[Scape]

Can someone explain this?

Ok so you go on national TV and accuse the leader of your own party of defending the nation with spitballs and have the gall to think your not going to be called on it. WTF?? Of couse this is the guy who said this about kerry in 2001...

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"My job tonight is an easy one: to present to you one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders -- and a good friend. He was once a lieutenant governor -- but he didn't stay in that office 16 years, like someone else I know. It just took two years before the people of Massachusetts moved him into the United States Senate in 1984. -- U.S. Senator Zell Miller

"In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington. Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so. John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment.” -- U.S. Senator Zell Miller [Remarks to the Democratic Party of Georgia Jefferson Jackson Dinner 2001]

Can someone explain why the media hasn't torn this guy a new asshole like they did to Howard Dean?

[aquariusPEI]

Also, The 'spitball' spending bill Zell Miller was referring to was actually a request by Cheney when he was secretary of defense.
Bush Sr supported similar cuts.
The US media is in sorry shape.

[sk1d]

I always find it so funny when the right wing nuts go absolutely nuts when someone challenges their policies, especially bill oriely and denis miller. They always take it so personally and then start yelling and screaming the same nonsense as if that's going to make the other person agree with them.

[aquariusPEI]

They are playing to their demographic, the narrow minded, suspicious of differences and scared.
Neither have enough talent to make it in the mainstream IMO.
Newt Gingrich set the tone back in the early nineties.
The crap he got away with back then encouraged others to follow suit.

[Zenfisher]

I think that Zell is merely an opportunist, whom is deeply entrenched in Southern conservatism. He used the Democratic party and Clinton's popularity to get himself into the senate. I am quite sure if Kerry was from the South that this event would have never happened.

[sk1d]

hopefully the democrats will drop this guy from their party otherwise the voters of that state will have to vote to vote for a right wing nut or a right wing nut that says he isn't one.

but then again it's not like htere's that much difference between the parties anyways

[xerxes]

Yeah, you'd think the Democrats would kick this nut out of the party already. I know they have party whips in the US parties. At the very least the Democrats need to encourage this guy to go back on his meds.

Did anyone see Zell on Hardball with Chris Matthews? He actually challenges one of his talking points and Zell challenges him to a duel!

[MissNomer]

Am I the only one who thought he looked like a raving zealot? I mean, c'mon the vitriol spewing forth could've been bottled and passed off as Iraq's WMD. Dontcha think?

[Scape]

xerxes xerxes:

Did anyone see Zell on Hardball with Chris Matthews? He actually challenges one of his talking points and Zell challenges him to a duel!

Um, that's what the link at the very start of this thread is to. Zell is old school democrat, he is a good benchmark of just how far the parties have changed their fundamental positions and yet are still the parties of the corporate elites. Sad, the only constant is money.

[DMP08]

xerxes xerxes:

Did anyone see Zell on Hardball with Chris Matthews? He actually challenges one of his talking points and Zell challenges him to a duel!

I saw the clips of it when I was watching The Daily Show With John Stuart. It was so funny. I may have to save that video from the top just beacause its hilarity!

[aquariusPEI]

sk1d sk1d:

hopefully the democrats will drop this guy from their party otherwise the voters of that state will have to vote to vote for a right wing nut or a right wing nut

He's not running for re-election sk1d.