Scott McAdams refuses to take a stance on anything - except pork!

[tpfkaw]

This guy sure seems qualified to be a senator.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/03/mcadams_shows_fight_in_ak_but_hesitates_on_policy__107005.html

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[tmthforu94]

I think he's trying to decide what views will best get him elected, and then he'll run with that.

[Eraserhead]

What are Miller's views on Afghanistan anyway?

[tpfkaw]

What are Miller's views on Afghanistan anyway?

http://www.ktva.com/oldlocal/ci_15367911?source=rss

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[Holmes]

For a senator from Alaska, that's all that matters.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

To be fair, pork is the most important issue for the Alaskan

[Bo]

Well, it's better to have ambiguous positions on most issues than bad positions on most issues.

[Beet]

To be fair, pork is the most important issue for the Alaskan

For a senator from Alaska, that's all that matters.

If that's true the Democratic party should dump McAdams from the ticket and invite Murkowski to switch parties. With her seniority Alaska would get all the pork it needs. McAdams offers almost nothing in additional pork over Miller considering that the GOP has about a 35% chance of taking the Senate this year and a higher chance of having it by 2013.

And to think Lunar, BRTD and a bunch of other Dems came here and vigorously argued with me over inviting Murkowski, and then posted big, gloating headlines when the Dem party shot itself in the head once again by "standing by McAdams".

[Holmes]

What are you talking about...? Murkowski running as the Democrat is almost as silly as Didier taking Murray's place in Washington.

[Eraserhead]

Nobody here wants right-wing Republican (and blatant hack) Lisa Murkowski back in the Senate but you, Beet. I'd even take the crazy teabagger over her since he might hold some non-interventionist foreign policy views.

[Beet]

Nobody here wants right-wing Republican (and blatant hack) Lisa Murkowski back in the Senate but you, Beet. I'd even take the crazy teabagger over her since he might hold some non-interventionist foreign policy views.

Lisa Murkowski is a moderate Republican, as quantitatively proven by her DW-Nominate score, across all range of issues. She is not a "right-wing" Republican, she is a centrist Republican and a sane Republican.

I would rather have the Democratic party extinguished forever and rule by Murkowski types for 100 years than the chance that a far-right, Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin type candidate could win election.

We are approaching the French Third Republic where neither left nor right have any interest igin dealing with the real world. The right is lost in fantastic conspiracies and fantasies of restoring an ancien regime ideal that never existed and opposes even the most moderate reformist policies not because those policies are wrong or unnecessary but because they threaten the delusional fantasies held by their supporters.

At the same time the Left has been drifting into a weird post-modernist nihalism over the last few decades, which has effectively removed them from the scene. The pseudo-socialists oaf the early 20th century were extreme, but they were part of the national diologue. The left is obsessed with group identities and rights and the entitlements they deserve. You see this with gay marriage. They don't want it because its good policy, or fair to people, but because they deserve it as a god-given right.

The result has been to leave the Center-Left holding the bag, with a few self-sacrificing allies on the rump center-right. It is basically the reverse of the Brunning experiment in Germany in 1930-32 except instead of the center-left destroying themselves to maintain an unpopular center-right government in power, the opposite is happening. The end result will be the same though politically.

This is where we're headed. And it will be you fools' fault for bringing it about.

[Capitan Zapp Brannigan]

Murkowski isn't a moderate.

[Bo]

Murkowski isn't a moderate.

Agreed. Supporting abortion and stem-cell research doesn't mean that any Republican is automatically "moderate."

[Eraserhead]

Murkowski isn't a moderate.

Agreed. Supporting abortion and stem-cell research doesn't mean that any Republican is automatically "moderate."

But the DW-Nominate score!!!111

Miller will vote the same way as Murkowski would have 90%+ of the time. It hardly makes any difference but don't tell Beet.

[Marokai Backbeat]

I saw his interview with Rachel Maddow the other night. Frankly, he seems like he's in over his head, but his criticism of Miller concerning federal funds for state projects is legitimate, considering Alaska needs all the infrastructure (aka "pork" now, apparently) it can get.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

For f**k's sake Beet, NO ONE on this forum had an IOTA of influence as to what would happen with the Democratic nomination in Alaska just as a few posts from Democrats saying they'd prefer Rand Paul to Grayson did not elect Rand Paul. And you are basically the only person who promoted Murkowski being given the Democratic nomination. The Democrats saying that they'd "stand by McAdams" were not talking about swapping him for Murkowski but another Democratic candidate like Knowles. Swapping him for Murkowski is such an inane idea I'd be surprised if anyone seriously considered it. Above all Murkowski probably wouldn't even accept, since losing as a Democrat (which is what would happen) would simply ruin her chances of achieving office again or getting a job as a lobbyist or GOP PAC. Much like how Parker Griffith no doubt is really wishing he was on track to losing as a Democrat instead of being absolutely dead for any political future.

Really the idea that the Democrats would be better off losing a Senate seat that we weren't going to win anyway with an absolutely useless to either side Republican hack who only got her job thanks to nepotism from her father who is basically the biggest joke in Alaska politics and probably the most hated governor in the states' history instead of losing with a real Democrat is giving rise to Nazis is Libertas-level in idiotic hyperbole.

[CARLHAYDEN]

To be fair, pork is the most important issue for the Alaskan

For a senator from Alaska, that's all that matters.

If that's true the Democratic party should dump McAdams from the ticket and invite Murkowski to switch parties. With her seniority Alaska would get all the pork it needs. McAdams offers almost nothing in additional pork over Miller considering that the GOP has about a 35% chance of taking the Senate this year and a higher chance of having it by 2013.

And to think Lunar, BRTD and a bunch of other Dems came here and vigorously argued with me over inviting Murkowski, and then posted big, gloating headlines when the Dem party shot itself in the head once again by "standing by McAdams".

But wasn't Lunar pushing for the Libertarian party to give Murkowski the nomination just a few days ago?

[Stranger in a strange land]

and let's not forget that even though Murkowski is a relatively moderate Republican, she's still far too conservative to be taken seriously as a Democrat (she has a lifetime ACU rating of 70, Ben Nelson by comparison has a lifetime rating of 47).

And honestly, this year, in Alaska, with her last name and the nepotism factor she would probably lose the general.