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burr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 12:36 AM
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Senator Says His Party Out of Touch....
<http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0903/05miller.html>

offers insanity as a reason for his book.

His claim, he was really a moderate all along. Just look at Carter and Clinton, they backed shrub's taxcuts and his decision to drill in Alaska. And damnit, it is time for the party to go south. Comprenda?

We aren't going to win the White House anymore, or even Congress...time to face facts. Just back your prez, do the goosestep, and everything will be loosygoosy.

From the AJC...
"According to Shirley & Banister Public Affairs, which is handling publicity for Miller about the book, the senator outlines in it his perception that the Democratic Party is no longer tapped into the concerns and hopes of Americans.

Miller, a former governor of Georgia, will question in the book whether the Democratic Party can field a successful presidential candidate in the future, according to Shirley & Banister.

Miller also will evaluate the campaigns of the last two Democratic presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, and outline positions on abortion, welfare, gun control, the environment, education, immigration and national security that he believes are more in line with how Americans feel."
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pruner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 12:39 AM
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1. destined to become a NY Times Best Seller (+)
n/t
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burr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 12:48 AM
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4. No kidding....
Edited on Fri Sep-05-03 12:51 AM by burr
every neocon will read it during the 2004 convention. Maybe Zell's dream is to be shrub's keynote speaker, the Mario Cuomo of the Republican Party! :9
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MiltonLeBerle Donating Member (956 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 12:41 AM
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2. I agree with ol' Zell-
His party, the republiklan party is out of touch with American society.
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ibegurpard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 01:11 AM
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9. Hey, you stole my response!
:spank: :P
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ButterflyBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 12:43 AM
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3. He pisses me off even more every time he opens his mouth
good riddance in 2004.
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pruner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 12:49 AM
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5. Zell would be the perfect running mate for Lieberman
n/t
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ButterflyBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 12:50 AM
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6. That's Nader's dream ticket
how much of the vote would he get then?
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 12:53 AM
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7. Zell could use some Cliff Notes
on the 21st Century.
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 02:46 AM
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15. Great line!
I will steal it! :)

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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 12:54 AM
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8. Yeah, especially since he's so beloved everywhere,
popular, respected, sought after.

Sure, makes sense to me, Senator Turncoat.

Eloriel
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 01:14 AM
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10. I have to wonder...
... how he gets to work in the morning, given that hermetic bubble he seems to be living in....

Zell Miller a moderate? Oh, right, I see--it's political _humor_....
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burr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 01:27 AM
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11. insanity is a state of mind...
Edited on Fri Sep-05-03 01:29 AM by burr
the insane view themselves as sane and everyone else as insane, the neocons view themselves as compassionate or moderate while seeing their opponents and the supporters as unpatriotic radicals who are a growing threat to America.
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moondust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 01:30 AM
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12. The DINO Party?
Zell, the real Democrats won the most recent Presidential election and the two prior to that. When did you take up fiction writing?
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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 01:31 AM
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13. Zell Miller's economic policies have done nothing but screw over the south
My opinion: 'I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished,' and Zell Miller and only Zell Miller can go to hell.
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Democat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 02:33 AM
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14. With friends like him, who needs enemies?
He's trying to destroy us from within.
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 02:47 AM
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16. He must be a friend of the DLC.
Aka PNAC-lite.

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Voltaire99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 03:09 AM
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17. Proving Nader's point
Good ol' Zell: like Lieberman, or Breaux, or indeed like nearly all the prominent DLC Dems he rather nicely illustrates Nader's point about the vanishing difference between the two parties.

If the Democrats want to be relevant again, it would not be an unwise thing for the party to drive these unprincipled scum to the margins.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 04:18 AM
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18. Zig Zag Zell can go straight to hell.
Edited on Fri Sep-05-03 04:23 AM by oasis
:mad: Zell is surpassed only by Tony Blair in kissing Chimpy's ass.
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dusty64 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 07:02 AM
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19. This guy really is
over the top repig. I rarely call for someone leaving the Democratic party, but miller needs to go (he is blatantly undermining them). I desperately hope a REAL Democrat wins his seat to shut him up permanently.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 07:38 AM
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20. So it comes out just in time to... throw eggs into the democratic primary?
Great timing Zell, have to wonder if it is intentional... to sell books? Or something more... ?
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burr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 11:38 AM
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26. Is Zell the 21st century Einstein?
Edited on Fri Sep-05-03 11:56 AM by burr
"Today National Democratic leaders look south and say, `I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell.' "

The reason Zell really voted for shrub's taxcuts, he was against them! He wanted to give the public a taste of what they would really do to our nation, and to the next generation. He wanted to show what tormenting the uninsured and workers not in unions would do to the south. And he hoped to demonstrate the stupidity of drilling in Alaska by supporting this.

Finally he hopes to show America the dangers of tyranny by giving us a one-party plutocracy. Isn't Zell brillant? :wow:
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 08:06 AM
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21. Zell obviously longs for the days of Old Georgia...
...the one that existed prior to the Civil War. Women had little or no say about anything except running the household, minorities were kept fully-employed 24/7 against their will, and the term "yankee" described anyone from lands immediately to the north of the Georgia border.
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dawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 08:11 AM
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22. Aaaaaarghhhh! I voted for that prick! n/t
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 08:15 AM
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23. if what Miller says is true (but I hope it is not)
then I am no longer living in America, but in 'Murikkka, and need to move ASAP.

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xJlM Donating Member (955 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 10:03 AM
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24. Who cares what Zell Miller says?
Other DINOs? I wouldn't waste my time reading this drivel...
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John_H Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 11:14 AM
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25. We should have kicked his ass out a year and a half ago
Can you imagine the field day the whores are going to have with this book? "INSIDER TELLS ALL" He's going to be portrayed not as the self-absorbed, disloyal, Dick Russell wannabe fart that he is, but as a bold hero standing up to the out-of-touch-Dems who, unlike him, do not venerate our fearless leader.

If we'd have kicked him out right after he did that photo op w/ chimpy, we would have robbed chimpy of saying every one of his hairbrained initiatives is "bipartisan" because Miller supports it, put other wannabe Repubes on notice that party loyalty is still alive, and made his "book"j ust another screed by a disgruntled ex-employee.
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truebrit71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 11:39 AM
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27. Sorry but this goober was a sorry excuse for a Dem
..I concur with the sentiment that this republican-lite fool should have been deep-sixed by the party a long friggin' time ago...

But then that would require the DNC/DLC to grow a pair of balls and a spine...

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