NEW YORK -- Maybe John Kerry should take it as a compliment. George W. Bush and his gang have decided that the only way they can hold on to power is to throw so much dirt at Kerry that he ends up looking like Pigpen. In the process, they are painting the Democratic Party as a collection of lily-livered, America-hating, French-loving, defense-destroying, United Nations-kowtowing girlie men.
Oh, yes, and the Bush boys are also calling for bipartisanship and national unity.
As one Democrat put it, the "Republicans have dealt in cynicism and skepticism" and "mastered the art of division and diversion."
The Democrat who spoke those words happens to be Zell Miller. That would be the old Zell Miller, from his keynote speech to the 1992 Democratic National Convention -- a speech, by the way, that was infinitely less harsh than Miller's performance on Wednesday. It's impressive that Miller has proved to be such a fast learner in the folkways of the crowd he's now running with. Miller will proudly stand as the man who gave one of the most vicious and demagogic convention speeches in the television age. From Miller's speech, you could assume that the Democrats had nominated Saddam Hussein from his jail cell.
How else to explain the stuff Miller just made up? "Today's Democratic leaders," he said, "see America as an occupier, not a liberator." Excuse me, but which Democratic leader is he talking about?
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