Murkowski: Palin too disengaged to run for Senate

[DonViejo]

“In order for you to represent the state of Alaska, you’ve got to be in the state," she said

BY JILLIAN RAYFIELD

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said that she doesn’t think that Sarah Palin is “engaged” enough in the state of Alaska to effectively make a run for Senate in 2014.

“I think there are a lot of outside interests that would like to see Sarah Palin in some form of elected office. Most in Alaska recognize our former governor is really not involved in or engaged in the state anymore, that she’s moved to other interests,” Murkowski told the Hill. “In order for you to represent the state of Alaska, you’ve got to be in the state.”

This isn’t the first time Murkowski has criticized Palin. In 2010, she said “I just do not think that [Palin] has those leadership qualities, that intellectual curiosity that allows for building good and great policies.” She added: “I don’t think that she enjoyed governing.”

A group called the Tea Party Leadership Fund is pushing for Palin to run for Senate in 2014, as a challenger to Sen. Mark Begich, a Democrat who is up for reelection. The group even commissioned a poll from a Republican polling outfit, which shows Palin with a slight lead in a potential Republican primary matchup.

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http://www.salon.com/2013/05/23/murkowski_palin_too_disengaged_to_run_for_senate/

[tanyev]

1. Snarky tweet from Sarah in 3...2....1....

"I can't be engaged, I'm already married!"

[Arkana]

7. Sarah's not quick enough for something like that.

[CBGLuthier]

2. Disengaged is politese

for not as bat shit crazy as Michele Bachmann but close enough.

[Cha]

10. lol true

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Interesting euphemism, 'disengaged'

I can come up with some other 'dis'-es to describe Caribou Barbie, most specifically, 'disturbed.'

[Sheepshank]

4. Disengaged, meaning doesn't give a shit about others and can't commit

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Palin has an established track record of broken commitments and personal aggrandizement.

[WI_DEM]

5. I would answer it with half term governor of Alaska

She cared so much about her state that she quit half way thru her term to spend her time posting on Facebook.

[Arkana]

6. Oh dear.

I hope Murkowski's ready for her own personal Night of the Long Knives, because she's gonna get a lot of hate mail.

[hack89]

8. "Palin too fucking crazy to run for Senate" - there, fixed it. nt

[Cha]

9. Make that the former failed gov of Alaska.

[DFW]

11. It is not a sure thing Palin would lose

That is bad enough.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. too unhinged to run for Senate

[TeamPooka]

13. the Murkowskis and Palins are the political Hatfield and McCoys of Alaska.

They deserve each other.

[Tom Ripley]

14. Or the Jukes and the Kallikaks

[TeamPooka]

15. lol