Why I Can Now Feasibly Call Joe Miller a Fascist

Alaskan Senate Candidate Joe Miller is really a piece of work, as most Alaskan politicians seem to be. Does their large separation from the mainland United States really allow them to be so off-the-wall? Miller, who claims to be a so-called “Constitutional conservative,” is really exhibiting some non-Constitutional behavior as of late.

Ever since the ballots have started coming in from Election Day, Miller is about 11,000 votes behind write-in candidate and current incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski. Murkowski, a moderate Republican, was beaten in the primary season by Miller, who ran as a Tea Party candidate on the fringes of modern conservatism. “Get rid of the social safety net” and “abortion has absolutely no ground in matters of rape and incest” were just a couple of his campaign points.

I can appreciate anyone trying to get more controversial issues as matters of states’ rights, to an extent, but Miller seemed to think that Federal law had no place in our society whatsoever, which seems to imply that he’s kind of a thinly-veiled anarchist.

Before today, my calling Miller a fascist was mostly in jest, due to the fact that he’s trying to get rid of components of our society that many people depend on in order to live from day-to-day. Now, unfortunately, the description is pretty apt. Because Miller beat Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary for Senate, Murkowski is reliant on being a write-in candidate and Is managing to win the election. But Miller, desperate to close the gap by whatever means necessary is, wait for it…

Trying to get write-in votes disqualified over issues of “penmanship and incorrect spelling.”(Source)

So, because there are votes that are legal and should be counted that are not in favor of Miller, he is effectively attempting to silence the very voices of the people in order to suit his own ends. To organize an “election” where it is only representative of your own views instead of the will of the people is almost a dictionary definition of fascism.

For someone who claims that he is running on a purely constitutionalist perspective, Miller has betrayed the very principles he claims to be fighting for. You cannot claim to be a tireless fighter for that document and try to get votes disqualified because they’re not pretty enough. A vote is a vote, even if it’s ugly as all hell.

So Miller should just stop being a sore loser, adhere to his principles, and lose gracefully instead of being a jackass trying to disqualify votes just because he doesn’t like them.

What’s he going to argue? That some of those messy write-in voted were for him, even though his name was printed on the ballot?

Wouldn’t surprise me.