Miller seems to have written Democrats' obituary (Zell Miller Book Due Out Soon)

Athens Banner-Herald ^ | September 7, 2003 | Bill Shipp

[PJ-Comix]

I wonder how the liberal media will handle this book when it is published in November. Don't look for Katie Couric to give Miller the goo-goo eyes she gave to Jumpin' Jim Jeffords.

[mewzilla]

Heh heh heh. Stick a fork in'em, Zell.

[KellyAdmirer]

We may be left with a one-party national government.

Oh, please, the Democrats are in nowhere near as bad a shape as the Republicans were throughout the 1970s.

[mewzilla]

Oh, but they are. I know plenty of Dems who have either switched parties or are voting straight Pubbie. I can't say the same for the reverse.

[PJ-Comix]

Oh, please, the Democrats are in nowhere near as bad a shape as the Republicans were throughout the 1970s.

They will be after they drink the Dean Kool-Aid.

[goldstategop]

Zell Miller is the last sane Democrat left and his retirement only underscores the demise of the Party in Georgia. The Democratic leadership should really listen to his counsel but they won't. They're determined to go to the hard Left as though the lessons of the last election where that the American people didn't hear their message. Oh they heard them all right. I hope they keep it up to the point of writing their own political obituary.

[tkathy]

Decadence breeds weakness.

[jigsaw]

The Democratic Party: A fetid cartel of self-absorbed cliques composed of dysfunctional people.

[Paradox]

The party of strong on defense, pro american Democrats (who only pandered to the special intersts, ie Truman, Kennedy, et al), has finally been consumed by those very same special interest groups, and is no more. That party is ALREADY DEAD.

Come to think of it, both those guys are probably more like moderate Republicans today than a typical democrat.

[thoughtomator]

So once the Dem party collapses, can we ditch the RINOs, or alternately, ditch the GOP and get a real conservative party going?

[PJ-Comix]

They're determined to go to the hard Left as though the lessons of the last election where that the American people didn't hear their message.

Talk about delusional! Step right up, Demmycrats! Fresh Kool-Aid right here!

[Conservomax]

Wow, impressive.

I've been trying to come up with something that eloquent to describe the dems. The best i could do was:

"A bunch of idiotic special interest groups who hate each other".

[Lost Highway]

One party government? Give me a break. What's he think all non Republicans will do suddenly vote Republican? Idiot.

[Hank Rearden]

We may be left with a one-party national government. And that is not a good thing, no matter which team is in absolute control.

Boy, that's for sure. Especially now that the Republicrats have devolved into just another Big Stupid Government parasite party.

[dead]

I would favor the dissolution of the Democratic Party and allow the Republicans to battle the Libertarians.

Unfortunately, if the Dems did fall off the end of the earth, it would be the Greens that replaced them.

[okie01]

We may be left with a one-party national government.

"Oh, please, the Democrats are in nowhere near as bad a shape as the Republicans were throughout the 1970s."

The columnist's concerns are unduly apocryphal, to be sure.

And your assertion is true...on one level. Certainly, there are more Democrat seats in Congress and more self-styled Democrats among voters today than there were Republicans in the seventies.

But, on another level, the Democrats are in desperate shape compared to the Republicans in the seventies. The Republicans, at least, had a coherent philosophy to build on and ideas that were worthy of support.

Today's Democrats have no such guiding philosophy and are totally devoid of ideas. Unless you want to call pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-racism, pro-gun control, anti-Bushism, anti-conservatism and anti-Americanism "ideas". As such, the party is a shell that could collapse upon itself as rapidly and as completely as Communism did in the late eighties.

Come to think of it, Democrats and Communism is a pretty apt analogy...

[Porterville]

Good-Bye you stinkin' democraps

[G L Tirebiter]

And so the attacks on Senator Miller start...From today's Atlanta Journal & Constitution:

Miller puts himself first

For U.S. Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) to ascribe to himself the virtue of a conscience would be laughable were the issues involved not so serious ("Miller book calls Democrats out of touch," News, Sept. 5).
Was it conscience that allowed Miller to renege on his vow to seek only a single term as governor? Was it principle that caused him to flee from the flag issue when opposed by a vocal minority? How much courage did it take for Miller to boost education funding through the politically painless means of a lottery?
Answers: no, no, and none.
Throughout his career, Miller has demonstrated commitment only to this principle: that he remain in power.
JIM PETTIT
Atlanta

How quick they are to turn, how slow they are to listen and learn.

[CasearianDaoist]

Where so you think all of those Communist Party members went?

[mike_9958]

The democrats won't go away..... they will adapt. The republicans will screw up - and the wheel will turn....

History is fun to watch.... I can't wait for the analysis.

Zell's book will be fun to read but not taken seriously by the liberal press.... if books were taken seriously, Coulter's book would of nailed the box shut.