In a sign that state Republican parties might be coming to the realization that supporting inveterate losers like Martha McSally and various quislings in their primary contests, the Alaska GOP has announced that it will be actively supporting Lisa Murkowski’s challenger, Kelly Tshibaka.
The Alaska Republican State Central Committee on Saturday endorsed Kelly Tshibaka in the 2022 race for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Lisa Murkowski.
The committee approved Tshibaka’s endorsement in a 58-17 vote during a meeting in Fairbanks.
In a statement, Tshibaka said she will uphold conservative ideals and be a senator who Alaskans “can depend to make every decision based on what is best for our great state.”
Tshibaka announced on March 29 that she would run for the Senate seat held by Murkowski, who has been in office since 2002 and is widely viewed as a moderate. Two weeks earlier, the Republican State Central Committee voted 53-17 to censure Murkowski, citing her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump and other votes that have broken with GOP leadership. Alaska Republican Party leaders said at the time that they would recruit someone to run against her.
Murkowski said in a statement to the Daily News that she has fought for Alaskan values in the U.S. Senate and will continue to do so.
She has not yet filed for re-election, a spokesperson for Murkowski said.
On paper, Tshibaka looks like a solid candidate. She is married, a mother, a Harvard Law grad. She has worked in the IG offices at Department of Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, she was the Chief Data Officer of the Postal Service IG and she served as Alaska’s Commissioner of Administration until from 2019 until her resignation in March of this year to pursue a Senate run.
This is how the media is framing the action:
Why it matters: It’s another sign of division in the GOP between supporters of former President Trump and those who’ve publicly criticized him. Several senators have been censured in their home states for voting to convict Trump at his second impeachment trial earlier this year — including Murkowski.
There is some superficial truth in this statement. But let’s not forget that Murkowski isn’t terribly popular in Alaska:
And there is much, much more to the dislike of this crone than her voting with Democrats and refusing to support a popular president of her own party.
We shouldn’t count her out just yet. Murkowski has beaten the Grim Reaper once before, in 2010 she lost a primary challenge but won the general election by an unholy alliance of the GOPe, Democrats, and the Alaskan Native progressive mafia aiding her write-in campaign.
And, of course, Tshibaka is being portrayed as an extremist because that’s really all these clowns have.
When Tshibaka was at Harvard Law School, she wrote “The Right Side: Coming Out of Homosexuality,” for The Harvard Law Record, an independent newspaper at the law school, in December 2001.
“Today is National Coming Out of Homosexuality Day, a day dedicated to helping homosexuals overcome their sexual tendencies and move towards a healthy lifestyle,” she wrote in the article under her maiden name Kelly Hartline.
In the article she touts the work of Exodus International, a group that advocated gay conversion therapy. The group a decade later closed and apologized for the harm it did to the gay community.
“Homosexuals can come out of homosexuality because their preference is not biologically mandated.” Tshibaka wrote in 2001. “Unlike race or gender, homosexuality is a choice.”
She also later apologized to readers who were upset over the article, saying she did not intend to offend.
Tshibaka said she was assigned the article by an editor as a counterpoint piece. “I don’t hold that view today,” she told the AP.
When asked if same-sex marriage is settled law, she said: “I personally believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, but the Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex marriage is the law of the land.”
think it is time we look back to Barry Goldwater for some perspective:
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”
While it is too soon to tell, I think the curtain may be coming down on Murkowski’s era of sucking up to Democrats for fun and profit. She hasn’t filed to run and she might want to leave office under her own steam rather than being run out of town on a rail. If you tie this with what is happening with Liz Cheney, we may, in fact, be on the leading edge of a purifying fire sweeping through the GOP and retiring establishment types who’ve been happy to stand by and let our nation be stolen while they took no risks nor action to prevent it.
CTH readers know Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowsi very well. Her history of political manipulation and DeceptiCon activity is deep. Murkowski was defeated in the GOP primary in 2010 by Joe Miller (who we supported), and yet the Alaska senator refused to give up her power and ran as a write-in candidate. CTH has been exposing this b**ch for 12 years. Enough is enough.
The RNC club never punished Murkowski for those 2010 shenanigans because, well, the RNC club supports this type of cocktail club ideologue.
This reality is part of the entrenched problem with the RNC as an organization, they rebuke the efforts of the grassroots base.
Ronna McDaniel is simply one vile person in a long-line of vile RNC people who maintain this corrupt club operation.
Lisa Murkowski is a prime example of the type of politician who permits the Intelligence Branch to exist because the superseding branch of government allows her to continue living a life of indulgence and influence. She is a grifter and a liar of the highest order.
The DeceptiCon wing of the UniParty fuels and supports the Intelligence Branch because the Intelligence Branch protects both wings of the UniParty. This is why, despite refusing to accept the primary defeat, when Senator Murkowski arrived back in DC in January 2011 the Grandmaster DeceptiCon, Mitch McConnell, just let her go right back into her Energy Committee leadership spot. There are never repercussions for anything when you are protected by the Intelligence Branch.
This is not a party issue. Republicans and Democrats form both wings of the UniParty in congress; it is just more visible in the upper chamber because the Senate is more corrupt and entrenched. The Intelligence Branch exists because the lack of Senate oversight is responsible for it.
Lisa Murkowski was one of seven Republican senators who voted to impeach President Trump over the January 6th “riot” in DC. [Other GOP senators included Sens. Richard Burr (N.C.), Bill Cassidy (La.), Susan Collins (Maine), Mitt Romney (Utah), Ben Sasse (Neb.) and Pat Toomey (Pa.)] It is absolutely certain that Murkowski will be dispatched by the Republican base in the 2021 primary.
Senator Murkowski is uncertain if she will run again, but she is certain of her hatred for President Trump:
The Hill – […] During an interview that aired Friday with Alaska Landmine Radio, Murkowski, a GOP moderate, said that former President Trump has “threatened to do a lot” to his detractors, even those in his own party.
The veteran senator has served in the upper chamber since 2002 but during Friday’s interview would not confirm whether she would run for reelection in 2022. Radio host Jeff Landfield said that the race for her seat in the Senate would be closely watched.
“It will be. I think one of the things that I’ve learned is that none of the races that I’ve been part of have ever really been easy or ordinary. This will probably prove to be much, much along those lines,” Murkowski said. “I know that former President Trump is skeptical about me and the job that I do for Alaska, but I really think that that’s for Alaskans to judge.”
“Do you think he’s going to come up here?” Landfield asked.
Murkowski appeared to brush off past threats the president has made and characterized them as “idle.”
“You know, he’s threatened to. He’s threatened to do a lot to those who have stood up to him, and sometimes there’s some carry-through, and sometimes maybe it’s just idle words or idle threats, but I can’t let that influence what I do and how I do it and who I do it for,” Murkowski said. (read more)
Trump in 2020:
