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AK-Sen: Stay Classy, Joe Miller!

by: James L.

Fri Aug 27, 2010 at 3:06 PM EDT


Joe Miller tweets:

What's the difference between selling out your party's values and the oldest profession? http://bit.ly/93kXBr #teaparty #tcot #alaska #ak

UPDATE: I see that Joe Miller quickly pulled the plug on that tweet. But don't worry, James Hell has the screenshot!

LATER UPDATE: The Murkowski campaign is furious:

Sean Cockerham spoke with Murkowski's campaign manager John Bitney, who had this to say:

"He just basically called Senator Murkowski a prostitute," Bitney said. "I am doing my best in a moment of extreme anger right at the moment to be measured in my remarks. The word that comes to mind is deplorable. Disgusting. The man has no place representing Alaska in the U.S. Senate with that kind of attitude."

Bitney said this is being watched nationally and Miller should be ashamed to take it to that level. "He owes Alaskans an apology."
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AK-Sen: Stay Classy, Joe Miller! | 51 comments
Is he really calling Lisa Murkowski a whore?
Wow. Lisa, this is what your party has become. I think if you win reelection you should seriously consider what the Democratic party has to offer you in terms of moderation and open discussion.

And if you decide not to run, I'd urge you to do everything in your power to keep Joe Miller from getting into the Senate.  

Yep
This is the party of family values and patriotism and all that -- and he's calling his state's senior senator a prostitute.

On the upside, why do I have a feeling Joe Miller may make Sharon Angle and Rand Paul look like careful, rational, reasoned people?

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Mindboggling
If he is the Republican candidate for Alaska's Senate Seat I could see him effectively handing this race to the Democrats, even in this environment.  
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Just wow.
Also, this is the Internet. Nothing can be hidden, Mr. Miller. Nice try.  

Independent Socialist & Chair of SSP Cranky Indianian Hoosier Caucus, IN-09
If he didn't
want people to see this was him tweeting, he should have used an assumed name.  Like Brock Landers.
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in the future
if you see flubs like this you wanna keep....mark it as a favorite (eg) then they can't delete it (giggle)
Do I sense a Murkowskofava scenario in the works?
Miller's polished to be sure, and Alaska's historically about as Republican as it gets, but remarks like this -- along with all of the out-of-state money that propelled his candidacy -- make me wonder if we're not looking at a Doug Hoffman in the making.

Male, 23, DC-At Large
Alaska isn't historically Republican
it was quite Democratic leaning until the early 1980s, and even now Democrats are quite strong at a local and legislative level, even if it's been tough as of late to win statewide.  
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Miller's polished?
He just called Senator Murkowski a whore. If that's your idea of polished I'd hate to see what you find unpolished.  
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Your observation underlines the very point I'm trying to make
n/t

Male, 23, DC-At Large
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he's as polished as a doorknob
and as smart as one too
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I agree, he's such a knob!


Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo!
So little time, so much to know!
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so Lisa Murkowski is a strong contender for the 2010 Dede award
Murkowski and McAdams are both from the panhandle, so that could help McAdams at least establish a good foothold to build from
He removed the tweet, but too late.
Screencap is out.

Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo!
So little time, so much to know!
Let's see if Palin will "refudiate" this.
I'll bet she won't.

Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo!
So little time, so much to know!
You betcha
Wasilla's Village Idiot will defend him like she defended Dr. Laura the Racist.

23, male, center-right cynical Republican, PA-7
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There is no way
Murkowski will not try to go third part (Libertarian) now. He made a serious mistake with this little tweet. This is now a potential Dem pickup.  

19, Self Appointed Chair of the SSP Gay Caucus (I claimed it first :p), male, Dem, IN-09 (College IN-09) (Raised IL-03, IL-09)
i'd rather her
quietly dump any campaign info her campaign gathered on Miller to McAdams, and get to work electing him.

Because if she runs third party, McAdams becomes as relevant as Meek in Florida.

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Lisa Murkowski is no Charlie Crist
and I say that as someone that doesn't like Crist.  

Independent Socialist & Chair of SSP Cranky Indianian Hoosier Caucus, IN-09
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Crist was a moderate,
Murkowski is not. She might take some of the middle but she will not take the Democrats. But I don't think she cares about that. She wants Sarah Palin's candidate to lose. This is a proxy battle and she hates her with a passion. Also if you want to see another three person race look at the Florida Governors race. It doesn't always work the same way. There are different scenarios.

19, Self Appointed Chair of the SSP Gay Caucus (I claimed it first :p), male, Dem, IN-09 (College IN-09) (Raised IL-03, IL-09)
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unless McAdams finds money
he would be ignored in a Murkowski/Miller rematch.

Murkowski is an incumbent, and would exceed Crist's showing.

The Dem finished in 3rd place in 1978 for Governor (which the Republican incumbent beat the write-in Republican)

I could see McAdams being abandoned to defend some seats in this current climate.

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Like I said
different scenarios. Will see what happens.

19, Self Appointed Chair of the SSP Gay Caucus (I claimed it first :p), male, Dem, IN-09 (College IN-09) (Raised IL-03, IL-09)
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AK is a cheap state
Would take a lot smaller of an investment to help him out than, say, Elaine Marshall.
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McAdams had $9175 through 6/30
so, he would need to break into the 4 digits hard to really have enough on his own to make an impact. And I'm gonna guess the DSCC isn't gonna do much here.

The only way Murkowski wouldn't beat McAdams would be as a write-in. The Libertarian won 16% in a primary open to AIP/Dems/Libertarians next to McAdams' 50% (and it would surprise me if the Libertarians or AIP had any contested primaries on Tuesday)

There's a heck of a blindspot in play here.

Looking over the McAdams expenditures.. I did not realize that Twitter/Facebook services can net someone $350. Impressive

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Murkowski actually was a moderate...
....but went right when she leaped from the Alaska legislature to the Senate to try to shore up her right flank.  Unfortunately for her the right flank of the Republican Party is jumping into "let's repeal every constitutional amendment" mode and no one with any sense of rationality can jump THAT far.

NY-13, Democrat. Blog @ http://infinitefunction.wordpr...
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SSP
Got a tip-'o-the-hat from Teagan Goodard over at CQ Politics. Huzzah!
http://politicalwire.com/archi...

26 White Male. Born and raised in MN-8, currently living in MN-5.

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."

Wait a second! He's NOT calling Murkowski a whore!
He's not calling Murkowski a whore! He's calling the Libertarian Party a bunch of whores.

The Libertarians would be the ones selling out their Party's values by endorsing the very non Libertarian Murkowski.

I cant see the Libertarians doing this. I just think they are letting the rumors fly as a PR stunt to get their names out their. But for an ideological purity party like the Libertarians to give their line to Murkowski would be mind boggling. It would be like the Green Party giving their line to Joe Lieberman.

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Or for a better comparison...
Like the Libertarian Party giving its nomination to someone like Bob Barr... Oh wait.

If I'm not mistaken, the LP doesn't really care who they run in individual races, as long as they contest the race.

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So if he's calling the Libertarians whores
Does that make Murkowski the john, then? Yeah, because that's so much better.
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clarification
Miller campaign: 'world's oldest profession' tweet referred to Libertarian Party, not to Sen. Murkowksi  

Libertarian secular Republican, MO-7
Um, what?
It's still a Murkowski reference, although I guess if that's true then that would make Murkowski the john, instead of the whore? Sorry, I can get a little confused by whore metaphors sometimes, probably because unlike most Republican Senators, I've never patronized one.

Kansan by birth, Californian by choice, and Gay by the grace of God.
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Zing!

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Swing State Project "Comment of the Month"!!!!!!!!

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Calm down guys
Obviously he was talking about the Libertarian Party.  The Republican party is not selling it's values...it's the Libertarian's who are willing to accede to Lisa despite having nothing in common with Lisa!

A mis-step for Joe Miller, but much ado about nothing. Maybe he'll be more specific with his tweets in the future.  

35, male, Indian-American, Republican, MD-08 (formerly MI-9)

It's Still Bad Form
I don't see how it's helpful to call anyone or anything a prostitute in a political campaign, since it will probably turn voters off without attracting very many in return.

But maybe such things play in Alaska.

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Hold on.
Please do not admonish users to "calm down," particularly as you are new here, and a Republican, to boot. Joe Miller's press shop is welcome to borrow your ideas, but there is nothing "obvious" about them.
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I call foul on one part of that
Nothing in common with Lisa? She has more in common with them than Joe Miller. She's pro-choice and generally against government regulations and welfare increases.  
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TSK tsk tsk
now kids, dont fight. Would be a shame if they really got into it and split the vote up. Yessir
This still hurts Joe Miller whether he was talking about Libertarians or Murkowski
He called one of them prostitutes, and if we go by what his campaign said afterwords to "clarify", he is essentially dissing on all libertarian voters, who I would assume is more in line with a dude like Millers views.

This will come back to haunt him, I hope enough to push McAdams into the senate, or make Murkowski endorse McAdams or something.

20, Male, Democrat, CA-44 (home) CA-12 (college)

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Go James, GO!

26, Male, Democrat, TX-26

Nice.


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Awesome!
It's been a fun afternoon!
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Lame Murkowski response.
  I'm so mad, so MAD, that I could call you...DEPLORABLE!!!  

24, Male, GA-05
What a dirty piece of work
I doubt he would have posted anything like that had his opponent been a man.

24, male, African-American, CA-24, Democrat. Chair of the SSP Black Caucus.
I see that he was supposed to be talking about the Libertarian Party
That said, he still was classless for using that terminology.

24, male, African-American, CA-24, Democrat. Chair of the SSP Black Caucus.
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I don't follow
I don't understand why people would think McAdams would somehow become irrelevant in the race if it became a three person race and so what if he did?  It's not like anyone had the Alaska Senate race on their radar to begin with, its not like the netroots is planning to pour a bunch of money into this race or are they?  Let the chips fall where they may, if Schumer wants to write McAdams a check for example, who's going to stop him?  

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23, Democrat, IA-2

I think he was calling the Libertarian Party a prostitute
n/t
It doesn't matter what he meant
It was an exceedingly asinine political move.

"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"
--  Will Rogers  
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She runs now
This is the Democrats chance to pull a reverse Lieberman.

23, male, center-right cynical Republican, PA-7
I think these two years are going to create a whole bunch of new case studies
into the dynamics of three-person races.

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01
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Too bad I did not go PhD in Political Science
Such events make me briefly question my decision to go to law school over grad school in political science.  

23, male, center-right cynical Republican, PA-7
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