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You must have an interesting semantic twist to the term leader if you think Congress critters are not leaders.

Revak is the only other on the list with any serious run from the right, but he has not been terribly successful in his legislative moves and seems to be a slow learner.

I was replying to rimfire's post.

Revak is a proven liar.

Perhaps he'd be better than chrissy Cunstant, but not by much.

If Don Young had not died, would you be voting for him?

One has to be somewhat naive to believe all of the Congress critters are leaders. It does not take leadership to vote on how your constituents want you to vote or to vote in those matters upholding the constitution. Most will, at one time or another, vote on issues to benefit their own self interest (or the Party interest) and many have, and will continue, to vote against matters clearly spelled out in the constitution. Honesty and ethics are some good leadership traits to have but, like H. L. Mencken said: " A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."

I haven't sent my ballot in yet. Maybe I'll get a replacement and vote for Don after all.

At least he is a proven threat.... or maybe not so much anymore.

You can just line out a mistake, write “No” next to it, reselect, and send.


What could go wrong? 😳

I had no plans to vote for don this time around unless I had to in November.

Pretty sure that that's why she quit the governorship, couldn't handle the attacks coming from the left and used the excuse of not wanting to waste the peoples money on it.

It wasn't that she could not take the criticism, it was that her rocketing to conservative stardom on the national stage caused the Left to try to cripple her any way they could, and they found a way through constant frivolous ethics lawsuits the legal fees for which Sarah was having to pay to defend out of her own pocket with no chance of reimbursement even if she won. At $500,000 she pulled the plug. Months later the law was changed to provide for reimbursement.

I don't blame her a bit for resigning. The brain-dead, jealous, half-Leftist Legislature left her twisting in the wind at the mercy of the Soros crowd.

Many, many votes in Congress see dozens of representative/senators "on the fence." Sarah has the charisma and forthrightness to persuade many of them at those times. I don't know if Begich will even vote the right way, much less persuade others to.

As Rimfire said- she wasn't "wasting the people's money on it '. She had to pay to defend those frivolous lawsuits out of her own pocket, or maybe some with donations. Not from state funds, which were prohibited at the time from such use.

All right.....I talked to people I trust and they think Begich is worth taking a risk on. I happen to think his dad is a pretty cool guy, and from the late-night talk radio shows I've heard him on, he seems reasonable enough. Hopefully that's been passed on to NB III. Personally, I'd rather see him posing with an AR wearing a battle belt, since I think shotguns send the wrong message to the enemy. Hell, John Kerry, Al Gross and even Obama have posed with shotguns. Some of the most gun restrictive countries in the world "allow" you to have a shotgun after jumping through several govt hoops, and that's pretty much how I interpret the message being conveyed when politicians pose with them claiming to defend my gun rights.




John Coghill needs to be kicked in the nutzack for his part in crafting SB-91. I had to fight through that stupidity in the trenches playing catch & release with scumbags.

Anyone else see that ad run by Al Gross claiming to be an Independent, he's so desperate to win and he thinks by claiming to be an Independent that folks will forget his previous run as a Democrat.

Even they don’t want him.

The lying liar Gross, Al is lying again.

It’s the same “I’m an independent “ bullshit he used in his ads when running against Dan Sullivan 2 years ago. He got busted when the recording of him telling potential donors that he will caucus with democrats.


Hey! Did you know he killed a bear? Fuggin idiot. lol


ETA: https://mustreadalaska.com/oops-gross-admits-on-private-call-hes-with-the-democrats-all-the-way/

I've never seen such a crowded ballot. 48 names...

I've never seen such a crowded ballot. 48 names...

August primary will be a busy one too, I bet.

My guess is among all those candidates the final four will be Begich, Gross, Revak, Palin (listed in alphabetic order)

I'd like to vote for Begich but I can't get over the fact that he voted for Berkowitz.