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Alaska GOP Senate Candidate Joe Miller: Sen. Lisa Murkowski Left Me A ‘Nasty Voicemail’ On Victory Night

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Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski has poised herself to become the Alaskan Charlie Crist by launching a write-in campaign to keep her seat in November. Her former primary opponent Joe Miller reacted to the news that he had to defeat her a second time on last night’s On the Record, where he told Greta van Susteren he wasn’t completely surprised with her “stunning” decision, given the “fairly nasty voicemail” she left him after losing.

Miller sounded unfazed by her new campaign, calling it disrespectful on two levels, the first being quoting late Sen. Ted Stevens in her new campaign announcement. Miller quotes a speech by Sen. Stevens where he warns against Republican divisiveness, and calls the whole thing another example of a politician who has gone back on her word. It is “really disrespecting the will of the Alaskan voter,” he argues.

Van Susteren asks how the concession phone call to him went about, as Sen. Murkowski had backed Miller on the night she conceded only to rescind that support and now run again. She called and conceded, he noted, but later left “a fairly nasty voicemail on my phone… it was just inappropriate.” With Sen. Murkowski, “it really is a character issue,” he argued.

Van Susteren asks him to clarify the content of the email, noting that it’s unfair for the audience to agree with his assessment of the voicemail with only his description of it as “nasty” as evidence. Miller doesn’t clarify much after that, but continues arguing that it was representative of an overall inability to let go of power when necessary, which he associates with those on the left.

He also describes what campaign changes, if any, he plans on making in light of the news (“it’s almost as if [Murkowski and the Democrats] are having their own primary; we already won ours”), and, asked if he has heard from former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, notes that it is possible she called but he hasn’t been to his phone in quite a while.

The interview from last night’s On the Record via Fox News below:

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  • Bill Mahwer

    He should fight fire with fire. If she wants to play dirty then use the email and voice-mail as a campaign ad.

  • Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers

    Another “deficit” who just coincidentally wants to prevent victims of rape and incest from having an abortion. This guy is first and foremost is a social conservative.

  • Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers

    “deficit hawk”

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    Murkowski proved Alaskan voters right – she DESERVED to be THROWN OUT. This petulant Xitch is showing her RULING CLASS ESTABLISHMENT irresponsibility by NOT endorsing and supporting the WINNER of the Repub primary, Joe Miller, to help him win. Instead she does a christ-specter slimebag gutter move to protect her own position at the expense of the party from which she had benefited so much. If they do nothing else good (but WE WILL DO A LOT OF GOOD), the Tea Party has helped the misguided and flawed Republican Party clean up their rinos, out-of-control Ruling Class and general scum and debris and replace them with people that truly will help our country.

  • Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers

    God Bless LIsa Murkowski and God damn the tea partiers who are nothing more than wolves(and religious zealots) in sheep’s clothing.

  • JimBob

    Murkowski is toast! No one cares about her stupid
    ploy to desperately hold on to power. The voters all of them,
    are finally tired of all the BS of the past. Incumbants especially
    RINO’s and lefty nut sacks are an endangered species come Nov 2010!
    AND they know it—–

  • DonnaK

    Go Lisa Go!! I’d say he deserved a nasty email from her after the way he behaved!! I think Lisa has a chance, and they better defeat this guy, he is really off the wall. Now he whines like his mentor Palin!!

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    The night of the living dead. You have to learn that you must drive a stake in the heart of these elite elected officials. They can not live without that power. They will lie, cheat and steal to keep their office.

  • no-touchy-touchy

    Van Susteren asks him to clarify the content of the email, noting that it’s unfair for the audience to agree with his assessment of the voicemail with only his description of it as “nasty” as evidence. Miller doesn’t clarify much after that

    didn’t prove, but now its out there

    but later left “a fairly nasty voicemail on my phone…
    is all anyone heard

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Antony-Dupuy/1194612935 Antony Dupuy

    Put up or shut up, Joe.

  • no-touchy-touchy

    Antony Dupuy said:
    Put up or shut up, Joe.

    yes thank you

    but people will forget tomorrow when (insert media name here) says
    left “a fairly nasty voicemail on my phone…

  • Yoda002

    I see a civil war brewing inside the Republican ranks. The Republicans have created a monster with the Teabagger movement and they don’t know what to do. Even McCain had to move to the extreme right side so he can stay in the party.

  • Hugo Daun

    Aww, mean old Murkowski left poor little Joey a “nasty” voicemail!

    Shake the sand outta your vagina and man up, Miller, you crybaby.

  • alamo2

    Good ol’ Joe would not elaborate when asked to do so re the alleged email that Murkowski sent. Put up or shut up, Joe. You either have something of substance against Murksowki, or you are a liar.

  • Big Eddie

    Alaska ! That’s not Lisa . …http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOgTVJOdFVU

  • no-touchy-touchy

    alamo2 said:
    Good ol’ Joe would not elaborate when asked to do so re the alleged email that Murkowski sent. Put up or shut up, Joe. You either have something of substance against Murksowki, or you are a liar.

    will he hide from the media now?

    send your questions to facebook

  • zumpano

    MILLER JUST RELEASED THE VOICEMAIL:

    tiny.cc/11e3q

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Bill Mahwer said:
    He should fight fire with fire. If she wants to play dirty then use the email and voice-mail as a campaign ad.

    He’s likely lying — will Breitbart offer a reward if Miller can come out with it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Cat fight in Alaska!! From Politico: “Murkowski, for her part, took a not-so-veiled shot at Palin, saying Alaskans should have “one Republican woman who won’t quit on Alaska,” referring to Palin’s’ short tenure as governor.” My money’s on Murkowski.

  • LA screenwriter

    Fuck Joe Miller — fuck him and Sarah Palin’s right up their hypocritical Tea Bag asses.
    Murkowski has EVERY right to run as a write-in candidate now.

    First of all, it’s not like Miller DESTROYED Murkowski in the election results. Like O’Donnell, he barely squeaked one by, which means there are A LOT of moderate Alaskan Republicans who are NOT die-hard, ultra Right Tea Baggers, who are just itching to vote for Murkowski instead.

    Or for example, as “Fox News: We Pander to Tea Baggers” noted above, there are those of us who lean center right, but are MODERATES and who do NOT believe — as do people like Sharon Engle, Christine O’Donnell or Joe Miller — that ALL abortion should be outlawed, and thus victims of rape and incest would NEVER be allowed to make a personal choice. In short, not all of us who lean right are ULTRA hard core right the way that these Tea Party ass clowns are. Some of us still have functioning brains.

    The best line I heard about Murkowski running came from a blog post I read last night. When the news broke that Murkowski was going to run as a write-in candidate, Sarah Palin — who has a long history of hating the Murkoskis — went nuts and twittered away, all but demanding that Murkowski immediately step down.

    Mind you, this is the same Sarah Palin who the EXACT SAME DAY was giving a speech in Iowa saying that differing opinions were good… that fights were good to air differences… even though (as another current Media Ite article shows) she LATER flipped on her own statements, and basically declared on Fox Business Channel that if you’re NOT ultra right, you’re no longer welcome in the Republican Party. So, I guess giving a speech SAYING that differences of opinion were welcome was once again more Palin BULLSHIT — but why should I be surprised by that since Palin spread bullshit like a farmer lays fertilizer?

    But as I was saying, the best comment I’ve seen came from a [public comments section that was attached to some news article, where someone accurately noted: “Gee, Palin says an election was held and the public has spoken and they REJECTED Murkowski. And as a result, Murkowski should be graceful and bow out and shut her mouth and GO AWAY. But didn’t we have an election in 2008 where the American people LIKEWISE spoke in large numbers and voted to REJECT Palin and send HER away? Yet she feels the need to keep coming round and opening her fat mouth. Seems that once again Palin wants two sets of rules. One for herself and one for Murkowski (or anyone else).”

  • TfT

    What a hoot – Murkowski didn’t quit, she got the boot.

    She is making a fool of herself going the write-in route – like Charlie, she will go down. What is with these folks who think they are entitled to the job….the voters kicked her out, she should respect them and give it up.

  • Azarkhan

    Less than an hour before Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski planned to announce a write-in campaign to retain her seat, her top aide e-mailed scores of the most prominent lobbyists in Washington to ask them to join a Saturday conference call with the senator.

    Karen Knutson, Murkowski’s chief of staff, emailed scores of top lobbyists in town and employees at some of the largest oil companies – including Chevron, Conoco Phillips and Marathon Oil – to ask them to join the senator on a conference call Saturday, according to a copy of the e-mail and a recipient list obtained by POLITICO.

    “To my friends in D.C. – if you are so inclined, please join us for a conference call with Lisa Murkowski tomorrow at 2:30 D.C. time and 10:30 Alaska time,” wrote Knutson. “She would love to have the chance to talk with you and answer any questions you may have. Please let me know if you intend to call in.”

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42358.html#ixzz0zvne78mM

  • jk76

    what a fox host pushing an interviewee? I thought that wasn’t supposed to happen according to the magnificent liberal cabal on this site and others. The teabagger thing is cute; I know you’re trying to be demeaning using that term, but I guess it’s just another thing that hasn’t gone your way. Atleast you can rest easy knowing they’ll fight for your right to say it.

    ZOMGWTF RACISTS

  • Patrick Henry

    Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers said:
    God Bless LIsa Murkowski and God damn the tea partiers who are nothing more than wolves(and religious zealots) in sheep’s clothing.

    Kiss my ass!

  • Patrick Henry

    LA screenwriter said:
    Fuck Joe Miller

    Same to you.

  • Patrick Henry

    DonnaK said:
    I’d say he deserved a nasty email from her after the way he behaved!! I think Lisa has a chance, and they better defeat this guy, he is really off the wall. Now he whines like his mentor Palin!!

    Why don’t you whine a little more, DonnaK?

  • Patrick Henry

    Hugo Daun said:
    Shake the sand outta your vagina and man up, Miller, you crybaby.

    If you would take your head out of yours, we could understand you a little better.

  • BatBoy

    Yoda002 said:
    I see a civil war brewing inside the Republican ranks.

    Yoda…you might want to get your eyes checks. The “Civil War” I see on the horizon is the one where the traditional Democrats are going to start dismantling the Progressives…that my friend is going to be a WAR!

    LA screenwriter said:
    Fuck Joe Miller — fuck him and Sarah Palin’s right up their hypocritical Tea Bag asses.

    Screenwriter…please find another site to post your foul mouthed hate rants. You lose any argument you may have had with your first sentence.

  • Republitarian

    DonnaK said:
    Go Lisa Go!! I’d say he deserved a nasty email from her after the way he behaved!! I think Lisa has a chance, and they better defeat this guy, he is really off the wall. Now he whines like his mentor Palin!!

    In the history of the Republic, just one US Senator has been elected as a write-in candidate, Sen. Strom Thurmond in 1956. Murkowski has a better chance of being crowned Queen of England, than she has of winning this race.

  • Republitarian

    LA screenwriter said:
    Fuck Joe Miller — fuck him and Sarah Palin’s right up their hypocritical Tea Bag asses.
    Murkowski has EVERY right to run as a write-in candidate now.

    Wow, what a wordsmith you are. Perhaps you’re the next David Mamet.

  • JimBob

    Lisa. Is that you ??

  • denns25

    I believe Joe Miller when he says he got a nasty voicemail from Lisa Murkowski. I can just tell by the hateful vibe that she emits when she now speaks. When Lisa Murkowski speaks of running as a write-in I see a woman who is very angry, one who wouldn’t surprise me if she is talking nasty to her opponents. She left the voicemail folks, and I don’t need to hear it to believe Joe Miller.

    Dennis
    Shreveport, Louisiana
    Silverthorne Lodging and Vacation Rentals
    http://www.SkiSilverthorne.com

  • CAconservative

    Murkowski’s attitude is indicative of the GOP in general. The Tea-Party movement is in large part, a movement to remove the established deadwood who’s “go along, to get along”, and “we will do as we damned well please” attitudes has lead us to the brink of disaster. Both Parties have been grossly negligent on everything from economic to illegal alien immigration issues and they still think the deserve to reelected to do the same negligent job they have been doing all along? Both Parties had better realize that this movement is targeting both of them!

  • no-touchy-touchy

    denns25 said:
    I believe Joe Miller when he says he got a nasty voicemail from Lisa Murkowski. I can just tell by the hateful vibe that she emits when she now speaks. When Lisa Murkowski speaks of running as a write-in I see a woman who is very angry, one who wouldn’t surprise me if she is talking nasty to her opponents. She left the voicemail folks, and I don’t need to hear it to believe Joe Miller.

    Dennis
    Shreveport, Louisiana
    Silverthorne Lodging and Vacation Rentals
    http://www.SkiSilverthorne.com

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