Another Republican calling it quits

[Jim12]

It's time to bring the adults back.

Newt.

 

[Schipperke]

He's resigning one week after Wisconsin's deadline for special election to fill seat before general election.

 

[AssMan]

Maneuvering to get Trump off the ballot.

 

[Schipperke]

When Ken Buck spoke of his departure, he hinted there would be several more.
Now Murkowski may flip Independent and caucus with Democrat party.

 

[outrider58]

Title should read: Another Republican Takes His Ball and Goes Home

 

[JPG]

When Ken Buck spoke of his departure, he hinted there would be several more.
Now Murkowski may flip Independent and caucus with Democrat party.

Lisa Murkowski, done with Donald Trump, won’t rule out leaving GOP

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, aghast at Donald Trump’s candidacy and the direction of her party, won’t rule out bolting the GOP.

www.yahoo.com

 

[jc1240]

Title should read: Another Republican Takes His Ball and Goes Home

False. Republicans have no balls.

 

[adit]

Lisa Murkowski, done with Donald Trump, won’t rule out leaving GOP

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, aghast at Donald Trump’s candidacy and the direction of her party, won’t rule out bolting the GOP.

www.yahoo.com

Swamp. And swampy crap they pulled to get her reelected in AK.

 

[XCheckR]

Constitutes should get tar and feathers ready.

If they quit early they should lose their pension.

 

[Alea Jacta Est]

Could be he got a better offer, could be he's leaving to avoid a scandal, could be he expects to lose or the R's to lose the House.

All very good possibilities. Thankfully not everyone rides the insane train and jumps to their own conclusion.

The shame of it is folks are so polarized and conditioned to believe any whiff of conspiracy or (popularly) salacious rumor will polarize right to what scratches their itch.

I do get an image mentally of rats scurrying to abandon a sinking ship. Not right or wrong but it comes up and hangs out for me.

 

[Jim12]

Lisa Murkowski, done with Donald Trump, won’t rule out leaving GOP

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, aghast at Donald Trump’s candidacy and the direction of her party, won’t rule out bolting the GOP.

www.yahoo.com

From Wikipedia:

"... Murkowski is the daughter of former U.S. senator and governor of Alaska Frank Murkowski. Before her appointment to the Senate, she served in the Alaska House of Representatives and was elected majority leader. She was controversially appointed to the Senate by her father, who resigned his seat in December 2002 to become governor of Alaska. She completed her father's unexpired Senate term, which ended in January 2005, and became the first Alaskan-born member of Congress.

Murkowski ran for and won a full term in 2004. After losing the 2010 Republican primary to Tea Party candidate Joe Miller, she ran as a write-in candidate and defeated both Miller and Democrat Scott McAdams in the general election. She is the second U.S. senator (after Strom Thurmond in 1954) to be elected by write-in vote. She was elected to a third term in 2016 and a fourth term in 2022, running as a Republican.

Murkowski was vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference from 2009 to 2010, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee from 2015 to 2021, and has been vice chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee since 2021.

She is often described as one of the Senate's most moderate Republicans, and a crucial swing vote. According to CQ Roll Call, she voted with President Barack Obama's position 72.3% of the time in 2013, one of only two Republicans to do so over 70% of the time. In recent years, she opposed Brett Kavanaugh and supported Ketanji Brown Jackson in their respective nominations to the Supreme Court. On February 13, 2021, she was one of seven Republican senators to vote to convict Donald Trump of incitement of insurrection in his second impeachment trial, for which she was censured by the Alaska Republican Party...."

 

[jc1240]

From Wikipedia:

"... Murkowski is the daughter of former U.S. senator and governor of Alaska Frank Murkowski. Before her appointment to the Senate, she served in the Alaska House of Representatives and was elected majority leader. She was controversially appointed to the Senate by her father, who resigned his seat in December 2002 to become governor of Alaska. She completed her father's unexpired Senate term, which ended in January 2005, and became the first Alaskan-born member of Congress.

Murkowski ran for and won a full term in 2004. After losing the 2010 Republican primary to Tea Party candidate Joe Miller, she ran as a write-in candidate and defeated both Miller and Democrat Scott McAdams in the general election. She is the second U.S. senator (after Strom Thurmond in 1954) to be elected by write-in vote. She was elected to a third term in 2016 and a fourth term in 2022, running as a Republican.

Murkowski was vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference from 2009 to 2010, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee from 2015 to 2021, and has been vice chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee since 2021.

She is often described as one of the Senate's most moderate Republicans, and a crucial swing vote. According to CQ Roll Call, she voted with President Barack Obama's position 72.3% of the time in 2013, one of only two Republicans to do so over 70% of the time. In recent years, she opposed Brett Kavanaugh and supported Ketanji Brown Jackson in their respective nominations to the Supreme Court. On February 13, 2021, she was one of seven Republican senators to vote to convict Donald Trump of incitement of insurrection in his second impeachment trial, for which she was censured by the Alaska Republican Party...."

A true RINO.

 

[Muleskinner]

I am convinced the Republicans want to be the minority party again.

Most of the ones that are retiring aren't real Republicans and I have a feeling that their retiring early so that they can hand power back to the Democrats which is who they really are in the first place.

 

[rambling_one]

Could be he got a better offer, could be he's leaving to avoid a scandal, could be he expects to lose or the R's to lose the House.

I wonder, as to the latter, why not wait and see?

 

[joppaj]

I wonder, as to the latter, why not wait and see?

Rats from a sinking ship. If they get out now, they can say they weren't here for the loss.

 

[rambling_one]

An irrefutable statement for sure.

 

[Matlack]

This may be a omen with respect to November

 

[Coehorn]

Here's my take on the never-ending line of Republican deserters. I pray I'm wrong.

I believe many of them see a scenario where there is no electoral college win.

If Trump, Biden and Kennedy get into a real back ally brawl, and no one hits that Magic Number, electing our next president will fall to The House.

If the RINO's relinquish power, the Democrats vote for Biden as president.

 

[Jim12]

A true RINO.

Maybe she'll stop her false advertising and switch parties.

 

[Sirex]

With RINOs like we have, who needs dumbocrats?