Tea Partiers: Toss em' all overboard

June 18, 2010: It was just a matter of time before the delusional Tea Party movement followed their head cheerleader Sarah Palin back to Alaska to start mucking around in Alaska politics.

Palin, who has become the de facto mouth piece of a group that has nothing to offer Americans but anger and mind scratching endorsements, is now promising to attack Alaska's senior U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski in the GOP primary come August.

The Tea Party Express is pledging to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost little-known Joe Miller's bid to defeat Murkowski. The group, funded through a California-based political action committee, said it will have staff in Alaska and make the race its top priority until the Aug. 24 primary.

But as Emerson once wrote, "Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," and looking at this group, they are awash in little minds.

First you have Palin. What kind of a group chooses to follow the lead of someone who couldn't even finish out her term as governor? She is a quitter, and not a very smart one at that.

In July of 2009 she stated she was resigning to help Alaska. Help Alaska? How does promoting the candidacy of a right wing lunatic help Alaska at a time when the state has serious problems that need to be addressed by serious people.

Second, the Tea Party has offered no solutions. None. Nada. Zip. Zilch.

A quick glance at the federal government shows that entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security, with a combined unfunded liability of $65 trillion, are the biggest drags on the federal budget.

As the American population continues to age, (seniors are the fastest growing demographics) what are these geniuses plans to arrest the growing burden of these programs?

Does wannabee U.S. Senator Joe Miller support eliminating both programs as recent Tea Party candidate Sharon Engle from Nevada has espoused? Is Miller man enough to stand before Alaskans and tell them he believes that Social Security and Medicare need to be cut or eliminated to help reduce the nation's debt.

Or maybe Miller is in the mold of Rand Paul, who recently advocated repealing several key pieces of equal rights legislation at a time when America is becoming more diverse?

In actuality, this isn't about Joe Miller or even Lisa Murkowski for that matter, it's about Alaska's favorite narcissist Sarah Palin trying to influence an election in a state where polls now show more Alaskans view her as a negative than a positive.

Lisa Murkowski's record over the last year since Palin's PAC donated $5,000 to her has been as conservative as conservative gets. There is absolutely no merit to the wailing of the Tea Party faithful that Murkowski is anything less than a solid legislator.

This comes down to one thing and one thing only; Lisa Murkowski is a smart and an accomplished lawmaker who has risen through the ranks of the GOP and Palin is not.

It's jealousy plain and simple.

In December 2002, when Murkowski was appointed to the U.S. Senate, Palin's quote in the Anchorage Daily News said it all when she was bounced from consideration. "I guess I'll have to return my unopened copy of Mr. Smith goes to Washington," she told the press.

Typical Palin, she couldn't even finish watching a movie that lasted just 129 minutes, let alone a four year term as governor. But now she wants to tell Alaskans who should be their next U.S. Senator.

Save it sister, nobody is buying your schtick anymore. Just look at your poll numbers in your home state let alone the country where a recent CNN poll showed you'd lose to President Obama by 14 points if the election was held today.

Alaskans need to send Sarah Palin and her Tea Party groupies a message while tossing them over board like so many crates of tea; Lisa Murkowski is our U.S. Senator and she's here to stay.