What do Paulites think of Joe Miller?

...there's gonna be a lot of this going on into 2012 ... in races where our Liberty candidates CANNOT overcome a status-quo, pro-Establishment Republican in a primary - we are going to need to run them as INDEPENDENTS, 100% proudly associated with Ron Paul's ideology that sparked the REAL Tea Party ...

Again, it doesn't have to be a 3rd Party - but - it will have to be a STRONG, SOLID, committed organization for ONLY Liberty candidates, who are Statesmen!

We're gonna have to gear up, and FUND an avenue where we can HIRE campaign organizers to get SIGNATURES for our candidates ... we are going to have to take a great MANY seats in state houses, and the Congress in 2012 ... a handful(as Republicans), peppered throughout the WHOLE nation every two years will have no impact on our destiny with despotism ... Fox News will give Rand Paul plenty of coverage, maybe they'll even give Ron Paul significantly more press - but we need a MAJORITY, not a perception by appeasement that "things are changing"...you know!

Hey, guess whose gonna be up for re-election in 2012?

Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow!!!

We ought to knock her off with the first Jefferson Party INDEPENDENT; as this movement grows, eh? - that'd SHAKE UP the nation big time - Hey! I just might be that guy! http://michiganpep.org

This campaign starts at the same time Ron Paul's 2012 POTUS campaign starts... let's crank it up!

He seems very focused on cutting spending and repealing unconstitutional laws and programs. It took me awhile to even find anything on foreign policy or defense. Here's what I got:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Miller_%28Alaska_politician...

Bio:
-Joseph W. Miller
-born May 10, 1967
-Grew up Osborne Kansas
-Bachelor of Science in Political Science from West Point 1989
-Bronze Star for leadership in combat during first gulf war.
-Law degree from Yale 1995
-Started at Condon Partnow & Sharrock law firm in Anchorage
-3 years later appointed state court magistrate in Tok ( 30, the youngest then serving in AK)
-Also superior court master for the Fourth Judicial District.
-4 years later appointed Acting State District Court Judge
-Shortly after, US Magistrate Judge in Fairbanks
-Ran for Alaska House rep in 2004
-Won the primary but losing to Dem David guttenberg in the general
-Currently lives in Fairbanks where he owns a law practice
-In 2009 received a master's degree in economics from University of Alaska
-won republican primary for senate 2010
- Will face Democrat Scott McAdams, Mayor of Sitka, AK

wife
-Miller’s wife of 18 years, Kathleen Tompkins-Miller, is a school teacher. She was appointed in March 2009 to a non-attorney seat on the Alaska Judicial Council, part of the Alaska Court System, a seven-member body that nominates state judges for the governor’s consideration.

Some of Joe Miller's Endorsements for 2010:
Alaskan Politicians:
Former Governor Sarah Palin
former Lieutenant Governor Jack Coghill
former Lieutenant Governor Loren Leman
Sen. Fred Dyson
Rep. Tammie Wilson
Rep. Wes Keller
Sen. John Coghill
Others:
Mike Huckabee, Mark Levin, Lars Larson, Laura Ingraham, 9/12, etc.
Received help from the Tea Party Express PAC, which spent $600,000 on ads criticizing Murkowski and endorsing Miller.

Political Positions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Miller_%28Alaska_politician...

The lists in this article may contain items that are not notable, encyclopedic, or helpful. Please help out by removing such elements and incorporating appropriate items into the main body of the article. (September 2010)

Miller has committed to pursuing the following proposals, if elected to the U.S. Senate:

• Institute a balanced budget amendment: Congress would have to submit a balanced budget to the president for signature. Expenditures that exceed receipts would require a three-fifths majority.
• End off-budget expenditures: Receipts and disbursement from the Social Security Trust Funds, and general accounting for the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, would be included within the federal budget.
• Line-item veto: A Constitutional Amendment to authorize the president to veto specific spending items.
• Require that unspent and repaid TARP funds be used to reduce the deficit: All unspent and repaid funds would be required to be used to reduce the deficit and pay down the National Debt.
• No New Entitlements: Would institute a moratorium on the creation of new entitlements.
• Limit increases in government spending to the rate of inflation: The federal government would be required to cap spending to the rate of inflation plus the percentage of population growth.
• Hiring freeze for all non-essential government employees.
• Establish a Sunset Committee: This committee would scrutinize federal programs to determine if they are necessary and where they can be cut.
• Earmark Reform: Would place a moratorium on all earmarks until the budget is balanced, and then require a 2/3 majority to pass any earmark. Additionally, budget requests by members of Congress would be subject to the public hearings process.
• Congressional Reforms:
◦ Constitutional Authority—each bill would be required to specify the provision in the Constitution that gives to Congress the power to do what the bill does.
◦ Limitation of Scope—Each bill would pertain to only one issue. There would be no "Omnibus" bills. Neither would amendments be considered that do not pertain to the subject of the bill.
◦ Regular Order—Would reinstitute open rules for appropriations bills, allowing for unlimited amendments and debate.
• Eliminate the Department of Education[15]
• Cut the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts
• Cut the budget of American funding for the United Nations
• Reduce American foreign aid
• Repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
• Miller opposes cuts to Medicare or Social Security benefits for current retirees
• He supports privatizing (or, as he says, "personalizing") Social Security and Medicare for younger workers.
• He refers to scientific evidence for Global warming as "dubious at best."
• Miller describes himself as pro-life.
• He defines the term life as the time "from the moment of conception to the time of natural death"

From: On The Issues
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Joe_Miller.htm
Opposes federal hate crime legislation. (Aug 2010)
Defund, repeal, & replace federal care with free market. (Jul 2010)
Adopt a single-rate tax(Jul 2010)
Repeal tax hikes in capital gains and death taxes.
Science supporting manmade climate change is inconclusive. (Aug 2010)
Cap-and-trade has no impact on global temperatures. (Jul 2010)
Explore proven energy reserves & keep energy prices low. (Jul 2010)
Demand a Balanced Budget amendment. (Jul 2010)
Limit federal spending growth to per-capita inflation rate. (Jul 2010)
Unequivocally pro-life from moment of conception. (Aug 2010)
No destruction of living human embryos for medical research. (Aug 2010)
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AHA! found one on defense and foreign policy… yep, looks pretty typical.

Defense spending
http://www.newsminer.com/view/full_story/9239938/article-Joe...

With calls across the board to reduce federal spending, even the annual $700 billion defense budget isn’t immune. However, Defense Secretary Robert Gates came under fire earlier this month when he announced the first major budget cut, the closing of a Joint Forces Command in Virginia.

Miller said he believes the defense budget could be run more efficiently, but the combat veteran of the first Gulf War does not think the defense budget should be cut, especially when facing possible threats from countries like Iran.

“If we have one nuclear bomb or one chemical weapon go off in one of our cities overnight, it changes the face of this nation and in a horrific way, not just in loss of life, but in loss of freedom, the impact financially,” Miller said. “We still haven’t recovered from 9/11. We can’t afford to have a military that isn’t that strong, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have efficiencies, and I think that’s what the secretary is trying to build.”

Miller believes government cuts need to come from welfare programs and Medicaid. It is important to continue to pay Social Security to older Americans who have paid into the system for decades, but he also supports privatization of that program.

“The idea is allowing people to invest in private plans they have control over that can actually provide a return and can keep going into perpetuity without someone sticking their hand in it and stealing the money for some other purpose,” he said.

Read more: http://www.newsminer.com/view/full_story/9239938/article-Joe...