World News Korner

Dan Sullivan's campaign for the GOP nomination to run against Senator Mark Begich is in trouble. So who are you going to call, Condoleezza Rice. Wait, who?

Courtesy of the National Journal:

American Crossroads is bringing on former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to aid an Alaskan Senate candidate who has recently come under fire from Democrats.

Rice appears in a new 30-second TV ad from the Karl Rove-founded super PAC praising Republican Dan Sullivan for his work in the Bush administration, and defends him from attacks on his Alaskan residency from a group supporting Democratic Sen. Mark Begich. "Remember that serving our country required some time in our capital," Rice says in the Crossroads spot, which has $170,000 behind it, according to Federal Election Commission records.

The move comes a week after Put Alaska First PAC, the pro-Begich super PAC, launched a TV ad noting that Sullivan purchased a nonresidential fishing license in 2009. The group also aired an ad in February highlighting that the Republican primary front-runner benefited from a Maryland tax credit while voting in Alaska, and that he was born and raised in Ohio. While serving in the White House from 2002-04 and the State Department from 2006-09, Sullivan lived in Bethesda, Md., but still owned a home in Anchorage.

You know while Alaska is a red state, I don't think that reminding voters that Sullivan once worked for one of the worst President's in American history is going to garner him anymore support.

And if the question is concerning this carpetbagger status then having an out of stater speak on his behalf does him virtually no good.

I actually find it interesting that Sullivan is already having this much trouble. After all his only real competition for the nomination is Joe Miller who is essentially a laughing stock up here, and Mead Treadwell who as Alaska's Lt. Governor has so little charisma that he is actually overshadowed by a Governor whose nickname is Captain Zero.

(H/T to the Daily Kos.)

Source