Zell Up - Reader PZ

Zell Up - Reader PZ wrote me the other day to note Zell Miller's crossover endorsement of President Bush. I've been way too busy to give the story its due this week.

Fortunately, Commissioner Hugh is on the case. He links to this proudly confessional piece by Roger L. Simon

: Let me begin by saying that there is not a great deal of domestic policy about which I agree with George Bush...Still, if the election were held today, like Georgia Democratic Senator Zell Miller, I would vote for George W. Bush without a second’s hesitation. That’s how bad I think the Democrats are on foreign policy, by far the most important issue of our day.

True!

And, according to Simon, not emphatic enough:

I will go further. They are one of the sleaziest collections of low-down opportunists I have ever seen on one stage together short of that crowd of tobacco executives who testified “No, sirree, I didn’t know that nicotine was addictive.” These dudes and one dudette (Mosely-Braun) are downright dangerous. (Okay, Lieberman can be sane, but he doesn’t seem to have a chance in that bizarre atmosphere). And here’s why I think they’re dangerous—they’re acting like we’re still in Vietnam when we’re in a real war of civilizations. We’re on the right side this time. Haven't they seen the videotapes of Baathists chopping their own countrymens' heads off and pushing them off roofs? Haven't they seen the unmarked graves of children? What’s going on with these people? Do they think suicide bombers driving into the Red Cross are pacifist Buddhist monks?

Read the whole piece. It's not only fantastic - I think it's the tip of an iceberg that's going to sink the Democratic Titanic as the Nine Dwarves frantically move the deck chairs to the left...(WARNING: EXCESSIVELY STRETCHY METAPHOR. METAPHOR ABORTED) it's a warning to the Dems; Howard Dean is going to send half of this nation's moderate, responsible Dems, the holdovers of the Scoop Jackson faction - maybe even the part of the Clinton faction that supported Clinton's relative moderation - gingerly over to the Bush side next fall.

Posted by Mitch at October 31, 2003 08:03 AM