tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304832159039712637.post8481036754687381275..comments2024-03-27T10:33:12.437-04:00Comments on Off-Center Views: Let's do a Lieberman on the Tea PartyPhoenix Brown & Lars Vigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12238497525529132993noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304832159039712637.post-68588369338597524462013-01-16T12:12:04.988-05:002013-01-16T12:12:04.988-05:00Rob,
I agree wholeheartedly; yeah I know, take a ...Rob,<br /><br />I agree wholeheartedly; yeah I know, take a second to digest that. <br />I do believe that this is a way around the extremism that has overtaken American politics. An example, that I’m not sure made the national news, was the senatorial election of 2010 here in Alaska. During the primaries, Lisa Murkowski, the incumbent senator lost to a Tea Partier – Crazy Joe Miller. It was extremely disappointing to say the least. Well the good Senator realized after a huge outcry from her base, that Mr. Miller did not truly represent all Alaskans. She ran as a write in candidate. The tea baggers went on their predictable rant that she couldn’t do that, she lost the primary, yada, yada, yada… but the state’s highest court said she could. <br />The campaign from this point on was pretty tense but funny at the same time. Since she was a write in candidate, the ads during the last days before the election focused on spelling her name on the ballots. In the end she won the election quite handily, Joe Miller kept filing motions to block her to no avail and ended up displaying himself as the train wreck that he and the party he represented were. We avoided an extremist Senator and at the same time saw the Tea Party implode; their “movement” is pretty well entrenched outside of the mainstream political arena in Alaska, where it belongs.<br />While Ms. Murkowski never left the party, she was able to circumvent an extremist organization and go on to represent what most Alaskans truly want.<br /><br />--Art GowArt Gowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983472215676442033noreply@blogger.com