Joe Miller’s Shamanic Vision: God, Magical Nationalism, the Invisible Hand and Three Magic Beans

Move over, Don Juan Matus. Joe Miller is about to explain the nagual and tonal of the Tea Party’s “Yankee Way of Knowledge.”

He’s well-spoken, went to Yale and wears a suit. Otherwise, he’s a standard-issue Bircher from 1967, pitching 1930s-style nationalist chauvinism, Robber-Barron Rules of prosperity and a denial of the necessity of Global Engagement that became untenable with the invention of radio, the rise of cheap international shipping, the proliferation of computers throughout the developing nations and the discovery that China has a monopoly on the world’s supply of the Rare Earth elements that make all of our gizmos work.

I know it’s only a :90 clip—but, Christ: Does this yokel have any policy positions that don’t boil down to all the Freedom-Good-Obama-Bad power-stones he can fit in his Feathered Bag of Exceptionalism?

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 09/02/10 at 10:23 AM • Permalink

Categories: Politics • Election '10 • Nutters • Sarah Palin • Teabaggery •

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Asshole!

How ‘bout that for summing up Joe Miller in a word? Looks like someone else may be thinking about the presidency.

Comment by kre8tr810 on 09/02/10 at 11:19 AM

Actually, I’d love to see Joe Miller run against Sarah Palin in the 2012 GOP Primary, assuming Alaskans are buying his bullshit and elect him to the Senate in November.

Unlike Sarah, he presents historically-discredited, rationally-untethered feelgood policy positions for Taking Back America in a way that almost makes them seem more believable than the dialogue in Judge Dredd.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 09/02/10 at 11:29 AM

Funny how they only have a problem with the power of the federal government when Democrats are driving.

Quote of the week goes to Scott McAdams:

‎I think it is incredibly ironic that Sarah Palin will endorse an Ivy League lawyer over a small town mayor.

Comment by Allan on 09/02/10 at 11:33 AM

Is this the most extreme crop of GOP candidates in living memory? Well, it is in MY living memory, at least.

Between Angle, Paul, Rubio and this joker (I’m sure I’m leaving some out), I’ve never seen a group more devoted to ensuring women bear their rapists’ children, old people dine on Tender Vittles and children grow up without health care or public education on dark, pothole-pocked streets with the only justice dispensed by loony, gun-toting wingnut vigilantes.

The Dems may get an electoral shellacking come November. But if these troglodytes get in, does anyone doubt they will overreach in such spectacular fashion that they make Newt Gingrich and his Contract Cadre look like mature statesmen?

Comment by Betty Cracker on 09/02/10 at 11:44 AM

Betty, “Small Government”—with the ensuing waves of new civil unemployment, the curtailment of public services, the rise in homelessness, the aggressively entrepreneurial predation of senior citizens and the sick, the accelerated decay of cities and infrastructure, and the atomic compaction of critical-mass cronyism under a leaner, more warlord-like system of unpoliced federal, state and local authorities—is likely to be rather unpopular in practice.

Joe Miller hates human beings every bit as much as James Lee, except that he insists that every rape-conceived Son of a Hundred Maniacs is born into a world where he can exercise his God-given right to starve to death next to his mother’s lifeless body so that White People can own guns and feel close to God on Sunday.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 09/02/10 at 12:07 PM

Funny how they only ^say they have a problem with the power of the federal government when Democrats are driving.

Fxd.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t Alaska be in deep flash frozen doo-doo without the support of the Fedrul Gubbermint?

Comment by Hunger Tallest Palin on 09/02/10 at 01:56 PM

If rights are under the Constitution come from God, why don’t they apply to everyone? Or, at least, to every Christian?

I may have missed it, so perhaps someone could point me to the passage in the bible which describes Americans as the “chosen people.”

Comment by karen marie on 09/02/10 at 02:07 PM

Karen, women who can read the bible and the constitution are harlots.

Comment by Oblomova on 09/02/10 at 02:28 PM

An acquaintance in Juneau sent me this tweet from Sarah:

Do you believe in miracles?! http://u.nu/72z2f Congratulations, @JoeWMiller! Thank you for your service, Sen. Murkowski. On to November!

Thank you for your service, Sen. Murkowski.

If you were Lisa Murkowski and you read that, wouldn’t your first impulse be to pull off one of your shoes and stick the heel right in Sarah Palin’s eye? And if you didn’t wear stilettos before, wouldn’t that inspire you to start?