CBS: Lisa Murkowski 'Not Beholden' to GOP 'Who Turned Their Backs on Her'

Mediaresearchcenter ^ | 11-18-10 | Kyle Drennen

[Mozilla]

On Thursday's CBS Early Show, correspondent Nancy Cordes reported on Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski declaring victory in her write-in bid for reelection and portrayed her as a victim of the GOP: "[She's] in a very unique position, not beholden to the Republican leaders who turned their backs on her when she decided to run and not beholden to the tea party, which did everything it could to defeat her."

In reality, it was Murkowski who turned her back on the Republican Party after losing the primary and continuing to run against GOP nominee Joe Miller. Cordes sympathetically declared: "This was a huge uphill battle for Lisa Murkowski, who was urged by Republican leaders not to wage this campaign after she lost her primary bid....It was a risky bid and the risk paid off."

[Tanniker Smith]

They aren’t beholden to give her any special assignments or seniority either.

[glorgau]

She wouldn’t have been able to campaign on the fact that she would be able to do more for Alaska than Miller would because of her senior committee positions.

Exactly. And now the rest of the GOP Senators have to live with her. It is still not to late to strip her of her committee assignments if she continues being this mouthy.

[SlightOfTongue]

The GOP, in general, is just ‘government as usual’ acting outside “We, the people’s” interests. We must threaten them with ending THEIR party by making the Tea Party a real viable political force and talk Sarah Palin into running on the Tea Party ticket. There’s no other way now.

[luvbach1]

She is an Alaskan joke and so are the idiots who wrote in her name.

That so many Alaskans would write in the name of a RINO makes one doubt their degree of conservatism. I also suspect a lot of Dems wrote in Murkowski's name.

[DangerZone]

Didn’t Alaskan voters reelect her?

[DangerZone]

The fact that Murkowski and McAdams combined for more than 60% of the vote does bode well for Alaska.

[DangerZone]

The fact that Murkowski and McAdams combined for more than 60% of the vote does not bode well for Alaska.

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