Zell Miller: May Democratic Leaders Get Anger They Deserve

[RUexperienced]

CAMPAIGN 2004

Memo to Terry McAwful
May the Democratic leaders get the anger they deserve.

....(3) Howard Dean is a hard man to feel sorry for, he's just so cocky. But I'm feeling bad for him. He's worked hard to get where he is, including finding an honorable way to raise a lot of money. But there hasn't been a leader since Julius Caesar who's had more conspirators pretending to be his friend--but really wanting him dead--than suddenly Howard Dean has today. They want his Internet contributor list. They want his energy and spontaneity. They want his secret for tapping the young antiwar crowd. So they'll endorse him, pat him on the back with a few "atta boys," and secretly hope he loses.

I'm not sure what Al Gore will contribute. Is he going to advise Mr. Dean to roll down his shirtsleeves and put on a coat, preferably in earth tones? Will he teach him to speak in that stilted highfalutin way? Maybe he'll teach him how to win a Southern state. Like Tennessee.

(4) Now, about that anger. Most Democratic presidential primaries lean liberal, even in the South, and African-Americans play a huge role. In 2004, Democratic voters are going to be angrier than I've seen them since 1972. Like George McGovern in '72, Howard Dean has tapped into that anger. I think regrettably so, not only for the country but also for the party.

As this Park Avenue-born Vermont governor makes his maiden voyage South, with Southern strategist Al Gore beside him, I don't think he has to worry about pickup trucks or "God, guns and glory," as he puts it. Not in the primary, not this trip. But he should be forewarned. These folks are called "Value Voters." They go to church to seek salvation, not argue about bike paths. And they are just waiting to be heard from later. And they will be, loud and clear. And that's when you might hear certain folks really start cussin'.


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But what do you expect from traitor Miller.

LINK HERE http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004508

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Enough is enough!

Zell Miller (Dick Russell's love child) has a problem with Dean being from the Northeast. Well........I have a problem with Miller being a redneck, julip loving Dixiecrat!!!!

:mad:

:kick:

[CMT]

2. well, Zell you are one of the reasons this democrat is angry

because you call yourself a democrat but you vote most of the time with Bush and his crowd. You have even endorsed Bush. What is a Democrat supposed to stand for, Zell? If you hate the party as much as you sound, why don't you do all of us a favor and leave it. At least your pal Ralph Hall had the right idea. Join him.

[eileen from OH]

3. I know why Miller has stayed a Dem

Because that's the ONLY way anyone would pay attention to him, put him on shows to shill his book, or let him write guest editorials.

Think about it - all his views are strictly Repub and would get zero play if he were just another Repub spouting this garbage. It's ONLY because he's a Dem that he gets any notice at all, which is exactly why the self-serving SOB still says he is one.

I hope he is getting seriously shunned by other Dems.

eileen from OH

[Elidor]

4. Link?

[RUexperienced]

5. LINK HERE!!!

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004508

I was so pissed, I forgot it.

[Skinner]

6. Please provide a link for this, or else it is going to be locked.

I am no fan of Zell Miller. But I am a little skeptical that he would use the term "Terry McAwful". Please let us know the source for this excerpt, thanks.

[RUexperienced]

7. Here it is

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004508

[Skinner]

9. Thanks.

That makes him look even worse than I thought he was. He sounds like someone ranting on FR or DU. That's just pathetic.

[RUexperienced]

8. I think the Wall Street Journal

added the headline with "McAwful." IMO I can't imgaine even Miller would use language like that.

[Elidor]

10. The "McAwful" bit is in the body of the piece as well as the headline

Zell has really stooped to new lows with this. It's just kind of stunning...like watching someone succumb to mental illness. Endorsing Bush was bad enough, but slinging public insults like "the rotund reverend?" I'm pretty well speechless. He's losing it.

Edit: I think he's trying to channel Maureen Dowd here.

[KoKo]

11. I thought this was a joke, until I registered for the site, and read that

piece of garbage. He should be thrown bodily out of the Democratic Party. He has no reason to expect to be accepted by even the most Moderate of Democrats. I can't stand Terry MacAuliff but this is absolutely deranged! Not only does he sound like a racist in this article, but to trash legitimate candidates and our former Vice President of Zell's supposed Party, is a sign that he's lost his marbles if he ever had any to begin with.

[Fovea]

12. this anger is not just about

the problematic leadership of the Democratic Party as evinced by the DLC, but also directed at the rightward drift, the stage left entre chat corp de ballet performance of the center right of the party, be they 3rd way or Dixicrat post 911.



It isn't just about the Iraq vote, or PATRIOT all by itself. For this angry Dem, it was the LUDICROUS CREDULITY and PASSIVITY key Dems showed in the face of foreign threat, and domestic administrative criminality in 2000 and 2001. The Bush agenda did not become suddenly and cosmically wrong in March of 2003, it was wrong from the get-go. And it is, was, and will continue to be glaringly obvious from their stated policies that this whole administration is a RICO.

Let's run some scrappy assed Dems in State Races, and start the process of kicking some real butt. Let's offer our citizens the same deal they get in the modern integrated knowledge/industrial economy states...

This crimnal conspiracy masquerading as a government
is trying to drag us back into the 19th century of the Gilded Age.

Let's bring America into the 21st Century.

[jbfam4]

13. Not one reader responds against Zell

Check this out.......do only former dems read the Journal?

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/responses.html?article_id=110004508

[tom_paine]

14. No, WSJ is an organ of State Pravda

You could no more see an anti-Miller (Zell or Dennis) than you could an anti-Brezhnev letter printed in the original Soviet Pravda.

Period.