Zell Miller to speak at RNC...

[insein]

http://www.newsday.com/news/politic...n,0,3986793,print.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

Sen. Miller to Speak at GOP Convention

By JEFFREY McMURRAY
Associated Press Writer

June 25, 2004, 4:54 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- Georgia Sen. Zell Miller, the highest profile Democrat to endorse President Bush for re-election, will speak at the Republican National Convention later this summer, a congressional aide said Friday.

Miller drew a sharp rebuke from the dean of the state's congressional delegation, Democratic Rep. John Lewis, who called the senator's decision "a shame and a disgrace."

According to the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, Miller will give his address on Wednesday night of the four-day convention in New York that begins Aug. 30. The Bush-Cheney campaign was expected to make an announcement Monday, the aide said.

The speech by Miller, a former two-term governor, comes 12 years after he delivered the keynote address for Bill Clinton at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, also held in New York.

Miller, who is retiring in January, has voted with Republicans more often than his own party and has been a key sponsor of many of Bush's top legislative priorities, including the Republican's tax cuts and education plan.

In May, Miller spoke at the Georgia Republican convention and criticized Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry as an "out-of-touch, ultraliberal from Taxachusetts" whose foreign and domestic policies would seriously weaken the country.

"I'm afraid that my old Democratic 'ties that bind' have become unraveled," Miller said.

In 2001, Miller had told a Georgia Democratic Party gathering that Kerry, the four-term Massachusetts senator and decorated Vietnam War veteran, was "an authentic" American hero who had worked to strengthen the military.

Miller's recent book, "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat," is now a national best-seller. In it, he assails members of his own party, including Clinton.

"I think he has sold his soul for a mess of pottage," said Lewis, in a reference to a speech Miller gave as a congressional candidate 40 years ago in which he argued that President Johnson was "a Southerner who sold his birthright for a mess of dark pottage" because of his support for the Civil Rights Act.

Pottage is defined as a thick soup or stew of vegetables.

Miller later changed his position on civil rights, even leading an unsuccessful fight as governor to remove the Confederate emblem from the Georgia state flag.

Bobby Kahn, the chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party, said he wasn't surprised.

"Maybe I'll switch to the Republican Party so I can speak at the Democratic Convention and bash Bush," Kahn said. "It makes about as much sense."

Kahn was a top aide to Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes, who appointed Miller to the Senate following the death of Miller's predecessor, Republican Sen. Paul Coverdell.

"I advocated his appointment," Kahn said of Miller. "He said he would be independent and he was for a while, but he hasn't been lately. He's been in lockstep with the Republicans and I don't know what's happened to him. It's really kind of sad."
Copyright © 2004, The Associated Press

At least Some Democrats realize whats at stake. Also Senator Lieberman would never speak at the RNC, but he realizes whats at stake with the war on terror.

And then there are the regular Dems who continue to bash senator miller for siding with his conscience. I think he sees the writing on the wall and realizes that the Democratic party of today IS NOT the democratic party of 40 years ago.

 

[Gop guy]

He's a real Democrat, not a socialist.

 

[dilloduck]

A great ally in the attempt to get out the truth !

 

[Avatar4321]

is this legit?

 

[menewa]

Miller is a classic living example of the term Dixiecrat. He stands as a remnant of the old Southern Democrat that supports the aristocracy over the masses. But no matter to me, I'm not a punk Democrat or an elitist Republican. Zell can do what he wants.

 

[Avatar4321]

Originally posted by menewa
Miller is a classic living example of the term Dixiecrat. He stands as a remnant of the old Southern Democrat that supports the aristocracy over the masses. But no matter to me, I'm not a punk Democrat or an elitist Republican. Zell can do what he wants.

You have to be living in a fantasy world if you think the elites arent in control of the Democrat party. What the heck do you think Kerry is? a man of the people?

 

[insein]

Originally posted by Avatar4321
You have to be living in a fantasy world if you think the elites arent in control of the Democrat party. What the heck do you think Kerry is? a man of the people?

Hell yea he is. Everyone in America owns 5 SUV's (in their family's name), a 727 jet that gets parked in the front yard of 1 of his 5 homes that his Billionaire wife all owns. Who isn't like that?

 

[acludem]

Why doesn't Zell quit pretending to be a Democrat and just join the Republican Party? The Democratic Party of today isn't the same as it was forty years ago, it's better. It's a shame Zell doesn't want to be part of it, that all he wants to do is cling to his reactionary politics from the 1950s.

acludem

 

[insein]

Originally posted by acludem
Why doesn't Zell quit pretending to be a Democrat and just join the Republican Party? The Democratic Party of today isn't the same as it was forty years ago, it's better. It's a shame Zell doesn't want to be part of it, that all he wants to do is cling to his reactionary politics from the 1950s.

acludem

Its better? sheesh. I wonder if you had a straight face when you typed that.

 

[Gop guy]

Originally posted by acludem
Why doesn't Zell quit pretending to be a Democrat and just join the Republican Party? The Democratic Party of today isn't the same as it was forty years ago

You're right, it's now controlled by radical socialists bent on appeasing terrorists at all costs.

 

[acludem]

I'll answer the question: bin Laden would prefer to see Bush and his bumblers returned for another four years. If Kerry is elected and we get someone honest and competent to run the Defense Department, like say General Clark, then bin Laden might actually have to get worried about being captured.

acludem

 

[menewa]

Originally posted by Avatar4321
You have to be living in a fantasy world if you think the elites arent in control of the Democrat party. What the heck do you think Kerry is? a man of the people?

I agree with you on this. Elites control both parties. Our current leaders of both major political parties more closely resemble an assortment of aristocrats rather than representatives of us common people.

 

[menewa]

Originally posted by acludem
I'll answer the question: bin Laden would prefer to see Bush and his bumblers returned for another four years. If Kerry is elected and we get someone honest and competent to run the Defense Department, like say General Clark, then bin Laden might actually have to get worried about being captured.

acludem

Yep. There would most likely be no more wars in countries completely unrelated to the war against Al-Qaeda. So resources could become focused on the perps of 9-11 and not on side wars initiated for profits.

 

[NATO AIR]

i can understand miller's dillema and how he handles it.. i'm a republican but it seems there are only a few republican leaders who still share my viewpoint, so if i was a GOP senator i would probably address the DNC and plead for them to move to the center further and to shake off folks like moore.

 

[lilcountriegal]

Originally posted by menewa
Yep. There would most likely be no more wars in countries completely unrelated to the war against Al-Qaeda. So resources could become focused on the perps of 9-11 and not on side wars initiated for profits.

You're probably right. That way all those nice little countries can go back to building the nukes/chemical weapons/dirty bombs that I'm sure they'd like to shoot off in our general direction.

 

[DKSuddeth]

Originally posted by acludem
Why doesn't Zell quit pretending to be a Democrat and just join the Republican Party? The Democratic Party of today isn't the same as it was forty years ago, it's better. It's a shame Zell doesn't want to be part of it, that all he wants to do is cling to his reactionary politics from the 1950s.

acludem

please tell me how the democratic party of today is better?

 

[NATO AIR]

the democratic party today blows

maybe in a few more years as it becomes a centrist party with a left wing

not a leftist party with a centrist wing

 

[Jimmyeatworld]

Originally posted by acludem
Why doesn't Zell quit pretending to be a Democrat and just join the Republican Party? The Democratic Party of today isn't the same as it was forty years ago, it's better. It's a shame Zell doesn't want to be part of it, that all he wants to do is cling to his reactionary politics from the 1950s.

acludem

I have a gut feeling that is what he will announce at the convention, leaving the Democrats to join the Republican Party.

The Democratic party of today isn't even as good as the Democratic party of 15 or 16 years ago much less the days of Kennedy, Truman, or Roosevelt. Dems of today are mostly a bunch of ranting, whining, childish con artists pretending to be something they aren't. There are exeptions that prove the rule, but the people providing the face of the party like John Kerry and Al Gore are just worthless.

 

[insein]

Originally posted by acludem
I'll answer the question: bin Laden would prefer to see Bush and his bumblers returned for another four years. If Kerry is elected and we get someone honest and competent to run the Defense Department, like say General Clark, then bin Laden might actually have to get worried about being captured.

acludem

I'd love to live in bizzaro world where logic and common sense are outlawed. Dear god to think people actually believe this Bull. No wonder our country is going to hell.