Jimmy's kind of Democrat.
Posted on 09/07/2004 2:05:44 PM PDT by VMI70
The text of a letter former President Carter sent to Zell Miller over the weekend ...
You seem to have forgotten that loyal Democrats elected you as mayor and as state senator. Loyal Democrats, including members of my family and me, elected you as lieutenant governor and as governor. It was a loyal Democrat, Lester Maddox, who assigned you to high positions in the state government when you were out of office. It was a loyal Democrat, Roy Barnes, who appointed you as U.S. Senator when you were out of office. By your historically unprecedented disloyalty, you have betrayed our trust. Great Georgia Democrats who served in the past, including Walter George, Richard Russell, Herman Talmadge, and Sam Nunn disagreed strongly with the policies of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and me, but they remained loyal to the party in which they gained their public office. Other Democrats, because of philosophical differences or the race issue, like Bo Callaway and Strom Thurmond, at least had the decency to become Republicans.
Everyone knows that you were chosen to speak at the Republican Convention because of your being a “Democrat,” and it’s quite possible that your rabid and mean-spirited speech damaged our party and paid the Republicans some transient dividends.
Perhaps more troublesome of all is seeing you adopt an established and very effective Republican campaign technique of destroying the character of opponents by wild and false allegations. The Bush campaign’s personal attacks on the character of John McCain in South Carolina in 2000 was a vivid example. The claim that war hero Max Cleland was a disloyal American and an ally of Osama bin Laden should have given you pause, but you have joined in this ploy by your bizarre claims that another war hero, John Kerry, would not defend the security of our nation except with spitballs. (This is the same man whom you described previously as “one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders -- and a good friend.")
I, myself, never claimed to have been a war hero, but I served in the navy from 1942 to 1953, and, as president, greatly strengthened our military forces and protected our nation and its interests in every way. I don’t believe this warrants your referring to me as a pacificist.
Zell, I have known you for forty-two years and have, in the past, respected you as a trustworthy political leader and a personal friend. But now, there are many of us loyal Democrats who feel uncomfortable in seeing that you have chosen the rich over the poor, unilateral preemptive war over a strong nation united with others for peace, lies and obfuscation over the truth, and the political technique of personal character assassination as a way to win elections or to garner a few moments of applause. These are not the characteristics of great Democrats whose legacy you and I have inherited.
I contacted President Carter's office for comment and his press spokesperson Deanna Congileo told me that the letter was a private communication and that President Carter would not be issuing further comment.
-- Josh Marshall http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Party, idealogy, power, before country, before Constitution, before the People, before anything. What a shameful man Jimmy Carter is. We are at WAR! Pick a side, Zell did!
The Goober contines to disgrace himself.
Two Words "Agreed Framework"!
Screw what Carter says. I want to read Zells response.....
The following are instructions to make a KERRY SPITBALL DEFENSE INITIATIVE Badge (KDSI Badge) to salute the Keynote Address of Senator Zell Miller at the Republican National Convention on September 1, 2004, attacking Sen. Kerry's 20 year voting record against all major defense programs. The speech included the following:
"[Sen Kerry] is the man who wants to be the Commander in Chief of our U.S. Armed Forces?
U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs? "
KDSI BADGE MAKING INSTRUCTIONS:
Step 1
Take a piece of paper the size of a name tag and type or handwrite the following:
KSDI
KERRY
SPITBALL
DEFENSE
INITIATIVE
Step 2
Take a piece of colored paper approximately 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch and wad it into a ball, replicating a typical spitball. Take some Rubber Cement or other adhesive and glue the paper ball to the right side of the badge.
Step 3
Purchase a BadgeMate or other plastic container and place the KSDI card including spitball inside the plastic container.
Wear the KSDI Badge to remind all voters that if John Kerry's "no" votes had carried the day, the United States would have little more than spitballs to defend itself and all freedom loving peoples of the world.
The old axiom, the bigger the failure you are in the demoncrat party the higher your staure grows.
I also note that the 11 years he claims as Navy time, include Navy ROTC in college and his years at Annapolis.
Utterly pathetic.
Carter is one of the nastiest around.
Yep. IMHO, thanks to Jimmy Carter, terrorism strengthened its' roots.
ping
The peanut piece of pus was not listening closely to Zell Miller's speech.
Zell Miller asked "where are the statesmen". Where are those who place the nation and principles over the party label?
You always have been an idiot, Jimmy, and now we see you are senile.
It is without exception that I declare that anytime "loyalty" is resorted to as a motivating factor it is for "wrong" ends.
There is nothing and no one that deserves our loyalty in and of itself. Loyalty results from true virtue and goodness in the object in view.
To the point of this letter, the Democratic Party has been disloyal to its former moral principles, hence it is no longer worthy of anyone's loyalty.
Jimmy, my boy.
It is the loyal tax payers of these United States that have paid you and your family big bucks for peanut subsidies.
You lying piece of trash.
I served under your reign in the US Army. I saw one, count them one pay raise in the 3 years I served. I saw cuts all around me, no money for parts, no money for fuel, nothing.
It was your loyal democrat buddy Bill Clinton that destroyed the military that Ronald built back up after your destruction.
Loyal democrat THIS Jimmy.
You and your party of loyal democrats have done everything possible to destroy this country. It is about dam time that someone in your loyal democrat party had enough balls to speak out!
The Hell with you and your loyalty, try having some loyalty to your Country.
That is awesome...I wish I could learn to do that sh!t.
His bio says he was at the Naval Academy from 42-46. Does being a middy count as being in the Navy (e.g. active duty time counted towards retirement)?
Bruce Kurtz
Go Zel!! Go Zel! Tell the Dems to go to Hell"!
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