Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Win-Win

The Gloomsters in Donk Gloomville are Gloomier

M iller even has the right look: With a long, lean face, and stubble closer to 10 o'clock than 5, he could almost pass for Chuck Norris.

Unfortunately for him, not even Chuck Norris in his most bad-ass role—which is, of course, Chuck Norris in real life—could rescue the Miller campaign. Always a long shot, Miller lags behind Murkowski, the heir to one of Alaska's political dynasties, by double digits. Alexandra Gutierrez, a SLATE political columnist on Monday.

Boned Jello
Another WHOOPS! moment.

I read a number of stories last week (like this AP gloat ), that had a  Palin-Power-Interruptus theme, very much like Gutierrez did Monday at SLATE.

  On Tuesday, in her home state, Sarah Palin's favorite will probably get trounced. Joe Miller is widely expected to lose by a large margin to incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary—an embarrassing defeat for the former governor, who has endorsed Miller, but also to Miller's other major backer, the Tea Party Express.

And Palin's endorsement hasn't helped, Moore adds. According to a Dittman Research poll conducted in April, 52 percent of Alaskans hold a negative opinion of Palin. "When someone with those kinds of numbers endorses someone for public office, believe me, the effect is on the whole negative," says Moore.
Miller won the election, pending the count of 8,000 absentee ballots.  Here's the WaPost this morning.
WINNERS

Sarah Palin: Just when it looked like her influence in Republican primary fights was fading, Palin came back with a vengeance last night -- as all five of her endorsed candidates appeared headed to victories including Alaska attorney Joe Miller who led Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski with 98 percent of precincts reporting. Both Murkowski and Miller blamed/credited Palin with the result, which is rightly seen as the biggest upset of the 2010 cycle to date. The message? In Republican primaries -- particularly small turnout affairs -- the energy and enthusiasm that Palin can help create is invaluable.
John McCormack has more detail, "Who is Joe Miller?


11 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's helping me to swallow the McCain win.....
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Anonymous said...

Lisa was widely disliked for her RINO ways and despised for being appointed by her daddy the guv, to his old senate seat he vacated to be guv.
RAK

Gayle Miller said...

Don't you just love it when a plan comes together. This victory will serve notice on all the quisling, spineless twits like Scott Brown, John McCain and others that running as one thing and serving in office as something else altogether will not lead to a long time in office! The voters aren't buying that crap any longer!

Jess said...

McCain is trainable. His bipartisan BS will disappear when his ass is given to him the first time he makes a noise like he's going to return to his evil ways.
He's naive enough to think he can make a run at being President. Fat chance. He blew his last chance and will never get another one.

Anonymous said...

Jess, 'McCain is trainable' is another way of saying he has no set principals or standards other than his own power. The press steered the masses there last time. It won't happen again.
Tim

Chuck said...

There's more from the SLATE POS/Reporter here. "The End of Palin as Kingmaker" http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_end_of_palin_as_kingmaker

Speaking of Miller, this is what she said "This month, the only indication that he was closing the gap came from a suspect, untraceable poll sponsored by the Tea Party Express."

LMAO, here Boss..

Anonymous said...

People have been saying such things about McCain for years. I'll remind you next spring that good ole trainable John McCain is really our friend, right after he screws us again. *spit*

Cheesy said...

If you think McLame isn't on board with oblowme's backdoor amnesty, you're fooling yourself.

Anonymous said...

I voted for him, he's my ex-wife's lawyer. I need him to stay busy.

Bryan said...

I agree with Rob but would add that Miller supporters were more organized and more motivated than his opponent. They got out the vote if for no other reason than to make a point and it paid off.

Interesting, Rob, the morning guy on KENI, Rick Rydell was decidedly disappointed in the Miller victory. He proffered that the democrats will probably dump their token senatorial candidate and recruit Tony Knowles to run against Miller. Not sure if that is a reasonable scenario or not but it is out there.

Anonymous said...

Rick Rydell has always been in the bag for the Murkoski's.

Tony Knowels is so 4 terms ago:-) He would bring all the old dope smokin hippis out but half of his constituents are dead the other half are in prison.
We will see. Trade ya Miller for McClame...
Rob

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