Midknight Review -- new and revised: The Murkowski victory makes a mockery of the Republican primary process.

OpenSource reports the following: After losing in the 2010 Alaska primary to Tea Party candidate Joe Miller, Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R, AK] has decided to run a write-in campaign to keep her seat. As a result, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell [R, KY] took away her position as vice chairwoman of the Senate Republican Conference. “By choosing to run a campaign against the Republican nominee, she no longer has my support for serving in any leadership roles, and I have accepted her letter of resignation from Senate leadership,” McConnell said.

Midknight Review had heard that McConnell reversed this decision and will allow Murkowski her Senate leadership role. We are not able to confirm either scenario.

We believe that the Murkowski write-in campaign has a number of drawbacks. First, it made a mockery of the Republican Primary. Why have a party-based primary if it is not required that the candidates abide by the voted results? Secondly, it proved that Murkowski was no Republican. Understand that a "moderate "Republican along the lines of a Murkowski or a Charlie Crist or a Michael Bloomberg (the midget mayor of New York who was allowed to be Republican some years back) are more the liberal than any will admit. They do not deserve to wear the title "Republican."

If OpenSource is correct, our faith in the Establishment GOP leadership is renewed. If things go as we hope, the GOP could win 13 seats in the Senate come 2012. If that is true, Lisa Murkowski can caucus with the Maoists; we seriously will not care. In fact, we do not care, now.

The GOP is in serious need of principled leadership. It is our hope that Mitch McConnell, whom we respect, is making the right decision in this regard, assuming the accuracy of the OpenSource reporting.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

The Murkowski victory makes a mockery of the Republican primary process.

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