Zell Miller and a Half
Like it or not, he does make for an interesting election year story. Having his name indexed in my blogoroll, the split is pretty even between Republicans who think he’s the bee’s knees and Democrats who think he’s slime.
If you want to catch him discussing politics, well… there’s about a 1 in 3 chance that Zell Miller is on today’s Sean Hannity’s show (either his tv show or his radio show).
He helped make Bill Clinton. He moved the Georgia primary up before the 1992 primary battles, seemingly for the sole purpose of helping Clinton get some momentum for the Super Tuesday states. I guess his paltry reward was the keynote speech at the DNC Convention … Which, we’ll get to compare with his 2004 RNC Convention speech. (Not sure when Kid Rock performs.)
I guess I should read his book to see if I can gain any sympathetic understanding of his political path from moderate Democrat to Conservative Democrat to Right-Wing Zealot. Considering my puzzlement over some of his statements: (while this one has some vague logic to it this one just makes no sense at all.
… This blogger points out some Zell Miller self-aware symbolism: his Senate website has a photograph of Miller next to two yellow dogs. Twice the potency, I suppose.
It’s up to Cooter from Dukes of Hazard to sort out Zell Miller…
Forget everything, though.
In case you’re looking for a reason to vote for Kerry, and not simply against Bush, here it is:
“What people need to understand is that this is just a moment in time. This is just one election,” Miller said. “And after the Kerry defeat, I’m going to be around to put this party back together again.”
Forget the “Republican Lite” that Dean gained traction campaigning against, I’m not terribly interested in seeing Zell Miller create the party into his own image — Republican Heavy, if you will…