Candidates implode. Campaigns implode. It's happened before and it is happening again. To no great surprise, given the amount of political rookies with outsize reach running this election cycle. Paulite thugs. Bucks condemnation of the secular state. Angle so hiding from the press she uses decoys.....
First Contact with reality has not gone well for many of them. Some more than others.
Particularly Joe Miller of Kansas, oops, I meant Alaska. Miller struted on to the scene with a sense of assured entitlement and now finds it might not be the cakewalk he thought. Somehow, I guess, he thought none would ask about his past.
Surprise.
But now we know why Joe Miller was so eager to prevent the release of records from his stint ( he has a lot of stints...never stays long..hmmm ) as a Fairbanks Attorney. I just read some excerpts of his e mails in explanation of his actions.
And he does come clean ( unlike his campaign mode ) in that he lied about the use of public computers for partisan purposes. He admitted to slinking around and finding unlocked computers ( think about that for a second---Joe Miller slinking around, not the Faibanks Borough Office, but the Halls of the Senate...) that he used to further his political goals at the time.
Then he lied about it.
And, in an e mail to the Fairbanks North Star Borough Attorney in March 2008, he admitted it. (The attornys name was Rene Broker if anyone cares to look it up.)
But he wouldn't admit it to those whose vote he seeks. He fought to keep his dishonest behaviour ( hey, don't lawyers that admit to lying have some issues with the Bar Association? ) under wraps. Just like his mentor Princess Sarah. Can't have truthy, facty things get out there, can we? You betcha.
But it all begs the question. No, many questions. What else is Joe Miller trying to keep quiet? The unlisted 40 acres and a house on property not listed on his Senate disclosure? The obvious animosity felt towards him at the law he worked for? All the goodies he and his family have benifited from via public largess? The early discharge -- a year and half early from his West Point obligation -- from the Military? The disability he claims?
Too many questions for one dubious Senate hopefull. And too many questions for Alaskans to expect answers from in the time available.
Ironicly, in their frenzy of hatred for the Administrtion, Alaska Teapublicans may well have given the Democratic Party another Senator.
How you say? Miller is imploding. GOP division. I see a scenario where McAdam comes up the middle, sliding between a collapsing Miller vote and a static Murkowsky vote. If Millers numbers deflate, there is no incentive for Dems to vote for her to stop Miller.
Here's hoping. But it is clear, Miller is done.