Have you seen the "Sonny did" commercial?

[Boredtodeath]

You know whose voice is heard on that commercial?

None other than Zell Miller!!!!!!!!!

on edit - link added
Gov. Sonny Perdue launched a $2 million ad campaign across Georgia on Monday, to match a series of kick-off rallies across the state.

But the big news is who’s narrating the 30-second spot: Former governor and U.S. senator Zell Miller, the alleged Democrat who still owns the most distinctive voice in Southern politics.

The same Zell under whom Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor served as floor leader in the state Senate. The same Zell who can give Perdue all the cover he needs when it comes to Democratic accusation that the Republican governor is soft on the lottery and the HOPE scholarship.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/politicalinsider/entries/2006/05/01/big_news_guess_what_zell_did.html

[Up2Late]

1. I haven't seen or heard it yet, but I heard about it.

I have know idea what could have happened to Zell to make him change so much (since when he was Governor).

Maybe he got kicked in the head by a Mule or, more likely, he was brain-washed in the basement dungeons of K-Street. :crazy:

[Boredtodeath]

2. What amazes me is

the man still has a D by his name. Not even a censure.

[RubyDuby in GA]

3. I've seen it. Did you happen to notice it's paid for by the RNC?

If the state party or the DNC doesn't run it's own counter ad of Sonny Did..., then they are idiots. Something like: Not all of Georgia's Governors lied to the people they were supposed to represent....Sonny Did!!
Not all of Georgia's Governors tried to cut HOPE Scholarship....Sonny Did!! Not all of Georgia's Governors cut access to Peachcare....Sonny Did. <-taken from a post by MelB on www.blogfordemocracy.org: http://www.blogfordemocracy.org/archives/2006/05/zell_miller_len.html#comments

[doni_georgia]

14. Don' t forget - Not all GA governors nearly bankrupted public education

Sonny did! I don't know a single teacher that will vote for him. He can shove his promised 4% raise. He's hung us out to dry since getting elected!

[gademocrat7]

15. I agree.

He has done nothing to help educators. I think that commercial is disgusting.

[CottonBear]

4. I heard it but I didn't see it. I knew it was Zell right away,

I was getting ready for work and heard the TV ad from the other room.

It made me sick. I voted for Zell for governor. Look at himm now. I suppose he was just pretending to be a progressive while, all along, he was nothing more than a Dixiecrat.

[Hippo_Tron]

5. I still can't believe what Zell Miller has become

Read this stuff from his keynote at the 1992 Democratic National Convention. You can't make this shit up. The guy once embodied everything that the democratic party stands for.

This week we are gathered here to nominate a man from a
remote, rural corner of Arkansas to be president of the United
States of America.
That is powerful proof that the American dream still
lives... at least in the Democratic Party.
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.
You see, I understand why Bill Clinton is so eager to see
the American dream kept alive for a new generation.
Because I, too, was a product of that dream.
I was born during the worst of the Depression on a cold
winter's day in the drafty bedroom of a rented house, and I was
my parent's hope for the future.
Franklin Roosevelt was elected that year, and would soon
replace generations of neglect with a whirlwind of activity,
bringing to our little valley a very welcome supply of God's
most precious commodity - hope.
My father, a teacher, died when I was two weeks old,
leaving a young widow with two small children.
But with my mother's faith in God - and Mr. Roosevelt's
voice on the radio - we kept going.
After my father's death, my mother with her own hands
cleared a small piece of rugged land.
Every day she waded into a neighbor's cold mountain creek,
carrying out thousands of smooth stones to build a house.
I grew up watching my mother complete that house from the
rocks she'd lifted from the creek and cement she mixed in a
wheelbarrow - cement that today still bears her hand prints.
Her son bears her hand prints, too.
She pressed her pride and her hopes and her dreams deep
into my soul.
So, you see, I know what Dan Quayle means when he says it's
best for children to have two parents.
You bet it is!
And it would be nice for them to have trust funds, too.
But we can't all be born rich, handsome and lucky ... and
that's why we have a Democratic Party.
My family would still be isolated and destitute if we had
not had FDR's Democratic brand of government.
I made it because Franklin Delano Roosevelt energized this
nation.
I made it because Harry Truman fought for working families
like mine.
I made it because John Kennedy's rising tide lifted even
our tiny boat.
I made it because Lyndon Johnson showed America that people
who were born poor didn't have to die poor.
And I made it because a man with whom I served in the
Georgia Senate - a man named Jimmy Carter - brought honesty and
decency and integrity to public service.

[napi21]

6. YES! I saw the damn thing TWICE already!

For those who haven't seen it, it begins with Perdue's BABY PICTURE!

I also knew it was Zell as soon as I heard the first words! I was reading Bush on the Couch" and the sound of that voice made me look up at the TV!

I detest the idea of the ad, but I must admit, for Sonny, it's a well put together ad, and will help his election unless a good opposite ad is run by the Dems REALLY QUICK!

[RubyDuby in GA]

7. Exactly

If they don't want a counter Sonny Did... ad soon, there will be no point to counter it at all. There is plenty of material to go on. See my previous post. But then again...that would require the state party to have it's act together. We're doomed.

[napi21]

8. Yea, I know. The Dem Party in Gainesville has been doing better

this year though, than in the past. I don't know if that's a refelction on the whole State or not, but at least Gainesville, or North Ga., is getting more active!

[wyldwolf]

9. The tragic thing about that is...

... Mark Taylor served under Zell and they were political allies.

[Boredtodeath]

10. The same is true

for Cathy Cox.

You point would be what?

[Boredtodeath]

11. Andre Walker will introduce resolution to expel Zell

That being said, my problem with Zell Miller now lies in the fact that he has turned his back on the Georgia Democratic Party, and I don't understand why because he knows both Cathy Cox and Mark Taylor personally, and he knows that they are good Georgia Democrats. Yet, he decides to endorse a Governor who, as a State Senator, fought tooth and nail to defeat the HOPE Scholarship Program; a program that he is singularly most identified with for instituting.

It makes absolutely no sense to me.

So, at the Georgia Democratic State Convention, I'm going to ask for a vote on the following resolution formally severing ties between the Democratic Party of Georgia and Zell Miller. I know for a fact that I've got the votes to adopt this resolution; all I have to do is ask for them:

A Resolution

Condemning the Ongoing Actions of Zell Miller against the Democratic Party; Expelling Zell Miller from the Democratic Party of Georgia; and for other purposes.

http://georgiaunfiltered.blogspot.com/2006/05/get-zell-out-of-here.html

[napi21]

12. Go for it! If I can help you in any way, just let me know!

I really wonder if we'll ever find out what happened to Zell? I know it doesn't matter, but I'D like to know.

[RedTail Wolf]

13. Why Dems in this state are not pounding Elmer Fudd

is beyond me. It's like the Repukes took over and the Dem party just folded up the tent and went away. I am sick of Saxby, Perdue(Elmer Fudd), the whole lot of em. I HOPE the state Dem party has some sort of plan, so far I have not sen it nor heard anything about it. I want the Dems to run GA again! When I write to the state party I don't even get an e-mail response. The Dem party in GA is MIA!