Re: I'm Watching Zell Miller

My friend Paul, a former Democrat, writes:

Last night's speech was riveting television; a REAL reality show. Only 15 minutes in length, but people in political circles will be talking about that one for years to come.

What he talked about last night covered the reasons that I'm no longer a Democrat. He didn't leave the party; the party left him, much the same way that it left me. The party of FDR, JFK, Truman that he was speaking about — that was the party my grandparents and parents grew up with and supported all their lives, and taught me to support. That party doesn't exist anymore. Oh, there is a Democratic Party, to be sure, but they might as well just rename it the Communist Party and be done with it. What kind of political party has no place at their podium for people like Zell Miller and Joe Leiberman, viewing them as if they were hard-line conservatives?

Maybe it's about time that ol' Zell decides to make his party affiliation match what's obviously in his heart. I did....

That speech may have been red meat for the attendees at the convention, but they were the secondary audience; it was really a clarion call to rank-and-file Democrats that they need to perform some serious examination of the direction in which their party is headed and its leaders, or face the real possibility of a future where the Democratic Party is one day relegated to minor-party status or even extinction.

P.S. Margaret also writes:

Zell is my new hero — that is what a serious Marine sounds like! Thank God, and I do, that the conservatives in this country are finally letting loose with the unvarnished truth. I was afraid I'd die before hearing it. The "newsies" weren't able to distort the speeches; they had to listen to every painful word, and cringe that it was their candidate being dissected....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 09/02/04 05:59:31 PM
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