"Remember mad cow disease? Well 'Mad cow' became 'mad person' became 'mad zombie' became 'mad RINO'"
--Zombieland (GOP Director's cut edition)
Posted on 09/17/2010 12:32:14 PM PDT by Fred
Murkowski is making an ass of herself. She has no idea of what the public perception is.
It will be interesting to see if the NRSC gives her any support. I don’t see it happening, but with her being a Murkowski, it’s possible.
LOSER!
WE DON’T WANT RINOS!
GO AWAY!!!
What a sore loser.
I suspect that her goal is not to win herself but to tip the election to the Democrat so “conservative” AK will still have two liberal senators.
Only GA requries a general election majority.
Her actions are indicative of a petty, churlish, and self-absorbed personality.
In short, she appears to be just about everything one should not want in a senator...
No, the JFK Senate term expired on Jan. 3, 1963, the same year as his death. Benjamin Smith held in awaiting the arrival of the over-emphasized EMK.
I believe it was “Grandpa Amos McCoy” who kept saying “Pitiful.” And he was a Republican too. So was Jed Clampett for that matter.
If Palin had run for senator in 2010, you can be sure John McPain would have endorsed Murkowski. How would Sarah have liked that?
I remember when Frank Murkowski was elected in 1980; conservatives thought he would be a reliable vote. His legacy is like that of GHWB now.
Really? We’re the only state that does that?
“This is why we have to get rid of every RINO in the party. They are Democrat moles and spys.”
EXACTLY.
And we have to make it so they can’t vote in our primaries, either.
... Well, RATS, that is.
Rinos can still vote (unfortunately).
[Runs for more coffee before posting again]
Plan A.
exactly,
this is another NY Scuzzy situation.
The only reason for the write in is to keep the national GOP from losing more donations.
No, but now she's a rich girl with nothing to do except play spiteful games. Miller beat her fair and square.
I thought Louisiana was also a state that requires a majority....they usually have runoffs 3-4 weeks after the official general election. ( I wish every state did this.)
Murkowski = The Face of the Combine
Posted by Lexington Green on September 18th, 2010 (All posts by Lexington Green)
I have seen a lot of people writing about Lisa Murkowski’s decision to wage a spoiler write-in campaign, to try to prevent a Tea Party-backed GOP candidate from winning the general election.
Most of the writers look at it, incorrectly, in terms of Sen. Murkowski’s personal psychology. For example, they say she feels miffed about losing a seat that is supposed to be hers by right of inheritance. This motive may exist, but it is trivial.
In Illinois, there has long been an expression which describes the relationship between the two political parties: The Combine. Chicago Tribune writer John Kass seems to have originated this expression. See, for example, this article: In Combine, cash is king, corruption is bipartisan. Kass quoted former Illinois Senator Peter Fitzgerald: “In the final analysis, The Combine’s allegiance is not to a party, but to their pocketbooks. They’re about making money off the taxpayers,” Fitzgerald said. Kass went on: “He should know. He fought The Combine and lost, and the empty suits running the Republican Party encourage their friendly scribes to blame the social conservatives for the disaster of the state GOP.”
Sound familiar?
America, welcome to Illinois.
The way it works is this. The Democrat party is the senior member of the Combine. The GOP is the junior member of the Combine. The game is exactly the same, and whoever is up, or whoever is down, based on the random behavior of those rubes, the voters, does not matter. The game is always exactly the same, and the people who are in on the game, from either party, have a shared stake in defending the game.
The Combine is a term that should be more widely used in Illinois. It is also a word that should be more widely used in the USA in general.
Lisa Murkowski’s family, and her career, exist because of the Combine. Her interest is in preserving the existing game. She is preserving her stake and her family’s stake in a game they have benefitted from. There is no mystery about this at all. There is no need for psychiatry to understand why she is trying to stop Joe Miller. He threatens the game. It has nothing to do with the label “Republican.”
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