The return of the "Vaguely Bearded One."

Courtesy of Boston.com:

Joe Miller, a former US Senate candidate from Alaska, has been spending his days in his law offices in Fairbanks with an almost singular focus: making sure fellow Republican Mitt Romney does not win his party’s presidential nomination.

Miller, through a little-known group called the Western Representation PAC, is planning a $500,000 ad campaign with a chief goal of dirtying up the national front-runner - in terms that are far more personal and aggressive than Romney’s rivals for the nomination have used.

“Right now [our focus] is making sure that Romney, who’s very clearly a RINO, doesn’t walk away with the nomination,’’ said Miller, using the acronym for Republican In Name Only. “We’re trying to save the country. And with Romney at the helm, it’s not going to get saved. Romney is just going to be a disaster for this country.’’

Interesting, Miller seems to believe that President Obama is the worst thing to happen to this country since they cancelled Hee-Haw," so he attempts to sabotage the potential candidacy of one of the few politicians in the GOP who might actually have a chance against him in the general election.  Brilliant.

You know this is not the first time that Miller has used dirty tricks in an attempt to subvert the will of the Republican party.

Back in March of 2008, Miller did something similar in Alaska:

Whitaker, a former Republican state legislator, said Miller got in trouble in March 2008 for misusing borough computers. Miller was the Interior regional chairman of the Republican Party at the time and, along with then-Gov. Sarah Palin, was trying have Randy Ruedrich replaced as party chair at the annual GOP convention.

Those revelations, and others like it, cost Miller the election in 2010, and sent him scurrying back into the shadows of political oblivion.  (Well except for a gig as a speaker on a birther boat trip to Batshit-ville that is.)

By the way it is worth remembering that Miller's attempts back in 2008 to oust Republican chairman Randy Ruederich met with abject failure.  And that was WITH the help of the then popular Governor Sarah Palin.

Personally having the Republicans viciously fighting amongst themselves does not bother me one little bit.

After all, not one of them has any real chance against the President in 2012, but if they want to weaken their party so substantially that it will only end up with 30% of the vote, who am I to argue with them?

Here is your early morning giggle this Friday morning.

Of course I have to imagine that if you are Mitt Romney you are not finding this at ALL funny.

Of course Romney has been doing oppositional research on Palin for years, and she knows it.  Why do you think all of the Palin's Teabagger friends are going after him so hard?

Failed Alaskan Teabagging candidate Joe Miller, snags a speaking gig on the Birther Boat to Batshit-ville.

Courtesy of TPM:

Miller signed on as a speaker to help participants "sharpen and edify one another" ("Sharpen and edify one another?" Does anybody else feel dirty after reading that?) from August 26th to September 2nd, and maybe even to act as resident Alaska expert. "Whom would you most like as personal [sic] Alaska tour guide?" World Net Daily asks. (Answer: "Just about ANYBODY else you could think of!") In between classes, "you will relax and marvel at the magnificence of God's creation, while we sail aboard the five-star Celebrity Millennium. All of this, and at an incredibly low starting price."


The cheapest cabins will set you back about $750, plus $383 in taxes and fees (not including airfare).

Aside from Miller, most of the speakers are about what you'd expect from World Net Daily, which continues to be the lead purveyor of birther conspiracy theories even in the weeks after Obama released his long-form birth certificate. Joseph Farah, who founded WND and his wife Elizabeth Farah are listed, as well as birther Alan Keyes, birther author Jerome Corsi, and birthermercial producer Gary Kreep. Former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson, who once led a group of Tea Partiers in a song called "There's A Communist Living In The White House," will also be speaking.

Holy crap!  I have heard the term "ship of fools" a number of times, I just have never actually seen on before!

Here check out how they describe Miller's trouncing in his bio blurb:

Joe Miller shocked the political world on August 24, 2010 when he, according to media accounts, came out of nowhere to defeat incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski in the Alaskan Republican Primary. He then entered into a contentious three-way general election where multi-billion dollar native corporations, along with the political establishment, conspired to defeat this Tea Party backed candidate

Notice how he blames his defeat on giant "corporations" and the "political establishment" instead of on the "freaked out Alaskan voters" who ran to the polls to make sure he would NEVER get anywhere near Washington D.C..
Am I evil for thinking that this would be a great time for an iceberg?

Reason #11 not to vote for Sarah Palin for President-Update

JOE MILLER!

Joe has since lost the election, yet he refuses to concede  He has filed an appeal with the State Supreme Court

During the election at a campaign event, he had a journalist handcuffed When Joe worked as an attorney for the Fairbanks North Star Borough, he admitted using the computers there for political purposes, resulting in a suspension

Joe thinks unemployment insurance is unconstitutional yet his wife collected it

Joe got an indigent hunting and fishing license yet he may not have been an AK resident at the time and he owned a home

He thinks the federal minimum wage should be abolished, yet the Supreme Court said it was constitutional back in the 1930's

He wants to abolish the 17th amendment, which gives the voters the right to elect Senators, and not the state legislature. My feeling is that the AK state legislators all owe Joe a favor. The reason the amendment is in place is because of William Clark, who bribed Montana state lawmakers into electing him a Senator back in 1899.

A Federal Judge threw out Miller's lawsuit, awarding Murkowski the victory

This man is a nutcase, and $arah endorsed him.  She shows poor judgement and supports guys like this.  Lisa Murkowski was right, this man wants to repeal the past century.