Posted on 08/07/2004 9:20:05 PM PDT by buzzyboop
Democrats across the country have had no qualms about attacking Sen. Zell Miller, the highest-ranking member of their party to oppose John Kerry's election.
But one group of Democrats has been conspicuously low-key in its criticism: Miller's fellow Georgians.
Former Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia, who has traveled the country vigorously assailing Kerry's Republican critics, is among those who demur when it comes time to protect the Democratic nominee from Miller, chairman of Democrats for Bush and a scheduled speaker at the upcoming Republican National Convention.
Cleland, dispatched one day in July to counter fresh criticisms of Kerry by Miller and others, readily charged that President Bush had "lied to America" about Iraq and said Bush's Southeastern chairman, Ralph Reed of Georgia, "has been known to lie before for this team."
But, a reporter asked, what about Miller, who largely echoed the other two?
"Zell Miller is a great American," Cleland declared flatly. "I have tremendous respect for Zell Miller."
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Well, the stupid idiots in our local chapter of the Democratic Party in Chatham County (Savannah) actually wrote a formal "dismissal" of Miller from the party. Miller thought it very funny. Most people in the state like him.
When RATS finally realize that they cannot influence or change a person's values, like with Zell Miller, their last response is to become dismissive.
Prairie
Can't wait to hear him speak at the convention. It would be cool to have Koch introduce him too.
Zel Miller is one of those rare politicians who really made a difference. He effected I suspect profound and rather long lasting damage on the Democrat party in Georgia. It will take a lot of culturally liberal Yankees moving in, and assimilation of Georgia towards the national mean, to overcome it. And frankly Georgia is not one of the warmer climate states of choice for Yankees to seek out - at least not yet.
Zell Miller....Author...A National Party No More ---- The Conscience of A Conservative Democrat
Atlanta is full of "Yankees" from all over. New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan. Matter of fact, I'd bet money that "Yankees" outnumber natives within the I-285 perimeter.
As for the rest of the state, you're right.
It gets interesting in the sports bars around here come time for college football.
Here up north I heard a lot of whining by union workers when their jobs moved south. I used to hear how the employers would be back, cuz of the superior workers we have around here. hehehe
When I was involved in hiring, though not in charge of it, I told the boss discrimination against past employment history was still legal. Our worst hires were always former union workers... As a small company, we needed employees to get the job done, not try to do management's jobs, while being a general PITA.
"The special interest groups have come between the Democratic Party and the people. The Party is no longer a link to most Americans. Each advocacy group has become more important than the sum of the whole. It is a rational party no more. It is a national party no more. So, bang the drum slowly and play the fife lowly, for the sun is setting over a waiting grave.".....Zell Miller
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