Zell Miller Speech at the RNC
I have grown to be a fan of retiring Senator Zell Miller. He speaks his mind, and votes his heart. I don’t agree with Zell on all issues, but we share alot in common.
Tonight Senator Miller pretty much carpet-bombed Senator John Kerry. I can’t think of any issue he didn’t touch in his sixteen minute long speech. He touched on everything. Kerry’s anti-war rhetoric. His voting record. His shifting stance on the Iraq war. Here is a link to the text of the speech. Classic quotes:
“The clear answer to that question has placed me in this hall with you tonight. For my family is more important than my party.”
“For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.”
“This is the man who wants to be the commander in chief of our U.S. armed forces? U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs?”
“Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric.”
“Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today’s Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator … No one should dare to even think about being the commander in chief of this country if he doesn’t believe with all his heart that our soldiers are liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home.”
He said Democrats “don’t believe there is any real danger in the world except that which America brings upon itself through our clumsy and misguided foreign policy.” Direct shot at Michael Moore.
I was mesmerized. Southern politicians are classic orators. Even Clinton had the silver tongue, and I pretty much believe his Southern upbringing was the reason for it.
So far, each night has had great speeches. John McCain. Arnold. And now Zell. I almost wish I was a Republican. But then again, as Zell said, some issues trump party politics.
We are at war. There are people in the world who want to see my family ground into dust. I’m sorry, I will not let that happen – which is why come November, I will cast my vote for the man who will best protect my wife and children. As Zell Miller said tonight, John Kerry wants to outsource our protection to Paris and the UN. And George W. Bush will not let that happen.
