Posted on 10/07/2004 5:20:45 PM PDT by kattracks
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Democrat Sen. Zell Miller today issued a blistering indictment of his own party and its presidential nominee. President Bush, in contrast, “will never waver, never wobble, never get weak in the knees,” he said.
Miller noted that pundits had fretted he seemed angry when, as the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention, he denounced Senate colleague John Kerry as a weakling. “How perceptive of them,” the Georgia Democrat said mockingly in a taped address at a luncheon sponsored by the Palm Beach Republican Club.
“I’m fed up to here,” he agreed, and then explained why.
Before 9/11, the previous administration had a “wimpy response” to a string of terrorist attacks, he said, such as the first attack on the World Trade Center, the bombing of the USS Cole and the mass-murdering assaults on two U.S. embassies in east Africa.
By failing to act, the Clinton White House sent terrorists “an engraved invitation” to attack America, he said.
Miller could not speak in person as scheduled because, unlike Kerry and John Edwards, he did not want to miss urgent votes in the Senate. Peggy Noonan spoke in his place, but he sent a videotape in which he elaborated on his support for Bush and opposition to his own party’s standard-bearer.
Robbing the Taxpayers
“John Kerry’s entire plan for the economy can be summed up in four words: tax, spend, redistribute income,” he said.
“Kerry believes that if you rob Peter to pay Paul, Paul will vote for you.”
He said that before Bush took office the economy was already slowing, but that the president’s tax relief had sparked 11 consecutive quarters of growth, that after the economic devastation caused by 9/11 about 1.7 million jobs had been added in recent months and that home ownership was at a record high.
A Question of Trust
Blasting Kerry as a man of no principles and no beliefs, Miller praised the president as a man of character and consistency.
“I like the fact that he’s the same man on Saturday night as he is on Sunday morning. He’s not a slick talker, but he’s a straight shooter,” said the retiring senator, author of "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat."
Bush is “the only man I trust to protect my family.”
The two nominees are “as different as night and day,” he said. “They are not made from the same substance.”
Kerry and Edwards voted for war in Iraq, he said, but they “were so scared of Howard Dean” during the Democrat primaries that they flip-flopped and voted against funding the troops they had helped put in harm’s way.
Kerry’s “biggest disgrace,” Miller said, was voting against body armor for the troops.
Reiterating his famous “spitballs” comment from his address at the convention, he said Kerry had voted in the Senate for 20 years against all the defense systems used to win the Cold War.
“This man wants to be the leader of the free world,” the Georgian scoffed. “Free for how long?”
Man on the Moon
Citing Kerry's votes for taxes, for partial-birth abortion, against parental notification, against Laci and Connor's Law, against defense and against protecting the flag from "being burned by a bunch of yahoos," Miller said, "A man's record is who he is."
He portrayed the Massachusetts Democrat as hopelessly elitist, so clueless he was “on the far side of the moon.”
Since he began voting for president in 1952, the Southerner said, he had never before seen “a presidential candidate so out of touch with the American people.”
Recalling the infamous fund-raiser that Whoopi Goldberg and other Hollywood haters threw for a delighted Kerry at Radio City Music Hall, Miller said disgustedly, “Talk about a deficit of decency in this country.”
Noting that Kerry had described the foulmouthed entertainers as “the heart and soul of America,” Miller said: “Not the America I live in. Not the America you live in.”
Speaking to the applauding crowd after the senator's taped address, Noonan quipped, "Think how far Zell Miller could have gone in life had he only had assertiveness training."
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So many great Zell-isms to choose from. This is one of the best.
Prairie
WEEBLES WOOBLE BUT THEY DONT FALL DOWN
I love that man; he's the best. (being a fellow Southerner helps too. ;) )
Zell bump
Someone telling it like it is, I have had it with the doom tactics and tone of the Kerry/Edwards 04 campaign and it’s band of misfits. I refuse to refer to them in any other way except “Doom & Gloom 04”.
John Kerry – Putting America down since 1971 !!!!!!
LIE: Kerry/Edwards 04
TRUTH: Doom & Gloom 04
I wish W could channel Zell for about 20 minutes tomorrow..that righteous anger is something I KNOW W feels but he's had trouble getting into debate language.
Unless they are pushed by secret service guys.
Speaking to the applauding crowd after the senator's taped address, Noonan quipped, "Think how far Zell Miller could have gone in life had he only had assertiveness training."
It really is a shame Zell is so unsure of himself!
My hope is Bush is rested and ready for the debate. He needs to know Kerrys record like Zell. Zell had a powerful way of describing all Kerry's shortcomings. Could listen to him all day long!
COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004 |
Listing all the weapon systems that Senator Kerry tried his best to shut down sounds like an auctioneer selling off our national security.
But Americans need to know the facts.
The B-1 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, dropped 40 percent of the bombs in the first six months of Enduring Freedom.
The B-2 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Hussein's command post in Iraq.
The F-14A Tomcats, that Senator Kerry opposed, shot down Gadhafi's Libyan MiGs over the Gulf of Sidra.
The modernized F-14D, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered missile strikes against Tora Bora.
The Apache helicopter, that Senator Kerry opposed, took out those Republican Guard tanks in Kuwait in the Gulf War.
The F-15 Eagles, that Senator Kerry opposed, flew cover over our Nation's capital and this very city after 9/11.
I could go on and on and on -- against the Patriot Missile that shot down Saddam Hussein's scud missiles over Israel; against the Aegis air-defense cruiser; against the Strategic Defense Initiative; against the Trident missile, against, against, against.
This is the man who wants to be the commander in chief of our U.S. Armed Forces?
U.S. forces armed with what? Spit balls?
Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than 20 weeks of campaign rhetoric.
Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.
Senator Kerry has made it clear that he would use military force only if approved by the United Nations.
Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending. I want Bush to decide.
John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security. That's the most dangerous outsourcing of all. This politician wants to be leader of the free world. Free for how long?
For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
As a war protester, Kerry blamed our military.
As a senator, he voted to weaken our military. And nothing shows that more sadly and more clearly than his vote this year to deny protective armor for our troops in harm's way, far away.
George W. Bush understands that we need new strategies to meet new threats.
John Kerry wants to refight yesterday's war. President Bush believes we have to fight today's war and be ready for tomorrow's challenges. President Bush is committed to providing the kind of forces it takes to root out terrorists, no matter what spider hole they may hide in or what rock they crawl under.
George W. Bush wants to grab terrorists by the throat and not let them go to get a better grip.
From John Kerry, they get a "yes/no/maybe" bowl of mush that can only encourage our enemies and confuse our friends.
aka: "Transfer Payments" in gubmint budget parlance.
Zell Miller is an endangered species --- a Democrat that CARES ABOUT HIS COUNTRY and can be truly classified as an American patriot.
Why he stays with the Dems is beyond me...he is so far above the gutter slime of the socialist Dems....
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