What is Joe Miller's Mysterious Disability?

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Joe Miller Runs Screeching From Simple Question

Alaskan Senate hopeful and semi-bearded teabagger Joe Miller literally ran away from a question about his disabled-veteran status during last night’s “Meet and Greet” session in Anchorage. In a roomful of 50 people — most supporters and well wishers — Miller was asked to identify his service-connected disability and his official “percentage disabled.” Panic swept over Miller’s sweaty face.

Looking away from your correspondent, Miller yelped to no one in particular, “We’ve gotta go!” He then pointed to his wife and said, “Let’s move!” The Millers hustled to the back of the vacant strip mall office next to the pizza place and surrounded themselves with campaign staffers.
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What are the disabilities for which Joe Miller receives tax-free payments? A Post Traumatic Stress Disorder diagnosis should concern voters more than say, hearing loss.

Yet when asked, Joe Miller froze for a moment and then fled like a guilty child.
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Whatever it is, he doesn't appear to be disabled. See his own campaign ad for example:
 
Those were campaign ads? I thought he was auditioning to be the new 'Brawny' paper towel man.
Perhaps his disability stems from his compulsive need to pick up random junk like antlers and branches and fondle them briefly before throwing them aside as he walks?
Or his pathological beardiness?
 
Since sentate debate is done in a spoken form hearing loss could be be more of an issue than PTS. That said we've had deaf MPs (Jack Ashley) and in all probability ones suffering from PST.
 
Teabaggeritis. It causes you to uncontrollably denounce government while sucking up every cent you can defraud your way into.
 
He's an idiot, and that is an issue. Any disability is his own business. It is up to the agency he is getting payments from to determine that.

I think questions like this are out of line.

Daredelvis
 
Maybe he shot his penis off in a training accident. It sure would explain a lot...
 
Remember General Curtiss LeMay running for VP back in the 60's? He had a disability of 10% for some kind of insanity. When questioned, he stated it as certifying that he was 90% sane, can any other candidate do better? ;)
 
Based on the new rules as established by Tea Party politics, I declare the OP to be a smear.
 
daredelvis said:
He's an idiot, and that is an issue. Any disability is his own business. It is up to the agency he is getting payments from to determine that.

I think questions like this are out of line.

Daredelvis
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The question is certainly not out of line if he is running for elected office.
 
I would have to know whether he had ever srerved in combat, or witnessed a particularly ghastly crime or accident. If so, I wouldl consider his behavior to indicate possible PTSD. It could also be depression or paranoia.

These are not conducive to effective leadership decision-makig.

What ever his major malfunction, it is clearly aggravated by terminal capitus in ano."
 
I sense that great amusement is imminent...
In yet another blow to Alaska Republican Joe Miller's Senate campaign, a judge ordered Saturday that his contentious employment records be released later this week. link
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Add: Sorry, this isn't quite on topic. It's hard to keep track of all the subjects about which Miller refuses to answer questions.
 
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daredelvis said:
He's an idiot, and that is an issue. Any disability is his own business. It is up to the agency he is getting payments from to determine that.

I think questions like this are out of line.
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I disagree. If he weren't running for public office, I would agree that it's between him and the VA or whatever.

It's especially pertinent if he's one of these "small government" candidates who is himself possibly bilking the system with a bogus or questionable "disability".
 
Debate about if the question should be asked aside, that is not the reaction a simple question like that should receive without raising some red flags.
 
Ausmerican said:
Those were campaign ads? I thought he was auditioning to be the new 'Brawny' paper towel man.
Perhaps his disability stems from his compulsive need to pick up random junk like antlers and branches and fondle them briefly before throwing them aside as he walks?
Or his pathological beardiness?
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He's a lumberjack and he's Okay.

He cuts down trees, he eats his lunch, he goes to the lavatory.
 
If a candidate is batcrapcrazy, it should have a bearing on his fitness for office. He can do serious harm if he gets in the way f legislation of interest to national security, or introduces non-facts into the public debate.

We are still paying for the effects of ignoring claims that a candidate for POTUS was senile some thirty years ago.
 
Alareth said:
Debate about if the question should be asked aside, that is not the reaction a simple question like that should receive without raising some red flags.
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It's certainly a question he should have expected to come up at some point, and should have made plans to address it when it did. In this day and age, before anybody even thinks about running for office they need to evaluate all aspects of their lives and create plans on how to deal with anything that may crop up. Anything. Failure to do so is demonstration of a complete lack of planning and foresight, made worse by panicking in public.

I don't mind evil politicians half so much as incompetent ones. Incompetence means that even if they aren't evil, they're still not going to get anything done. I don't know or care what his disability may be, or if he has one at all. But that he didn't prepare for the question coming up at some point means he's not up to the game of politics.
 
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