MSM credits Joe Miller’s AK GOP primary win to pro-life vote
Even though liberal MSM types like Ron Elving, senior Washington editor at NPR, don’t understand what’s going on, they are giving credit for Joe Miller’s AK GOP Senate primary (apparent) victory to pro-life voters.
But the title and opening paragraph of Elving’s August 26 piece not so subtly tell us he thinks Alaskans have gone crazy…
Elving, among others, still can’t fathom that pro-lifers now comprise the majority. Even if so, he thinks people who believe preborn humans shouldn’t be slaughtered for convenience and profit, and/or parents who want to know before their daughters abort (which was the ballot initiative that helped get voters out), wear tin hats. Nevertheless, he gave us credit:
Which kind of AK Republican was most motivated for this primary? The answer appears to be the populist, evangelical, anti-abortion Republicans who are likely to identify with the movement known as the Tea Party.
Murkowski [pictured right] had a vulnerability within her own party because she was a supporter of abortion rights in some cases. While abortion views are divided in AK as elsewhere, opposition to abortion is more concentrated in the Republican Party.
And this week’s ballot featured a voter measure on requiring parental notification prior to an abortion for a minor. Murkowski endorsed the measure, but the anti-abortion activists who came out to vote for it may well have preferred Miller’s anti-abortion credentials overall.
It was also this issue that influenced former AK Gov. Sarah Palin to switch her support from Murkowski to Miller…. [W]hen Miller later emerged as an anti-abortion champion aligned with the Tea Party and other Palin causes, the state’s most mediagenic citizen made her move. It didn’t hurt that Mike Huckabee, the former minister, governor and presidential candidate who also appears on Fox News, came to the state to campaign for Miller….
Politics and World News also gave the nod for Wilson’s (apparent) win to those who believe preborn babies shouldn’t be suctioned and chopped, nor should 12-yr-olds almost certainly impregnated under shady circumstances be secreted away for abortions without their parents knowing…
as did the Anchorage Daily News…
Note in ADN’s story how enthusiastically Miller supported Ballot Measure 2, in contrast to Murkowski’s tepid support, clearly trying to straddle the fence…
The abortion issue may have cost embattled… Murkowski an untold number of votes Tuesday to Republican primary challenger Joe Miller, say anti-abortion activists.
The ballot also included a sharply contested voter initiative generally requiring parents to be notified before their teen receives an abortion. Miller [pictured below, with voters] came out strongly for Ballot Measure 2.
“He told voters over and over again: Flip your ballot over, vote ‘yes on 2.’ Before you vote for me, vote ‘yes on 2.’ Ballot Measure 2 is much more important than this Senate race,” said Bernadette Wilson, campaign manager for Alaskans for Parental Rights, the “yes on 2” group.
Murkowski never did the same, Wilson said. All the other statewide Republican candidates gave money to the effort. Murkowski didn’t, Wilson said. Supporters of the parental notification requirement noticed, she said.
Murkowski’s campaign said the senator supported Measure 2 and went to 2 fundraisers for it. But her campaign lawyer advised that she couldn’t let Alaskans for Parental Rights use her name in its materials, because that would amount to an illegal campaign contribution to her, under federal election law, according to an e-mailed copy of the analysis.
The initiative, which marked the first time Alaskans confronted an abortion issue at the polls, passed with 55 percent of the vote.
In addition… AK Family Council asked candidates detailed questions on abortion and other social issues. Murkowski’s answers showed her to be pro-choice, while Miller was the opposite…
The political group sent the answers to thousands of its supporters, as well as pastors and the media….
Murkowski’s record on abortion is complex. She has long said abortion decisions are between a woman and her doctor, and in her first appointed Senate term, she voted for a nonbinding “sense of the Senate” that supported Roe v. Wade. But she’s voted against federal funding for abortion, and supported a ban on late-term abortions….
Alaskans for Parental Rights never told its backers to vote for Miller, and didn’t work on his campaign, Wilson said. But it didn’t have to.
Weeks ago, when her group first waved their “yes on 2” signs along the Seward Highway in Midtown, Miller drove past, then made a U-turn to join them, Wilson said. On Election Day, Miller waved one of their signs along with one of his own.
“People who voted ‘yes’ on Ballot Measure 2 and people who voted for Joe Miller are of like mind,” Wilson said. “People kind of linked arms and came to the polls for both.”
“There’s no doubt that Lisa Murkowski’s pro-abortion views had an influence on this election,” [council president Jim] Minnery said.
Of note is I learned of these MSM articles via Robin Marty at the pro-abort site RH Reality Check, who seemed to have no wind in her sails when reporting the AK pro-life phenomenon…. no excuses, no rationalization, even appearing to defend Murkowski as a supporter of Measure 2 by reposting her excuse for lack of overt support.
[Bottom photo via the AP ]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Do you mean Joe Miller?
Corrected! Thanks, Kristen!
The pro-abort mind will never comprehend the fact that America is pro-life in heart and soul. No matter how much they holler and shout their liberal, culture of Death in the public arena.
They will go nuts trying to figure that out.
Um I think anyone would go nutz trying to figure out AK politics, or compare them to politics in the educated part of the world… AK is damn near a third world country up there all by itself with only the worst part of Russia and Canada to keep it company. Mark my words it will only be a short matter of time before we see news stories of this “Pro-Life” leader spending his free time killing deer, moose, turkeys, or Eskimos on FOX News…
The politics in AK are a model of corruption and isolation.
Must be nice to be so morally superior to everyone else as to grant you, and only you, the wisdom do decide which lives on this planet are “Sacred” and which of lower status and without a soul…
It always makes me laugh to ask a “Pro-Life” person if the steak they are eating had a soul, to which they always answer no because to say yes blows the whole “Life is Sacred” argument out of the water. I like to follow up that question with another one, about if their prized yorkie, which they carry around like a small child, has a soul as well… I love the sound of grinding gears and escaping steam that follows these two questions, while they try to figure how to justify their levels “Sacredness” to life.
It must be nice to be so morally inferior as to believe that believing nothingness is somehow better than somethingness. What is even more hilarious is watching a pro-choice vegan’s brain grind to a halt when confronted with their hypocrisy. They can only choke and acknowledge that they are in fact mentally ill. Any species that believes itself to be a blight on its home planet is seriously ill and in desperate need of a cure. I would never put a cow’s life before a human’s, much as I love cows and their big brown eyes. When a member of my family died, the grief was terrible to endure. When a pet dies, it’s very sad, but you brush yourself off and adopt a new pet. Animals and humans are not equal, but animals certainly deserve to be treated humanely even if they are consumed as food. Pro-choice vegans who declare, “I won’t eat anything with a face!” are the largest hypocrites ever.
Biggz, if we were on a boat,& both a calf and you were falling overboard and in danger of drowning, I would save you before the calf. Even knowing your political and religious opinions, I would still save you, the human, before the calf, even though the calf is cuter.
It’s wonderful to see such a commonsense initiative pass. And hilarious to hear all the pro-aborts being forced to try to explain why parental notification of an elective surgical procedure should be less regulated that sunscreen and aspirin for schoolchildren. If the home is abusive, then really, access to abortion should be the least of society’s worries for the child.
Ninek & others, being a hypocrit or being inconsistent in one’s political views is not a real mental illness & comments like that are insensitive, perpetuates stigma, & does a disservice for those of us who have been diagnosed with and struggle with a real mental illness such depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia every day.
Rachel, with all due respect to those suffering from mental illnesses that have been diagnosed or are under treatment, I stand by what I said. If a person is so completely disconnected from their own species that they extol the murder of unborn children, because they believe that another species, such as an animal, is of more value, and because they believe that humans are a blight on their own home planet, that is certifiably a mental illness. I’m not kidding, I’m not being snarky. I am very serious. Our entire world is suffering, and I don’t have a catch-phrase or handy diagnosis. But I do have two eyes that can see and two ears that can hear. The meme of self-destruction is running rampant in our world. We need healing. I don’t say that lightly. It is a social dis-ease.
One mental disease that I believe most antilifers fall under is Antisocial Personality Disorder.
We do indeed need healing from this terrible social dis-ease, Ninek.
One mental disease that I believe most antilifers fall under is Antisocial Personality Disorder.
Gotta disagree with you there. Most proaborts don’t meet the diagnositic criteria for antisocial personality. The lack of empathy, the sense of entitlement, and (often) the rage seen in some proaborts is, to my way of thinking, more suggestive of narcissistic traits (not necessarily the full blown personality disorder). I don’t think it’s helpful to label proaborts mentally ill as a whole, nor do I think it’s accurate. I agree that we have societal factors that encourage the proabort mentality, but that doesn’t mean those who have this mentality are mentally ill.
Pretty amazing!
Where else but Alaska can a pro-choice RINO (Sarah Palin) and a pro-choice organization (Nat’l Right to Life) work along with a pro-choice ballot initiati (Ballot Measure 2) all to help a “life-from-conception” pro-life Republican get elected! Talk about layer upon layer of serendipity.