I understand Zell's POV. What's the story with Koch?

[Southern Patriot]

As a native Georgian who's watched Zell for years, I can understand Miller's extended public temper tantrum: Miller's skin is so thin that it barely contains his bulging ego and inferiority complex. They don't call him Zig-Zag Zell for no reason. He began as campaign manager for racist/populist Dem Gov. Lester Maddox. He supposedly morphed into a "New Dem" and had a pretty successful career in Georgia.

I'm at a loss to understand former Mayor Koch's defection, though.

Can anybody fill me in?

[troublemaker]

1. ISRAEL

[Trajan]

2. The 'Morph' ...

He 'morphed' into a phony democrat ... a rat inside the party ...

That is a rat that should be tossed out of the ship ....

Koch is a Likudnik first: a democrat comes in somewhere behind gadfly and curmudgeon ...

[dennis4868]

3. I also heard through the grapevine that.....

Koch got very mad at Kerry and the dems for not holding their convention in NYC.....very childish!

[Hornito]

4. Koch is a Zionist neocon, and a dual-loyalist. He likes the fact

that Bush employs fellow Likudniks Perle, Wolfowitz, Abrams, Feith, et al. It's all about Israel, all the time.

[DeepModem Mom]

5. My guess, recalling him as mayor, is that the root is love of attention --

Koch really enjoyed the limelight, I think, and enjoys being seen as a "colorful" figure. His support of Bush has brought him some attention, after a long dry spell.

[readmylips]

6. GOP has secret girly-man photos of Koch....

doing Ahhnold.

[michigandem2]

7. he's a fuckin moran

I am paraphrasing from a comment he made yesterday "the only issue we need to think about is terrorism and bush is the man to that job--the other issues don't matter..terrorism trumps everything else"

very annoying...and very stupid

[Cheswick2.0]

8. Israel