Palintology

Palin Warned Away From Senate Seat

By GOP lawmaker.

As Sarah Palin contemplates how best to increase her national profile, Alaska's other leading lady, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, has some words of warning: Keep your hands off my Senate seat. Palin could challenge Murkowski in 2010, as a Senate seat would give her a national platform, a thicker resume, and a chance to beef up on foreign policy. "If she wants to be president, I don't think the way to the presidency is a short stop in the United States Senate," Murkowski tells Politico. If Palin lost, she would damage her chances at the GOP nomination in 2012. "I can guarantee it would be a very tough election," Murkowski says. Palin defeated Murkowski’s father, Frank, in the 2006 GOP Republican primary.