LISA MURKOWSKI CONCEDES RACE IN ALASKA (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 8:15 PM
Another RINO bites the dust…
Senator Lisa Murkowski just conceded the primary race in Alaska to conservative Joe Miller!
Big Government announced earlier that the trend in the count of absentee ballots makes it virtually impossible that Sen. Murkowski would overtake Joe Miller in the GOP Senate Primary.
Swing State Project announced last hour that Senator Murkowsky was holding a press conference.
9:41pm: Murkowski will hold a press conference in twenty minutes.
9:40pm: Being generous, let’s say there are 7000 valid GOP votes left to be counted. Murkowski would need 61% of them to win. She’s done.
The moderate Alaskan senator will not appear on the Libertarian ticket.
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StrangernFiction commented:
One more RINO down, many more to go.
maria commented:
FANTASTIC NEWS…
nadadhimmi commented:
Was that strange squishing sound Lindsey Graham soiling his pants?
newton commented:
Let’s get that Wall Trophy List going!
Sen Bennett (UT) – Out!
Sen Murkowski (AK) – Out!
Who else?
kato commented:
I guess in a GOP primary in a state like Alaska one doesn’t need to worry about thousands of inner-city mail-in ballots turning up in the trunk of an ACORN organizer.
Brooklyn commented:
Fascinating.
I was able, by chance at lunch, to catch a little of Joe Miller’s interview on FOX with Megyn Kelly. I wish him well. Hoping he gets to the Senate very soon.
It was clear, however, he was ‘walking back’ many of the overt, delusional, conspiracy accusations made about the GOP. It is understandable, because Mrs. Murkowski and others, were understandably questioning whether Mr. Miller sounds overtly anti-Republican.
He, and his supporters, including the Tea Party Express, were so hostile in their demeanor, they lost a little credibility with the nasty expression for “Republicans”. The charges sometimes reflected what the Democratic Partisans say, about the GOP. The nonsensical expression grew to be entirely embarrassing from some.
I understand many will disagree with me. However I have watched fashion grow and become utterly counterproductive – over decades. We see few level heads, an odd – overtly emotive popularity amongst what was once a strong, reasoned Conservative movement. Frustrations are understandable, but unforced, self made errors, are simply foolish – so is a divisive, conspiratorial, populace embrace.
Some days, your candidate will not win a Primary, and the last thing we need, is a childish temper tantrum from Our side, everytime we have a political competition.
I welcome Mr. Miller’s victory, and was never a Murkowski supporter. Would never have simply backed her either, because she has a near 30 pt lead in the polls against the Democrats. We want the best candidates we can find.
Sadly, at times with all the Palin emails, seeking funds and support in this race for Miller, it looked personal – like a very sophomoric vendetta. I hope this is not the case. Americans deserve better than something so tiresome.
It will be the easiest way to help enable Democrats again, like prior to 2006 and in 2008, to offer self destructive madness. Nothing will be perfect, no politician will ever reach the ideal, nor will we all agree on everything.
Expression and emotions over this Race, were proven again to be overt, childish, nutty, self destructive, etc. It was interesting to see Mr. Miller try to overcome this folly today.
We have to win this November, and in 2012. There is no other choice. We have to put together our best effort. We must grow the most constructive – powerful we can.
Hoping Mr. Miller wins the day in the end. Hoping we all can remove Democrats from power in NOV and again in 2012, and keep them safely from harm in the future.
DocScience commented:
Looks like people prefer the rich full flavor of honesty instead of the singed empty flavor of Democrat-lite.
MaxTruth commented:
Thank you Ms. Murkowski for doing the honorable thing.
mockmook commented:
Brooklyn, you sure worry a lot.
StrangernFiction commented:
Not only do we have a good chance to win back the Senate, but we are going to be upgrading several seats as well.
It’s hard to imagine Miller won’t be a huge upgrade over Murkowski (ACU lifetime 71); Portman (ACU lifetime 89) you would expect would be a big upgrade over Voinovich (ACU lifetime 70); and Blunt (ACU lifetime 93) you would expect would be a big upgrade over Bond (ACU lifetime 81 and Citizens Against Govt. Waste lifetime of 59, which is horrible for an R).
Scott commented:
I wouldn’t pop the cork on the champaign until after I’ve read her concession speech. I want to see her throw her support support to Miller.
She might pull a Charlie Christ like stunt and run as a write-in candidate and split the GOP vote.
David commented:
“Let’s get that Wall Trophy List going!
Sen Bennett (UT) – Out!
Sen Murkowski (AK) – Out!
Who else?”
I’d add Sen Specter (PA) to that list also, although he scattered to the Dems before getting the primary axe.
chili palmer commented:
Brooklyn #8 isn’t really “worried,” he’s just a “concern” troll, you know intertwining his worry about our future because–in his expert view–”delusional” people are starting to win against the criminals who presided over the loss of our country and the installation of George Soros into the oval beige music room.
Dave-O commented:
The fact that the NRSC squandered its donor’s contributions seeking more votes for a primary candidate that was – at the same time – actively seeking an alternative spot on the Alaska Libertarian party ticket is, in itself, an outrage.
There needs to be consequences for this.
mackykam commented:
Now it’s time to overturn the attempts of that RINO who wants to become the next senator of Delaware!
jainphx commented:
This and other good outcomes are over shadowed by the insanity of Arizonans nominating the biggest RINO of them all. The turd spent 22 million dollars on a Primary.
sam goodman commented:
In Alaska we had a election 30 years ago when Wally Hickle ran against Jay Hammond for Governor where ballots kept turning up for days after the election in car trunks etc. The final vote was down to under 100 votes and kept swinging back and forth as new ballots turned up.
After that shamefull episode the state cleaned up the ballot security situation and since then there has been no cases of stolen ballots or missing ballots affecting any major elections. Jay hammond served two terms as a Republican and Wally hickle served a term as a governor under the Alaskan Independence party.
Alaska Politics seem to be very different than politics down south and party labels are almost meaningless. besides the Republican and Democratic parties we normally have the Moderate Republican, Alaskan Independant, Libertarian and green parties on the ballot. Alaskan Independant and Libertarians have elected candidates to office.
One intresteing thing was The Alaskan Independant and Alaska Libertarian Parties both told Murkowski that she would not be on the ballot under their parties label.
The Alaskan Independance party http://www.akip.org
Alaska Libertarian Party http://www.alaskalibertarian.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Moderate_Party_of_Alaska
Chkn Fryd commented:
Thoughtful Brooklyn.
But what’s gonna happen when the small government folks in AK realize that they are the largest per capita recipients of the pork they are trimming? Just who am us anyway; we be our own worst enemy.
Rock commented:
Last week I wrote NRC and explained while I will vote Republican, my cash and votes would be swayed by who the Tea Party favored. I have been disappointed by RINO’s far to many times to even consider the big tent approach. I do not trust McCain, he goes back and forth on the border issue more than many illegals. If as I suspect Murkowsky decides to run as a independent she will just reinforce my contempt for the Parties big tent mentality. I really do not expect the Republican party will be able to do much even with control of the House, but Pelosi will out and hopefully be but a footnote in history. The real turn around happens when Obama is out. I hope they understand it cannot be business as usual, or they will be gone just as fast.
donh commented:
The left has a standard set of trap questions they ask to discredit tea party candidates. One question is for a position on Social Security. The goal is to either expose the candidate as an extremist who will end SS , or expose the candidate as a fake who supports a socialist program like SS. Joe Miller was asked this question and he gave an EXCELLANT answer about his parents being on SS but big changes have to be made to avoid catastrophy. All candidates should study his answer and be well prepared for these kind of leg trap questions from the government media.
StrangernFiction commented:
Check out the quote that is now atop the DOJ’s website (apparently it is part of a longer quote that is engraved on the outside of the DOJ building):
“The common law is the will of Mankind issuing from the Life of the People.”
Here’s a piece from the American Spectator on this change:
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/with-liberty-and-global-justic/print
You will definitely get a chuckle out of the second paragraph.
sliderblaze commented:
again, tired of being wrong chknfrd? your assuming that they dont already know they are the largest. See, some people who know that the country is in serious economic trouble, dont mind giving up things like, a bridge to nowhere in order to make us solvent again, maybe you should take a lesson. No money is ever free money. Lesson over, again, and that lesson my man/women, IS FREE.
Conservative Kevin commented:
Excellent news. Restore America instead of redistribution.
People have finally woken up.
sliderblaze commented:
Brooklyn… what you are witnessing, is the conservatives reclaiming the republican party, you can call it nasty, vendetta blah blah blah. The fact remains, Murk. was not a conservative and didnt share the conservative values that she holds, Miller does. So who is she gonna back? We conservatives are poking the eyes of the RINOs in a big way this year. So call it what you will, conservative works every time. The establishment GOP is on notice, the big spending, gang of 12, 10, 14 nonsense has to stop and God will, this year, it will. see the dems stick things in bills that they KNOW will never get passed just to have something to trade, and then come in the dumbass RINOs taking the bait just to say they got something done. ONE DOESNT TRADE AWAY PRINCIPLES. AND THAT IS WHY WE LOST IN 06 AND 08. That lesson too is free.
Peter Warner commented:
Thank you Senator Murkowski for your service, and for putting Alaska first. You’ve done the right thing, and you’ve earned the respect and appreciation of the voters for doing so.
Best regards, Peter Warner.
Just_Saying commented:
I am grateful, also, that Senator Murkowski took the high road and conceded to Miller. Now, I hope she take the even higher road and endorses Joe Miller for Senate and works hard for his election. That would really give me a great reason to support her in the 2014 election against Senator Begich (as would some real conservative principles in her campaign and promises to vote conservative).
Thank you, Lisa!
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jainphx commented:
Hey Chykn Shiite the difference between Demoncraps and Conservatives is the post right above me. Peter Warner didn’t take the Demoncrap way, no he thanked her for doing the right think, along with her service. A little courtesy goes a long way to curing the soul of the country.
carol-Christian Soldier commented:
guess the NRSC sending advocates for the elite Murkowski – didn’t work–the elites ‘helping’ the elites–
Goooooo Miller!!!!
C-CS
Dustin commented:
I’m sorry to say this, but the people saying they are grateful to Murkowski for her gracious concession need to understand that Lisa is very clear: she is conceding because she calculated there is no way that non conceding leads to her winning. That is what she said. That’s all there is to this.
There is some small benefit to concession, because it saves us from some degree of hassle. She calculated even that small benefit outweighed staying in the primary.
Go to her personal website now… she is still strongly attacking Miller. She has not endorsed him or called for unity among the party… thought she committed to doing so. She did entertain a third party run until that party said no.
There’s no grace in her behavior… she is smart enough not to persist when the game is up, that’s all.
She probably won’t run in the general. She would if she thought she could win, though.
Brooklyn, Miller’s claims were largely vindicated. His concerns about the observer’s illegal actions were valid concerns. His concerns about the NRSC sending lawyers are shared by most of the NRSC donors I know.
And his tone has been much more affable than Murkowski’s. Check their respective websites. Miller uses language like ‘we differ greatly’. Murkowski’s uses something a little more insane.
These ‘moderates’ are not moderate about losing their power.
sandy commented:
The Republicans could take the Senate and didn’t need a food fight between 2 candidates. I’m glad that Murkowski conceded so that this will be a clean race between a Republican and a Democrat.
kato commented:
Brooklyn clearly moved the discussion here.
If conservatives are going to become players again, it will probably have to come by way of the GOP. This is going to cause some very uncomfortable situations as the GOP has not been a conservative party for quite some time.
Conservatives are not going to win back the government in 2010 and probably not in 2012. The GOP may win back some power, but that doesn’t mean that conservatism will also be a winner. I can foresee conservative freshman Republicans having bigger fights with the entrenched powers of their own party than with the Democrats in the near term.
It’s going to take some time to clean out the Augean stables, assuming they can be cleaned. There has already been a backlash by the GOP establishment, which is unhappy that tea-party upstarts are beating its Beltway politicians-for-sale. That should tell you something about the GOP.
The sad reality is that a Ronald Reagan type of Republican, who also had some of the Gipper’s charisma, would win the presidency decisively in 2012. The GOP establishment is one of the biggest obstacles to that happening.
None of the 2008 candidates are even worth considering, but one of those will probably be the slug the party will ask you to vote for in 2012. In other words, four more years of the Jivemaster and four more years of this country in the hands of our arrogant and mendacious left-wing “messiah,” weakened, perhaps, but still dangerous to American values and American prosperity.
EaglesNest commented:
Had it been a Demorat, there would have been a van filled with registration of illegals and the dead ballots for her. However, since it is a Republican, Acorn could not have done what it has in the past.
Rose commented:
Took her long enough!
Laika's Last Woof commented:
“But what’s gonna happen when the small government folks in AK realize that they are the largest per capita recipients of the pork they are trimming?”
I’m sure with all the new jobs that will open up in Alaska’s energy sector they won’t even notice the missing pork.
Given the choice between jobs or pork I’ll bet most Alaskans won’t have much trouble making up their minds.
Reaganite Republican commented:
Don’t let the door hitcha, Leese
Bobbi commented:
Whose next?
I wish the people in Maine would wake up and give the pink slip to Susan collins
bill-tb commented:
Another one bites the dust … Damn Tea party, ruining the party.
SM-Illinois commented:
Last week the NRSC sent me a fund raising email…..and I told them I didn’t want one red cent of my donations going to fight the likes of Joe Miller……because their job is going after Dem’s…….they must have got the message from quite a few of us because they apparently went back to DC. Right on Joe Miller! Say bye bye Lisa!
Arch commented:
Kato:
There is a serious conservative who is under the radar and will be available in 2012. He is a medical doctor who can criticize Obamacare with devastating insight. As an OB/GYN doctor he has delivered 4,000 babies. Needless to say, he opposes abortion. He takes no PAC money and delivers no pork. He is a budget hawk and imposed his own term limits. He opposed the Republican party and won a primary against the GOP candidate. Today, he is on the Senate Judiciary Committee and is the ranking member of Subcommittee on the Constitution. His was not a virgin birth, but he is an ordained Baptist Deacon.
The downside: He graduated from Oklahoma State University and married Carol Denton who was Miss Oklahoma in 1967. I graduated from the University of Oklahoma that year. In mitigation, he later graduated OU Medical School.
Draft Senato Tom Coburn (MD)!
bill-tb commented:
Wasn’t she part of McConnell’s staff … something like 4th in the leadership?
Going to be some changing coming.
Militant Conservative commented:
Brooklyn
August 31st, 2010 | 8:41 pm | #7
Sounds to me that you like sausage (Republicans) but do not like to see how it is made. Politics is a blood sport and not for the feint of heart nor the timid. You sound squishy and touchy feely. Man up. pwder is dry.
As for chix dropings, it is what it is.
Arch commented:
The GOP is crowded with good candidates who have baggage with parts of their base, but the Tea Party movement is a big tent indeed.
No one alive is perfect and give enough scrutiny, some ugly fact will emerge to illustrate that fact. The democrats, by far the most imperfect set of American politicians, excuse themselves and focus their lapdog media on the GOP.
An interesting news item emerged last week when Ken Melman admitted to being gay. The media gleefully announced it to the world, expecting a push back from conservatives. It didn’t happen. Does that mean we all condone his life style or support gay marriage. No. It means Ken Melman is a good man. Leave him alone.
Conservatives seem to have learned a lesson; do not allow the media to manipulate us.
Chip Bennett commented:
@Brooklyn: It would seem that the Concern Troll Bot Generator has been updated with a loquacity algorithm.
@ChknFryd: Insofar as Alaskans get government stipends predominantly from the State, out of revenues generated by their own jobs, utilizing Alaska’s own resources, such stipends are not “pork”, and reducing federal spending will not greatly impact Alaskans (apart from the positive impact resulting from lowering their federal taxes).
@sliderblaze: Great points. Unfortunately, the lessons of 2006 and 2008 are hardly “free”. We’ll be paying for those lessons for generations.
@Lisa Murkowski: no endorsement of your primary opponent means no conciliatory response from me regarding your concession. Your ability to perform basic mathematical analyses does not confer upon you any measure of humility or grace. DLTDHYOYWO
Militant Conservative commented:
Chip Bennett
September 1st, 2010 | 8:13 am | #47
Aren’t bombing runs against intellectually challenged targets fun. Kinda like picking on mental pigmys.
powder is dry.
Kevin P commented:
Brooklyn #7- I didn’t read who it was from until I got down to the third paragraph and thought to myself “This has to be a Brookly post” – sure enough.
You’re too predictable.
Freddy commented:
Looks to me that Gateway Pundit is reaching the big time!
We now have MANY TROLL commenters from the left that are DESPERATE! Obviously, they are now afraid of this site.
GO GATEWAY PUNDIT!
Paul_In_Houston commented:
Tip of the iceberg.
From Tsunami
(AJStrata, of The Strata-Sphere has frequently used the term as an anology of what may come in November, and is the “he” referred to below.)
…a tsunami wave doesn’t doesn’t look all that different from other waves out in mid-ocean…
It’s when it begins arriving in the shallows that the true monster rears its head.
Pointing to pent-up frustrations among likely voters waiting until November to speak their piece, rather than talking to pollsters now, he feels that current polls (bad as they already are for Democrats) may not even hint at the bloodbath to come.
…this raises hope that the shoving down our throats of the worst of the Democrat’s agenda, promised for the lame-duck session following the election, may not be a given after all.
If the Democrats get smashed hard enough, then there may be many among the survivors (assuming they’re not all freaking morons) that may be reluctant to enlist in a kamikaze run to help the walking dead force their bills upon us.
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kato commented:
Arch:
I love what I hear from Tom Coburn. I would like nothing better than to believe that he will run and, even better, win. But he is still an outlier in a party that prefers RINOism, a party that hews just right of center enough to win elections.
I still say that not only do we need a candidate with Reagan’s political beliefs, but one with Reagan’s charisma. I don’t see such a person right now.