DeMint still raising funds to defeat Murkowski election.

[Blue_In_AK]

From today's Anchorage Daily News: http://www.adn.com/2010/11/21/1566331/demint-still-raising-funds-to.html

WASHINGTON -- For all his success in helping elect ultraconservatives to the Senate, Sen. Jim DeMint now must face the difficult consequences of one spectacular, all but certain failure.

Even as DeMint says he would welcome fellow Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski back to the Senate, the South Carolinian is still urging conservative activists around the country to donate money to replace the Alaska incumbent with tea party favorite Joe Miller.

DeMint, who raised $5.6 million for ultraconservative GOP candidates this year, has attached a personal-appeal letter to a "CONTRIBUTE" banner and a photo of Miller at the top of the Web site of his Senate Conservatives Fund.

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When most of his Senate Republican peers sided with Murkowski and preserved her position, DeMint fired off an angry email to conservative activists.

"It was bad enough to watch my colleagues work to support her (against Miller) in the primary after she had built a record of betraying conservative principles," DeMint wrote. "But watching them back her after she left the party and launched a campaign against the Republican nominee (Miller) was more than I could bear," he said.

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Murkowski, though, was the first sitting GOP senator to say publicly that DeMint may have cost Republicans the Senate majority.

"I think he has made people uncomfortable," she said. "I think that he has kind of rattled the cages. Whether that advances to a full-on civil war, I don't know."

This might end up being kind of fun to watch.

[onehandle]

1. Let them waste their money.

Infight away.

[NC_Nurse]

2. Poor Jim! He's not gonna get the nutjob he wanted for AK in the Senate.

:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

3. Jimmy will start sharpening the knives for when Begich runs again

Watch him push the bearded one out front for that one...