By hook or by crook

As Freepers give up on Miller beating Murkowski in Alaska, their veneer of caring a bout anything other than their side winning has slipped. Thus, when tlb posts that he's not happy with Miller's trying to throw out misspelled ballots, saying "the recount was crushing him. So he pulls a Gore." and asking "do people really want a senator who would disenfranchise voters for a spelling error?" Freepers respond in one of two ways:

IMissPresidentReagan twists logical pretzels with an odd hypothetical to take the moral high ground that mispelling should deny you the franchise:

However, what the Murkowski camp wants to do is to apply a subjective standard, and read "voter intent" into each vote. So, say I wrote in "MurCOWski bitch" as a protest vote, and my individual intent was to protest her running after losing the primary, or because I woke up on the wrong side of the bed, angry at the world, and wanted people to know that I hated her, the very real probability that my anti-Murkowski vote would be counted as a pro-Murkowski vote exists because of this subjective "intent" crap.

John O also has some interesting ideas of how mispellings never happen:

How do you know they did not intend to vote for Lisa Murkowsky, the nice lady who lives doen the street. Or for Lisa Merkowski, the woman who watches their kids during teh daytime. Or Leesa Murkowski, their teenage daughters best friends mother?

You assume these voters are too stupid to spell the candidate's name (How democrat of you).

I assume these voters voted for exactly who they wanted to vote for and refuse to let them be disenfranchised by having their votes given to some Lisa Murkowski wench.

BOBWADE tries for a simpler rout - rules do not matter:

I would if it meant defeating a RINO

freekitty agrees. See, only Republicans count as 'the people:'

No. He is standing up to the corruption that is Lisa and people like her.

She was not chosen by the people to run. Mr. Miller was.

nikos1121 knows that this is war, and morals do not apply:

I see a POS Senator out of Minnesota, his name is Franken. HIs side got the upper hand and basically stole the election.

I say no more compromises, business as usual...let’s all get along, KUMBAYA, John McCAin Lindsay Graham etc style of politics...

It’s time that we stand up to this tyranny whether it comes from the left or people like Murkowski....

We made some headway this time...2012 we finish the job....

Rules are rules....plain and simple.