Internal e-mails reveal Joe Miller campaign distancing itself from the Tea Party - MUDFLATS

[Blue_In_AK]

Now, THIS could get interesting...

http://www.themudflats.net/2010/10/13/internal-emails-reveal-joe-miller-campaign-distancing-itself-from-tea-party/

Sorry, Tea Party Sugar Daddy. Looks like your sweetie really isn’t that in to you. Now, don’t get me wrong, he doesn’t mind spending your money like a drunken sailor trying to stumble his way into the halls of the nation’s capitol, but to be seen with you in public? Well, frankly he thinks you’re just a little embarrassing.

There is no question that Alaska Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller has been treated like a king by the Tea Party Express. Last June, he received their full endorsement. He was a long shot back then. He had never once been elected to public office, and nobody had ever heard of him. But his personal friends Todd and Sarah Palin had given him an endorsement, and that alone made ‘Joe the Longshot’ worth a second look for the Tea Party. And look they did.

The Tea Party Express said it’s willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Miller, a Fairbanks attorney and self-styled “constitutional conservative” who is making his first statewide run for public office.

Spokesman for the TPE, Levi Russell said that significant financial investment in Miller’s candidacy would help to level the playing field in the uphill battle against establishment incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski, noting that many voters didn’t even know who Joe Miller was.

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Following that story’s revelation (the Todd Palin/Joe Miller exchange), another internal email was also obtained by The Mudflats. Emails from this source reveal that Joe Miller’s campaign is not only distancing itself from Palin despite her support, but is attempting to distance itself, at least publicly, from the Tea Party Express itself.

The email exchange is between Miller’s campaign Fundraising Chairman, Seth Church and Campaign Manager, Robert Campbell. In the email, dated September 18, 2010, Church asks Campbell for suggested edits for a piece written for the campaign. Campbell returns the email telling Church, “We’re not the Tea Party candidate, so avoid that language…”

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This distancing, in which Miller’s Campaign Manager states specifically that he is “not the Tea Party candidate” and asks that Tea Party references not be used by the campaign, comes despite the staggering financial commitment, and clear positive effect that Tea Party money had for Miller’s candidacy. The support ultimately lead Miller from complete obscurity to primary victory over a tough incumbent opponent.

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[tularetom]

1. Maybe before he fires them they could buy him a razor

That fucking beard is really creepy looking.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. I totally agree.

That was the one thing upon which all of us at an equally divided McAdams/Murkowski table at the Chamber debate Monday agreed. :rofl: Either grow a real beard or shave, damn it.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

3. Interesting dynamics in this race. Scott McAdams could win this one

http://www.scottmcadams.org

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Yes, he could.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Wavering voters with Millerphobia need to be convinced that Lisa can't win a write-in -- and all historical markers here seem to point in that direction. There have been very vigorous write-in campaigns here in the past waged by very popular politicians that have failed. I don't think Lisa exceeds that bar.