Lisa Murkowski has been a Republican senator from Alaska since 2002. She has accepted millions of dollars in assistance from the Republican National Committee, availed herself of the expertise of political professionals at the RNC, and gone to the voters of Alaska three times telling them she was a Republican.
But when the chips were down and the party that had nurtured and supported her throughout her political career needed her, she spit in their face.
Murkowski was the only Republican to vote “no” to bring the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the floor for a vote. Her explanation was long-winded and convoluted, but in the end, she said it was a vote of “conscience.”
Politicians vote their “conscience” when it is convenient to do so. In Murkowski’s case, her claim of conscience would be more believable if she didn’t already know that her colleague, Senator Susan Collins, was going to vote to confirm Kavanaugh. This meant that her vote was not needed for confirmation and she could safely indulge her pique against the president without recriminations from her colleagues.
Read the rest from Rick Moran HERE.
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