From the AP:
A week after conceding the tight GOP primary to Joe Miller, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she’s not a quitter and is “still in this game.”
Murkowski told The Associated Press on Tuesday that she’s been inundated with calls and e-mails from supporters and overwhelmed by people just coming up to her, asking her not to leave the race. She said she had been ready to consider her future outside the Senate on Aug. 31, when she conceded, but has been humbled by the outpouring from Alaskans, is listening and weighing her options…
Yeah, I’m sure you’ve got a flood of calls, Senator – after all, the people of Alaska just can’t get enough of political barnacles who don’t know when its time to leave. That’s why you went from 40 points ahead to a narrow loss in a battle with a man nobody knew a month ago.
What we’ve got here is a member of the Ruling Class who can’t believe that the party is over – and, of course, she’s going to be easily played by Democrats…who know that if she runs as a Third Party, she’ll either split the GOP vote and allow a Democrat to squeak in (thus possibly saving the Senate for the Democrats), or she’ll manage to pull it off, and thus start caucusing with the Democrats (once again, just possibly saving the Senate for them). All she’s have to do is sell her soul – take all that support and devotion she’s received from the Republican party over the years and throw it in the toilet…
She can do as she wishes. I’m betting that, in the end, the people of Alaska would see right through such a move and still elect Miller. But if it comes out otherwise (Democrat or turncoat winning), then that is ok, too – we’ll change the result in 2016, and one political barnacle hanging on this November won’t change the march of revolutionary change. It is precisely this sort of cynical, political gamesmanship that we’re all disgusted with – having someone prove it to us and provide us a poster child about it will just make it all the better, in the long run.
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