Joe Miller came to see me.. Joe wanted me to know that he's his own man.. Just looking at his website it's clear that is NOT the case. Apparently he thought that I have influence.
I appreciated that Joe and Adele Morgancame to visit me at the fair. Adele has not darkened my booth in several years when she walked up and greeted me with a hug. Adele made it clear she wanted me to meet Joe Miller and told me that she'd bring him over. I had some questions and certainly lots of concerns. Adele is a local religious singer who now claims her independence from Sarah Palin while she's Joe Miller's biggest fan. However, she's been seen just about everywhere with Sarah.
The reality is that I don't trust Joe's judgement....I may not have made it clear but, this election season has left me no real choice- unless a miracle happens, something unprecedented. So, I will be voting for Scott McAdams in the general along with Ethan Berkowitz. It's really all about personal integrity to me, especially these days. If you don't have that, the issues and whether they're conservative or progressive don't really matter. I really do believe that all important issues can be debated among reasonable people with the intention to formulate solutions. Yes, both these men who happened to be Democrats have integrity, fairly conservative ideas and no ethical issues or ties to one, Sarah Palin, who again has obvious moral and ethical issues. There is a thread that runs through this new crop of politician where honesty and integrity are pushed aside. Where it's so easy to say that you believe in GOD but lie they lie to your face. Where a potential leader is judged on their chrisma rather than their character. That thread is of course is Sarah Palin and a new culture of corruption... I don't care what party or what you say you can do. Your actions and motivation speak louder than your words..
YES for Christ at the Alaska State Fair.. Joe Miller Visits
YES for Christ at the Alaska State Fair.. Joe Miller Visits
I talked to Joe concerning many things. Not knowing if he was aware of my alter ego Syrin. So I asked. He closed his eyes and shook his head "Oh, yes", he said.
I said, "Good, so we don't have to go through all that."
His record and recent actions have spoken clearly to me that he's in this for reasons other than the good of Alaska or America. He could not even take responsibility for his staffer referring to our seating Senator Lisa Murkowski as a prostitute (the oldest profession). Instead he insisted that it was about the Libertarian Party. If a man can not take responsibility for his own staffer, he does not deserve to be given responsibility to state and federal issues and policies...
Christians......This is the scripture of the year.. As Joe Miller was leaving my Christian booth, I shared it with him..
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of leaders and teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will deny the truth for fables, a lie.
2 Tim 4:3
Posted by: Syrin From Wasilla | 09/05/2010 at 11:59 AM
Ethics and morals, yes that is the bottom line of my vote as well. Sometimes it is hard to know. I think it says much about Miller when he foisted the blame for the "oldest profession" remark off onto a staffer when it was his twitter account. That immediately tells me that he will pass the buck faster than the eye can see when it is in his favor. Yes, he has learned well from the Tundra Turd.
Posted by: SJohnson | 09/05/2010 at 03:15 PM
(Snark alert) So did you fumigate the booth after they left?
Posted by: SJohnson | 09/05/2010 at 03:18 PM
A comment left from a friend on Facebook
Someone posed an interesting question on his wall. He wrote: "There are a lot of people that want to describe Joe Miller as "crazy" "insane" and other more colorful and less appropriate ways, but nobody seems to want to be specific about why he is. So if you would please explain to me - specifically - what it is that you do or do not like about Joe Miller I would appreciate it."
Here is an explanation I gave a friend in the lower 48...it's lengthy: Well I have spent time with him..but I'll just give you the highlights. Fir...st he's racist, not like he made an unfortunate comment once, but... whenever he feels he has a receptive audience he spouts off ignorant comments. He wants to overturn the 14th Amendment!?! He even wrote a position paper on that. He wants to abolish the Dept of Education. He quit our party a couple of years ago. During the 2008 State Convention he unsuccessfully tried to overthrow our party chairman. First he comes in to a hotel ballroom with Chips Cop glasses and walkie talkies..for his "security detail" it was truly comical. Then we he tried to get people to vote to impeach our chairman and vote for him and nobody did, he literally had what I can best describe as a "hissy fit". Then he stomped off and unregistered as a republican. Also, I don't know how familiar you are with Alaska, but we have a very unique situation from other states. We have only been a state for 50 years. So while the federal government was building roads for hundreds of years for other states, we have literally about 5 major roads and 2 are gravel. You can only drive to less than 6% of Alaska. So if you live in rural Alaska milk and other perishables come in via plane and milk costs between $10-$15/gallon. Also in what we call the "Lower 48" you have tons of interstate highways that the federal government builds and maintains for you. Additionally, in over half of rural Alaska, they don't have sewage facilities, so the people literal poo in buckets called honey buckets. That is why we often have cholera and other 19th century ailments. Finally 95% of Alaska is owned by the state and federal government. Every other state has been allowed to develop their own resources and we are not because people feel good just knowing that our wilderness is here while they profit from their land. Anyways for all of these reasons we are what is called a recipient state. Which means we receive more money in federal tax dollars than we pay in. Although by acre we receive the least amount or by amount of coast line. But per capita...we only have less people in our whole state than the city of Portland....we receive the most. So Joe's idea is that we should stop receiving federal dollars. He says he will reject them if people try to give them to our state. But I guess if you are racist, why should you care about toddlers toilet training in buckets, when their skin is brown or old people with brittle bones because they can't afford milk or even people who literally freeze to death because the cost of fuel is $16/gallon. Anyways my point is yes, I don't believe in runaway government spending, but until you let us create an economy by developing our own land, then we do want to help our people come into the 21st century. So to sum up on a good day he is condescending and rude and on his bad days he is a hate monger. He doesn't have any great ideas. His "ideas" are that other people are doing a bad job and we should fight against them, that we should cut, cut regardless of consequences (how much more will it cost in the long run when we have unhealthy people, an unskilled workforce and no jobs). Well that ended up being longer than I thought, but I feel very passionate about my state and I know it will devastate us (not to mention embarrass) us to have him representing us. Oh and I forgot, he wants to get rid of Medicare!! Not modify or change it, but he wants zero old people to receive any help, even if they are dying and have no other funds."
Posted by: Syrin From Wasilla | 09/06/2010 at 01:12 PM
That pretty much explains it, Syrin. Good rant! I hate to say this - and I say it with tongue firmly in cheek - but he sounds like a typical Alaska legislator to me. After all, he has no ethics, low morals, is personally greedy, and apparently racist. What more could an Alaskan ask for?
Posted by: SJohnson | 09/06/2010 at 04:50 PM
Note: This explanation was given by a FB friend. The fact of the history and present reality of Alaska needs to be considered. Joe's "ideas" are not reasonable or coherent. I'm a conseverative, I want to see cuts in spending. But the unbalanced way that Joe will do Alaska's business is frightening to me ... He thinks that we should cut, cut regardless of consequences. We can't fight out of control spending with out of control cuts. We need balance and deliberate thinking, we're in this deep. Sure, Joe will never get his wishes granted if he becomes the senator. But, that he thinks that he can do it with his limited experience. He reminds me of someone..He thinks that he's that good... Maybe10 years in Alaska
Posted by: Syrin From Wasilla | 09/07/2010 at 12:56 AM