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Cat fight! Alaska Senator Lisa Mukowski has shown her claws to Governor Sarah Palin, warning the former Republican vice presidential candidate not to run against her in her bid for re-election to the senate in 2010.

“I can guarantee it will be a very tough election,” Murkowski said in an interview.

Murkowski is up for re-election in 2010, the same year Palin’s term as governor expires and while Palin has yet to announce her intention to run for senate, Murkowski seems intent to advise her against it, warning that such a move could damage her hopes of running for president two years later.

 ”If she wants to be president,” Murkowski said, “I don’t think the way to the presidency is a short stop in the United States Senate.” She said a bid for senate by Palin could be disastrous; if she lost, her stock would drop right before her run for president and if she won, she’d have little sway in a chamber dominated by seniority and would have to begin her presidential campaign straight out of the gate. 

But could some other motive be making Murkowski so opposed to a Palin senate run? The answer is yes. Two years ago Sarah Palin beat out Murkowski’s father, Frank Murkowski, in his bid for Governor of Alaska and on the campaign trail this year, she boasted about upending the “old boys network” in Alaska.

Sounds like there’s some bitterness there. Luckily, I have the solution. We all know how little Alaskan’s suffrage means (the nearly elected a convicted felon to senate this year), so let’s settle this the good ol’ fahioned-way: MUD WRESTLING MATCH!  

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