Marietta Daily Journal reviews Zell Miller's new book & adopts his opinion of what national Dems must do.
The 5-9-05 Maritta Daily Journal reviews Zell Miller's new book and embraces viewpoint that if the Democratic Party fails to ignore Zell Miller's advice, it will do so at its peril, as follows:
Zell Miller zeroes in on Dem problems
Zell Miller says in the preface of "A Deficit of Decency" that his new book "is about the soul: the soul of our nation, the soul of western civilization, your soul, and my own.
"Unlike preceding generations of Americans, this is the first at risk of not leaving the nation better than did the previous one, he writes.
"I have come to believe the reason is we have failed to acknowledge and discipline ourselves with the spiritual truths that made us great for these 200 years - faith, family, country, values."
After four years in the Senate, monitoring the nation's heartbeat, he says, "I can tell you decency is dying from the inside out." Washington, D.C. now stands for "Washington Doesn't Care."
Democrats, he says, must answer "certain inescapable questions" about the last election if they are to win again.
"Why did the Democrats once again ignore the South and write off one-third of a nation and growing?"
Can they not add well enough to know that if you lose all 11 states of the old Confederacy, it takes 70 percent of everything else to win?"
"Why did the Democrats hire ground troops, poll workers and those who work to get out the votes instead of relying on loyal volunteers?"
"Why does the Democratic Party insist on letting less than 150,000 of the most liberal Democrats - mostly antiwar secularists in Iowa and New Hampshire - choose our candidate who then has to go out and try to appeal to more than 55 million voters all around this diverse country to win?"
Miller cites the election of Howard Dean to head the Democratic National Committee as proof "Nothing is going to change. Nothing!"
Instead, Dean's congressional leaders, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, "will continue to pull the party to the left."
"Another huge mistake some Democrats make over and over is this class warfare rhetoric. Sen. John Edwards built his entire campaign around it."
An issue that is divisive and "threatening to the party's survival," Miller writes, is same-sex marriage. He says it will alienate "the two groups that the Democratic Party can least afford to have divided" - African Americans and Hispanics. Their intensity of opposition "is off the Richter scale," he writes.
One telling example: a huge Atlanta march last December led by black clerics Eddie Long, head of a 25,000-member Baptist church, and Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr.
Miller is certain such "value voters are the key" to victory. Yet Democrats underestimate these voters.
Like him or not, Zell Miller knows whereof he speaks. Here's a born Democrat (who will die a Democrat), an old Marine drill sergeant, former history professor, highly successful politician - mayor, state senator, lieutenant governor, governor and United States senator.
Once again Zell Miller spells out what's wrong with the national Democrats.
If they ignore him once again, they do so at their party's peril - once again.
Zell Miller zeroes in on Dem problems
Zell Miller says in the preface of "A Deficit of Decency" that his new book "is about the soul: the soul of our nation, the soul of western civilization, your soul, and my own.
"Unlike preceding generations of Americans, this is the first at risk of not leaving the nation better than did the previous one, he writes.
"I have come to believe the reason is we have failed to acknowledge and discipline ourselves with the spiritual truths that made us great for these 200 years - faith, family, country, values."
After four years in the Senate, monitoring the nation's heartbeat, he says, "I can tell you decency is dying from the inside out." Washington, D.C. now stands for "Washington Doesn't Care."
Democrats, he says, must answer "certain inescapable questions" about the last election if they are to win again.
"Why did the Democrats once again ignore the South and write off one-third of a nation and growing?"
Can they not add well enough to know that if you lose all 11 states of the old Confederacy, it takes 70 percent of everything else to win?"
"Why did the Democrats hire ground troops, poll workers and those who work to get out the votes instead of relying on loyal volunteers?"
"Why does the Democratic Party insist on letting less than 150,000 of the most liberal Democrats - mostly antiwar secularists in Iowa and New Hampshire - choose our candidate who then has to go out and try to appeal to more than 55 million voters all around this diverse country to win?"
Miller cites the election of Howard Dean to head the Democratic National Committee as proof "Nothing is going to change. Nothing!"
Instead, Dean's congressional leaders, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, "will continue to pull the party to the left."
"Another huge mistake some Democrats make over and over is this class warfare rhetoric. Sen. John Edwards built his entire campaign around it."
An issue that is divisive and "threatening to the party's survival," Miller writes, is same-sex marriage. He says it will alienate "the two groups that the Democratic Party can least afford to have divided" - African Americans and Hispanics. Their intensity of opposition "is off the Richter scale," he writes.
One telling example: a huge Atlanta march last December led by black clerics Eddie Long, head of a 25,000-member Baptist church, and Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr.
Miller is certain such "value voters are the key" to victory. Yet Democrats underestimate these voters.
Like him or not, Zell Miller knows whereof he speaks. Here's a born Democrat (who will die a Democrat), an old Marine drill sergeant, former history professor, highly successful politician - mayor, state senator, lieutenant governor, governor and United States senator.
Once again Zell Miller spells out what's wrong with the national Democrats.
If they ignore him once again, they do so at their party's peril - once again.
posted by Sid Cottingham | 5:22 AM
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