Dems call Miller an 'extremist'
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/08/25/art.joemiller.file6.miller.jpg caption ="Democrats are moving fast to define Joe Miller as an ‘extremist.’"](CNN) - The Senate Republican primary race in Alaska still isn't over, but Democrats are moving fast to define Joe Miller - the previously unknown attorney who is on the verge of upsetting incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
In a statement Wednesday, DSCC Communications Director Eric Schultz described Miller as "an extremist who intends to transition-out Social Security, phase-out Medicare, and end unemployment benefits for all Alaskan families."
"Joe Miller seems more intent on imposing a strict social doctrine to please his out-of-state tea party backers but would leave the people of his state high and dry. Alaskans deserve a Senator who will stick up for them in the United States Senate," Schultz added.
The Anchorage Daily News reported last month that Miller has called for phasing out government Medicare and Social Security, as well as nixing the federal Department of Education.
"The only answer [to cut spending] is to return our federal government to the limits prescribed by our Constitution," Miller says on his Web site. "Federal powers not specified in the Constitution are reserved to the States by the 10th Amendment."
Miller, a graduate of West Point and Yale Law School, holds a slim lead over Murkowski with about 15,000 absentee ballots yet to be counted. Miller benefitted highly from the support of the Tea Party Express and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Miller sounds like a nut. Why use a fancy word for what he is.
Ric – Generalizations are the lowest way to try to win an argumentation. YES there are extremists among the liberals as much as there are among the conservatives.
NONE of them helps to do ANYthing for the good and future of the USA, simply because they don't understand that the 'other side' has the WHOLE right to disagree with them. In fact, they don't understand what those (on the Right and Left) that 'supposedly' are in the same branch of ideology than themselves DO NOT follow their strategies/plans of actions and such...
THE MAJORITY of Liberals and Conservatives will never ever change their points of view, BUT agree that 'something good' can/may come up from the 'other side' every now and then. And are ready to listen or get informed about that 'something good' before making an opinion about it.
So stop with your 'hollier/smarter than thou' attitude. It's counterproductive.
REG in AZ: THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Your analysis is completely correct! Republicans, who have only tried-and-failed policies to offer our country, have used fear, ignorance, hatred and division to try to scare people into voting for them.
We all know what kind of world Republicans want to create: Destroy the Middle Class and turn the United States into a third-world country, dominated by the wealthy few. The right-wing religious faction would love for us to be a theocracy, with religious police (a la Saudi Arabia) keeping the masses in line.
Do we really want that, folks? Use your heads! It's pretty plain what the Republicans want for us – and it's not pretty, it's not right, it's not American!
Come November, Vote for America = Vote Democratic
Hey gt,
If you are going to call liberals "stupid" and accuse them of following Obama like a bunch on "lemings", you may want to at least learn how to properly spell the word...
Thanks,
David the Lemming
What is extreme about getting rid of the Dept of Education. Education is controlled at the state level. Why pay to have a huge bureaucracy that has no necessary function.
It really galls to hear this depression compared to the 1929 thing.Look back at the thousands of pictures taken form 1929 till 1946 when it ended.The fat people hid somewhere or there were none or very few around.We can make it a while on the extra we have around our middle.
Now come the dishonest Democrat smears. It's all they know how to do, except lie, which they excel at as well.
You morons on this blog didn't even know who the man was yesterday and then get on here and decry him as an extremist lunatic because you read one article. Do you not realize you are pawns of the press? Go research and you'll see the media thought Sarah Palin was great until she suddenly got the nod from McCain. Suddenly, they were scared to death of her (she was a threat to Obama) and went on a smear campaign that continues to this day. I personally don't know which to believe because the same media that makes her out to be an idiot now once made her out to be wonderful. The same thing applies for Mr. Miller. I for one, will make no comment on this man until I see what he really stands for instead of letting other people think for me.
If Miller wins, God help us all. Sarah Palin's endorsement of him is clear to us Alaskans as a personal vendetta against the Murkowski familly Her posts on facebook make this very clear. She is childish and vindictive and will never be the "lady" that Lisa Murkowski is. It is sickening to me that kind of beharior might be placed in a national office (which is what she has been after even before running for governor). As I am a Democrat Lisa is one of the few Republicans I have crossed over to vote for.
Also, when I moved to Alaska almost 70 years ago, there were NO roads, NO infrastructure and only rudimentary airports. Ted Stevens helped bring us in from the iron age to become a modern state. There was a great necessity for all the earmarks he accomplished for us. No other state or territory had such great needs and that is why is thought of so highly here today.
Ah Mr. Miller - you smack of good ole Sarah Palin before she got her butt handed to her.
You can tell the demoRATS are afraid whenever they try to scare the voters. The demoRATS can't run on their accomplishments because there are none. In November throw the demoRATS out like the trash that they are. Then in two years the ringmaster of this sorry circus can go.
Thank you to REG in AZ for your attempt at educating people. Sadly, look no further than the uneducated comments on this thread as an indicator of the damage that has been done, and the uphill battle that awaits in trying to help people understand. Americans have become so stupid and gullible, that it's surprising we haven't been invaded and taken over by Bermuda yet.
If this guy makes his way to Washington, DC, he will become just like all the other congress people there - just wait!
Here comes the hate from the left. Instead of considering any ideas on an intellectual level, all you libs can do is call names. Let's remind the American people that it's the dumocrats that have been in power for four years now and the economy has been slowly dying since they seized power in 2006. If we don't do anything to veer from our current course, Medicare and Social Security will die anyway.
if the shoe fits...
Teabaggers and Republicans got their strategy straight from one of the best liars in this country and he was incredibly EVIL. Yep, Adolph Hitler. Here's just one of his quotes that is the mission for all GOPers: "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."
People who vote Republican: You do realize that unless you're wealthy, Repubs will say and do anything to get you to vote for them – and then promptly forget about you.
You do realize that Repubs laugh at the average American as not only a fool, but as someone they can manipulate into voting against their own best interest.
You do realize that Repubs don't give a rat's behind about anyone except their wealthy cronies and their special interests buddies.
You do realize this, right?
Here is a litmus test of Conservatism. Liberals supported each of the items listed below and Conservatives opposed every one of them.
The abolition of slavery
Anti-lynching laws (Conservatives argued that anti-lynching laws violated their states’ Constitutional rights.)
The 8 hour workday
The 40 hour work week
Free public education
Giving the vote to minorities
Giving the vote to women
Equal rights for minorities
Equal rights for women
Equal pay for minorities
Equal pay for women
Unions and collective bargaining
Workplace safety regulations
The minimum wage
Every single proposed increase in the minimum wage
Overtime pay
Desegregation of public schools and colleges
Desegregation of public facilities (public transportation, airports, bus stations, etc.)
Desegregation of private facilities (private colleges, restaurants, stores, housing, employment, etc.)
Desegregation of the Armed Services
Child health care programs
Abortion rights and availability
Child labor laws
Affordable day care
Laws against sexual harassment in the workplace
Equal treatment of women in the workplace
Fair hiring practices
Clean air regulations
Clean water regulations
Ending dependency on foreign oil
Higher wages anywhere, anytime, for anybody
Medicare
Medicaid
Social Security
Any effort to deal with global warming
Any effort to end the current recession
Any effort to re-regulate corporate behavior
Family Leave
Maternity Leave
Give yourself 2 points for each item that you personally oppose. If you are a true conservative, your score should be over 70.
Funny... its never news when a Republican calls a Democrat an extremist.
To "November Reckoning" – why do you call Democrats lairs? Because they use Miller's comments against him??? Because they use Angle's comments against her??? It's amazing how effing stupid you right-wingers are.
First, this guy is not going to do nothing, but run his mouth! In either party and branch of government you don't have the political will to get rid of Social Security and Medicare.
He has a better chance getting Levi to run for Governor and winning that to get rid of this program. A lot of gall, but no brains!
Of course he wants to phase out SS. After years of the middle class paying in for their retirement, he wants to screw them, take their money and give it to his rich buddies and the war machine.
What all this little boy name calling tells me is the two party system is cooked. The Tea Party isn't a 3rd party......the 3rd party is the silent majority that doesn't see any change regardless of whomever is President.
The only thing the Dems and Republicans are concerned about is keeping the two party system intact. That way they can hammer home the same repetitive political 'points' on a cyclical basis to keep the short attention span or the just play ignorant hooked on whatever 'spin'/'sound-byte' is 'hot' at the moment.
It doesn't matter who is in power, all the politicians are bought by some entity who are looking to sell their agenda behind some talking mouth piece. The whole system is corrupt, both Republican and Democrat.
To the Democrat, any human being who during their day spends even a micro second actually thinking about the person next to them and how they can show them courtesy and compassion is an extremist.
If you disagree go drive in an ultra blue area, actions define us and there is no doubt what type of people most Democrats are!
what a shame...reckless Alaskan Republicans denied us our Senior Senator who was mainstream...shame on Sarah Palin and Joe Miller