Senator Zell Miller, Democrat, Georgia, told it like it is last night. He pulled no punches. He was pissed. He’s been pissed. And last night he let ‘er rip! Some excerpts:
Where is the bipartisanship in this country when we need it most?Well, that ran a little longer than I intended, but once I started to cut & paste I just couldn’t stop myself. Senator Miller’s charges are going to sting because they are true. The Democrats will dispute the charges, but remember, this is a man who has heard their private conversations in the cloakrooms, in the halls, and in the men’s room. He knows what he is talking about. I salute Zell for following The Happy Carpenter’s maxim: The secret to success is having the courage to see the obvious.Now, while young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrat's manic obsession to bring down our Commander in Chief.
What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator.
And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
And, our soldiers don't just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home.
For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.
No one should dare to even think about being the Commander in Chief of this country if he doesn't believe with all his heart that our soldiers are liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home.
But don't waste your breath telling that to the leaders of my party today. In their warped way of thinking America is the problem, not the solution.
It is not their patriotism -- it is their judgment that has been so sorely lacking. They claimed Carter's pacifism would lead to peace.
They were wrong.
They claimed Reagan's defense buildup would lead to war.
They were wrong.
And, no pair has been more wrong, more loudly, more often than the two Senators from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.
Together, Kennedy/Kerry have opposed the very weapons system that won the Cold War and that is now winning the War on Terror.
This is the man who wants to be the Commander in Chief of our U.S. Armed Forces?
*** U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs? ***
Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric.
Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.
Senator Kerry has made it clear that he would use military force only if approved by the United Nations.
Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending.
I want Bush to decide.
I can identify with someone who has lived that line in "Amazing Grace," "Was blind, but now I see," and I like the fact that [Bush is] the same man on Saturday night that he is on Sunday morning.
He is not a slick talker but he is a straight shooter and, where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
Right on, Brother.
*** U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs? ***
*** U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs? ***
*** U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs? ***
*** U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs? ***
*** U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs? ***
*** U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs? ***
*** U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs? ***
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