ClydeR
09-18-2010, 05:53 PM
Eskimos invented bacon?
With the slogan "Let's Make History," Lisa Murkowski announced Friday that she'd pursue a write-in bid to keep her seat in the U.S. Senate after losing the Republican primary to Joe Miller.
More... (http://www.adn.com/2010/09/17/1459578/murkowski-expected-to-say-yes.html)
No one has run a successful write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate since Strom Thurmond in 1954.
Former Gov. Sarah Palin, whose support for Miller drove hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from the Tea Party Express his way, called Murkowski's effort futile. Murkowski offered a response to Palin, who resigned as governor last year, and to others she described as "naysayers" in Washington D.C.
"Perhaps it's one time they met one Republican woman who won't quit on Alaska," Murkowski said, receiving a huge standing ovation from her supporters.
She's also been attacked by the party's more conservative senators, including Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., whose political action committee backs Miller. He didn't mention Murkowski by name when he spoke Friday to a crowd of conservative voters about the successes of the tea party movement, but they certainly knew who he meant.
"Even in Alaska, the home of bacon, they threw out that senator," he said.
I don't get DeMint's reference to bacon. Even if Alaskans invented bacon, which I doubt, what does that have to do with the Senate race? Is it one of those really funny jokes that I'm too dumb to understand? Did Eskimos invent bacon from the large herds of swine rooting across the frozen Alaskan tundra?
With the slogan "Let's Make History," Lisa Murkowski announced Friday that she'd pursue a write-in bid to keep her seat in the U.S. Senate after losing the Republican primary to Joe Miller.
More... (http://www.adn.com/2010/09/17/1459578/murkowski-expected-to-say-yes.html)
No one has run a successful write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate since Strom Thurmond in 1954.
Former Gov. Sarah Palin, whose support for Miller drove hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from the Tea Party Express his way, called Murkowski's effort futile. Murkowski offered a response to Palin, who resigned as governor last year, and to others she described as "naysayers" in Washington D.C.
"Perhaps it's one time they met one Republican woman who won't quit on Alaska," Murkowski said, receiving a huge standing ovation from her supporters.
She's also been attacked by the party's more conservative senators, including Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., whose political action committee backs Miller. He didn't mention Murkowski by name when he spoke Friday to a crowd of conservative voters about the successes of the tea party movement, but they certainly knew who he meant.
"Even in Alaska, the home of bacon, they threw out that senator," he said.
I don't get DeMint's reference to bacon. Even if Alaskans invented bacon, which I doubt, what does that have to do with the Senate race? Is it one of those really funny jokes that I'm too dumb to understand? Did Eskimos invent bacon from the large herds of swine rooting across the frozen Alaskan tundra?