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Retiring Sen. Zell Miller blasted his fellow Democrats on Wednesday for pushing their party so far to the left that they've left it in a state of total "breakdown." Using some of his harshest rhetoric yet, Miller told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity, "This party is a shrinking party." He then slammed the current crop of Democratic presidential candidates for trying to appeal only to left-wingers and special interest groups. "These nine candidates - the naive nine who are running for president - they're not really running for president," Miller complained. "They're running for the nomination. They're not trying...

Retiring Senator Zell Miller blasted his fellow Democrats on Wednesday for pushing their party so far to the left that they've left it in a state of in total "breakdown." Using some of his harshest rhetoric yet, Miller told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity, "This party is a shrinking party." He then slammed the current crop Democratic presidential candidates for trying to appeal only to left-wingers and special interest groups. "These nine candidates - the naive nine who are running for president - they're not really running for president," Miller complained. "They're running for the nomination. They're not...

One of the only Dems that's respectable... Zell Miller is a DINO if I ever saw one... Just a little disappointed that he never came to our side.

WASHINGTON (AP) - From President Clinton to party chairman Terry McAuliffe to its field of presidential contenders, few Democrats escape criticism in a new book by Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia, who argues his party has abandoned him and the rest of the South. In "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Southern Democrat," Miller analyzes how he believes Democrats slipped from the majority to the minority in national opinion polls and predicts they will stay there for a long while. Some stores were stocking the book Tuesday, with the official release set for early November. "The biggest...

Toward the end of his new book about why the Democratic Party has lost the South, Sen. Zell Miller, D — Ga., tells of a Georgia neighbor whose mule had ears so long they scraped the ceiling of his small barn. The man jacked up the corners of the building and shoved flat stones under it, backbreaking labor that made the ramshackle barn even more unstable. Miller suggested digging out a few inches of the dirt floor, instead. "Son, it ain't the mule's legs that's too long," the farmer replied, "it's them ears." When Miller retires next year to the...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Zell Miller, the Georgia Democrat who often votes with the GOP, says he wrote a new book criticizing his party because he got tired of people questioning his politics. Miller said "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat," is intended as an explanation for those who continually ask why he supports tax cuts and the Bush administration's efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Whenever I was governor, I cut taxes three times and nobody raised an eyebrow," Miller said in an interview Thursday. "I passed not just a 'three strikes and you're out' bill...

Throwing the Book at Fellow Democrats Senator Zell Miller of Georgia has written a new book about the Democratic Party he's belonged to for 50 years. It won't win him any invitations to party functions, and indeed may get him disinvited from a few. The book, entitled "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat," takes few prisoners and is unsparing in its criticism. Here's his take on Howard Dean, a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination: "Clever and glib, but deep this Vermont pond is not." Democrats will claim the retiring Mr. Miller is a...

   ''If this is a national party, sushi is our national dish. If this is a national party, surfboarding has become our national pastime. These people leading our party and those asking to lead our party are like a bunch of naive fraternity boys who don't know what they don't know.''    So writes Georgia Sen. Zell B. Miller, lifelong Democrat, in a new book excoriating his political party and suggesting the national Democratic Party is on the brink of suicide.    Entitled ''A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat,'' Miller's tome is not scheduled to hit the bookstores...

Sen. Zell Miller: Democrats out of Touch The Democratic Party hasn't got a clue about what Americans really want, writes retiring Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga. In his new book, "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat," due out this fall, Miller, a hard-nosed ex-Marine, charges that the Democratic Party is no longer tapped into the concerns and hopes of Americans, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Miller, who regularly votes with the GOP majority in the Senate, says bluntly: "Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said, 'I...

The Democratic Party hasn't got a clue about what Americans really want, writes retiring Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga. In his new book, "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat," due out this fall, Miller, a hard-nosed ex-Marine, charges that the Democratic Party is no longer tapped into the concerns and hopes of Americans, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Miller, who regularly votes with the GOP majority in the Senate, says bluntly: "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...

Sen. Miller of Georgia Takes on Fellow Democrats in Book Explaining His Political PhilosophyGeorgia Sen. Zell Miller will take more swipes at his party in a book that aims to explain his philosophy as a conservative Southern Democrat. In the book, "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat," Miller argues the party no longer practices the sort of inclusiveness former President Franklin Roosevelt once heralded. "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,'" Miller writes...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Zell Miller soon may have a detailed comeback for fellow Democrats who have questioned why he frequently votes with Senate Republicans. The Georgian has written a book titled "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat" for publication this fall. According to Shirley & Banister Public Affairs, which is handling publicity for Miller about the book, the senator outlines in it his perception that the Democratic Party is no longer tapped into the concerns and hopes of Americans.