Deja Vu - Zell Miller,

Deja Vu - Zell Miller, on the similarities between 1972 and today, at least for Democrats.

The world threat at that time was communism, not terrorism, and this highly ambitious group of senators was sailing the ship and tacking hard to the left. Mr. McGovern tacked the quickest and the furthest to the left, and, with the help of his brilliant campaign manager, Gary Hart, captured the antiwar crowd. Then, for all practical purposes, Mr. McGovern nailed down the nomination by defeating Hubert Humphrey in California with the help of Shirley MacLaine.

Today, the names have changed: The South Dakotan is Daschle, the manager is MacAuliffe, and the actor is Martin Sheen or Alec Baldwin or Cher or...

But the story, says Miller, is playing the same.

Posted by Mitch at October 4, 2002 02:30 PM