{"id":2407,"date":"2004-08-25T09:56:28","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T14:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2407.html"},"modified":"2004-08-25T09:56:28","modified_gmt":"2004-08-25T14:56:28","slug":"zell-miller-wants-everyone-to-know-what-a-good-democrat-he-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/zell-miller-wants-everyone-to-know-what-a-good-democrat-he-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Zell Miller wants everyone to know what a good Democrat he is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a trivial point, but I found it amusing. Zell &#8220;Turncoat&#8221; Miller seems to be <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/Politics\/ap20040824_1334.html\">a tad defensive<\/a> right now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democratic Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia has a message for critics who contend he is a longtime closet Republican. When he casts a vote for President Bush in November, it will be his first for a Republican in 52 years as a voter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have never voted for a Republican in my life,&#8221; Miller told The Associated Press on Tuesday. &#8220;I have supported every Democratic campaign since 1952.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two quick things. One, no accuses Miller of being a &#8220;closet&#8221; Republican, we accuse him of being an out-in-the-open Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Two, Miller&#8217;s comments help highlight the fact that the Republicans have chosen for this year&#8217;s keynote speaker at the GOP convention a man who voted for Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale over Reagan, Michael Dukakis over Bush pere, and Al Gore over George W. The GOP&#8217;s keynote speaker also <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.usnewswire.com\/GetRelease.asp?id=134-03242004\">described John Kerry<\/a> as &#8220;one of the nation&#8217;s authentic heroes,&#8221; a &#8220;great leader,&#8221; and a man who &#8220;has worked to strengthen our military.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Great choice, guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a trivial point, but I found it amusing. Zell &#8220;Turncoat&#8221; Miller seems to be a tad defensive right now. Democratic Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia has a message for critics who contend he is a longtime closet Republican. When he casts a vote for President Bush in November, it will be his first for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}