if only the GOP were so principled

From Chuck Muth...

Folks close to Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who apparently lost her bid for another term to a conservative Republican in last week’s primary, have tossed about the idea of the moderate senator jumping ship and running in the general election as a Libertarian if the LP would agree to substitute her for the candidate currently on the ballot.

To their credit, the LP told Murkowski to take a flying leap off that bridge to nowhere.

“Sen. Murkowski voted for TARP,” the Alaska Liberatarian party explained in an official statement today. “She voted to bailout Fannie and Freddie. Although no one from her campaign had approached us about her running as a Libertarian, the speculation had reached the point where we felt we had to take a clear stand. We did the hard work to get a Libertarian candidate on the ballot. We didn’t do that hard work to then nominate someone with Sen. Murkowski’s record.”

If only Republicans were so principled.