I rather distinctly remember my dad laughing at Zell Miller’s line from the keynote speech at the 1992 DNC convention:

And so the choice in this election is clear–we’ve got us a race
between an aristocrat, an autocrat and a Democrat.

Ross Perot withdrew from the race the following day, before rejoining the race seemingly during the RNC Convention.

Zell Miller is speaking at the 2004 Republican Convention, seemingly the most Conservative and straight-forward Republican face that the RNC is going to have speaking during prime-time… going with this line.

One thing I recall about the DNC and RNC conventions: during the week of the DNC convention, the far-flung fourth network FOX (not covering these events– interestingly enough, they broadcasted just few enough hours to avoid the then-curcial and now-probably not “public service mandate” of news coverage) finished an unprecedented third in the ratings race. During the RNC Convention, they finished second.

This was the start of fazing out the network coverage of these un-newsworthy pageants of fliffery.

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