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Sen. Murkowski vs. Mad Hatters Tea Party (Vomit Alert)
Seattle P.I. ^ | 9/19/10 | JOEL CONNELLY

Posted on 09/20/2010 7:19:13 AM PDT by oldleft

Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska walked across Seattle's 6th Avenue, surprising and engaging a bevy of green activists picketing to protest her advocacy of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Now, a few years later, she is confronting a far less civil foe -- the Tea Party Express-backed campaign that ran her down in last month's Republican Senate primary.

Murkowski is running for re-election as a write-in candidate: It's an uphill climb, not only against GOP nominee Joe Miller and Democrat Scott McAdams -- but against out-of-state "extremists" who she claims "hijacked" the Republican Party.

Sour grapes? No, seeds of truth. The Tea Party Express, which poured money into Miller's campaign, grew out of the grass roots of California country clubs. It is the creation of right-wing Republican consultants who targeted first Alaska and later Delaware.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: teaparty
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Wow, who knew the Tea Party Express grew out of California country clubs.

This POS is throwing out more lies and distortions than I've seen so far in one article. No wonder the PI doesn't publish a print edition anymore.

1 posted on 09/20/2010 7:19:15 AM PDT by oldleft
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Is this from the lefty newspaper that went bankrupt a while back and now only has an on line presence?


2 posted on 09/20/2010 7:21:28 AM PDT by SanFranDan
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To: oldleft

Career politicians never die; they simply re-package themselves in different wrappers...there’s no intention of leaving D.C. and returning ‘home’.....


3 posted on 09/20/2010 7:24:00 AM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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When you view the world through a completely distorted lens, rational people can appear quite mad....poor soul. We must be sympathetic to the old progressive contagious pathogenic thinking.
4 posted on 09/20/2010 7:24:55 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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Seattle PI....I'd rather read the koran
5 posted on 09/20/2010 7:26:15 AM PDT by skully (There are Americans, and then there are Liberals.)
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Help! I’m melting....., melting......, melting.....


6 posted on 09/20/2010 7:26:56 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Let these idiots keep attacking us.

We are 33% of the population right now and we are committed.

And THAT is about the percentage of dedicated Americans who effectuated the American Revolution in 1775.


7 posted on 09/20/2010 7:27:23 AM PDT by ZULU (No nation which tried to tolerate Islam escaped Islamization)
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dimorats are the ones who are leaving their yachts parked in neighboring tax free states to come spit at teapartiers—the mad hatter is out windsurfing


8 posted on 09/20/2010 7:28:51 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys)
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Lisa has lost it- her photos look like a those of a deranged woman, with that twisted gash of a mouth

No dignity for Ms Sore Loserman, is there?


9 posted on 09/20/2010 7:29:13 AM PDT by silverleaf (The lesser of two evils is still evil.)
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No, seeds of truth. The Tea Party Express, which poured money into Miller’s campaign, grew out of the grass roots of California country clubs. .......................................... And it is being supported by the Silent Majority, who have again been awakened, and can’t take it anymore.


10 posted on 09/20/2010 7:30:16 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (The candidate they smear the most is the one they fear the most.)
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Another proof how republican/conservative the RINOs are!
Vote the bastRATs and bastRINOs out!!!


11 posted on 09/20/2010 7:37:13 AM PDT by Leo Carpathian (fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee-ssed!)
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Michelle Malkin has a great write-up on this. Calls her “Evita” Murkowski. Hikarious.


12 posted on 09/20/2010 7:39:14 AM PDT by slackerjack
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Lisa Murkowski is a political stalker.

She is that girl frind who you left at least a month ago who simply will not go away. Her response to being dumped is to redouble her efforts to get you back, because she knows that she is exactly what you need whether you know it or not.

She won’t quit Alaska...you GOT FIRED by Alaska, you dummy, now get the hell out!


13 posted on 09/20/2010 7:42:15 AM PDT by chris37
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[ No, seeds of truth. The Tea Party Express, which poured money into Miller’s campaign, grew out of the grass roots of California country clubs]

????WTH???? What a liar this author is.


14 posted on 09/20/2010 7:45:28 AM PDT by KansasGirl (No, I do not proofread.)
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This POS is throwing out more lies and distortions than I've seen so far in one article.

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The MSM / Seattle P-I has never wasted a crisis of deep political bitterness...

Libs are perpetually familiar with this kind of rancor....
--They can sniff it out from hundreds of miles.

Murkowski needs to shut her pie hole...

AND GET A LIFE!!.....

15 posted on 09/20/2010 7:48:50 AM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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As a sitting senator with a 2.8 million dollar war chest, if she couldn’t get her message out better than Joe Miller with his $600,000, she still couldn’t close the deal. That means she was rejected by the people of Alaska.


16 posted on 09/20/2010 7:52:30 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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Seattle = San Fran lite....

The view locally (that is to say, here on the ground in AK)
is that Lisa has a solid base, and she and her staff really believe she will prevail. A lot of voters do not share that view.

OTOH, once she decleared herslef independant - she lost all (and that was very little) committee power. So, now she has nothing to bring to the table.

It will be interesting, to say the least.


17 posted on 09/20/2010 7:57:23 AM PDT by ASOC (What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
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Now what could have POSSIBLY driven the Seattle paper to bankruptcy?? Its “reporters” appear so non-biased and willing to ignore partisanship!!!


18 posted on 09/20/2010 8:01:35 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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*No, seeds of truth. The Tea Party Express, which poured money into Miller's campaign, grew out of the grass roots of California country clubs. It is the creation of right-wing Republican consultants who targeted first Alaska and later Delaware*

Seeds of lies from the Left.

This is great! They'll have consumed ALL of their credibility before NOV 2nd. How desperate!

This makes my prediction of very few Dems for the next 40 years look more and more accurate!

19 posted on 09/20/2010 8:02:22 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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The Tea Party Express, which poured money into Miller's campaign, grew out of the grass roots of California country clubs. It is the creation of right-wing Republican consultants who targeted first Alaska and later Delaware.

Yeah, keep telling yourself that if it makes you sleep better at night.
But you'll need something to help you sleep again next year, if you don't want to wake up and face reality.

20 posted on 09/20/2010 8:16:50 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog?Five?No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.)
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