I'm not familiar at all with this woman other than the media coverage about her being a write-in. Can somebody tell me why she is considered to be a "rhino", what exactly makes her such a liberal republican?

I am not a Republican, but congrats to Lisa. I was really afraid Joe would get in and heaven help us.

she see inside out, unlike most Republic followers at this point in time what she seen is the fact that, KOCK Brother Money, funded a last minute attack on her in the primary election as they did to other candidates in the Republican party across the country, yes she saw this attack on republicans, masqueraded as a new party (Tea Party), so what did she do, she brought to the attention of the voters, that the wool was being pull over they eyes, while they where not paying attention(Mid-Terms), she got the attention of the true republican party, and they let the KOCK Brothers, Sell out Palin, glenn beck, Rush, Bachmann and the rest of the tea party hijackers know that it was not happen in Alaska, soon the rest of the republican party will wake up cast this fraud aside ......

MerCowskY! winner in Alaska, you go Girl

The oddity of it all, is that it's merely puposeful media coverage, of a 'party' that is not a party at all. A mere few million, 'members' in the "Pity Party' and whom skilled Madison Avenue and newspaper publishers, actually have managed to convince they are even an electorate. They arn't, the Pity Party is actually nothing more than banker and banker's newspapers, phantom creation. The idea is to keep the real silent majority thinking not about it's financial suffering, but instead, thinking about meaningless, non effective, legislatively ignorant people like that Alaska moron that poses not a smidgen of threat to the Reserve and it's foreign banking families that currently own the United States and it's printing presses.

While at it, I might add, or ask, suppose 'we', the people, the citizens of the US, just say, we arn't going to pat this National Debt? We might just do a bankruptcy, not pay out a single dime to the 'banks' we owe money, each of them now giants, all because this country was bled for interest for 200 years.

So, we just say kiss this red, white and blue behind and tell those bankers drop dead on all past debt. What are they going to do about it? Then, the US says, 'we want to borrow with a claen slate the next day' and start over. If they say 'No', it's pretty simple. We just launch a few rockets right down the heating vents of a few European and Asian banks and fix it all, just like that.

Congrats Alaska, way to keep business as usual by electing another embedded incumbant. Just read this board and see how happy the left wing douchebaggers are and you will know you made the right decision (wink, wink). She has already said she opposes the ban on earmarks, maybe you will get that bridge to no where after all, morons.

Congrats, Alaska.

I wonder if palin is going to expect Murkowski's endorsement.

The Teabaggers only have influence among a certain segment of the American electorate.

Alas a lot of exhortation and chest thumping about Sarah Palin, (and does anybody know her well enough to call her by her Christian name?), and the demise of the Tea Party. Unfortunately the Tea Party principles of less government, less taxes and more independence ring strong for a large amount of educated and reasonable people. Many of these people are also greatly in favor of term limits as well, as am I. This country is greatly fractured and immensely unhappy with our own government right now. Right or wrong, the economy has worsened under the current administration with unemployment at decades high level and the highest national debt ever. Further, as GEN McChrystal predicted the war in Afghanistan is getting more tense everyday and many Americans don't like that. Until we run our governments, (state, local and federal), with a balanced budget and rethink the current multitudes of social programs with a bottom line mentality, this country is going to have even more rough fiscal times. As both a fiscal and social conservative who voted for Pres Bush both times, I was not happy with his domestic agenda over those 8 years, nor with the way the Iraq rebuilding was conducted. however I shudder to think what would have happened with John Kerry or Al Gore. My options of Pres Obama or Sen McCain were horrific. One person had zero qualifications and/or training to run anything and the other was/is seriously out of touch with many of the issues. It's a trite phrase, but you and I cannot spend more than is in the bank so why can the govt? I guess I'm overly simplistic and expect too much from the people who work for us in government. Bottom Line? Tea party won't go away until this country does a better job of handling it's money and planning it's economic growth, short and long term.

Man, you really go off the deep end there Hartwood. Many do not care for Sara and would never vote for her. You can push your Mama Grizzley garbage all you want but the majority will not vote for her.

I do not ask for you to explain why you are a follower of Palin and its fine you believe in her but please do not harp on others who cannot vote for her garbage.

Right_Wingers_R_Racist_In_AZ.....you are full of S___. I am a native Arizonan, probably from way before you were a twinkle in anybody's eye. I am white. I have two grand daughters and four great grand children that are half Hispanic. I have one grand daughter that is half Japanese. You don't know jack about Arizona.