Where even Ken Buck feared to tread (well, where he did tread before furiously backtracking) Joe Miller runs full steam. Miller wants to repeal the 17th amendment, direct election of Senators.

But he still wants you to know that he is not some “wild-eyed guy.”

He called the idea of a living, changing Constitution “bullcrap,” and said he would support an amendment for term limits as well as an amendment repealing the 17th Amendment, which allows for the direct election of senators by the public rather than by state legislatures.... Miller also talked about the need to acknowledge states’ rights when discussing his acceptance of farm subsidies on Kansas property he owned in the ’90s. The candidate said he was basically forced by federal government to accept the money, which also defined what he could grow there, a system he said creates inefficiencies and could be improved if states only gave farm subsidies as they see fit.

No, he's not crazy, he just thinks that the Constitution needs to be hacked apart, that Americans shouldn't have direct representation in the Senate, and that the federal government held a gun to his head and forced him to accept money. That's completely normal!

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