Both Linda McMahon and Joe Miller have come out against the minimum wage. Seriously, the minimum wage! In America, in the 21st Century, opposing the minimum wage is like opposing child labor laws. In a sane world, this position would eliminate these candidates as being national jokes unworthy of serious consideration.
But it's not a sane world. As evidenced by the fact that way, way too many minimum wage earning Americans will actually vote for these bastards. Why? Because, we're told, people are angry about jobs and unemployment. So voters are going to choose candidates who are expressly planning to make things far worse. Smart.
Despite what Bush thought was "uniquely American," too many of us are working several jobs; we're working weekends; we're earning less than we did ten years ago; and we're competing for jobs with overseas workers who don't have protections like the minimum wage. The only way forward for the American working- and middle classes is to unravel this awfulness -- not to make it all worse by stripping away protections for employees in the name of inchoate rage.