Thank You Jesus! Alaska Libertarians Display Intelligence!

J.J. Jackson | August 31, 2010 

I will say it again; THANK YOU JESUS! I just was perusing the latest information on the saga of Lisa Murkowski to run on the Libertarian Party ticket in Alaska as it is looking more and more likely that she will not overcome Joe Miller’s lead for the GOP nomination to run for United States Senator.

Alaska Libertarian Party leaders say they will not consider putting Sen. Lisa Murkowski under their party’s banner in this fall’s U.S. Senate race.

Murkowski trails challenger Joe Miller by roughly 1,700 votes before absentee and questioned ballots from the Republican primary election are counted. Her options if she loses are limited — one had been backing from the state Libertarian Party, which has a candidate, David Haase, set to appear on November general election ballots.

Haase would have had to withdraw for Murkowski to run as a replacement.

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Kohlhaas said the party’s Executive Committee nonetheless voted unanimously to end speculation by closing the door on that option. The 5-0 vote was taken at an emergency meeting in Anchorage on Sunday.

The Libertarian Party cited Murkowski’s support for unconstitutional spending such as TARP for their decision.

I was worried that the Libertarian Party, which often struggles to woo voters despite most Americans agreeing with much of their platform, would actually make a hail marry pass here and sign up Murkowski to try and get a member of their party into the Senate just to try and show the world that they were not doomed to be yet another third party again this year with no real gains to show for their efforts.

Thankfully intelligence prevailed. That and the fact that quick polling showed Murkowski still trailing Miller in the general election probably had something to do with it too.


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