Anchorage judge squeezes the last bit of hope out of Joe Miller's political teabag.

From the ADN:

Superior Court Judge William Carey ruled against Joe Miller on all counts.

The judge found there was no evidence of election fraud and that there was nothing wrong with the state considering "voter intent" and counting misspelled write-in ballots for Murkowski.

"In interpreting statutes in election law contexts, the Alaska Supreme Court has emphasized the importance of giving effect to the will of the people as expressed in the exercise of their vote," the judge wrote in his ruling put out this afternoon.

The Miller campaign argued state law didn't allow misspellings to count.

State law says write in votes should be counted if the name "as it appears on the write-in declaration of candidacy, of the candidate or the last name of the candidate is written in the space provided."

The judge focused on the fact that the law includes the word "appears."

"The definition of 'appears' in this context does not require perfection or precision, but rather a close, apparent approximation known to the viewer upon first look. This seems to the court the far more reasonable interpretation of the term than the rigid meaning attributed to it by (Miller)," the judge wrote in his ruling. "If exact spellings were intended by the legislature, even with respect to the most difficult names, the legislature could have and would have said so."

Is this dog and pony show finally over?  Can the state of Alaska finally move forward and confirm our disappointing, but relatively sane, Senate choice Lisa Murkowski?

Miller spokesman Randy DeSoto just said the decision on whether to appeal to the Alaska Supreme Court is “under advisement.”

DeSoto also sent out the following email in response to the judge's ruling:

"The purpose of the legal action is to ensure that the integrity of the vote is upheld. The Miller Campaign believes that every valid write-in ballot should be counted, but not those that fail to meet the standard established by the state legislature. Additionally, the core American values of equal protection under the law and fundamental fairness in this election require that the Miller ballots are counted and reviewed in the same fashion as Lisa Murkowski's, by hand, and that the final count includes only those who are eligible to vote. When we've ensured that these issues have been addressed, then we'll have an accurate count, and if Lisa Murkowski's tally is greater than Joe's, then he will certainly honor that result."

You know I think that somebody is going to have to LITERALLY walk up to Joe Miller and stick a fork in him to let him know he is done. The moron is clearly not the sharpest tool in the shed.

(Okay I am not REALLY advocating that anybody stab Miller.  I know you might be tempted, but all we need is for the idiotic teabaggers to have proof that Miller really DID need those goose stepping "Drop Zone" yahoos for protection.)