Joe Miller
In the Republican senatorial primary in Alaska, conservative upstart Joe Miller has edged out incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski by less than 2,000 votes. Yet, the vote is not final due to the counting of absentee ballots. Miller was the favorite of the Tea-Party Express and Sarah Palin, while Murkowski is part of Mitch McConnell's inner circle. So are the Republican party power brokers in Washington pulling out the stops to help Murkowski?
In the wake of the tentative results, the Republican National Senatorial Committee (RNSC) has sent a team of lawyers to Alaska. To do what? They can't count the absentees ballots. This sounds like shenanigens to me. Miller and his followers are already charging meddling by the Repuiblicans in Washington. They mention the example of Al Franken, who won his Senate seat with missing ballots stuffed in car trunks.
The Republicans in Washington would be well-advised to stand down and let the recount go ahead without their meddling. Alaskans and all Americans would be well-advised to pay close attention to what is going on in Alaska in the next couple of weeks.
Republicans would stoop to hiding missing ballots in car trunks? I thought Republicans did gerrymandering on a grand scale, like Armey did it in Texas.
ReplyDeleteOr does Miller think that Al Franken was the RNSC's candidate in Minnesota? I'd be willing to consider that... a plot to make the Democrats look silly... only Norm Carlson makes him worth voting for, not that I vote in Minnesota.
Wouldn't it be funny if after all this, a Democrat won in Alaska? Stranger things have happened. Ann Coulter is calling anti-gay conservatives "fake Christians" because they object to her accepting a speaking appearance at an annual meeting of gay conservative Republicans. She's using the same invective against them she turned on John Edwards, except for the choice of "faggot" of course.
I'd say the Republican Party is suffering from an institutional auto-immune disease...
It was Norm Coleman. And what does Ann Coulter have to do with this.
ReplyDelete"I still don't know what Long John Silver's got to do with all this."
Strom Thurmond near the end of the Clarence Thomas hearings.
I don't know what Clarence Thomas has to do with all this. Clarence Thomas should have been rejected for one simple reason. It had nothing to do with Anita Hill, or what kind of jokes he told to his staff. It was simply that when routine questions about federal jurisprudence were posed, he couldn't answer them. He was ignorant of the relevant law. Where did I get that from? His own autobiography.
ReplyDeleteWhat does Ann Coulter have to do with this? You spun an absurd scenario about some intra-Republican squabbles, and I threw in another one. The party's having a meltdown.