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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 09:20 PM
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Bush backers like converted Democrat's zeal
...On a frenzied two-day, five-state campaign swing, Bush won applause each time he mentioned Miller to approving crowds of Republican supporters, who had apparently feasted on the Democrat's red-meat rhetoric.


"You heard Zell Miller the other night. He represents a lot of folks who understand that, with four more years, Dick Cheney (news - web sites) and I will make this country safer, stronger and better," he said here, drawing calls of "Go Zell!"
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But Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman said the president endorsed everything Miller said in his speech and evidently enjoyed the senator's apparent popularity among Republicans far from his home state of Georgia.


"I talked to Zell this morning and I said to him 'you could run for mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, or Milwaukee, Wisconsin,'" Mehlman told reporters. "He said he's not interested."


The accusation that Democrats are undermining the war on terrorism by criticizing Bush pleased Jacobson, who charged that Kerry is "working for the enemy" or is "being manipulated by the enemy."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20040905/pl_afp/us_vote_bush_miller
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FlaIndie Donating Member (266 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 09:22 PM
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1. Go zell?
More like "go to hell!"

He will be a national joke for the rest of his days now. Nobody will consider him a moderate, just a loonie.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 09:24 PM
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2. Zeal?
What's that?
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C_eh_N_eh_D_eh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 09:32 PM
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3. Charismatic drive and energy.
Edited on Sat Sep-04-04 09:33 PM by C_eh_N_eh_D_eh
As in "overzealous" or zealot"

Which, to be fair, is precisely what the ironically named Zell Miller has. He simply chooses to use it for evil.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 09:47 PM
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8. Whoops... forgot this:
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 09:35 PM
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4. If he switched he wouldn't be "special" anymore
He'd be just another one like them.
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rfkrocks Donating Member (846 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 09:35 PM
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5. Zell Miller is mentally unbalanced
and the GOP picked him for "keynote speaker". I think we will find that Zell has been suffering from illness which explai8n his incredibly erratic behavior-there is no excuse for the GOP's erratic behavior-it is what they do best
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alcuno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 09:37 PM
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6. Mayor of Cedar Rapids?
Is that a comment on Zell's political viability?
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 09:40 PM
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7. Notice that they don't say that he is still part of the campaign
Of course chimp agrees with zell, they wrote the speech for him.
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