In the long, bitter saga of Republican betrayals, Lisa Murkowski’s name deserves its own chapter — bolded, underlined, and filed under “Never Forget.”
This is the same Murkowski who, back in 2010, couldn’t accept the will of her own party. Alaska Republicans had spoken. They wanted Joe Miller. They voted for him in the primary — fair and square. But Murkowski, used to the comfort of a political dynasty, didn’t just lose with grace. No, she staged a write-in coup, pulling off a legalistic end-run around the GOP and dragging Democrat-lite politics right back into the Senate under the Republican banner.
She taught voters how to spell her name—literally—while undermining the very foundation of the party system. Now, in 2025, she’s signaling what many of us suspected all along: She was never truly one of us. In her 2010 campaign, she even relied on the image of the recently deceased Senator Ted Stevens, who served Alaska for over four decades, with his daughter’s permission, allowing a video of his posthumous endorsement to be played.
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Lisa Murkowski is the quintessential example of a political legacy hire—a textbook “nepo baby”—as the daughter of former Alaska Governor and U.S. Senator Frank Murkowski. In a particularly telling moment, Senator Murkowski criticized Governor Sarah Palin, stating she “does not have those leadership qualities, that intellectual curiosity that allows for building good and great policies,” suggesting Palin lacked the aptitude for the detailed, disciplined work of governance.
Let’s be honest. Lisa Murkowski has made a career out of being a Republican In Name Only — a RINO in pearls. She’s voted against conservative judges, stabbed her colleagues in the back over Obamacare repeal, and played footsie with Democrats every time the Left turned up the pressure. On energy, on abortion, on the courts — if there’s a fork in the road, Murkowski takes the one leading straight to MSNBC applause.
And now? She’s floating the idea of dropping the “R” altogether. News flash, Lisa: you did that years ago.
This latest flirtation with independence isn’t a bold moral stand. It’s political survival wrapped in a Hallmark card. She sees the winds shifting and wants to play both sides — again. Stay in Republican committees for the perks, but vote like a liberal whenever it scores points with the media elite. The Democrats are celebrating this like they won the NBA Championship.
Murkowski represents everything grassroots conservatives have fought against: the entitlement, the elitism, the disconnect from real-world values. While Alaskans wrestle with inflation, overreach, and energy strangulation, she’s busy making friends in the Acela corridor and preening for Politico profiles.
Joe Miller should have been the senator. In 2010, the GOP made its choice. But Murkowski made hers — to sabotage that decision for her own ambition. That betrayal set the tone for everything that came after. She hasn’t changed. She just got better at pretending.
It’s time to stop pretending with her. Let Lisa Murkowski go independent. Let her leave the party she’s never been loyal to. The Republican base deserves leaders who fight for its values — not career politicians who trample them every election cycle.
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