[TonyB06]

Originally posted by Steeltrap
Andrew Sullivan, conservative blogger, rips Zig-Zag Zell a new one:

THE MILLER MOMENT: Zell Miller's address will, I think, go down as a critical moment in this campaign, and maybe in the history of the Republican party. I kept thinking of the contrast with the Democrats' keynote speaker, Barack Obama, a post-racial, smiling, expansive young American, speaking about national unity and uplift. Then you see Zell Miller, his face rigid with anger, his eyes blazing with years of frustration as his Dixiecrat vision became slowly eclipsed among the Democrats. Remember who this man is: once a proud supporter of racial segregation, a man who lambasted LBJ for selling his soul to the negroes. His speech tonight was in this vein, a classic Dixiecrat speech, jammed with bald lies, straw men, and hateful rhetoric. As an immigrant to this country and as someone who has been to many Southern states and enjoyed astonishing hospitality and warmth and sophistication, I long dismissed some of the Northern stereotypes about the South. But Miller did his best to revive them. The man's speech was not merely crude; it added whole universes to the word crude.

I saw excerpts of Miller's speech (dude, try de-caf). Just 3 years ago he was propping Kerry during his Senate race vs. Weld. ...so wtf? I view quasi-party switchers (which I consider Miller) with a high degree of suspicion anyway.

the D/R propaganda conventions are now safely put away, so it's on to the debates....