Charlie Crist and Lisa Murskowski’s actions after getting knocked out of power by their party’s primary elections prove one thing: they don’t care about their party, their principles, or their constituents’ wishes — ALL they care about is their own power.
Neither has the class nor the dignity to simply acknowledge that they lost, and that it’s time for them to graciously accept defeat and move on.
Thankfully, in Florida, Charlie Christ’s path to personal glory and power has been dealt a set back with the victory by Rep. Kendrick Meeks (D) in the US Senate primary:
Rep. Kendrick Meek’s (D) victory in Florida’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary ensures many Democrats are unlikely to bolt to Gov. Charlie Crist’s (D) independent candidacy as they might have if the baggage-laden Jeff Greene (D) were the party’s nominee.
“All of which leaves Crist in the position of having to perform Houdini-like marvels of contortion to find a large enough space in the political middle to keep his independent bid on track,” Politico notes.
For the final two months of the campaign, Crist “will have to chart a narrow, largely untested course between both parties. He’ll have finite financial resources and few outside allies who can ride to his rescue. In short, he’ll have to be a political one-man band, relying ever more on his skills as a sunny, relentless and elastic campaigner who bends to where he thinks the people, and victory, are found.”
Meanwhile, in Alaska, Murkowski is trying to figure out how she can pull an Al Franken and steal back the election that she’s already lost:
Joe Miller has won the GOP nomination for the United States Senate in Alaska. Looking at where the absentee ballots are coming from, etc., Murkowski is not going to be able to make it up. Sources close to Miller, Palin, and external media sources all seem to think Murkowski can’t make up the difference.
But there is a problem.
The absentee ballots will not be counted for a week or so. Already there are rumors of “found” ballots. Murkowski is refusing to go away quietly, even allowing her campaign to float the idea of a third party bid or write-in candidacy.
Joe Miller needs a quick infusion of cash to his campaign to pay for a ballot integrity program. Tea Party activists need to get to Alaska immediately to help secure the process and make sure Murkowski cannot steal the election.
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Miller is a great candidate with a resume that any one running for office should envy.
He was struggling, though, until the Tea Party, Todd Palin and Super Sarah got behind him. The ground he made up in the past month to be the likely winner is simply amazing.
If Miller is declared the winner, the Murkowski clan’s hatred of Super Sarah will grow even greater.
Rasmussen-Voters Now Trust Republicans More On All 10 Key Issues.
Ass-whoopin’ a comin’.
then there was the story yesterday on Fox of 10 or 12 states who were going to be in violation, because they couldn’t get absentee ballots to the troops over seas in time for various reasons.
My solution? those govnernors and state senates give up a portion of their exhorbitant salaries and pay to have the ballots flown over. Say to one of our Bases in Saudi Arabia. from there the military can break them down into where their going by country [Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq] and by outpost base and fly them to the respective bases in the respective countries. Seems to me you could get the flying, sorting and transporting to various bases done in 5 days or less if the pols and the military set their wills to it.