Alaska Sen. (and, having been turfed out in the GOP primary, won by teabagger Joe Miller, write-in candidate for re-election) Lisa Murkowski, on CNN on Sunday:
Boo... freakin'... hoo.
What happened in my particular race, you had the Tea Party Express, this California-based group, come in at the last minute in a campaign, run a mudslinging, smear -- just a terrible, terrible -- campaign with lies and fabrications and mischaracterizations. They came in, dumped $600,000 into a small market here in Alaska, and they absolutely clearly influenced the outcome.
Boo... freakin'... hoo.
Look, it's not that I don't sympathize with her (a tiny bit). It's not that I approve of these crazy, meddling teabaggers. And it's not that I don't wish her well with her independent write-in campaign -- I certainly hope she wins just enough votes to split Republicans.
But while she may not herself have a long and extensive record of "mudslinging," her party certainly does, and it's always rather amusing when a Republican gets hit with the brunt of such a vicious smear campaign. It was okay to her, we can only assume, when "lies and fabrications and mischaracterizations" were being hurled at Democrats -- not just by right-wing groups but by her own party. Did Murkowski ever speak out against that? Please. It's only now, having faced them herself, and having lost, that she speaks up at all. (Yes, yes, this campaign was conducted by a Tea Party group, not by the Republican Party, strictly speaking, but this is how it's done on the right, whether formally sponsored by the GOP or not.)
Actually, I don't really sympathize with her at all, and she certainly doesn't deserve our pity.
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