Zell Miller’s speech at the convention was near the high point of the political season for me, as he said so many things about Sen. Flopsy that needed to be said but haven’t been said out of courtesy. Miller’s somebody that a lot of conservative Democrats and Southerners in general can relate to, because he’s a symbol of the traditional Democratic Party values that the party has abandoned – classical liberalism, muscular foreign policy, defense of liberty, and individualism.
His appearance on party hack Chris Matthews’ (he’s a former staffer to Tip O’Neill) show was lively and entertaining. He made Matthews shut up so he could answer a couple of questions without Matthews talking over him as he does to most of his guests. Matthews does this so much that I’ve quit watching his show, but I saw the clip linked from the Matthews pseudo-blog. Wonders of the Internet.
Why is Chris Matthews on TV? His network’s convention ratings are in the toilet:
Fox News — 5.2 million
NBC — 5.1 million
CBS — 4.4 million
ABC — 4.3 million
MSNBC — 1.6 million
CNN — 1.5 million
… probably because people are so tired of the spin.
“Zell Miller?s speech at the convention was near the high point of the political season for me, as he said so many things about Sen. Flopsy that needed to be said but haven?t been said out of courtesy.”
Zel Miller doesn’t get that George W. Bush is our employee. He’s not “our” commander and chief- he is only that of the armed services.
“Miller?s somebody that a lot of conservative Democrats and Southerners in general can relate to, because he?s a symbol of the traditional Democratic Party values that the party has abandoned …”
LOL! You got that right. I guess you don’t quite know your Georgia history, do you…