Zell Miller Blast Dems, Says Party Is in 'Breakdown'

NewsMax.com ^ | Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[vaudine]

Zell was appointed to finish out Paul Coverdell's term. Coverdell was very conservative, and Zell, already a conservative Dem, pledged to carry out the term in the way Coverdell would have done. He has been true to his promise.

I really hate to see him go He has a lot more common sense than a large number of RINOS.--Chaffee, Collins come to mind.

vaudine

[ForGod'sSake]

"A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat."

Let's just hope he knows whereof he speaks.

FGS

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Going out like a man.

[Southack]

It's not just Southern Democrats who are telling their Party the facts of life.

Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch has also told them the same thing, as has British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and so has former California Governor Jerry Brown.

Yet all of the genuises who labels themselves as "progressives" or "new Democrats" are ignoring the sage advice being given to them by their successful Democratic Party elders such as Senator Zell Miller.

Where is the national consensus that has to be built to win? Where's the "Vision" or bold new idea/plan?

Democrats can't just sit back and b!tch about Bush. It certainly didn't work in California against Schwarzenegger, and it didn't work for them in the 2002 mid-terms.

Nor can a major cult of personality figure save the Democrats, at least not without a Vision or national consensus (though I encourage Hillary to try it!).

Shoot, even Cuomo in New York is telling the Democrats to evolve past their current bash-Bush and fight, fight, fight nonsense, and he's not the sharpest tool in their shed.

[cinFLA]

By playing to the left, the dimowits drive centrists away, shrinking their own base.

By playing to the right, the repowits drive centrists away, shrinking their own base????

[Clintonfatigued]

Elect A Filibuster-Proof Majority---Great tag line!

[VOA]

Zell Miller Blast Dems, Says Party Is in 'Breakdown'

More "sound and fury, signifying nothing" from Zell.

I respect Zell, his service in the US Marines, and his expressions of revulsion
over the depravity of the party of which he is, AFAIK, a lifetime member.

After years of my thinking he'd truly wake up, smell the coffee and cross the aisle,
looks like he's going to stay with the folks he can hardly stand.
He is a text-book example of "learned helplessness"...like a traumatized
rat in an psychology experiment, he's frozen and won't even move towards a better place.

[Blessed]

Don't get to enamered with Zell. He is just in the middle of a Zig. The Zag is still to come.

This is the man who was Lester Maddox's Chief of staff and then Clinton's biggest fan.

[Bonaparte]

"They're just taking that shrinking Democratic base, that's about 32 percent right now, and they are appealing to the most shrill and the most active and the loudest - what they're doing is they're pulling this party further and further to the left."

That's the whole idea, Zell. This will be the first time the communist party USA has ever achieved such a large membership. And all they have to do is keep calling it the "democratic party."

[samtheman]

George Bush is center-right. Not far right.

Howard Dean and the nine ninies are all far left.

[hosepipe]

Well, Zell welcome to the republican party...WE COULD USE another RINO.... </snide>