Zell Miller is a Southern Conservative Democrat who has lost his way. As Governor of Georgia he became known as "Give'm Hell Zell" for standing up and fighting for his Southern Conservative Democratic views. In Washington, he has lost the will to fight within his party and does not understand that the Bush Administration is the greatest danger to the very views he had fought for all his political life.
The belief that George W. Bush should just be anointed president without opposition is an interesting view. Those who espouse this view are supporting the candidate that lost the 2000 election popular vote by almost a million votes. But it's not an unusual stand for Bush supporters. In the 2000 Republican primary, that same view was held when Bush was fighting fellow Republican John McCain. And as memory tells, to say the Bush team went negative, is an understatement.
Some say challenging this president is unpatriotic, but not challenging him is undemocratic. Standing up for what you believe in is freedom and it's our freedom the terrorists hate.
This president must be challenged at every turn because he has failed us. He talks of job creation when he has the greatest jobs deficit since Hoover. He has cut taxes on the wealthiest Americans jeopardizing the next generation with deficit spending. He has shifted our focus in the war on terror from those who attacked us to Iraq and a personal vendetta. He led us to war on false pretenses of weapons of mass destruction and direct involvement in terror against us. He builds up the notion of an almost non-existent coalition while over 700 of our young people in uniform have died in a country that for the most part doesn't want us there. He tries to hide behind the flag and the Bible, but there are those that see through him. Neither the flag nor the Bible he holds belongs to him as he would claim. They belong to all of us.
This election season will likely be one of the most difficult in our history if early rhetoric is any indicator. Popular conservative radio personality, G. Gordon Liddy, recently was explaining how John Kerry and the Democrats are trying to overthrow our government. Since when is running for elected office in a free land considered a coupe attempt! It makes me wonder just how in jeopardy our freedom really is and from who is it in jeopardy.
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