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There’s been some talk around the web that if Lisa Murkowski loses the Republican nomination for US Senate in Alaska that she might try to run as a Libertarian. Apparently, the Alaska Libertarian Party has said thanks but no thanks. Eric Dondero of Libertarian Republican broke the story today…

The Executive Committee of the Alaska Libertarian Party held an emergency meeting yesterday to discuss the contested primary results in the Republican Senate primary. All 5 board members met in an undisclosed location in northeast Anchorage to hammer out a decision as to how to move forward.

Friends of Lisa Murkowski approached the ALP early Wednesday morning immediately after the Tuesday primaries, feeling out if there was any possibility that the Senator could appear on the Libertarian line for the fall election, as a third party candidate. Other supporters of the Senator, including at least two longstanding members of the Libertarian Party, also called to lobby ALP Chair Scott Kohlhaas to keep an “open mind,” on the issue.

Kohlhaas was immediately innundated with Alaska and national media over the matter.

On Sunday morning, over coffee and donuts, the ExComm voted unanimously, 5 to 0 to deny the Senator the ballot line. There was no malice intended. ALP Chair Kohlhaas has repeatedly stated that she is a nice lady, and the ALP was flattered by the offer.

Robert Stacy McCain, who knows Dondero, offers some juicier details at his blog and makes a gutsier choice in his post title.

Murkowski’s opponent, Tea Party backed Republican Joe Miller, has a slight lead but absentee ballots have yet to be counted.

Allahpundit at Hot Air describes the inherent catch 22 in all this….

Irony of ironies, if Miller wins the primary then the one person in Alaska who can probably guarantee his victory in the general is … Lisa Murkowski, by endorsing him and asking her supporters to back him in a show of party unity. (She has major centrist appeal, drawing 38 percent of indies, 32 percent of Republicans, and even 27 percent of Democrats in a three-way race.) Think Murky will be willing to put all this behind her and help the GOP by declaring “It’s Miller time” in Alaska?

Read more on this at Memeorandum.

Video by Freedom’s Lighthouse via ZIP…

Media mistakes distortions so far:

CBS Downplays Number of Attendants

Mostly White Crowd

Sarah Palin Misquoted (Deliberate?)

As new information came to light today, I felt badly for former USDA official, Shirley Sherrod. She has become embroiled in something much bigger than her or the USDA. If you want to know exactly how I feel, let me just say that I agree with pretty much everything Ace says here.

However, the best person to put the entire situation in perspective is Andrew Breitbart who appeared on the Sean Hannity Show tonight to break it all down. Watch…

Last week the NAACP, which has become nothing more than a far left political organization, made completely false charges of racism against the Tea Party. Andrew Breitbart, the conservative libertarian internet publisher responded. And won…

Here’s the timeline…

July 13: The NAACP passed a resolution calling the Tea Party “racist.”

July 15: Andrew Breitbart released a statement saying the NAACP claim was bullshit and said he had damning video evidence of racism at an NAACP event.

July 19 @ 8 AM: Andrew Breitbart published the promised video of a USDA official at an event sponsored by the NAACP.

July 19 @ 8 PM: USDA official Shirley Sherrod RESIGNED.

Despite Andrew Breitbart’s cash reward, no one has been able to prove that the Tea Party is a racist organization.

As ACE has noted, some “MFM” outlets have even picked up on this scandal.

Paging the Southern Poverty Law Center…

Hello???

UPDATE: I can’t keep up with this story, just read these.

Last week I wrote about the news that 60′s icon Arlo Guthrie has become a registered Republican.

More recently, writer John Harding weighed in on the subject and explored the topic more deeply and from the perspective of someone who’s a member of Guthrie’s generation. Highlights below…

Arlo and I are about the same age, and while no one asked me to sing at Woodstock, I probably would have. I made a lot of odd lifestyle choices in those days. To me and my friends, “grass roots” meant something other than a populist uprising.

Still, we were aghast at the idea of Big Brother, and were against most state intrusions into private lives. When I saw how the government was harassing and intimidating students against the Vietnam war, I threw myself into George McGovern’s presidential campaign because his platform included stopping the draft and reining in an out-of-control central government.

Arlo Guthrie’s famous anthem about “The Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” was nothing if not a parable about private citizens standing up against the hydra-headed authority of an overzealous power structure. It’s not hard to understand Arlo gravitating toward the only party now paying lip service to a limited Federal government. That’s the GOP. [SNIP]

These days, we’re at the mercy of legislators who sign bills without reading them, rack up trillion dollar debts without explanation, and bet our children’s future on impractical energy fixes and economic theories still not proven to work in the real world.

It’s no wonder that everyday people rose up and began mailing empty tea bags to their elected officials— a reminder of the tea tax rebellion that motivated our nation’s founders. We’ve learned that King George can be a nanny as well as a bully, and where is the  counterculture ready to oppose that more benign tyranny?

I’m wondering if Arlo hasn’t also been thinking, like me, that these tea party folks could be the hippies of today. They have no leaders, no lobbyists in Washington, no financial backers telling them what to do next.

Read it all.

Mr. Harding’s analysis puts words to something that I’ve been thinking for some time. The anti-establishment folks have become the establishment and they have no idea how to function in that role. They don’t even seem to realize they’re in charge.

What else can one think when people in the innermost circle of the President of the United States, including Obama himself, will denigrate the Tea Party, the Republican Party, or anyone else who dares to speak up? They have all the power but they automatically fall into the role of the anti-establishment protester because that’s all they’ve ever known.

Tea Party folks on the other hand, who haven’t had much practice being anti-establishment sign wavers, have taken to their new role with surprising ease and success.

AND says he has tape of racism taking place at a dinner event for the NAACP.

Andrew Breitbart has more balls than a Florida driving range. Do yourself a favor and listen to this.

Via Breitbart TV.

Let’s deal in reality, shall we?

Yesterday, the NAACP passed a resolution calling the Tea Party “racist.”

Of course, they haven’t made a peep about the New Black Panther voter intimidation case.

The video below shows Andrew Breitbart and civil rights activist Michael Myers discussing the political double standard with Sean Hannity and agreeing.

Allahpundit knows what I’m talking about.

If the NAACP is a non-partisan group, did they defend….

Kenneth Gladney? NOPE.

Michelle Malkin? OOPS!

Republican, Cedra Crenshaw? CRICKETS.

Funny that.

Classy.

I guess Joe Biden wasn’t kidding when he said it’s “patriotic to pay more taxes.”

I have a feeling America’s founding fathers would disagree.

The American media wants you to believe this is what happens at Tea Parties. In fact, this only happens when anti-capitalism leftists stage a protest.

Obama’s friends Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn must be proud.

Rick Santorum, noted super genius and Ronald Reagan scholar, is optimistic about the GOP’s chances in 2010 but is wary of those wacko libertarians. Way to build that big tent, Rick.

BOCA RATON — Republicans have momentum this year, but potential 2012 presidential candidate Rick Santorum says the GOP won’t capitalize unless it embraces Ronald Reagan conservatism rather than Barry Goldwater libertarianism.

Santorum, for example, supported Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson in last week’s Republican Senate primary in the Bluegrass State.

“I’m for conservatives. I’m not for libertarians who say they’re conservatives,” Santorum said.

Let’s see… Would the Ronald Reagan to whom Mr. Santorum refers, be the same Reagan who was interviewed by Reason Magazine in 1975? That Ronald Reagan had some interesting things to say about libertarianism…

REASON: Governor Reagan, you have been quoted in the press as saying that you’re doing a lot of speaking now on behalf of the philosophy of conservatism and libertarianism. Is there a difference between the two?

REAGAN: If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

THAT’S a politician who knows how to build a big tent coalition.

Santorum’s attitude smacks of a politician saying something like “Thanks for building up all that enthusiasm tea party people, now get out of the way, we professionals will take it from here.”

It’s this type of coalition fracturing attitude that will cause losses. Santorum is already trying to kick certain people out of the tent – as it’s being assembled – by lots of libertarian minded tea party people.

My advice? Roll up your sleeves and just help build the tent, Rick.

And while your at it, shut up.