Alaska's Murkowski Wants To Play Spoiler

Soon to be former Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski lost the GOP primary. Now she's going to launch her write-in campaign. This always seems to happen when liberal Republicans lose. People complain about conservatives purging the party of moderates, but the opposite is closer to the truth. Look at Castle in DE or Crist in FL or Specter in PA or Scozzafava in NY or now Murkowski in AK - they lose the primary fair and square because their voters would rather have their opponents. So they either switch parties, endorse the other party's candidate or launch a write-in campaign, in each case badly damaging the GOP chances.

Primaries take place for a reason. And when a sore loser candidate loses and tries another tactic to override the will of the voters, that person should be scorned and abandoned altogether by the party. Fortunately a lot of voters see their opportunism for what it is.