Posted on 10/03/2018 1:53:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If it weren't for all that oil and minerals.
Dated 9/28?
Uh oh. The folding are sisters.
The President was doing well with statements about Ford until the rally. I really wish he wouldn’t have said what he said. Senate is working hard on getting his nominee in- and we need the two women to vote yes. It came off as mocking her- even though he repeated what she said. It just didn’t need to be said. Even as it appears her story is falling apart. Why poke the pig when it looks like you are winning.
All three of them.
This may be why:
Miller meltdown
Miller was soon being grilled about a range of issues. Farm subsidies. Low income hunting and fishing licenses. A state agricultural loan for farmland he never farmed. His tardiness in filing a mandatory Senate financial disclosure statement. A mysterious hideaway he owns near Willow.
In early October, serious questions emerged about trouble Miller had gotten into when he was a part-time attorney with the Fairbanks North Star Borough. Former borough mayor Jim Whitaker publicly revealed Miller had been disciplined for using borough computers to conduct political business, specifically an attempted overthrow of the state Republican Party chairman, Randy Ruedrich.
Alaska Dispatch filed a public records lawsuit to break free Miller's personnel file from the borough. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner sued as well, and other media outlets joined in.
Miller's response was to clam up. He told reporters after a debate in Anchorage that he would no longer answer questions about his background. A few days later, Alaska Dispatch’s editor was handcuffed and “arrested” by Miller's private security team when he tried to ask the candidate a question after a public town hall.
The Murkowski team reveled in Miller's missteps. Press releases, mailers and TV spots were cranked out underscoring Miller's questionable behavior. When his personnel file was finally released, revelations about the disciplinary action against him were nearly overshadowed by his admission in the file that he'd repeatedly lied about inappropriate use of the borough computers.
The news stories were like political manna from heaven for the Murkowski campaign. Local Alaska news reports were immediately sent on to national press contacts. The Nerdery made sure they went viral.
“We made him wear anything bad that came out about him,” Wackowski says. “We made sure people knew about it.”
“Whitaker coming out was huge,” he says. “We sometimes called Joe our sixth man. His campaign was going 60 miles an hour and the wheels just started falling off.”
The final two weeks of the campaign were dominated by Miller's borough troubles. The Murkowski camp let him “self destruct,” and changed its own advertising message for Murkowski to a soft and hopeful one, tagged simply as, “I believe.” https://www.adn.com/politics/article/alaska-senate-race-murkowski-gets-boost-miller-meltdown/2010/11/14
Because of what Trump said, they will vote NO.
PURE EVIL
I feel really good about the Democrats destroying themselves.
All this crazy talk about a depressed base if Kavenaugh doesn’t get confirmed.
No way. Just a shot across Republican’s bow.
I’m voting in ghillie suit.
Or Evidence course
Irrelevant.
Besides, Trump’s comments were spot on.
What was false about them, Lisa?
There was recently a case in Alaska where a 10 year old girl was kidnapped, sexually abused and murdered. They have a lot of rapes of girls and women in that state. I am not giving her cover, but just saying, lot of sexual abuse in the state she represents. I am sure the pressure is on her big time. I heard it on radio and the people there are really upset about it.
RE: Dated 9/28?
What has changed to make him vote ‘yes’ since?
I mean there’s nothing new really. Ford still does not have witnesses or evidence, or memory, Kavanaugh still denies the allegations.
The only thing that’s changed is we have a 7th FBI investigation into Kavanaugh’s background.
If after 6 investigations, Donnelly is still a “no”, how’s a seventh going to turn him into a “yes”?
Wasn’t there also a belief that Murkowski’s was able to bring out a large block of support from the native tribes during the write-in vote?
I’m far from Alaska, but know I remember something about that, whether or not it was factual.
Murkowsky would be an utter fool to vote down Kavanaugh on those grounds, and she is not a fool. She is looking for a pretext to vote “No.”. If it were not for Trump’s remarks, she would find another one.
Yes, I said the same thing- refrain until after the confirmation.
“Uh oh. The sisters are folding.”
Hagatha and Nagatha.
What is so GD hard about this ? McConnell has always had difficulties with Murkowski and Collins, Flake, McCain, et al. Why is it the Dems march in lock-step and never defy their leadership? Everytime DJT is attacked (non-stop), the GOP leadership never defends him. Could you imagine the Dems ever treating Obama this way?
I could not imagine LBJ having these problems as Senate Majority Leader. He would have had defiant senators horsewhipped (or worse).
Sad isn’t it....
Neither Murkowski and Collins are up for reelection this year. So they won’t get “destroyed at the ballot box,” not this year anyway. And next year, it may not matter (depending on how the GOP does in November)
Read this:
Poll: Amid Kavanaugh Confirmation Battle, Democratic Enthusiasm Edge Evaporates
“The sisters had a lot of laundry.”
That washerwoman Moocowski looks like a long day.
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