Murkowski: Why did Palin have to make it personal?

“The tone was directed against me rather than reasons why you should support Joe,” Murkowski told me in an interview. “But she did put a little dig in there about my family, and you can’t help but notice when she says that she encouraged people to basically pony up 1,000 bucks to raise the 30,000 dollars, they want Miller to gain and that would be a 1,000 dollars for the 30 years the Murkowski family…locked up Alaska. All of a sudden, it was like, wait a minute, if you are taking me on because you don’t think I’m conservative enough that’s one thing, but are you now suggesting that Frank Murkowski was not conservative enough and why are you looping him on this? All of a sudden it became a little more personal.”…

“I think that the thing that disturbed me most about her Facebook statement was the fact that she said that this race isn’t just about Alaska, and I am really pretty passionate about my state,” Murkowski said in an interview. “I’m really pretty passionate about the people I represent and this is all about Alaska. This is absolutely all about Alaska. I was surprised at her choice of words.”