The worst debut week for a general election campaign I can ever recall just keeps getting worse for Joe Miller. The latest broadside comes in the form of a blistering editorial from Alaska's biggest Newspaper, the Anchorage Daily News:
Our view: Election integrity
It's been disappointing this week to see the apparently baseless claims of a tainted electoral process in the Republican primary for U.S. senator. We shouldn't have to tell any campaign that it ought not to cry election fraud, much less attack the integrity of an opponent, without a sound basis.
Republican senatorial candidate Joe Miller claimed for most of this week that there was an effort under way to skew the results in his primary election. His campaign accused Sen. Lisa Murkowski, or people working on her behalf, of engaging in unethical and perhaps illegal behavior.
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But fraud? Tainted results? Hacking into the state system? There's no evidence of that and the Miller camp was ill advised to suggest there was. Bogus claims of cheating and stolen elections are needlessly damaging to the credibility of elections, and that credibility is essential for any democracy to function.
Miller's idea of a general campaign roll out was to do a cannonball off the deep end with a big splash.
Miller's acting like a sore winner is sure to add insult to injury for Murkowski voters.
You have to like that.
Earlier Murkowski ripped Millers behavior calling his accusations "Paranoid" and questioned why Miller wants to be a candidate of a Party he distrusts so much.
AK Senate hopeful seeks probe of election observer
"For someone who wants to be Alaska's Republican nominee for Senate, Mr. Miller is certainly afraid of Republicans," she said.
Since Murkowski conceded the race the big question on people's minds is will she give Miller her endorsement? My guess is that she won't. The bad blood between Murkowski and Miller goes back a lot further than this Primary race. Joe Miller was one of the people who led the charge to unseat Murkowski's dad as Governor. Then of course there's Murkowski's long standing feud with Palin.
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