One of the best political ads produced

[Grace62]

This ad makes me, a liberal, want to send a check to Lisa Murkowski. The premise of the ad is a lie. Murkowski's Dad, as Governor, did have the right to appoint his replacement in the Senate. And he chose his own daughter.

The ad says "the seat wasn't his to give away." Actually it was.

Then she went on to win election in 2004 and rose quickly in the ranks of Republican power, and is one of the most effective Republicans in Congress. I don't agree with her environmental positions, but she has brought home the bacon for Alaska.
I don't think Alaskans are in general as extreme as Sarah Palin and Joe Miller. Right now Murkowski's write-in campaign is polling within the margin of tying Joe Miller. That type of campaign is very difficult to win, but she could do it.

[$tevie]

It's funny because I had a similar reaction. I'd almost be willing to vote for Murkowski if I lived in Alaska just to poke a stick in Let Freedom Ring, an organization whose claim to understand the Original intent of the Framers of the Constitution is so absurd as to be laughable.

[Grace62]

Polls out of Alaska showing upswing for Mukowski write-in bid

[Ted King]

Grace62 wrote:
Polls out of Alaska showing upswing for Mukowski write-in bid

If she wins, then my guess in another thread that she wouldn't win will have been wrong. It would be good to see a Tea Party candidate get defeated, but, if Murkowski does win, I strongly doubt that it will make any functional difference in the Senate. If elected, she'll be welcomed back into to the fold as a Republican even though in name she will technically be independent. (I suppose, though, there is a small chance that if Democrats maintain control of the senate that they might offer her a choice committee chairmanship to get her to caucus with them and an even tinier, itsy-bitsier chance that she would take them up on it.) By pre-Tea Party standards she was/is a pretty conservative Republican. If Collins and Snowe (about the only Republican senators that could be considered even reasonably close to moderate by pre-Tea Party standards) almost always toe the party line, you can be confident that Murkowski would do the same.

[Grace62]

I don't know if she can win. It's a long shot. Of course she will continue to be a conservative Republican if she goes back to Congress. That's all she's ever been. She is however less extreme than Joe Miller, who gives me the creeps.

I think that if Miller and other candidates in his tea kettle cohort are elected they will be ineffective and not serve more than one term.
Extremists rarely get anything accomplished for their districts or states and tend to do a lot of internal damage to their parties. They also don't rise quickly through party leadership ranks, as Lisa Murkowski did.

The extremists who rolled in with Reagan at his first victory were ineffective and most got voted out next election. At the end of the day voters want someone who is effective for them and don't care what national leaders of some movement tell them they should think and do.