Memories of the national Repubs backing Dede Scozzafava, only to have her drop out and endorse the Democrat. Here we go again. Whose side is the NRCC on?

I refuse to donate a cent to the NRCC. I pick my candidates and send them money directly. Yes, I sent Joe some cash.

The NRSC should not be lifting a finger for her until she publicly rules out any write-in or independent bid.

If she will not do so, the NRSC should treat Miller as the presumptive winner.

I did a short diary about this a couple of hours ago. RS readers and other grassroots conservatives need to put public pressure on the party right now to hold Murkowski’s feet to the fire– before the count is over and while we still have leverage.

http://www.redstate.com/constitutionalconservative/2010/08/26/lisa-murkowski-please-answer-this-really-simple-question/

I cannot imagine anywhere else in the Union it would play worse than in Alaska. Murkowski is either desperate or has been in DC so long she has forgotten how the local folks in AK feel about teams of NY or Calif lawyers flying in, jumping off at the airport, ready to tell Alaskans how to run their own state and its unique set of laws and circumstances. One of our RS Alaskans needs to remind everybody the story of how she became Senator in the first place. I am not an Alaskan and don’t have anything against Sen Lisa M. I just know from having lived there a short while, how the locals take to outside meddling and preaching.

This is big. A poll watcher (I’m guessing that is what this Bonnie Jack was doing) is not allowed to interfere with voting nor are they allowed to influence the process.
I was a poll watcher in the 2000 elections and I learned a good bit about the responsibilities of watchers. It is actually criminal to tell a person how to vote or try and influence a would-be voter. The job of the poll watcher is to check for any suspicious behavior at the polls, to challenge votes when their is just reason to suspect voter fraud and to make sure that ballot handlers are following the set rules and times of voting.
You also are not allowed to get voters personal details as this is also illegal. Can’t believe that a Murkowski supporter would be that brazen but I don’t put anything past establishment campaigns.
What it really cool is that a GOP candidate is actually fighting back, and that makes me like Joe Miller even more.

Especially if she’s already talking about bucking the party for a third party run? If the NRSC screws with this in any way before all ballots are counted, then maybe it’s another sign that it’s time to register as an independent myself and stop giving anything related to the GOP money until they’re able to appoint leaders that aren’t willing to spit on the primary process and in the face of candidates and their supporters who actually want conservative leadership.

Especially if she’s already talking about bucking the party for a third party run? If the NRSC screws with this in any way before all ballots are counted, then maybe it’s another sign that it’s time to register as an independent myself and stop giving anything related to the GOP money until they’re able to appoint leaders that aren’t willing to spit on the primary process and in the face of candidates and their supporters who actually want conservative leadership.

Is there anything else you could suggest for those of us who might have more time than dinero.

I, for the 1st time in my life, have contributed a little $$ here and there to individual candidates

Personally, I;m not a card carrying member of the repubican party(or any party for that matter) but is there some entity that that could be influenced by letter, phone calls emails etc by someone who hasn’t a record of sending money their way?

I have been reading Redstate long enough that I feel I should know the answer to my questions-but I don’t.

Murkowski hasn’t said one word to indicate that she would run third party or write in. It is, in fact, almost impossible to do at this stage of the game, and essentially impossible to do successfully. You can’t win as a write in, though you could elect the Democrat and she won’t do that. It is extraordinarily unlikely that she would or could make a deal with the Libertarians to become their nominee, and, again, the only thing it might accomplish is electing the Democrat. The only thing she’s said is that it is too early to talk about her plans until the votes are counted – and they aren’t. And it isn’t just absentees; there’s lots of questioned ballots as well.

I kinda know who Bonnie Jack is, she’s been around awhile. If she did something stupid, she should be disqualified; most of the people observing don’t know jack about the rules, they just ask questions about things they don’t understand. Then the nice ladies call the Regional Manager to get an answer and if the local Elections staff can’t answer, then the Director gets called, and if that answer doesn’t suit, you get to go to court. Once the ballots are in the hands of the Division of Elections, it is really hard to cheat.

I’m one of those evil Murkowski observers; there were three of us, and six Miller observers, though we didn’t feel outnumbered, and we were all former Murkowski appointees. You know what? The only thing any of us questioned was whether a few ballots should be allowed to have only their Statewide votes counted or their Statewide and State Senate votes counted because they’d moved or changed their name or some such and didn’t properly appear on the registered voter list at the polling place they showed up at. That and we asked the Elections staff for some strict scrutiny of any ballots that they rejected, and, you know what, we agreed with the ones they rejected.

The paranoia, even hysteria about this is unseemly. I know a lot of the Miller supporters are from places that have black helicopters constantly circling, but this is bordering on silliness.

on camera and asks him why is he and his lawers are meddeling in this race.

BALLOTS HAVE BEEN FOUND! Must be the GOP version of ACORN working strong arming elections officials in ALASKA, huh?
I guess even if JOE MILLER is the winner when all the absentee ballots and military ballots are accounted for and the conveniently “provisional ballots” are counted, oh and the FOUND BALLOTS, I guess SEN L.isa M. will be the winner! I guess a write in or Independent status is the place RINOS go when they don’t want to cross all the way to become “Jackasses”.

http://tiny.cc/p61dh

This is the reason why the NRSC is having trouble raising money. DO NOT SEND THEM CONTRIBUTIONS!

The Republican party needs to take over the Senate to stop the Obama selection to replace Justice Ginsburg, and to change the leadership to bring Jim Demint into the Republican leadership. keep up the pressure!

I’m big fans of both of you and nothing in this race has changed that.

What I think a majority of us are having trouble with is Lisa’s comment yesterday or the day before where she had a very clear opportunity to say that she wouldn’t run third party and didn’t.

Perhaps it was just the Alaska papers pulling things out of context, but now that there is an uproar (at least down here in the lower 48) about it, it would be nice to see her just come out and clarify it with:

We believe that every vote should count and so we are going to go through that process. If at the end of the day, the Republican voters have chosen Joe Miller then he will have my support.

It doesn’t seem that hard.

As for the sentiment here that the NRSC should butt out, I agree but then that’s not new to Alaska. I feel they should stay out of all primaries.

You said that the NRSC is there to retain current Senators. That may be true.
It’s not what their website says:

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is the only political committee solely dedicated to electing Republicans to the U.S. Senate.

What We Do:
The NRSC provides invaluable support and assistance to current and prospective Republican U.S. Senate candidates in the areas of budget planning, election law compliance, fundraising, communications tools and messaging, research and strategy.

All Ive heard so far, in the wake of this awesome result, is what an awesome dude this Joe Miller is, a war hero, a major scholar, just an all around super qualified and fantastic candidate. Before Tuesday, I didn’t really know anything about him, other than he was the Conservative, backed by Palin, and Murkowski was the more liberal candidate. It seems he’s getting a ton of free media attention now, I think even if Murkowski tries a write in or Libertarian campaign it’ll fail pretty badly, because in addition to the obvious unlikeliness of something like that succeeding in general, we have the fact that Miller is just a great candidate, way too tough to beat. Of course we all want Murkowski to put her ego aside and endorse Miller so he can win by 30 points, but even if we have to win it by just 10 points, Rubio style, I’m not concerned, we’ll win it either way. Right now all we need is for the NRSC to not try anything underhanded, get those ballots counted quickly and fairly, get the victory certified and we can move on to the General and another great victory!

Republicans in name only are also involved in putting pressure on scheduled speakers at Tea Party events in MA to renege on prior speaking committments. MassResistance and it’s founder, Brian Canmaker have been called toxic to ??Conservatives??
If onservatives actually believe that they can continue to skirt the social issues as in natural law and the homosexual embrace or lack thereof, they live on a different planet.
Natural Law is the primary ingredient of the Constitution and to reject it is a rejection of the document and Christianity itself.

What happened at the “Republican “unity” party on Thursday in Anchorage”? Can we get an update? Thanks, Greg

From the inside: DOOM in Alaska if Miller wins:
http://tiny.cc/1cdwj

In other news, over 200,000 “extremists” much like Joe Miller are expected at Beck’s rally in DC.

Can you hear us now, Senator Cornyn?

until next Thursday. The reason given was so that some people could attend the funeral of the pilot of Ted Steven’s plane.

will be on ‘Face the Nation’, Sunday, 8-29, 9am central, 6 am AK

Murkowski: “Miller paranoid”

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/116195-murkowski-calls-miller-paranoid

Miller interview via Red Dog Report

http://tiny.cc/pavwr

And the Daily Cuss even more wacked out than usual.
>>>Republicans eaten alive by tea party.

http://tiny.cc/r90jk