Vanity starts with an ‘M’ in Alaska’s senate contest.<\/p>\n
Like a horror movie villain, the candidacy of Sen. Lisa Murkowski keeps returning from the dead.\u00a0 Despite losing on election night, losing the absentee ballot fracus, and even conceding the GOP primary<\/a>, Murkowski’s political ego has shown staying power\u00a0the envy of Jason Voorhees.\u00a0 Even the failure of Murkowski’s latest attempt to woo Alaska’s Libertarian Party<\/a> apparently hasn’t dampered her efforts to return to D.C. short of buying her own ticket.\u00a0 Instead, Murkowski’s newest bid is to prove the pen is mighter than the ballot with a longshot write-in candidacy<\/a>:<\/p>\n Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski<\/a> is expected to mount an independent campaign for senator after losing her primary<\/span><\/span><\/a>, much to the dismay of her Republican colleagues, who won’t back her, according to a senior GOP leadership aide.\u00a0<\/p>\n “The entire Republican leadership has endorsed and would continue to support Joe Miller<\/a>,” a the aide told Fox News on Wednesday…<\/p>\n A National Republican Senatorial Committee official made it clear that more money would be on the way to Miller, and suggested that Murkowski might be going through “the seven stages of grief.”\u00a0<\/p>\n “You know, first they concede … then there are the rumors of a write-in candidacy … then you get the acknowledgment that they’re done,” the official said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n If Murkowski does go through with a write-in effort, than she truly is “done”; which\u00a0may suggest that she’s not Freddy Krueger, she’s Bruce Willis in the “Sixth Sense.”<\/em><\/p>\n Murkowski doesn’t appear to be gaining any options as the window for her to make a decision narrows.\u00a0 The Libertarian option isn’t offically closed as long as endorsee Brian Haase continues to entain the notion of removing himself from the ballot.\u00a0 But the LP’s executive committee has already voted against nominating Murkowski short of Haase presenting them with a fait accompli<\/em> with his withdrawal.\u00a0 And given some of the statements by the LP’s committee, even that scenario might not produce a Libertarian-endorsed Lisa Murkowski.<\/p>\n Only<\/a> Strom Thurmond has ever won a general election write-in candidacy <\/a>for the U.S. Senate.\u00a0 Thurmond’s 1954 candidacy was far stranger than Alaska’s current senate tift.\u00a0 The death of the Democratic incumbent, the Democrat Party’s decision to not hold a primary election, and former Governor Thurmond’s backing by the major players in the party were the only reasons why the endless South Carolina Senator prevailed.\u00a0 Considering only one candidate was on the ballot – St. Sen. Edgar A. Brown for you political junkies out there – Thurmond’s candidacy was unique in the extreme.\u00a0 Nothing approaching it awaits Murkowski on the frozen electoral tundra.<\/p>\n\n