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Assessing Joe Miller

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 1st, 2010 at 09:09 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

A lot of people have accused Joe Miller in Alaska of running a “paranoid” campaign. I admit that I’ve thought it.

Turns out he has been right to do so.

We have the local CBS affiliate in Alaska out to get him — caught on tape no less.

We have John Cornyn on TV giving a muddled message about who he supports, forcing the NRSC to come out and claim it supports Joe Miller and yet, despite a lot of bluster and some show, is doing little to help him.

We have the Senate GOP Conference refusing to kick Lisa Murkowski off the Energy Committee because, in the words of Orrin Hatch, they “like her.”

We have the Alaska Supreme Court and Alaska Elections Officials in clear disregard of actual, easy to understand, election law in Alaska handing out lists of write-in candidates.

And yet Joe Miller is leading in the latest PPP poll.

Miller is the guy we want in the Senate. It is not just that he is conservative and not Murkowski. Miller now has unabiding contempt for the Republican Leadership in the Senate after what they’ve done to him.

For conservatives, that is a very, very good thing. The hour is late. The need is great. Let’s do what we can for Joe Miller.

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  • davidabippus

    Thanks, Erick. Glad to see Miller up in the polls – there has been very little polling data coming out recently to track the race. Props also to Breitbart for coming through once again and helping to expose the MSM. I can’t wait to see Murkowski gone and I can’t wait until Cornyn is up for re-election again – sadly we must wait until 2014. I am ready for him to be gone as well. He is going to have to learn the hard way it appears.

  • jeffreywturner

    There is no reason for this race to even be close, except for the childish pettiness of “Lisa M.” Something tells me that she (along with so many other Republican incumbents this time around) has had a problem with rejection her whole life.

  • Marcus_Traianus

    LM promised to quit the race if she lost the primary. Why is she still around? Oh yeah, she lied.

    What else is she going to lie about?

    Before you start, yes it’s intentional.

    Miller is the clear choice for Alaska and our country. The US Army does not give out Bronze stars to people who can’t be counted on in times of crisis.

  • chipbennett

    …I don’t believe for a second that 30% of voters will write-in any candidate, including Lisa Murkowski.

    I’m thinking 15% would be a good showing for a write-in campaign.

    Joe Miller will win the AK Senate seat.

  • Scope

    when he got into the race. The Corrupt Bastards Club has been around a whole lot longer than when Palin named them yesterday. I’m sure she warned Joe of what would happen to him by the dynasty. Yes, he was correct to run a paranoid campaign. When you don’t know what Murkowski ghost will come flying out from behind every door, you operate with an abundance of caution.

    After all that has happened, it is amazing, and a testament to Joe Miller that he is ahead in the polls, one day before the election. Thank you ABC for inadvertently helping to push him over the goal line. Also, thank you Lisa Murky for being such beeitch. Christine O’Donnell may have talked about witchery, Lisa lives it.

  • Scope

    but they are just as bad.

  • johnt

    if Murkowski is an indispensable member. Dishonest & insulated, impervious to the wishes of the people, that’s our GOP leadership.
    Even at this time, this late date, the CBS story stuns, laughing over a partisan dishonest , obscene smear to help a favorite. It turns out they’re help Miller, our media in a single snapshot.
    I have always give the edge in slime and evil to islamist murderers, but in their own way our media scum are giving them a run for the money.

  • zipbags

    For any of the Alaska readers. Is this CBS story having an impact in the views of Alaska voters?
    On a side note. I don’t watch the other news programs..Just Fox. Has this story been mentioned elsewhere in the MSM (ie-MSNBC,ABC, CNN,etc)??

  • Marcus_Traianus

    indicator of what’s at stake for our country and Alaska.

    Reporters making up stories to hurt Miller? Whodathunk??

  • america1st

    by Sharron Angle and Christine McConnell, two others viciously mistreated by the GOP establishment. The go-along-to-get-along club needs to be shut down.

  • america1st

    .

  • zollistar

    Not only did the fail to kick LM off her committees and roundly support Joe Miller, their behavior is a reprise of what happened in New York state about 18 months ago.

    Remember the RINO Scazzafava who was hand-selected (backroom deal) to run for an unexpectedly vacant Republican seat in District 23?

    And do you remember Newt Gingrich rushing — RUSHING! — in to support the RINO?

    And do you recall how Doug Hoffman unsettled his life to run against the RINO Scazzafava on the Conservative line?

    And don’t forget that Scazzafava finally withdrew — and spitefully threw her support to theDEM????

    Who won? The Dem. Narrowly.

    The Establishment Republicans (EPs) need to go, too.

    Let’s have at ‘em, gang!

  • http://jhpruitt.blogtownhall.com/ kipling

    When Cornyn comes up for re-election, he needs to face a conservative opponent in the primary. It will do him well to remember that he is accountable.

    Forget Obama’s birth certificate. I would like to see Cornyn’s certificate. Due to his wimpy stance on Miller and his lack of fight, I don’t think he is a Texan.

  • chihank

    after the Joe Miller & Christine O’Donnell primary wins.

    DeMint supported Miller and called out the GOP Senators for allowing Linda MoooCowskee to keep her seniority on the comittees. That act helped the MooCowskee campaign make the case for bringing home the pork.

    The experience with Joe Miller & Christine O’Donnell have shown me that the GOP Establishment is not the friend of the Tea Party.

    Next year, expect Karl Rove and other GOP elites attempt to bribe Tea Party gorups into supporting RINOs.

  • trapperjohn

    If this is helping Joe Miller in Alaska.

    This is a CRAZY race. It’s anyones guess how it goes. Almost all the media is on her side.

    The Alaska republican establishment are reluctantly following their own rules and backing the primary winner…Joe Miller. But they are weak to say the least. They never did have their ‘UNITY’ party after the primary.

    The Democrat bloggers are half-heartedly backing their candidate, saying nothing bad about Murky and aggressively attacking any opening they see in Joe Miller.

    It’s a nasty, nasty campaign.

  • audax

    …or are you the John K who was denied?

  • trapperjohn

    along with about 150 others. I think Murky is about number 104 on the list or so.

  • audax
  • simba

    according to unnamed sources (Karl Rove, Gillepsie, Romneys’ people??) that spoke to Politico, this campaign is starting even before the current one had ended. The whole primary season was to teach the GOP establishment that they should not decide for the people who the candidates should be but apparently the establishment did not learn much.It really does show that an old Washington elephant has a short memory!

  • rec0n

    n/t

  • graciegirl

    since Michael Williams seems to be the choice for Kay Bailey’s seat?
    All GREAT guys!
    Although I am threatening to temporarily to move to SC so I can help DUMP Gramesty that year!

  • graciegirl

    I guess it’s just a rumor by Palin that Murky won’t promise to caucus with the Pubs?

  • powertothepeople

    as it would be great to blast it to everyone we know in and around Alaska. Would also be nice to see the egg face of the media…….

    Miller will win and thank God for that. I could not stand hearing about Lisa for the next six years.

  • horsesense

    Here’s the problem with Joe–he doesn’t live up to his own billing and so-called principles. I MUCH prefer what he says he stands for–problem is, he doesn’t follow those principles himself (well, except for pro-life–with 8 kids, he clearly follows that one). I’m retired after nearly 30 years in uniform, and in the Air Force, we have a motto: Integrity first, Service above self, Excellence in all we do. If there’s integrity, then I can work with the rest. If there’s no integrity, then how do I, or you, know that the individual will live up to what is advertised? We cannot know. Joe advertises he opposes all forms of social support–but he claimed it himself, or his wife did, at earlier points in his life when he needed it. He advertised opposition to Social Security in any form–but when the outcry emerged, he amended to “well, eventually, not for those already depending on it, but someday”–so which is it? He claimed there was no issue with his employment at the Fairbanks North Star Borough office, when in fact he misused the computers of others in his office–just a poll, they say, well, yes, but what about deleting information on those computers to hide his tracks? That is an actual crime. After lying about it multiple times (while employed and during this campaign), when finally confronted with actual documents to include his own letter of apology, he owned up and said it was just petty. Just petty?!? If he did that under my command he would be relieved and referred for court martial.
    He got a Bronze Star, you say–yes he did, for specific actions at a specific time. He gets kudos for that action, but integrity MUST be a lifestyle, not a one time act. I wish I could believe that Joe will hold to the principles he espouses in the campaign, but I can’t trust him. OR more correctly, I can trust him–to do what is best for Joe, not for the country or for Alaska.

  • nvrepub

    nt

  • congressworksforus

    Your alternatives are a Marxist Demoncrat and a lying RINO.

    Pick your poison; this is election season, not primary season!

  • http://jhpruitt.blogtownhall.com/ kipling

    Cornyn has gotten a little too comfortable in Washington.

  • aesthete

    with the consistent statement that you would like social support at the federal level to end, while using it if it is available and believing that it is wrong to pull the rug out from under people who have piad into a bankrupt system their whole lives. I would love to end welfare programs at the federal and state level, but while they exist, I have no problem with people using the programs that their taxes are going towards, provided that those people are not responsible for the programs being enacted in the first place.

  • zipbags

    At first she hedged. But, when Greta pressed she said she would. She referenced Lieberman. Where he caucusses with the Dems. But, every so often will cross party lines. I think she has to hedge or at least not say. She has to make sure that its ambigous. If she says she definitely will caucus with the repubs. She will lose the dems who don’t think the other guys can win. If she says she won’t caucus with the repubs. Then she will lose most of the repubs who are supporting her. In the long run if she wins she will most likely caucus with the repubs. Since it was a deal she probably made to keep her committee spots.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    one which certainly has not been reached by the lying treacherous Murkowski, and any sack of crap Democrat.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    one which certainly has not been reached by the lying treacherous Murkowski, and any sack of crap Democrat.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    the unemployment line.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    the unemployment line.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    to their perks in perpetuity. We need to knock out several more in the next primary season.

  • zollistar

    We are so, so lucky to have him because, in addition to principle, Senator DeMint has brains, wise instincts and savvy.

    What a gift he has been to conservatives.

  • zollistar

    We are so, so lucky to have him because, in addition to principle, Senator DeMint has brains, wise instincts and savvy.

    What a gift he has been to conservatives.

  • zollistar

    It’s an issue that vexes me.

    That said, when the world is (substantially) upside down, sometimes one finds oneself in odd positions.

    I recall that the late libertarian economist, Murray Rothbard, lived in a coveted New York City RENT CONTROLLED apartment. He railed against the city’s rent control laws all the time. A lot of people thought he was a hypocrite for not moving out of the apartment.

    But should he have moved out of his apartment because he opposed the laws on the city books? I don’t think so.

    Integrity is important — critical, really — but sometimes it is hard to know how best to be faithful to one’s True North because we often are placed in crazy circumstances that we would never choose and would, if we could, vote against.

  • zollistar

    It’s an issue that vexes me.

    That said, when the world is (substantially) upside down, sometimes one finds oneself in odd positions.

    I recall that the late libertarian economist, Murray Rothbard, lived in a coveted New York City RENT CONTROLLED apartment. He railed against the city’s rent control laws all the time. A lot of people thought he was a hypocrite for not moving out of the apartment.

    But should he have moved out of his apartment because he opposed the laws on the city books? I don’t think so.

    Integrity is important — critical, really — but sometimes it is hard to know how best to be faithful to one’s True North because we often are placed in crazy circumstances that we would never choose and would, if we could, vote against.

  • fbks

    on the ballot for senate. Are you an Alaska voter, or this an academic argument? I take my share of blame because I have not contributed at the precinct level, just vote “R” and contribute what I can every election. We, the people created this problem and we, the people need to work our way out of it, but right now Nov 1, we better rally behind the only candidate who is conservative.

    Candidate A: Full on progressive Democrat who could in theory, win this race if conservatives and “moderate” GOP voters do not quit the BS arguing (on Nov 1).

    Candidate B: Full on Rino with serious ethics issues on the RECORD, narrowly avoided PROSECUTION for the same type of issue that sank Senator Stevens. Listen to her interview with Greta concerning her caucusing plans and try to figure out what she said. I read BIG problems for a GOP caucus if they are planning to be fiscally conservative. If I am in error tell me. Her campaign is vicious and she should run for the Murkowski Party, we have had a Murkowski in that seat my ENTIRE adult life. It is so bad in the villages, it has become a cult like scenario to support her and these are heavy DEM strongholds. Most villages have become ghetto like with strong support for the leaders who create them.

    Candidate C: GOP primary winner, who is correct on the issues and will vote with a conservative GOP caucus. You have eloquently elaborated his weaknesses, is this the time to dwell on them? If he is ineffective take him out in 6 years. As a matter of fact, I for one, do not want to see any family in power for 30 years, however good a person they were when first elected.

    I voted for already and am working hard for candidate C, what are you doing?

  • fbks

    on the ballot for senate. Are you an Alaska voter, or this an academic argument? I take my share of blame because I have not contributed at the precinct level, just vote “R” and contribute what I can every election. We, the people created this problem and we, the people need to work our way out of it, but right now Nov 1, we better rally behind the only candidate who is conservative.

    Candidate A: Full on progressive Democrat, who could in theory, win this race if conservatives and “moderate” GOP voters do not quit the BS arguing (on Nov 1).

    Candidate B: Full on Rino with serious ethics issues on the RECORD, narrowly avoided PROSECUTION for the same type of issue that sank Senator Stevens. Listen to her interview with Greta concerning her caucusing plans and try to figure out what she said. I read BIG problems for a GOP caucus if they are planning to be fiscally conservative. If I am in error tell me. Her campaign is vicious and she should run for the Murkowski Party, we have had a Murkowski in that seat my ENTIRE adult life. It is so bad in the villages, it has become a cult like scenario to support her and these are heavy DEM strongholds. Most villages have become ghetto like with strong support for the leaders who create them.

    Candidate C: GOP primary winner, who is correct on the issues and will vote with a conservative GOP caucus. You have eloquently elaborated his weaknesses, is this the time to dwell on them? If he is ineffective take him out in 6 years. As a matter of fact, I for one do not want to see any family in power for 30 years, however good a person they were when first elected.

    I voted for already and am working hard for candidate C, what are you doing?

  • rsexteriors

    user name?

    Are you kidding us? Using a computer at work to participate in an online poll. That is chickensh_t.

    That is all you got?

  • proudmarinemom

    …

  • Mary Beth
  • texasgalt

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/roughsketch/2010/10/what_is_wrong_with_joe_miller.html

    Miller is under attack from all sides. The same people that scammed up ethics charges against Palin are filing on Miller. All the media in AK and beyond are raggin on Joe.

    I’m praying for Joe to win and hoping he can bust up that machine up north. On a positive note, I see the tea party foks have jumped back in with last minute ad buys for Joe. Of course Murky is crying foul and screaming about “lies.” Wow, some nerve . . .

  • Martin Knight

    So y’all in AK need to go out and vote for the dude – AK Dems and media are hoping to sneak in McAdams under the radar.

    As for Lisa Murky, I wish I’d known there was another deadline for write-ins to get on the ballot. Then my devious mind would have come up with something like getting a few ladies (or even gentlemen) to legally change their names to Lisa Midolsky, Lisa McCloskey, Lisa Mikulski, Lisa Merkowsky, Lisa Murcowski, etc. and all registering their names on the ballot for Senate.

    In fact, I think that’s something to keep in the toolbox.

  • Martin Knight

    From here on in, the GOP’s upper echelons should make it a rule that anyone who vies for the GOP’s nomination for any office should sign an undertaking that he/she would not attempt to get on the ballot via another party’s line and will refund, at the risk of being sued, all donations made by party members in the event that he violates said pledge.

  • http://xmmlbchat.blogspot.com katesmith

    Re: the disturbed Dana Milbank, the entire world is against the entire Independent/Tea Party category not just the one in Alaska. I was reading there’s a segment of people in Alaska who view themselves as conservatives but also believe strongly in a welfare state. That makes sense in explaining the Magillacutty campaign operative profile. They get a job with great benefits that you can’t get fired from.