Democratic Senator Blasts Kerry at Rally

[redqueen]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040324/ap_on_el_pr/bush_democrats_2

WASHINGTON - The Bush-Cheney campaign Wednesday unleashed its most famous Democratic booster, Georgia Sen. Zell Miller, to make the case that presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) advocates policies inconsistent with some of history's most popular Democratic presidents.

Miller, a Georgian who is the lone Democratic senator to back publicly President Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election bid, criticized Kerry in a speech announcing his leadership of a national "Democrats for Bush" effort. He was joined by a handful of lesser-known Democrats, but the campaign said it would release a more comprehensive list in the coming weeks.

The popular former governor cited the policies of Democratic Presidents John F. Kennedy and Harry S. Truman while contending that Kerry, not Bush, is outside the mainstream on issues ranging from tax cuts to war.

"John F. Kerry has the same initials as John F. Kennedy," Miller said, "but he has a far, far different view of what the government can do to help families prosper. John Kerry's spending and tax plan would stifle our economy and stall our recovery at the worst possible time."

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Wonder what the bushies promised zell.

[Hav]

1. .

Thx, Zell Miller. How kind of you.
Why do Dems support the opposition party?? What kind of shit is that?
It's not like their own party are Nazis or something like that.

Really, I don't want to talk bad about Democrats but I think they should just leave the party or get kicked out.

[TN al]

2. Your last sentence

made me think of Henri Petain (sp?) and the vichy govt dancing to Hitle's tune during ww2.

[xray s]

3. That's it. Somebody take away his key to the Democratic Caucus mensroom.

Let him jerk off in the Republican john from now on.

[Timefortruth]

4. Zell doesn't change his registration so he can cause headlines like that.

And it may fool some people, probably does.

[zulchzulu]

5. WTF

Why in hell's bells does Zell remain a Democrat?

Granted he's resigning and won't run again, but does he really even need to be such a turncoat?

Maybe he's got a gig with the War Profiteering Department at Halliburton if he chirps the Chimpy talk.

[redqueen]

9. That's what I suspect as well

He's been promised something in exchange for helping the dark side to advance their nefarious plans.

[Classical_Liberal]

23. He aparently admitted he was a whore a couple of months ago.

after a meeting with his fundraisers. The dems ought to use those comments in a campaign ad in Georgia right before the elections. Georgia has always been tossup and he is one dem I would like to humiliate.

[lancdem]

6. This is ridiculous

Zell Miller must live on another planet. On every domestic issue, Kerry outpolls Bush. Kerry ain't the one out of the mainstream. Geez.

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[lancdem]

14. He hasn't "jumped ship"

He's still a Dem. If that's the way you feel about Jeffords, then you must despise Sen. Richard Shelby, Sen. Ben Nighthorse-Campbell and Rep. Billy Tauzin, to name a few, because they were Dems who became Repukes while in office. No "honor" there.

[redqueen]

16. lancdem was referring to the public's overwhelming rejection of * policies

Announcement shnannouncement, zell is leaving the party that still has a shred of decency to instead support the all satan-worshipping, all-the-time party (Mannon-worshipping repubs).

:)

[Zynx]

7. The Democrats should kick Zell out now.

It really hurts when the Republicans can claim a long term Democrat is backing Bush. This is treason to the party of the highest order.

[Old and In the Way]

12. I wouldn't.

Not because I agree with his duplicitous positions, but his seat is still (D) and that's one less we have to gain.

[Hav]

13. .

He will resign anyways.

[Zynx]

15. He won't even caucus with the Dems next time anyway.

First, he isn't running, but second, he will vote for the Republican plan for organization.

[lancdem]

8. I suspect that "comprehensive" list of Dems for Bush

won't include anyone we heard of, except maybe Ed Koch.

[ulysses]

10. and if he'd not gone public with his support for Shrub,

DLCers both here and in the real world would still be hailing Zell as the niftiest thing since sliced whitebread.

[redqueen]

17. Most likely, yes

And what does that say about our DLC brethren, praytell? ;)

^5

:yourock:

[ulysses]

18. that policies genuinely don't matter.

The DLC represents the politics of meaninglessness - pragmatism becomes performance art at its most extreme incarnation, the marketing people put in charge of product design.

"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" works as a college basketball slogan, because sports are, essentially, meaningless in the wider world. Not so politics.

[redqueen]

19. Essentially?

I'd have said totally, but don't mind me... I'm just an extremist fringe left-winger. :)

[ulysses]

20. Purist.

;-)

[TN al]

21. I read in another thread

about freepers posing on DU. Am Ibeing paranoid or does there seem to be a freeper thought somewhere in this thread?

[redqueen]

22. You're not paranoid, IMO. n/t

[flpoljunkie]

24. I think we ought to ignore crap like this. Don't give them any ink!

Zell Miller is a disgrace to the Democratic party. We ought to ignore the ignorant DINO!

[chocolateeater]

25. I have one small quibble about your headline.

You should have the word Democratic in quotes. Senator Miller is a "Democrat" after all.