VA-04: Running for the Wrong Party

We all do it – we’re looking for a candidate’s campaign website so we test the given: their name, and .com. Often it isn’t that simple for that person has taken to a different style such candidateforcongress.com or candidate2008.com. In looking for Andrea Miller’s campaign site, which I had previously visited with no attention given to the URL, I erred with AndreaMiller.com, so I resorted to searching for her site. Simple task, quick result, not what I had expected. AndreaMiller.us – a domain typically reserved for government entities (though the public is not barred from it). It may seem such a small detail to many, but I see it as indicative of something greater. Andrea Miller must thing very highly of herself. Heck, one breeze through her photo album and you’d think she were obsessed with herself.

So let’s skim through Miller’s site and see what we’ve got.

Healthcare

This member of the far left wastes no time in chiming in with one of the liberals’ favorite catchphrases “healthcare crisis.” I suppose it’s equivocal to the “mortgage crisis” that we don’t have either. She makes the dashing claim that “quality healthcare must be available to all Americans as a simple matter of justice and human rights.” Let me get this straight – if the government doesn’t provide everyone with healthcare, it is both unjust and inhumane? For starters, if the government providing you with rights doesn’t scare you, nothing will. Secondly, if you’re looking for a big fluffy government that you can wrap your arms around, grab your tie-dyed shirt and move back to the 70’s.

Under Miller’s plan:

• The federal government (via your wallet) will afford everyone prescription drugs.
• Drug addicts will have their rehab paid for, again from your wallet.
• You will pay for my visit to the dentist.
• More of your medical decisions will be shaped by more government regulations.

Oh, and if I feel like getting acupuncture, that goes on the taxpayer bill, too.

Miller also wants to place more emphasis on prevention. I figure she’ll go after the evil fast food industry that shoves burgers down our kids’ throats and makes them obese. How dare they! While she’s at it, she could pay for my gas bill. After all, if I can’t stay warm in the winter, I’ll get sick! How’s that for prevention?

Education

If her healthcare plan didn’t seem socialist, wait until you hear this.

Miller, like every other liberal, wants to throw more money at a failing public education system. Not only that, she wants to expand that coverage to a universal pre-k program to children as young as three. Don’t worry, she’s not leaving us college students out; she wants us to be tuition free as well!

She also has a plan to give free (aka paid by you and I) lunch to those in need. She may be on to something with this one – I hated school but I love to eat!

Economy

Well, it’s tough to determine just where Andrea Miller stands on economic issues, considering she’s written nothing of her own accord on the subject, except for a short reference to this silly kindergarten video (both in the manner it presents itself, and the means by which it comes to its conclusion).

From what I gather, she at least supports extending unemployment benefits. That’s good, considering the rising unemployment due largely in part to the Democrat Congress repeatedly raising the minimum wage.

War

I omitted Iraq in the title of this section because Andrea Miller’s doesn’t reserve her opposition to war for one instance; she opposes war altogether (if you didn’t yet realize she is a member of the far left, it should hit you now). It boggles the mind, then, to think of her staunch support of Barack Obama who has, on several occasions, advocated for an increase in troop levels in Afghanistan. I suppose she’s just another politician with no true principles.

She calls the Iraq War instead the Iraq Occupation and goes so far as to say that “war is a weapon of mass destruction, that is the sole purpose of war.” Then, in keeping with her tradition for not speaking on her own behalf, she let’s, guess who, Ron Paul do the talking for her. The kook left meets the kook right.

Energy

No surprise here, but she offers no comprehensive plan for energy, just mere rhetoric. She does make it clear, however, that she falls in line with Barack Obama’s sentiment that we need to plainly reduce our energy consumption. Turn down your heat this winter!

It’d like to take the time to point out Congressman Randy Forbes’ New Manhattan Project. The congressman went on CNN to introduce his plan to the masses:

Andrea Miller is just another socialist member of the fringe left that is running as an Obama surrogate in Virginia. Her campaign has no substance, and no support. In a shameless display of desperation, she has attempted to link herself with Barack Obama on countless occasions, and ride the wave of his success.