A look at Zell Miller
You may remember Senator Miller from his speech at the Republican National Convention.
He also put forth a lot of his thoughts in this book: "
A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat"
This book was first published in October 2003
Yesterday's
colum by Rich Lowry talks about Zell Miller and puts out some interesting ideas:
Rich opens up talking about Zell's book and then looks at the Democratic Party of today:
bq. Many of the things that Miller said in his book have now become nearly conventional wisdom among Democratic loyalists. All the Democrats who now say that the party has foolishly given up on the South, that it is unable to connect with religious voters, that it is too beholden to liberal orthodoxy on social issues, that Americans don't trust it on national defense, and that it doesn't speak the language of most Americans should take a deep breath and repeat after me: "Zell Miller was right."
bq. This turnabout is extraordinary given the kind of criticisms that were lodged at Miller last year, especially after he amplified the arguments in his book in a humdinger of a speech at the Republican National Convention. An AFL-CIO official said Miller had "lost his damn mind." James Carville said Miller was being "cynically manipulated by people who are greedy to hold on to power at any cost." Well, Miller appears, in light of events, to have been the shrewdest cynically manipulated lunatic in all of human history.
Heh... Very well put.
Posted by DaveH at January 15, 2005 3:38 PM