Our own floyd brown has re-emerged in alaska

Our old pal, the Jesus-mouthed, Tacoma-based, dirty trickster, and ex-KVI talk host Floyd Brown is working the failing ballot recount campaign of Joe Miller, Sarah Palin's handpicked teaparty bagger Senate candidate for Alaska.

Always helpful, Floyd jumped into the fray, volunteering his considerable experience in skewing and schmutzing election results. You can bet, Floyd's there merely to see to the honesty of the process... to count ballots for the good of the order, blessed, would-be shit disturber that he is. Who's Floyd Brown, you ask? Read his reviews:

He's “one of the nation’s dirtiest political strategists” (USA Today); "the lowest form of life." (George H.W. Bush) "a slimy thug for hire," (George Stephanopoulos). Read our Floyd Brown file here.

Amanda Terkel, tenacious HuffPo reporter wrote this about Brown's contributions in Fairbanks:

On Thursday, Brown raised the possibility of voter fraud and suppression, although according to the Associated Press, he offered basically no proof to back up these charges. (He did present an affidavit from a Fairbanks poll watcher, who said he saw an unsecured ballot box that left him wondering "about the integrity of our state operation of polling places.")

It's not working. The recount seems not close enough for the amoral moralist Floyd to work his miracles. It appears Lisa Murkowske, Merkowski, Mercowsky, Murkowski, the establishment Republican incumbent, is winning handily despite being written off by the media and Senate Republicans after she lost the primary in the ill-attended, but heavily Tea Party Express-funded primary last summer.

Tea-party baggers crowed, and counted their political poultry until Miller opened his mouth and, with new puffery, began making boffo, paranoid, policy blartations about blowing up "the entitlement state," handcuffed a reporter during a debate, all the while forgetting to shave. (Our working theory is that he misread his elderly teaparty constituents who distrust a man who doesn't shave in the morning. Geezers just might have mistook him for a "hippy." a much-maligned cultural group from an era only they remember... and not fondly.)  

As with a radio station who would hire Brown, it tells you a lot about the moral compass of a candidate and the tea-party who let a Floyd Brown within the 10-foot pole range of an even failed election.

His great victory in the Citizens United decision has apparently given him renewed moral standing with the right-wing mainstream. He's one of them again after many years treading a desert of his own making. (We'll challenge again our loyal conservo-libertarian commenters to explain how this decision, which opened floodgates to unlimited anonymous money in our elections, expanded anyone's libberdees besides those of deep-pocketed corporate and labor union interests).

Comments

[sparky]

Because Michael, it..um...creates jobs..that's it. It creates jobs and...uh...

[Chucks]

That is a stupid response Sparky and admittedly unexpected on my part. You are not known for stupid comments (arguably disagreeable, perhaps, frequently) in my opinion. Oh well, we all have bad days.
Corporations and unions should not be able to make political contributions. Both are entities and not people and as such have no constitutional rights.

[KS]

Hey, boys and girls - It's pile on Joe Miller time...

No thanks here - I'd rather pile on Lisa Murkowski.

[sparky]

Morning Joe is meeting with Bloomberg to consider whether they would make a good Independent Presidential ticket for 2012. I guess a dead intern isn't the game killer it used to be.

[joanie]

Fishing . . . just fishing. I don't think Joe will be his VP. More likely, it is a way to get some kind words from MSNBC if Joe thinks he's in the running.

Bloomberg will not let on who is on his short list, I betcha. Judging from the way he picked his Joel Stein replacement (education in NY), I don't think we'll know anything for quite a while. And judging from the way he picked Black to succeed Stein, I'm thinking I don't like Bloomberg as much as I thought I might. Reminds me of the way Stanford picked Olchefske to run finances at Seattle Schools. That sure turned out good.

[KS]

Bloomberg seems like a better choice than the current prez. However, he is too much big government and political correctness to warrant my vote.

[Elizabeth in Alaska]

Our sitting Governor supported Joe Miller (probably only in public), kept all Sarah's appointments and only after being certain Miller would lose; this week cleaned out Sarah's faithful.

Everyone in the state knows someone who ended up on Sarah's hit list for some reason or no reason at all.

The National press keeps claiming Alaskans are pro-Sarah, but the snap-shot they took the day of her Vice Presidential election victory (in Alaska), was preceded a couple weeks earlier with EVERY Alaskan citizen getting a check with Sarah Palin's signature on it! My family received more than my 1st house cost, as Sarah pushed through an additional $1,200 per person.

The truth is; Palin spent more money than any previous Governor.

Palin let her husband rule Juneau, causing legislators to consider "what would Todd think?" before any initiative.

Sarah pushed through a $500 Million dollar give-away to a Canadian Company that didn't require them to build anything! (it was her version of "playing hardball" with our US companies)

Sarah stayed in Wasilla when Gov and charged us per diem for more days than there were work days during her time as Governor. (per diem for staying in her own home)

She quit the only 3 jobs she ever held in Alaska, always creating some drama with her caste as the perpetual victim.

We are glad to be shed of her!