Miller Eviscerates Kerry
Quite a damnation of John Kerry by Zell Miller. Miller spoke almost exclusively about national security, saying "My family is more important than my party."
If you missed the speech, I strongly recommend watching it on c-span.org. A few choice quotes:
Miller clearly looked like a man who took this "betrayal" by the Democratic party very deeply and very personally. A man who will not seek another term in office, he was completely free to say what he felt. Cynics will say he's a turncoat trying to sell books. What does he need more money for at his age and station in life? No, I think Zell bit his tongue for eight years under Clinton, and like anyone else who's got nothing to lose and a longstanding grievance, he speaks passionately, freely, and sincerely.
It will be spun away as "going negative" or Miller just being "mean-spirited", but I don't think the networks or the Democrats will be able to touch any of the substance of his speech, for to quote him will damn Kerry.
If you missed the speech, I strongly recommend watching it on c-span.org. A few choice quotes:
[Wendell Wilke] made it clear he would rather lose the election [in 1940] than make national security a partisan campaign issue.This one really got the crowd going:
Where are such statesmen today? Where is the bipartisanship in this country when we need it most?
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see us as an occupier, not a liberator, and nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.A timely reminder:
It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.And he drew a stark contrast: Kerry is "more weak, more wrong, and more wobbly than any other national figure," while George Bush has "a good heart and a spine of tempered steel."
Miller clearly looked like a man who took this "betrayal" by the Democratic party very deeply and very personally. A man who will not seek another term in office, he was completely free to say what he felt. Cynics will say he's a turncoat trying to sell books. What does he need more money for at his age and station in life? No, I think Zell bit his tongue for eight years under Clinton, and like anyone else who's got nothing to lose and a longstanding grievance, he speaks passionately, freely, and sincerely.
It will be spun away as "going negative" or Miller just being "mean-spirited", but I don't think the networks or the Democrats will be able to touch any of the substance of his speech, for to quote him will damn Kerry.