) than the Establishment Republicans.
Isn’t it funny, the Establishment spent 2009 warning the Tea Party NOT to dabble in the Third Party route. Yet when the Tea Party took their advice and worked within the Primary System it was those Establishment Choices who all went into the Third Party Route?
Yes, that’s ironic. Very evidently, the establishment deserves the beating it’s getting.
Lisa Murkowski on Abortion: Rated 50% by the NRLC, indicating a mixed record on abortion.
Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines.
Voted NO on barring HHS grants to organizations that perform abortions.
A baby wouldn’t want to take a chance on being born anywhere near Lisa Murkowski, the Jerk’s jurisdiction, . . .
But Roger ,daddy said it was mine,he gave it to me!
You nailed it Pedro, that’s the scenario exactly.
But, also remember, Pedro, that Daddy was beaten by Sarah and now daughter gets beaten by a Friend of Sarah. The Murkowskis knew their political life expectancy was until-death until Sarah came along, and now, their true colors show. It ain’t about Alaska or America, it about THEM. Remember, Sarah held the oil companies feet to the fire and won deals her Daddy would never attempt because he was in the hip-pockets of the oil lobbyists. So long Daddy. So long, Lisa, and don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
At the start of the primary, all candidates should be asked if they will promise to support the winner of the primary. Holdouts are likely to be punished by the voters.
Murkowski did promise to respect the results of the primary. Now she has broken her promise. If these people were the sorts who had the integrity to honor such a promise, they would also have the integrity to not have to make it in the first place. Murkowski is obviously the archetypal ruling class swine who needs to be flushed permanently from the public sphere.
I like the state’s that have the “sore loser” law; can’t do what Lisa M. is doing when you’ve lost in a primary. Sadly, it appears that law is necessary in many / all states now.
I thought even sore-loser laws allow write-in campaigns.
That would be a first, a politician keeping their promises.
I’m sorry but hasnt that already been done (if I lose the primary I will support my opponent. These words mean nothing, and never have as far as I know. Just ask Andrew Jackson. Find out what lengths President Adams went to secure his presidency during that heated battle. When one is faced with such an unexpected ‘bag’ of power something suddenly changes. Its like saying, “If I suddenly had a bag of money (untraceable, unknowable, un-whatever) it would never change me. The truth is there are thing that change you without your believing it would. I have seen it up close, and it can be ugly. Term limits, with some exceptions, could certainly help, but the truth is as long as people are involved there is the constant possibility for corruption. Would that it wernt so, but we are people, and as such we are and will be fallible, except you there reading this saying “Money and power would never change me.” Good Luck with that, and God Bless you all. And may God continue to show His seemingly endless mercy on such an unrepentant people. yours truly, savedbygrace@embarqmail.com…
My biggest fear is she stubbornness will pull votes from Miller and allow Democrat McAdams to win. If that happens, she will be the most hated person in Alaska for quite some time.
The establishment is going down. But it’s not going down without a fight.
Just saw an unrelated example of this at Amazon.
Sometimes we get an incorrect view of our politicians,I urge all PJM readers to check out the article about John Boehner by Toby Harnden of the U.K. Telegraph. You maybe surprised at what you learn about Mr. Boehner.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! wah wah Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Democracy, but not for thee.
Only for me. I’m right, you see.
Writ6 ein candidate? Sounds downright Limabughsian.
Hopefully Lisa is toast and people here in Alaska will see she doesn’t keep her promises. However, Ted Stevens has been seen as a big deal here bringing home the pork; this is Lisa’s Shtick also. We do need less of this because it is what is wrong with this system (buying votes). My vote will and was for Miller I wish she would respect that and not put her personal ego in the race and risk another Democrat from Alaska.
Ted Stevens has been seen as a big deal here bringing home the pork
Ted lost last time.
This IS about personal power for Murkowski, to reply to a comment above. She thinks she’s entitled to grow her political dynasty. We’ve had enough of those.
Pork is a disease though, one that kills freedom and state sovereignty. The more pork a state eats the more it’s beholding to it’s feeder, the feds. In that manner these pork fest vote buyers aren’t doing their states any real favors in trading off their rights for pork however little at a time they may be doing it.
Keep your pork and get out of my shorts.
What if you tried to sell out and nobody was buying? The Chevrons, the ConocoPhillips and and the Marath0n Oils of the world aren’t in the market for a Senate candidate in Alaska. They’re in the market for a Senator. Somehow or another Ms. Murkowski got it into her head that they were paying tribute to her because she was just so darned wonderful. She’s going to come to a very hard realization. The companies would be doing their shareholders a grave disservice giving her a brass farthing. Whoever wins will know they funded their opponent.
Unlike Joe Lieberman, who ran successfully as an independent in Connecticut, she has no cause, other than herself. (And Lieberman was actually on the ballot.)
There’s no meaningful difference between Murkowski and Lieberman. Both were sore losers who refused to accept the judgment of their parties’ primary voters.
If you lose in the primary, that’s it, you’re done. It doesn’t matter if you’re running on principle or in service of a cause. I’m sure everyone who ever lost a primary thinks that he has a “cause” worth advancing.
I’m as conservative as the next guy, and I was pleased that Lieberman jumped back in to beat whats-his-face, the liberal. But Lieberman was a sore loser, just like Murky. I’m not going to say that Lieberman was a good guy back in 2006 just because I like the result.
Lieberman was not as good as the Republican candidate that the GOP did not support.
Murkowski is a Bloomberg Republican, not loyal to the party or the country, just to themselves.
- There’s no meaningful difference between Murkowski and Lieberman.
Not true at all.
Lieberman stood for something that the left wanted to destroy and the far-left of the Democrat Party in CT pushed “what’s-his-name” for that single reason, not because “what’s-his-name” had any relevant experience or inherent electability.
That’s why 70% of us (CT Republicans) voted for Lieberman over the Republican candidate.
Murkowski stands for what… herself? We’ll see if 70% of the Democrats in Alaska support her. I’m thinking that won’t happen.
You know there is a HUGE difference between Lieberman and Murkowski:
Lieberman was punished by the Democratic Party establishment for not toeing the party line even though he clearly represented the majority of voters in the state. Lieberman walked away from his party and actually got on the ballot as an independent. Lieberman won.
However
Murkowski WAS the Republican Party establishment who was punished by the voters when the party line no longer represented the will of the voters. Murkowski does not have the courage to walk away from her party – she is running as an “extra” un-nominated Republican. Murkowski has absolutely no potential of winning – she could only serve as a spoiler – giving the seat to the Democrat.
Lieberman refused to be railroaded by his party.
However
Murkowski is the one attempting to do the railroading on behalf of her party.
Lieberman Won. It was clear he had a reasonable chance to win from the very beginning.
However
Murkowski has absolutely zero chance of winning. Democrats will not vote for her (much less write her in) in any significant numbers. She COULD however, split the Republican vote and give the seat away.
Lieberman at least believed he was doing the right thing.
However
Murkowski is merely spiteful – trying to hurt the voters who voted against her.
Big Differences.
McAdams is a scary choice folks. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Endorses Scott McAdams
> He says Scott is a “union man”, understands what is needed, and we don’t need another Miller..
We all lose if McAdams wins as a Democrat senator for Alaska.
..”Lisa” will split the vote, and the Democrat candidate will rule.
Yep, Scott McAdams will be the next democrat senator from Alaska thanks to “Lisa” puke.
This sounds like Delaware.
She is just another career politician that can’t seem to give up the “power”..associated with Washington. I suppose we could take Lisa on an ice fishing expedition…
Not buying this explanation. This is just “Good when it hurts your team; bad when it hurts my team.”
The idea that Murkowski doesn’t stand for anything, or has no principles, is almost completely subjective. I don’t like where she stands on several issues, but I have no reason to believe that there aren’t some heartfelt issues that she stands by.
As for the Connecticut comparison:
“Lieberman was punished by the Democratic Party establishment for not toeing the party line even though he clearly represented the majority of voters in the state…
Murkowski WAS the Republican Party establishment who was punished by the voters when the party line no longer represented the will of the voters.”
No, Lieberman was punished by the liberal Democratic base, just as Murkowski was punished by the conservative Republican base. Lieberman was the establishment guy, just as Murkowski was the establishment gal. It wasn’t Lieberman’s fellow Senate Democrats who were trying to push him out.
“Lieberman walked away from his party and actually got on the ballot as an independent.”
And perhaps if there was a way under Alaska’s election law for Murkowski to get on the ballot, she would do just that. We know she tried. Which leads us to…
“Murkowski does not have the courage to walk away from her party – she is running as an “extra” un-nominated Republican.”
But not for lack of trying. She tried to get on the Libertarian ticket, and they wouldn’t take her. If she could have gotten on the ballot with a party, she would have.
“Lieberman refused to be railroaded by his party. However Murkowski is the one attempting to do the railroading on behalf of her party.”
So when it’s a Democrat who loses in a primary because the liberal base gets fed up with his centrist, that’s being “railroaded.” When a Republican loses in a primary because the conservative base gets fed up with her centrism, she’s the one doing the “railroading.” I see how it works: Yay Team Red, Boo Team Blue!
Lieberman Won. It was clear he had a reasonable chance to win from the very beginning. However Murkowski has absolutely zero chance of winning. Democrats will not vote for her (much less write her in) in any significant numbers. She COULD however, split the Republican vote and give the seat away.
Given that Castle is the first choice of a majority of Delaware’s voters, including many Democrats, doesn’t it seem that he would have a reasonable chance of winning in Delaware? In that case, shouldn’t he run, after being “railroaded” out of the nomination by the GOP base? I get the feeling that you wouldn’t like it if Castle jumped back in to the race as an independent, despite the fact that he’s the preferred candidate of a majority of Delaware’s voters. So what’s the difference, other that “Yay Team Red, Boo Team Blue”?
Anyway, look: There’s no point in having a primary system if the primary losers don’t get behind the winner. If you lose, you give up, regardless of whether you think you’re the most electable candidate in the general election. That’s for primary voters to decide. Otherwise you’re just a sore loser.
Play by the rules, guys, even when it hurts Team Red. Otherwise you’re just a bunch of hypocrites.
Look – I am not even a Lieberman fan. And I am justifying neither. And in general I agree that he primary looser should respect the results. But there is a difference between these two. Lieberman actually sought to win. He did win. He was viable as an independent. Lisa has no chance and she knows it. The math just doesn’t wash. Write in candidates do not win national office.
The key difference is that Lisa isn’t making an actual effort to win. The numbers are not even close to there and she knows it. She is simply seeking to punish the people who voted against her. This is the act of a selfish vindictive woman who KNOWS she is going down and is trying to take as many people down with her as possible.
That is the difference
Charlie Wilson of OH-6 first won election to the house as a write in candidate. He was supported by the unions.
Lieberman said he would run as an independent if he lost the primary. What did Lisa promise?
RINOS trying to split the conservative vote? Duh! GDT, it’s all about preserving, protecting and defending the system. That’s what brought us to this place. Now, is there a way out? Maybe John McCain knows.
Yeah, and leave that 2006 CT race to the Dem’s Ned Lamont vs. the GOP’s 12-percent What’s-His-Name?
There was NO HOPE for the GOP candidate in CT back then. It was either Democrat vs. Democrat.
Did Lieberman agree to abide by the result of the primary, like Murkowski?
Lieberman said during the race that he would run as an independent if he lost.
Yes, Lieberman did say that. But as an Independent he eventually knuckled under to Democratic pressure and voted for Obamacare. I doubt he’ll win another election.
If any of those companies do anything to support the bizarro Sigourney Weaver then I will do everything in my power not to support any of their businesses except at the margins (one can never tell where you get supermarket gas from and it indeed might be from one of them).
We are too stupid, we don’t understand that it is HER seat.
“WE THE ELITISTS…”
P.S. This kind of shameful behavior when America is in mortal danger of becoming a semi-socialist hell MUST BE REMEMBERED for all the future. These ghosts are the secret weapon of all kinds of subversives and jihadists…
Princess Murkowski holds that the voters stole the primary, so she’ll run in the general representing the “Privileged Butthurt” Party.
One tube of “incumbent ointment” for Ms. Murkowski, coming right up!
And this is why no Conservative should EVER AGAIN support a RINOsaur on the basis of party unity…because they sure don’t reciprocate when it’s THEIR “turn in the barrel”, do they?
I can’t make any sense of Lisa Murkowski’s decision. She is burning all of her bridges. Murkowski will never again have a major role in politics as either a candidate—or a well paid lobbyist. Does she require psychiatric assistance? I do not ask that question in jest. The woman is indulging in highly self destructive behavior.
David you are one of the most perceptive posters on this site. What do Charlie Crist,Lisa Murkowski,Bob Bennet and Mike Castle have in common? Not Rinoism but careerism. This is their life. It is not about, We The People,it’s about power baby or the loss of it.
The “Rino” Republican is also a committed secularist. They are all pro-abortion. This is their number one issue. Their reason for joining the GOP was often based on pure opportunism. It was a matter of being in the right place at the right time. In their heart of hearts, they were always Democrats.
Of course they are secularists,so are 90% of congress, even if they give lip service to a faith preference.
I’d quit hanging my hat on the abortion issue. Its a dead horse and probably cost the party the election in 2008. We have bigger problems to tackle. We can save that one for later.
Its a dead horse and probably cost the party the election in 2008.
I’d argue that it was TARP and assorted scandals that did it.
No. It’s a matter of the conditions of their campaign funding and accounts.
They get to keep what’s left after the phony run.
I would add Arlen Specter to your list…
At this point, I don’t know if careerist can describe them. Lisa Murkowski could have transitioned into a different career and still wield considerable power in DC and the state of AK. Who knows, she may be able to launch a comeback in future.
David Thomson asked the right question.
Did any of these people ever LOSE (or have any setback) before? It seems to me these people simply can not cope with the idea of ‘rejection’.
“David you are one of the most perceptive posters on this site.”
Pedro, I have long agreed with that sentiment. I look for his posts on this site every day. I wish he would start his own blog.
“I can see Chevron headquarters from my house”???
Moaning Lisa, men have named you
Your so like the Speaker, with the fractured smile
Is it only cause you spurned them that they blame you
For that moaning Lisa strangeness all the while
Do you try to tempt a voter, Moaning Lisa
Or is this your way to mend a broken heart
All their dreams were laid upon your doorstep
And they die there, because you wouldn’t do your part
Are you real, do you care, Moaning Lisa
About the people you pretend to represent
Or are you cold and distant, unrelenting
Ego, it is only you and you alone inside your tent.
Line 8 …change “wouldn’t” to “couldn’t” and you have a hit!!
Part of me, the sensitive. touchy-feely part, feels sorry for her. In Washington, as a US Senator, she is royalty with folks vying to satisfy her every whim. After January, next year, she turns into a commoner and folks will not return her calls or buy her or her senior staff members a drink. Sure, she can be a lobbyist and try to sell her contacts but, that is work. The fact that she has peed in the pool makes it even less likely that folks will call her back. And, if the Dem wins, she is doubly screwed, the Pubbies will view her as a traitor and the Democommies would NEVER give her any credit for their win.
One guy who is probably pleased by Lisa’s call is Tom Castle from Delaware. Now he doesn’t look like the MOST selfish and ungracious person in our 57 states.
There is presently an article on Hot Air claiming that Lisa Murkowski is asking lobbyists to support her campaign.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/09/18/can-murkowski-win/
What is she is smoking? No lobbyist in their right mind should want to get involved. Murkowski’s campaign has little chance of success. She apparently is listening to a number of people who are stroking her ego—and could care less about her. They simply want to see if Murkowski can destroy Joe Miller’s hopes on Election Day. This is not likely going to happy. Miller should easily be the next Alaskan U.S. senator.
No, she will split the vote just enough to garner defeat for her and Miller.
Obama will get a tingle up his leg as McAdams is named “The Democrat Senator from Alaska” ,
and they can all thank Lisa M.
Republicans will jump ship and not think further than their nose, Democrats won’t. Especially with the AFL/CIO endorsement and the thought of jobs.
You know, its really amazing how these Congressional types think, the sense of hubris and entitlement they have.
Just for starters, there are the multiple and ongoing scandals of oleaginous Democrat Rep. Charlie Rangel, and Democratic Congresswoman, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson’s awarding the scholarships that should have gone to needy black children to her own grandchildren, and to the children of her staffers, excused because “she didn’t know it was both forbidden and morally wrong to do so and, besides, there were no candidates that were as “worthy” as her relatives,” and on and on, on seemingly a weekly basis.
We have seen far Left Congressman John Conyers, a lawyer and Chairman–no less–of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, on video, deriding those who advocated “reading” and trying to comprehend the Democrat’s mammoth, extraordinarily unpopular 2,000 page bills—loaded with thousands of ticking tax, and regulatory, and policy time bombs that will very drastically affect and regulate all citizens–that his very own party rammed through Congress.
These last several months, too, many members of Congress–mostly Democrats, just stopped having “town hall meetings,” because they didn’t want to face their constituents, to account for and accept responsibility for their votes and actions, and to take questions.
Other set things up at their faux town hall meetings so that speakers they selected used up all of the scheduled time by giving “informative” speeches laying down the party line, and just canceled the rest of the town hall when constituents wouldn’t swallow this indoctrination, wanted to actually face and question their “representative,” and/or started to ask embarrassing questions.
Some stacked their faux town halls with supporters, including SEIU tee-shirt wearing storm troopers, and denied access to regular citizens, others scheduled very carefully controlled faux “town halls,” in which they talked face to face or even just by telephone to a small number of very carefully screened and selected individual “constituents,” and as we have seen, at some of these town halls SEIU thugs have delivered beat downs to any citizen who wasn’t toeing the party line.
We have contemptuous California Democratic Representative Pete Stark, belittling constituents who want tougher border enforcement, and telling them that–to hell with the Constitution–because “the Congress can do pretty much what it wants.” We have Speaker Nancy Pelosi reacting with incredulity, “are you kidding,” “are you kidding” (and not answering the question, I note)–when asked by a reporter to tell him what part of the Constitution allowed Congress to force citizens to buy health insurance.
And now we have Murkowski, shown the door by voters, but refusing to leave; it must be that the voters are just stupid, uninformed, or maybe even watch Beck or are racist, Tea Party morons and zombies, and don’t know just how splendid her family’s multi-generational death grip on public office has been. So now, after losing the runoff, Murkowski has turned into an ungrateful, unwanted house guest, who just squats on the floor, and dares us to break the code of civility she is taking advantage of and using against us, by calling the cops to eject her.
Now that her snout has been pulled out of the public trough, I say the voters should quite forcefully boot her out into the real world, and force her to get a real job.
At this point, civility with these “bitter clingers” to power, whether socialists or RINOS, needs to end. Show them the door, forcefully if necessary. They are a blight on our society and should be taken to the woodshed for such reprehensible behavior. Let the political bloodbath continue.
We used to give them a choice:
They could leave being carried head-first, or feet-first!
I would love to be able to tap into that conference call this afternoon to see just how many lobbyists bother to call in. And to see which ones have the stupidity to do so.
I could be wrong—but there will unlikely be any serious lobbyists support. They would be foolish to get involved in this train wreck. Lisa Murkowski is burning the bridges behind her. Only an idiot wants to participate in this madness.
I should add that there should be no lobbyist support by those who wish to curry favor with the GOP. Some Democrat lobbyists might indeed take the opportunity to help their candidate. They may have little to lose.
This is just as much a revelatory moment for the motivations of the Republican Senate leadership as it is for the lobbyists. I am waiting for confirmation of what, if anything, has been done since she is an incumbent [supposedly Republican, but now apparently an "independent"] running against the duly nominated candidate of the Republican party in the General election. I have heard the following, and as of this morning have yet to find anything that confirms any of these items:
1) Joe Miller was told Friday morning by Mitch McConnell that if Murkowski actually ran, she would immediately be stripped of her committee seats and seniority.
2) There was one unconfirmed Twitter Tweet to the effect that someone Friday night had heard that Murkowski had resigned from the Republican “leadership” of the Senate. Does this include committee positions, both seats and Ranking Member status? [UPDATE: as of 12 hours ago, POLITICO says she just resigned from her Republican Conference leadership and may lose her committee seats and seniority.]
3) There were reports that a Senate staffer [admittedly with connections to the Murkowski family] had stated the McConnell had no authority to strip Murkowski of anything without a vote of the full Republican Senate Conference.
I watched Murkowski’s announcement. Much of her campaign centers around the claim that her seniority, her Ranking Membership on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and her seat on Appropriations will enable her to rob the rest of the country for the benefit of Alaskans. [That is the condensed version, boiled down from about 1/3 of her speech. Implied, but not stated, is the addition of the words "and herself" after Alaskans.]
So, if the Republican Senate Leadership leaves her seats on those committees intact, they are helping her campaign against a Republican [and TEA Party] candidate as much as any of those lobbyists who may choose pay her off.
In the wake of numerous deliberate decisions by the Republican Party structure over the last year to oppose TEA Party candidates, both before and after they get the nomination [as of last night, I hear Karl Rove was still functionally campaigning for the Democrat in the Delaware Senate race]; a Republican decision to support Murkowski may be approaching the “last straw” level with the TEA Party. I suspect that there is a movement to try to push the TEA Party into a 3rd Party, as the Republicans seem really happy to be a tame opposition to the Democrats. It probably won’t happen before November 2, but afterwards ….
In any case, has anyone heard anything more about stripping Murkowski of her committee seats and seniority?
Subotai Bahadur
keep us informed.
If she runs on anything other than the Republican ticket, she should be stripped from the Republican positions and seniority.
Carl Rove is a joke. Actually he is campaigning for the Dem in Delaware by telling the world that Christine can’t win. totally disgusting. How they would undermine the Delaware election like they have is beyond me.
Lisa M is planning her own political funeral with this move.
abi:
Are you surprised that that all the players in the political game are out to preserve the system that allows them to live like royalty for their entire lives at the expense of the little people? 2012 is the timebomb. No more constitution. Dictator X for life!
Don’t worry about the very practical and realistic lobbyists. Even if Murkowski could win, would the lobbyists want to antagonize the rest of the Republican party? Murkowski’s candidacy may help put a Dem in the senate, do the oil lobbyists want that?
Murkowski is delusional.
“My preciousssssss…”
LOL!
‘One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them. One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them’.
Yeah – take that, you power hungry Repubs! Frodo’s a’comin!
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Actually, I think Gollum and Sauron are less apt metaphors for establishment GOP than Boromir. That is, those who genuinely started with good intentions–the more thoroughly corrupted of the breed might be better represented by that Middle Earth precursor of 20th Century-style totalitarian modernity, Saruman.
Boromir is a valiant and lordly man who thinks the best thing to do with the Ring is use it on behalf of good, and saving Gondor. Perhaps Sauron, chastised by the recent overthrow of his master Morgoth, himself rationalized he really was Annatar, “giver of gifts”, in originally handing out his rings to elves, men and dwarves. Of course, his forging the One Ring to force his will and power on the ringbearers only led to darkness, despair, death, misery, and enslavement; turning the land of Mordor into dead wasteland of stench and madness. Boromir failed to appreciate the corrupting nature of a ring forged only to dominate others, until it was too late.
The progressives fancy themselves the true heirs of the Founders by shaping their lives into their own “Profiles in Courage”, to direct the future course of American destiny. However, unlike the Founders, the progressives try to be virtuous at others’ expense rather than at their own, to do good by forcefully usurping others’ power to do good. The defining distinction between RINOs and people who genuinely seek the restoration of our Founders’ vision is that RINOs opposition to Democrats is not founded on opposition to Democrats’ curtailing the liberty of the people. Rather, RINOs oppose Democrats on the grounds that they can moderate the “liberal” agenda, and implement it more competently and directed toward more constructive ends. Like Gingrich/Dole-controlled Congress was content with continuing the old methods of passing Christmas-tree bills unread by anyone except the staffers who really authored them, and with defeating Clinton health care without implementing real market-oriented health-care reform that would forestall such future encroachments. The GOP establishment was satisfied with ballooning bureaucracy like the EPA, Department of Energy, and Department of Education; and with rule by judge rather than rule of law. They just fancied they would direct this rule by unelected bureaucrats and judges into more productive channels than the Democrats would…
Yes, I think the Tea Party can be genuinely likened to being Frodos. They have grasped the only way to save our Republic is to cast the Ring into the Mount of Doom, and follow George Washington’s example in overthrowing King George (the ruling class of that day) and have NO ONE take his place…
The GOP congressional leadership needs to make it very clear that anyone who donates to Murkowski after the primary will be persona non grata for the GOP during the next Congress, or if Murkowski wins, for the duration of her time in Congress. This includes individuals and teh corporation they work for at the time of donation if there is the slightest hint that the company approved of teh action.
Someone should also set up a web site listing all her post-primary donors, to make it easier for anyone who wants to boycott, any shareholders who want to complain, to hold the GOP accountable for shunning them.
Lisa ‘Business as usual’ Murkowski. Another turd proving the ‘My constituents be d amned’ persona.
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton actually left a VOICEMAIL to a lobbyist on why she hasn’t received any bribe money, err.. ‘contribution’. yeah, that’s it!
http://www.prisonplanet.com/shock-audio-dc-congresswoman-leaves-voicemail-asking-for-lobbyist-cash.html
Delegate Norton was 1 of 10 people attending Al Sharpton’s ‘Empathy-Fest 2010′ recently and Norton had some remarks to Beck’s nearby gathering that was totally OPPOSUTE of MLK’s beliefs. C’est la vie..
A failing politician, A failed city, unrealized life – I feel sorry for these cretins.
These establishment GOPers leave a lot to be desired for being sore losers.
Hell with the GOP then…if they are going to behave that way, Meg and Carly in California can forget my vote. Until party leaders grow up, I’ll go ahead and cast my ballot for non-party insiders.
Dan T:
Carly in California is not a better vote than one for Babs Boxer? Give it up man, that’s pathetic.
Babs and Carly are not the only choices.
Again and again we have been let down by the GOP establishment. If they won’t take us seriously, then I have no loyalty to them.
Cop out? Long-view vs. party elite/party entitlement.
hey..good cop out. You’re dumb to twist the situation around like you have, but it is a good cop out.
woulda, coulda, shoulda
Are you sure “Jerk” is the proper term? Technically, I think her actions define her as an a**hat.
She should lose her positions and seniority with the Republican party.
Then again what’s new.
Reresentative Charlie ‘Did I tell you my Korean War story yet?’ Rangel had this advice to give Obama when visiting HIS Harlem district:
“Make certain he doesn’t run around in East Harlem without identification.” Following an incident involving a White Officer accidentally shooting a Black Officer whereas he was in pursuit of a criminal.
A comment characterized as a ‘warning’ to the President. What a guy!
Yet this guy won ~2/3′s of the vote to keep his bureaucratic a ss in place. Even with a myriad of ethics charges over his head.
Harlem must LOOOVE being poor and have self-serving dudley do-nothings as their ‘Representative’.
I don’t feel one iota of pity for that city/area. Enjoy your ignorance..
These people are certified members of the DC ruling class. Power is a BIRTHRIGHT! They do not care what the LITTLE PEOPLE–that is, VOTERS– think. Joe Miller, not being a member in good standing of this elite group, has no RIGHT to take a senate seat from a member!! Who in hell does he think he IS!!! And if voters have actually committed the egregious sin of dismissing Murkowski from that which is rightfully HERS, then BY GOD she’ll do everything in her power to make certain the choice these ungrateful rubes have made, will NOT win the day!!!
As I said before: “My precioussssssss…”
Maybe it’s time for the Tea Party to give the “My Daddy gave it to me” Lisa a new version of the words that made Scott Brown the U.S. Senator from MA:
“It’s not the Murkowski’s seat. It’s not the GOP’s seat. IT’S THE PEOPLE’s SEAT!!!”
Where’s was the immediate out rage by Karl Rove and Charles Krauthammer on how “Lisa” is going to cost the republicans control of the senate?
O wait, I guess they save their false anger to protect “establishment republicans” only.
Rove and Krauthammer both managed to muster up some faux indignation when Crist decided to go it as an independent. I don’t remember Rove’s comments (unremarkable?) but Krauthammer seemed a bit indifferent to it — only saying that Crist should give back the money he collected as a republican.
That should have clued us in on where these elites really stand when it comes to the Tea Party. Neither were happy over Rubio’s win over Crist – OMG! snuffing out the career of such a wonderful get-along guy as Crist? What’s next? Well we know the answer to that – but what happens on Nov 2nd?
Personally I’m seeing it like it’s Christmas —- oops!
The Holidays? Hanukkah? Kwanzaa?
Screw it!
CHRISTMAS IT IS — AND IN NOVEMBER!
So we come to this – they really don’t like us! Well guess what? I really don’t care anymore. Their ‘way’ has been tried for over 50 years – their practice of Détente with the democrats hasn’t worked out so well as they imagine.
The time for going along to get along is over.
Lock and load baby!!!
K.T.:
Sign me up, it’s put up or shut up time. It’s all on the line now. Not next cycle, NOW.
Has anyone considered the thought that this is just another chapter in the long-running blood feud between
Murkowski/Halcro vs. Palin???
Sure, it doesn’t mean Murkowski’s not a jerk, but this has been going on for YEARS in Alaska, and this defeat of Lisa at the hands of a Palin candidate is just the latest battle.
That Lisa won’t let her family’s pride go unanswered by ANOTHER Palin victory is not unexpected.
You need to look at it from Lisa’s point of view, even if it is twisted and self-serving. Politics and Party be damned!! This is vengence with a capital “V”!
If she can’t have that Senate seat, she will do
EVERYTHING in her power to make sure that the Palin-backed candidate LOSES…!
Bingo.
Unless she is genuinely stupid, she can’t believe that she will win. So the addiction to power or the sense of entitlement to daddy’s Senate seat can’t explain the maneuver.
It’s pure resentment, personal, destructive.
Why can’t the party sue her for all the money given to her? As well as any of them who can’t accept the fate of the voters. It is so obvious that these people are not republicans, they are whatever they can put over on the stupid voters. FROM NOW ON – NRC NO MONEY UNTIL THE PRIMARIES ARE OVER!!!!!!!
I never give money to NRC; only to candidates of my choosing.
Better to have asked for a recount.
Senator Lisa Murkowski is indeed a narcissist who cannot accept “NO” from the voters; she’s either in denial or does not care; however, she has proven herself to be nothing more than Governor Charlie Crist in a wig. As his numbers collapse, I expect Murkowski’s to follow. She is a selfish, self-indulgent, power hungry witch. She needs to exit the stage before someone pulls her off against her will. Murkowski is sullying her name by remaining in the election. The voters told Murkowski to bug off. Why cannot she accept her fate?
I think Dave 11′s got it. It’s nothing more than a vindictive ” if I can’t have it, then I;ll make sure Joe can’t have it”.
She doesn’t seriously expect to win . She expects Joe to lose !
That’s exactly what will happen, she’ll split the vote and the Democrat will win.
“She doesn’t seriously expect to win . She expects Joe to lose!”
Well, said…& unfortunately, that’s probably what’ll happen. Miller was only ahead of the McAdams by 6%, but in a 3-way race & in a state w/a small population, it won’t take all that many write-ins to give the Dem the win.
Hopefully, she’ll die before the election, proving once again the axiom “The graveyards are full of indispensable men”.
She looks old, and may well have gotten into politics to please her father. Suppose deep down, knowing what it’s really like from the inside, she does not want to spend any more of her rapidly diminishing years being a politician, but doesn’t want to annoy her father by resigning. Then by continuing the campaign this way, burning bridges behind her, she ensures that she is through with politics without getting blamed for the decision. If this is in fact her motive, she couldn’t care less that the Democrat is now more likely to win.
Every story needs a villain to be complete. Lisa Murkowski might even be a nice person (thought I doubt it it) but she has pinned a label on anyone who supports this obsession of hers. This whole election has become a morality play, which is why I think even O’Donnell could win, and any politician who thinks it is business as usual needs to be medicated.
It is truly an amazing spectacle and only in America could this happen. Although, I must say Italy and Australia now have tea parties.
We need a Shakespeare to make sense of this, in a couple hundred years.
Follow the money.
Ugh. This makes me scream.
Spot on, Roger.
“I didn’t really lose, it wasn’t really the will of the people…”
Sorta like when Whoopi said it wasn’t “rape rape”….
So is Lisa saying there was voter fraud, and the ballots weren’t cast by the real people of Alaska?
For those inclined to “write-in” a candidate as Murkowski wishes, I’d like to suggest two alternate contenders: Charlie Crist of Florida or turncoat republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.
They’re both panting to stay relevant in the political spotlight and, heck, it would just be a hoot to see old “Lisa the Murk” come in 3rd in a write-in campaign she brought upon herself!
Kinda reminds me of DeeDee Scozzafava in upstate NY. The dumb RINO broad was removed so she endorsed the leftie. We are being treated to quite a year of vindictive malicious pols clawing the eyes out of the electorate once they have been rejected. What a hideous spectacle it all has become. Their behavior rather makes the case for the voters’ anger, doesn’t it.
Ya’ think?
This kind of shameful behavior when America is in mortal danger of becoming a semi-socialist hell MUST BE REMEMBERED for all the future.
America ALREADY is a quasi-socialist state – the country’s enlightened idiots have elected the biggest believer in “re-distributive justice” since FDR as President.Not a coincidence,since there are enough idiots in America who actually believe in socialism, that they elected a Marxist President.
You have mandated health “care”, mandated social “security”, mandated Medicare… your Government owns majority stakes in private companies that were failing and should have been allowed to fail.You have a “progressive” tax structure that makes the Chinese sheepish.
If after all this, you still claim that America is a right of center country, it shows how far left, the “center” has moved.
Think about it – Barack Obama, philosophical ally of Bill Ayers, close friends with a shakedown thug like Tony Rezko, follower of “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright’s church, friend of the Daleys, Strogers and the entire coruptocrat Chicago DemocRAT machine is the current President of the United States.
America is not in mortal danger of being a semi socialist state – it ALREADY is one.
Welcome to 2010 and thank your fellow citizens who voted for Obama and the rest of the CurruptoCRATS for the divine bliss that America is living in.
semi, quasi . . .
America IS a socialist state and on its way to a become union of pseudo states in the Soviet internationalist mold.
Nasa – Close — but no Christmas Box.
America’s feral gummint became socialist under the auspices of the likes of Teddy Roosevelt and, especially, under those of the execrably and absolutely Euro-peon-ized, Woodrow Wilson. Our feral system – courts especially – became pretty much full-blown Marxist/headed-to-modified-Marxist, during the bureaucracy and courts-stacking era of the so richly Soviet-agent-larded “administration” of the imperious, Stalin-aligned, traitor, F D Roosevelt.
But our feral gummint long long ago modified its Marxism, Mussolini-style — and is now, as, undeniably, is its marijuana-mumbling, mobbed-up, murtadd-Muslim mother’s-milquetoast, street-agitator Leader,” full-blown Mussolini-modeled modified Marxist.
Fascistic. By definition — and by any other name.
I have a little litmus test for the future of our country. With few exceptions if anyone “inherits” their political seat from their father mother or husband, maybe we should vote against them. Something about nepotism in American politics that smells. Think both Bushes, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Lisa Murkowski, John Sarbannes Jr.,..etc…etc…as we all know from Dingle to Dingbat we could list pages of names. The same might be said of media types, by the way.
Good Lord! You left out the Kennedys!
murkowsky is just the small part of the real problem;from benedict arlin spector,to gov,charlie “i’ll be your judas iscariot”crist so-called moderate republicans,are closet progressive liberals,in gop.drag;like liberals,they don’t run for political office,to serve their country. they run to serve themselves.like liberals they too believe they are automatically entitled to what they want be-damned the rightful heirs;they are selective constitutionalist;the constitution according to whatever benefits their life,and liberty.and not all of humanities,right to the same;like,her pimp dad,and ted stevens her popularity,and power came by the buying,and selling of souls,lives,liberties,power,get-a-rope type justice,and property;already scott brown has come out trashing the very tea party,for which put him in the senate;claiming the extreme base has no room for moderates in the gop.the tea party was just great when they put him in the senate but now he has 5 years to help destroy conservative principal’s;the same principals he campaigned on; he now call’s extreme;no scott brown,and establishment republican’s it is you,who know,you can’t get elected,without embracing conservative values,and principal’s.that even marxist communist,like barack obama run on to get elected,then when elected govern like saddam hussein,and tell american’s they are racist sexist,and homo-phobic,unless we allow them to rape,murder,and pillage,our lives,liberties,and property,and molesting america’s children’s minds to grow up being park bench pedophile’s with a college doctorate degree,brought to you by the government of lucifer;and his deciples;progressive liberals;it is establishment republican’s like their liberal god hero’s that have no tolerance,for conservatism,it is you rnc,and natl senate republican commitee,that for 50 years have told america to take the lessor of two evil republicans who alway’s sell america down the drain.to lick the boots of marxist liberals,it is you who say nothing when the democrat party accuses our military,and tries to convict them in the court of public opinion based on nothing but lies believing shari’a compliant islam will like them if they sell out,america and our military while they are in the middle of battle;but as soon as some one dares to speak truth to this godless,lawless,treasonist political party of “teach the children in the way they should go”saul alinsky,rules for radical pedophile indoctrination camp’s;but as soon as anyone dare’s mention the word jesus christ;or dare to speak of character,honor,integrity,responsibility,or personal sacrifice,moderate establishment republican’s like lisa murkowski,scott brown,lindsey,graham,karl rove,arlin spector,charlie crist,and charles krauthammer are outraged that any one would take the word,trust,believe in,or put anyone before them;establishment republicans,like their liberal hero’s believe there is no room for two god’s;so when someone dare’s put the name of jesus christ,over them;to them you must choose they decide your choices,your life,and your god;which they think is them;and not you;those that dis-agree are then dubbed,at first stupid,or ignorant, then if or when that doesn’t work; then you are a radicalextremist,and are dangerous;this of course coming from the same elitist intellectuals,that slobbered at the mouth,over barack obama,claiming him a genius that would unite the american people,and the world,and how they wanted him to succeed;these are great visionary’s?ha;b.s.while the same that saw barack obama for what he is from the start;and proven right,are the same establishment republican’s and their marxist communist,pedophile,dictator,and terrorist worshipping,progressive liberals,say are still stupid,ignorant,and radical extremist;someone asked me once. if i thought barack obama was the anti-christ.first i said anyone who doesn’t make jesus christ their personal savior,and believed he rose from the dead,and will rise again to rule the nation’s,or believe any are entitled to the fruits of the labors of other’s;are enemies of god almighty.the bible said of them there is no light in them;which means there is no truth in them;all are anti-christ;but for whether i believed that barack obama was the biblically prophesized anti-christ power,lucifer in the flesh;i said no;but barack obama does;as do all progressive liberals,establishment republican’s,or anyone else that believe they are the decider’s of your destiny,and not you;playing god,rather than obeying,and following god;their arrogance is so apparent,the establishment,see’s their political ideaologies,as supreme,and thats it;like liberals they see their positions as an entitlement,and not,a servent of humanity;jimmy joe;”the liarfryer”
Wow.
Dude. Learn the wonders of paragraph breaks.
Go, Animal!
And capitalizing the first letters of sentences doesn’t hurt, either.
she’s been a parasite for so long she doesn’t know how to survive without her host; the taxpayers! It’s up to the voters in Alaska to put this rino out of her misery with the ultimate wooden stake. . . . their ballots!
Here we have a spoilt little rich girl whose daddy gave her her very own senatorial pony to ride. She didn’t realize that keeping it depended on how nice she was to the household staff. Now she’s in a petulant snit at being grounded in favor of the chauffer’s kid and demanding the maids and laundresses short the kids sheets and overstarch his collars.
OK it appears she is looking for help from at least big oil. What I want to know has there been any communication between her organization, and those who support Obama. Its not as if this administration is not adverse to backroom deals that favor them over the voters.
While this is a Alaskan problem first, it does effect the rest of the nation as well. On the plus side she has at least given the American people a prim example of the elitist mind set of me, me, me, me. Hopefully someone will market her condescending arrogance to further damage her reputation.
Leave it to the Republicans to figure out a way to lose in Alaska and Delaware. What a bunch of stupid, stupid, stupid fools. No wonder the communists have taken over in this country.
This is simple, once people like Murkowski become part of the ruling class they cannot accept having to go back to being one of the worker bees.
The taxpayers have supported this women since the day she was born.
Just another typical politician. I don’t have any skill sets that can earn me a living so I have to keep this Senate seat.
Agree with Dan. It’s waa, waa, waa. I’ll take my ball and go home. Just like a spoiled brat. Murkowski was appointed by her father I understand. Well, Daddy can’t help her now because the voters are looking at her record and find it lacking.
Update to #17
McConnell and the Republicans in the Senate are mouthing the words that they will support the official nominee of the Republican Party in Alaska. In fact, they are siding with her.
They will NOT take her Committee seats, so she can credibly offer to bribe Alaskans with OUR money.
From Associate Press Writer Matt Daly today:
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…. GOP rules allow any Republican senator to seek her removal by forcing a secret ballot vote of the 41-member caucus, but that is unlikely to happen before the Nov. 2 general election, according to GOP staffers and other observers. There are only a few weeks left in the legislative session, with no action on major bills expected. …
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We now know where the Institutional Republican Party stands.
Subotai Bahadur
Their not even hiring at the 7-11? I can’t lose this seat?
What do you mean “the peasants are coming? So be it. Let them eat cake.”
@jd: “Isn’t it funny, the Establishment spent 2009 warning the Tea Party NOT to dabble in the Third Party route. Yet when the Tea Party took their advice and worked within the Primary System it was those Establishment Choices who all went into the Third Party Route?”
YES! What hypocrisy on the part of folks like Murkowski. It is quite clear now that their previous bashing of the third party route was only a way to keep anyone from challenging their own power, and not a principled stance in any way … they just NEVER expected a conservative outsider to actually win the ‘establishment’ Republican nomination against an incumbent, no matter how LIBERAL or how corrupted by (un-American / organized crime (oops – I mean labor)) unions she appears to be.