Amazing race, hopefully Alaska 2010 will be a reminder to every new Republican entering Congress next year. Lisa Murkowski represents the old way of politics - who you know, how far you can climb on the inside - that is being rejected across the country and remaking the Republican Party from the big spending, big government GOP of the 2000s into a conservative party for the 2010s.
Two races to watch out for by the end of September - Delaware and New Hampshire. The Tea Party Express is in the First State going after Mike Castle on behalf of Chrsitine O'Donnell, while Ovide Lamontagne just got a boost from an endorsement by the Manchester Union-Leader.
Right now these folks might be elected to the US Senate: Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Joe Miller, Pat Toomey, Sharron Angle, Mike Lee, and Ken Buck. That, my friends, is quite a change.
We'll need a change because the Republic is facing serious challenges.
Our currency is facing hyperinflation. The country to our south is collapsing into chaos and armed rebellion. Iran is threatening to launch a frenzied and insane assault on the rest of the world.
We will need new leaders to emerge in the House and Senate. Leaders of strong character, high morals, physical and mental courage, and firm grounding in the US Constitution.
The change coming is nothing less than a citizen rebellion and rejection of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid tyranny. A revolution while the world order around us is teetering on a precipice.
Posted by: Earnest Throckmorton | September 01, 2010 at 12:31 AM
anyone with half a brain can easily figure out that 1) had sister sarah not endorsed murkowski would have run away with that race, and 2) sister sarah has had an ax to grind with the murkowski family for some time now especially after sen. murkowski blaster for quitting her job to go on a book tour leaving alaska without their elected governor. this was more of a political tit for tat than some tea party revolution.
of course i believe that unless there is a legitimate reason to primary a republican incumbent we should stick with the 11th commandment, funny how quick reagan's rules are tossed when convenient. kinda like that small limited government thing when you want to ban gay marriage....
Posted by: local gop | September 01, 2010 at 05:44 AM
once again you are letting your age show, to quote a mutual freind "you are so misinformed."
Murkowski has never been popular based on her appointment by her father. She barely beat Tony Knowles in 2004 and was kept under 50% in Bush's reelection year.
Miller's campaign was more than just Palin's endorsement . . . he had some crucial local support from local talk radio personalities and former electeds like Loren Leman. There was also a parental consent question on the ballot that pushed out the conservative vote and Miller smartly attached himself to it.
Murkowski has never been popular with Alaska Republicans, and in hindsight this should really suprise people that she went down. She is seen as an insider daughter of nepotism that just wasn't representing the state.
As well, Miller has some credentials - a West Point grad, Yale law school, state and federal judge. He is articulate and a hard campaigner that Murkowski never took seriously - and that is on her. He's not some nobody nothing out of nowhere.
I think people are actually overestimating Palin's endorsement here, though it did matter, and underestimating how serious Murkowski was not like in the state and how vunerable she was on a series of issues.
Posted by: Chris | September 01, 2010 at 06:20 AM
If Christine O'Donnell upends Mike Castle, the Republican Party should just give up.
Castle may be a moderate, but O'Donnell isn't a tea party candidate. She's run the last two cycles on a far-right social agenda, and launched a write-in campaign in 2006 when she lost the nomination.
Furthermore, I don't care what the political environment looks like, Mike Castle can win Delaware. Christine O'Donnell is a pathetic joke of a candidate, and is incapable of winning.
Posted by: VA Blogger | September 01, 2010 at 10:46 AM
I'm actually inclined to agree with you VAB. Especially since the Dems have a good candidate in Chris Coons. He's not a Biden but he's an able candidate.
Castle is what he's always been, a moderate. It is what it is, like Mark Kirk in Illinois. O'Donnell would make many of my friends cheer, but we can't get to 51 seats without Delaware.
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Posted by: Steve | September 01, 2010 at 04:22 PM
local says: kinda like that small limited government thing when you want to ban gay marriage....
Is this person an idiot, or what?
Posted by: Sue Margarite | September 01, 2010 at 08:23 PM
Also about O'Donnell, apparently she has gone bankrupt and someone in her campaign claims that the 72 year old Castle is gay? Very strange . . .
If I lived in Delaware I would support Castle - and that might get me flamed - but we have the rare chance to steal a seat here we normally would have no business winning. We just cannot regain the Senate without it.
Posted by: Chris | September 02, 2010 at 12:30 AM
"We just cannot regain the Senate without it."
there isnt a state that we have the luxury of not looking at the senate race through this view; that is to say that we HAVE to win every senate race to gain the senate (atleast the competitive ones). We were screwed when sharon angle won...that was control of the senate...gone...right there. she squandered a 10 point lead. if she was going to win she would be winning now, but she isnt.
Posted by: local gop | September 02, 2010 at 11:33 PM
Once again, local makes no sense. What a moron.
Posted by: Ferndinand Denario | September 03, 2010 at 09:40 PM
I agree. Local is a very bizarre fellow. Probably a Gerry Connolly plant. The Dems often use this tactic to infiltrate their opponent's organizations. He should monitored.
Posted by: Cheryl Dominquez | September 05, 2010 at 09:42 PM
he's not a plant, the kid works very hard for the local party I'll give him that. We just don't agree with a lot of candidate choices. But the guy has earned his stripes as a Republican with authority to speak about local and state issues.
Posted by: Chris | September 06, 2010 at 10:56 AM
Jeeze Chris,
I could crash your server by posting copies of all of local's rants where he calls folks morons and idiots. He has done this all over the conservative blog sites on the internet. And you think he's earned his stripes as a Republican?
Jeeze! So, he's not a Connolly plant. But, still a miscreant.
Posted by: Emelda Sanchez | September 06, 2010 at 06:22 PM