Democrats' Miller will hustle for GOP's Bush

[davidinalameda]

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/election/2004/georgia/gop/0104/14zellbush.html

U.S. Sen. Zell Miller, Georgia's rebellious Democrat, said Tuesday he will campaign at President Bush's side throughout the year.

Miller's first task in trying to seal the Republican president's re-election grip on his crucial Southern base will be to introduce Bush at a $2,000-a-head fund-raiser Thursday in Atlanta.

The lame-duck senator is to be accompanied by "other Georgia Democrats" who also will endorse the president, according to the Bush-Cheney campaign. But Bush officials would not identify the other Democrats

He should be kicked out of the Democratic senate caucus and stripped of all his committee assignments NOW

[KensPen]

1. did bush promise

to campaign at a Wal-mart during a book signing with him?

[edzontar]

2. He's a pig

Can we agree on that?

[ramapo]

3. Yep.

He'd just go to the Repub side but so what? He's already there

[Jack_Dawson]

4. Shameful. Absolutely Shameful

You can imagine how much that will be milked. Why are there no freeper equivalents jumping off THEIR ship?

[dennis4868]

44. You can say alot of bad things....

about repubs, but one thing they are is loyal to eachother....if they wer not than Bush would most likely have been impeached by now. Dems on the other hand are spineless.....

[MGKrebs]

5. self deleted. Please move along.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

6. Zell Miller supports John Rowland!

......Zell "Love Child of Dick Russell" also called Hollywood Liberals a bunch of "weenies"! :puke:


(satire-or is it?)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

7. Time to flood his office with calls

and call your senators and demand the fucker's removal.

[otohara]

37. Our Senators?

not one of them will come forward and say boo about Miller

[hatrack]

8. "Hustle for Bush" is about right

One slimy, self-righteous little political hack hustler deserves another.

[OKNancy]

9. The life-long Democrat Zell Miller

He's always been a Democrat.......just remember that when someone slams Clark.

[TacticalPeek]

10. Zell is a member of the Strom Thurmond wing of the Democratic Party.

Archaic since 1948.

(And, Amen to your comment!)

[demgrrrll]

13. Does this guy ever vote with us? If not then why not make a very public

statement about his party affiliation. Carter has already opened the door by stating that it was a huge mistake to appoint him. Kick his ass out of the party and let him be what he is, a Republican. That may be a knee jerk response without any consideration of the finer political points but that is how I feel right this minute.

[RamboLiberal]

11. Can't the Dems kick this SOB out?

Why is McAuliffe and Daschle out there calling him out for the scumbag he is?

Imagine what the Repigs would do to a Repub who endorsed a Dem candidate! Be blood in the water. Donkey heads in the bed.

[dansolo]

25. Remember when Jeffords left (n/t)

[Karenina]

12. He should be

kicked out of the Democratic senate caucus and stripped of all his committee assignments NOW :bounce:

[Darth_Kitten]

14. Anything we can do to hurry this along?

Seriously..... :)

[T Bone]

17. Hell yeah, what is he still doing in the Democratic Caucus ???

He should be removed from the Democratic Caucus. I think we should write all the Democratic Senators and ask them to please bar the door to him. Raising money for Bush? Make him move his seat over to the other side of the aisle or a couple of them just pick him up and carry his worthless ass over there.

[NewJerseyDem]

45. I'm not sure how easy that is

Committee assignments are agreed to by unanimous consent and would require unanimous consent to change them, I believe. He can be kicked out of the democratic caucus; he doesn't attend the meetings anyway. However, I just don't know if the leadership can just strip him of his committee assignments or if it would be more complicated. At least he isn't on extremely important committes. He is on Agriculture, Veterans' Affairs, and Banking so he is unlikely to get in the way of major legislation, at least in the committee process.

[oasis]

15. Zig Zag Zell will get his travel expenses paid out of the $200,000,000

Rove/Bush campaign war chest. No receipt required.

[robbedvoter]

16. He's a true democrat, huh, huys? Old record, registered and everything!

Since for some paperwork is more important that actions, your select club has arrived! Too bad Wesley Clark is not so lucky! :eyes:

[Endangered Specie]

18. Cant they throw his sorry ass out?

[shanti]

19. why??????

aren't dems supposed to vote for the dem candidate? i know miller is a DINO, but am i missing something here?? why doesn't he just switch parties?

[sweetladybug]

21. He's a Republican posing as a Democrat

Since he is saying he is a Democrat, it looks bad on the Democrat Party for him to vote for Bush. That is what he and other Republicans want. They're playing mind games with people and some people are so stupid they don't even know they are being used.

[stevedeshazer]

20. He's been promised a job.

Mark my words. He'll work for Bushco.

The man is no Democrat. He does far more damage to the party than if he were a Republican.

How does Secretary of State sound? Powell won't take up a second term as SS.

[Zhade]

22. Miller is enabling traitors.

That makes him our enemy. Not a mere annoyance - an enemy, and against all we and America are supposed to stand for.

Ride that fucker out of Congress on a rail!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

23. Zell has become Bush's...

...punk.

[crazycat911]

24. Ole Zig-Zag Zell

I never trusted him.

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[uhhuh]

27. Do you need intructions on how

to type FreeRepublic into your browser?

[hrhjustin]

28. dben should be removed

[Voltaire99]

29. Revenge of the Dixiecrats!

There's trouble ahead for the Democratic Party if its right wing politicans aren't repudiated and driven to the margins. That means you, Zell Miller, and you, Joe Lieberman.

Quite simply, a party can't sustain a fundamentally moderate-to-liberal base when some of its highest-profile figures are regularly seen hopping into bed with the radically conservative opposition.

The tent is big, indeed. But no tent is big enough for traitors. Unless the Democratic Party leadership is replaced with people savvy enough to recognize as much, there will be further dilution -- and further defeat.

[monobrau]

38. New Dixiecrats

Miller has all but bolted the party to stand with the party that seeks to put minorities and women in their place, and conduct wars against non-christian people all over the globe.
They seek to repeal the advances of the 20th century.
As of today, Miller and the southern scum that follow his example should be forever known and referred to as the "New Dixiecrats".
Lets nail that fucker to the wall and make it stick.

[dusty64]

30. Not at the Democrat's

expense. Can't they boot him out? Seems he is using office space and funds delegated to the Democrats. He really DOES deserved to be removed from the party, is this possible? I never liked him, now I loathe him (turncoat POS!).

[midnight armadillo]

31. CALL HIS OFFICE

257 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510

Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
TDDY: [phone]

Email: http://miller.senate.gov/email.htm

Let him know what he can do with his 30 pieces of silver. :grr:

[SideshowScott]

32. Zell, to my knowlage, has never shown any party loyalty...NONE!

I dont mind outspoken Dems and those on the left to speak thire mind about what they do not like about the Democrats..Thats one of the reasons that makes us great I think..Unlike the Republi-zombies..Who would follow the party line anywhere. But the Dems for the most part have party loyalty..Zell has none, Nada, zip..He is nothing more than a democrat by name only. I think he is one just to make the dems look bad..I really think the DNC should do something about Zell..I dont mind a centerest dem..or a dem that is a bit on the right side like lieberman. ( although DU is a bit hostile twords that. But i dont blame the people here at all. Its quite understandable..Even though i think a good poltician should listen to all americans even though they dont agree..Bush and the rightys that have hijacked the GOP does none of those things..Its war to them. And any voice on the left should be squashed or worse..so i do kinda agree with the not likeing those dems that are a bit to center even though I still would vote for and like them...OK tangent over ) .But Zell is a republican thru and thru..He does nothing but make the dems look bad at every turn..Dare I say WORSE than Nader! Ive said it before and ill say it agian...
ZELL SHOULD SWITCH OR GO..We dont need him!!

[Frodo]

33. I don't think they CAN kick him out and take his committee seats.

If they kick him out of the caucus the Republicans immediately rebalance committees to reflect the new partisan balance. Based on recent rebalancings, I presume that would mean one fewer Democrat on each committee... so , sure... he loses his seat, but we can't replace him, and several other Democrats lose THEIR seats on other committees.

Worse, he takes it as an excuse to go back on his word and switch parties and we've got a "Jeffords" news cycle for a week or two during the primaries.

[midnight armadillo]

34. what they CAN do

is not support his re-election and throw all their resources behind another candidate for the Dem nomination in Georgia.

[Frodo]

35. I don't think that would be very effective.

Since he's already retiring. :-)

And even knowing THAT, we have yet to find a real candidate to even try to "hold on to" (retake really) that seat.

[midnight armadillo]

40. Oh

I didn't know that! Good news :-)

[Ganja Ninja]

36. The should also ban him from the Democratic Convention.

He's a detriment to the party. If he shows up he should not be allowed in. If he gets in he should be forcibly removed.

[CBHagman]

39. What a loser.

Fortunately, he's not the future of our party, as he so ridiculously seems to believe. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[Sparkle]

41. I don't get this guy.

Now if he likes Bush*(ugh!) then that's fine but he should keep that to himself. Does he not realize he looks like some kind of turncoat? He says he will not switch parties but he really should. This just doesn't make any sense. Does the bush cronies have anything on him to make him act this way?

[Timefortruth]

42. The only reason Miller claims to be a Democrat is that he can hurt the

Democratic Party more by staying in it than by switching.

There really isn't more to it than that.

[F-5]

43. He's gotta stop calling himself a Democrat.

A true Democrat will NOT campaign at The Commander in Thief's side. :grr: