Zell Freaking Miller!

OK, I don’t normally do the two-lines-and-a-link thing. But this is too important not to.

Go watch Sen. Zell Miller (D-GA)’s keynote at the Republican National Convention. It takes about 16 minutes. If you’re at work, go home to do it, unless your office allows you to stand up and cheer in the middle of the workday.

After that — but only after — you can read the transcript, or read Allah and his commenters’ takes as they watched the entire evening’s telecast.

I’m incapable of intelligent analysis of this one, at least for a few hours. Simply incredible.

2 September 2004 / 2 Comments / Tags: politics

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Wow, I feel dumber having read that. “This election will change forever the course of history, and that’s not any history. It’s our family’s history.” Do you hear that? IT’S OUR FAMILY’S HISTORY!!!

“As a Senator, he voted to weaken our military. And nothing shows that more sadly and more clearly than his vote this year to deny protective armor for our troops in harms way, far-away.”

Obviously voting against a spending bill means he wants to weaken our military. And being against the military means he’s un-American an anti-freedom. And you don’t want someone who’s anti-freedom in the white house, do you??

Alex Kalita on September 2nd, 2004 at 2:39 am

Alex, did you watch the speech before reading it like I said to? The power is in the delivery — all the family stuff reads poorly on paper, but it’s emotional setup for the killshots.

Kerry has pushed hard to make this election about his 4 months in Vietnam and how that supposedly makes him uber-qualified on national security issues, basically ignoring everything he’s done since then. Miller absolutely eviscerated him for trying to vote down EVERY major weapons system of the past 20 years. It’s probably a play for the few remaining Southern Democrats as well as the blue-collar Midwestern Dems, who stick to the party more for union reasons than anything else, but are generally very pro-military. And it’s really the first time that Kerry’s legislative record has come up for discussion, since he has tried hard to bury the fact that he votes more reliably liberal than Ted Kennedy.

It probably won’t play well in the blue states out West (WA/OR/CA/NM) (it’s, like, so harsh, man), but that’s not who it was aimed at. The goal here was to make sure Edwards doesn’t steal NC, shore up TN, AR, WV and VA, and push hard in PA, OH, MI, WI and MO. And if it helps in FL and CO, that’s a bonus.

Josh on September 2nd, 2004 at 9:06 am

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