Choosing Joe Miller

It is clear now that Lisa Murkowski is one of those which runs deep and dark
into the night, known well to aficionados of the occult Slayer/Angel legacy as Vengeance
Demons. That she is willing to throw the Alaska race to a Democrat by an eccentric
write-in candidacy is virtually unprecedented in our day. No doubt she sees her
family name as synonymous with Alaska. This is Hapsburgian politics and it is
much the fashion in our times (Clinton, Bush, Kennedy, Murkowski). Here in New England
many still believe that Kennedy is Massachusetts and without Kennedy there is
no Massachusetts. It stifles growth, awakening, karma; it prevents the new
generation’s dance of creation from taking place. No doubt she really believes
that Joe Miller and the Tea Party are “extremist” and she the orthodoxy which
will preserve the honored tradition. It is worse for Alaska. Massachusetts is almost
400 years old and weary. Alaska is just being born.

Michael Barone on Cavuto last night compared the Tea Party to what were called
“the new people” in the ’60s. The Tea Partiers, he said, are the new “new
people.” As it was then, the orthodoxy of the old hopes to stop them, and Murkowski
leads the charge of old against new.

But what is most enlightening about this episode is how her Republican colleagues
in the Senate have responded to her decision, which would jeopardize
conservative prospects everywhere. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.)
in particular. As The Hill reports, McConnell backed the switch when Sen. Richard
Burr (N.C.) took over as senior Republican on the Senate Energy panel after
Murkowski lost the position Tuesday.

The very traditional and very mainstream Republicans had a choice: past or
future, old generation or new, old orthodoxy or new thinking, Murkowski or
Miller. They chose Miller. They chose life. They chose their future.

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