Lisa Murkowski gets interviewed by Katie Couric on CBS. Anybody else having a moment of Deja vu?

From Political Hotsheet:

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowki told CBS News' Katie Couric today that she would not support Sarah Palin for president because Palin lacks the "leadership qualities" and "intellectual curiosity" to craft great policy.

"You know, she was my governor for two years, for just about two years there, and I don't think that she enjoyed governing," Murkowski said. "I don't think she liked to get down into the policy." The Alaska senator added that she prefers a candidate who "goes to bed at night and wakes up in the morning thinking about how we're going to deal with" important issues.

In the interview with Couric, Murkowski said she did not have much of a relationship with Palin, though she said their interactions were "always professional."

"We just don't really have much in common - I mean, we don't talk to one another," she said.

"We have common interests in a shared love for our state, and I would like to think that if there were an opportunity to help do something good for Alaska, she would call me, or I could call her,"

Murkowski added. "But in fairness, she is not really that keyed into the state anymore. She is looking, obviously, at a bigger pond, and so we don't see her up north as much."

Here are the three videos of the full interview.







Still not a big fan, but considering how horribly wrong Joe Miller would have been for Alaska I guess I will just have to be happy with the way things worked out.

BTW if indeed Senator Murkowski would like to "be there for ALL" Alaskans then perhaps a good first step would be to vote to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell.  I know some of some rarely represented constituents who would be lifelong Murkowski supporters if she did.