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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- President Bush has regularly counted on Democratic Sen. Zell Miller to buck his party and back the White House's tax-cutting efforts. On Wednesday, the Georgia politician officially endorsed Bush's re-election bid, excoriating Democratic presidential contender John Kerry's tax proposals. Miller, in remarks prepared for delivery at a rally, said he would remain a Democrat "until the day I leave this earth." But had harsh words for Kerry and the national Democratic Party. Miller said the Bush tax cuts have helped boost the economy and said that job creation is beginning to pick up steam. "These are good...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush-Cheney campaign Wednesday unleashed its most famous Democratic booster, Georgia Sen. Zell Miller, to make the case that presidential candidate John Kerry advocates policies inconsistent with some of history's most popular Democratic presidents. Miller, a Georgian who is the lone Democratic senator to back publicly President Bush's re-election bid, criticized Kerry in a speech announcing his leadership of a national "Democrats for Bush" effort. He was joined by a handful of lesser-known Democrats, but the campaign said it would release a more comprehensive list in the coming weeks. The popular former governor cited the policies of...

As Georgia Democrats head to the polls to choose a presidential nominee on Super Tuesday, the red clay on the soles of their shoes may be about the only thing that distinguishes them from Democrats elsewhere on national issues. Like voters in other Democratic primaries, they are dissatisfied with, if not downright angry at, President Bush; worried about jobs, health care and education; and upset about the war in Iraq, according to a new Atlanta Journal-Constitution/WSB-TV poll conducted by Zogby International. Jean Morgan, 68, a retired nurse from Cartersville, hasn't decided whether to vote for front-runner Sen. John Kerry of...

Sen. Miller was on earlier this month and he is a great guest.

A new poll by Gallup shows President Bush losing to Sen. John Kerry and even Sen. John Edwards, but Bush supporter Sen. Zell Miller isn't worried. Miller, D-Ga., noted tonight on FNC's "Hannity & Colmes" that presidential polls in recent races have fluctuated wildly. He recalled polls in 1984 showing Walter "Jimmy Carter" Mondale ahead of Ronald Reagan, polls in 1988 showing Michael "Walter Mondale" Dukakis way ahead of G.H.W. Bush and polls in 1995 showing Bob "G.H.W. Bush" Dole ahead of Bill Clinton. Miller, author of "A National Party No More," predicted Kerry would lead the Democrats to another...

"I watched the demonstrators as they came to Washington, and the advocates for life, and the number of 42 million human beings having been killed because of Roe vs. Wade," Democratic Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia told me last week in an interview for Human Events, "and it just grabbed ahold of me very strongly that what if one of my four great-grandchildren or four grandchildren had been one of those that never did get to enjoy the life that they have now." I asked: "So, now you've actually come all the way around to the opinion that you would...

Former President Jimmy Carter says the appointment of Georgia's Zell Miller to the Senate was a mistake because his fellow ex-governor "betrayed all the basic principles that I thought he and I and others shared." The comments, which Carter made Wednesday on the radio program FOX News Live with Alan Colmes, are the latest in a string of attacks prominent Democrats have made lately concerning the maverick senator who has endorsed President Bush's re-election and penned a new book arguing his party is out of touch with the South. When Colmes asked Carter about Miller, the former president first said,...

WASHINGTON -- As retired General and presidential hopeful Wesley Clark furiously builds a time machine to send Howard Dean back to challenge George McGovern from the left for the 1972 Democratic nomination, is it any wonder a good Southern Democrat like Senator Zell Miller is up in arms over the current state of affairs? Miller's latest, A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat (Stroud & Hall, 237 pages, $26), is likely the only book on conservative top 10 lists this year that praises (with reservations) Robert Byrd, Diane Feinstein, and Hillary Clinton. Glance at the book's...

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This year's recipients of the Annie Taylor Award were human rights activist Armando Valladares and Georgia's Democratic Senator Zell Miller. The awards ceremony took place as part of the Center for Popular Culture's Restoration Weekend, Nov. 13-16, 2003. FrontPage Magazine brought you Valladeres' speech yesterday. We proceed to Senator Miller's speech today, following Charlie Black's introductory remarks. --The Editors. Charlie Black: We now get to our second awardee of the evening and our last speaker of the evening. David Horowitz not only did me a favor by letting me get up here tonight to have the chance to introduce Senator Zell Miller;...

Sybil Ammons bought eight books and thought about buying two more. Standing in a line that snaked by the coffee shop and past the travel section, she wanted Zell Miller to sign them all. Face to face with the only U.S. senator on this week's New York Times best-seller list, the coroner from Stewart County had a question. "Can you run for governor again?" Ammons asked. "You don't know how old I am," said Miller, 71. "No, but I think you've got enough in you to straighten us out again," said Ammons, also the assistant director of nursing at Stewart-Webster...

A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat, by Senator Zell Miller (Stroud and Hall, 2003) If you?re wondering about that sizzling noise coming from Democratic Party headquarters these days, it?s the sound of Democrats trussed on spits revolving over the hot coals of Georgia Senator Zell Miller?s new book, A National Party No more: The Conscience of a Conservative Democratic. The title doesn?t mince words and neither do the words inside. Hell hath no fury like a Democrat betrayed by his party. Senator Miller recently announced that, having first voted for Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and...

Each Tuesday at 12:30 p.m., the Democrats of the Senate gather for a working lunch in an elegant chamber once occupied by the most powerful Senate Democrat of modern times, Lyndon B. Johnson. Every Democrat attends but one: Zell Miller of Georgia. Senator Miller, in silent frustration with his own party, quit joining his colleagues for the Tuesday lunches a year ago. "I was a stranger in their midst," he says. Now Mr. Miller is preparing to retire, and has taken his frustrations public. In a blistering parting shot, he has written a book attacking national Democrats as ultraliberal, beholden...

Among the elements in the U.S. Senate that frustrate Zell Miller _ and there are plenty _ perhaps none does he find more annoying than the fact 41 senators can kill any legislation, even if the other 59 support it. The age-old rule allowing a strong minority of lawmakers in the upper chamber to filibuster _ essentially delay _ a bill to death has always irked the Georgia senator. Never has it irked him more than now, with fellow Democrats using the parliamentary technique to block four judicial appointments, all of whom he supports. Filibusters in general and judicial filibusters...

WASHINGTON - Terry McAuliffe? A "disaster." The Democrat presidential field? "Do not understand the South." President Bush? "A little Churchill in him." America's most outspoken Democrat leader, retiring Sen. Zell Miller, does not hold back. In an exclusive interview with NewsMax, the Georgian, who supports President Bush’s re-election, talked about everything from the White House wannabes to Sept. 11. Democrat front-runner Howard Dean, Miller told NewsMax, “is not a knowledgeable source about how to run campaigns in the South.” Campaigns in the South, he added, have been about “moving ahead” on “economic development” and “improving education.” Fresh from the bruising...

I haven't met every person on the planet. But I have met Zell Miller. So when I sat down and began to read Miller's new book, the very first paragraph made me laugh so hard that I practically spit my morning coffee. "The liberal Washington crowd," Miller writes, are "gold medalists in the Sneering Olympics." I'm sorry: When it comes to sneering, no human being on Earth can compete with Zell. This man does for the sneer what Julia Roberts does for the smile, what Benny Hill did for the leer. Read what Miller says in his book about today's...

<p>When Bill Clinton captured the Democratic nomination in 1992, he tapped his friend Zell Miller to give a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. And why not? Mr. Miller was a popular governor of an important state (Georgia) and a Democratic loyalist who encouraged Mr. Clinton to hire a "brilliant team" of consultants named James Carville and Paul Begala. In the speech, Mr. Miller proclaimed: "Bill Clinton is the only candidate for president who feels our pain, shares our hopes and will work his heart out to fulfill our dreams." The speech brought down the house, solidifying Mr. Miller's status as a major Democratic star.</p>

<p>Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, looked south and said, "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished."</p> <p>Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell."</p>

Democrats in Washington and Georgia reacted with studied indifference and disappointment to Sen. Zell Miller's rejection of his own party's presidential candidates last week. Privately, many Democrats are furious over Miller's endorsement of President Bush, but publicly their response has been to give the endorsement and Miller's new book saying the Democratic Party has abandoned the South as little notice as possible."That's an old story. I just don't have any comment," said James Carville, whom Miller recommended to Bill Clinton after the Democratic consultant managed his 1990 race for governor.Democrats in Congress -- especially Miller's Senate colleagues -- avoided comment,...

BOOK EXCERPT This is the first of two excerpts from "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat" by Zell Miller. Stroud & Hall Publishers, Atlanta. Copyright 2003, Zell Miller. The second excerpt will appear in next Sunday's @issue section. Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said, "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished." Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell." Too harsh? I don't think so. Consider these facts. In...