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Zell Miller Flip-Flops On John Kerry
In 2001, Miller called Kerry "one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders – and a good friend"

September 2 2004
Counterbias.com
Robert Furs

On the day after Georgia Democratic Senator Zell Miller's fiery condemnation of the Democratic nominee for President, text of a Miller speech containing heavy praise for John Kerry has risen from the archives, ripe with contradictions against Miller's current anti-Kerry rhetoric. 

The praise is contained within a short thirteen-paragraph speech introducing John Kerry at the Democratic Party of Georgia's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner of March 1, 2001.

While John Kerry has been recently labeled as a 'flip-flopper', Miller's angry Republican National Convention speech has been characterized as mean-spirited, personal, and misleading - and the unearthed 2001 comments suggest a major 'flip-flop' on Miller's part.

Amazingly, it's catalogued right on Miller's own official Senate website, still in pristine pro-Kerry form.

While the verbal barrage of harsh criticisms of Senator Kerry took up a large portion of Miller's RNC speech, one would be hard-pressed to find any connection between Zell Miller's opinion of John Kerry on September 1, 2004, and that of his opinion of Kerry on March 1, 2001.

In his introduction of Kerry, Miller called him one of America's "authentic heroes", and one of the Democratic Party's "greatest leaders".

Contrary to current Republican claims that Kerry avoids his senate history due to an absence of accomplishments, Miller stated that during his years in the Senate, Kerry had "fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington."

In the 2001 speech, Miller also called Kerry "a good friend".

My, how friends can turn on each other.

This is the author of a book subtitled The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat?

No such conscience here. Sometime after March 1, 2001, that "conscience" found its way to a place where Miller's Democratic leanings and loyalty to his party lie - a place less likely to be found than Osama bin Laden's whereabouts.

The conscientious view would be that Miller would stick by his initial pronouncements and friendship rather than jump on the Bush bandwagon when it became cool for the self-proclaimed Democrat to do so.

But with a highlight role as a speaker at the Republican Convention, his book, and his fast-paced progression rightward, Miller has done a one-eighty degree turn in his opinion of Senator Kerry. The proof is on his own website, and the venomous words spouted in his recently televised anti-Kerry speech.

From 2001's great leader, hero, and friend, to 2004's "warped way of thinking", a "judgment that has been so sorely lacking", with nobody having "been more wrong, more loudly, more often than the two Senators from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry". Kerry "sounds like an auctioneer selling off our national security", continued Miller, festering in negativity.

Despite praising Kerry's Senate record in the past, Miller's RNC speech claimed that "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", his policies a "bowl of mush" that "encourage our enemies".

From great leader, hero, and friend, to wrong, weak, and wobbly - and an encourager of Al-Qaeda, at that.

All Miller had to do to finish off the charade was to call Kerry a flip-flopper (which he didn't, perhaps somewhat aware of his own flip-flopativity).

The mighty "flip-flopper" mantra placed on Kerry's head by the Republican machinery seems mighty disingenuous when cranking the wheels in collaboration with Zell Miller, a man who flip-flops not only politically, but personally, as judging by the sudden regurgitation of this supposed friendship.

Some "friend".

Even Republicans better beware before budding a relationship - personally or politically - with Zell Miller, Democrat In Name Only (and a conscientious champion of character in self-promotion solely).


source: http://www.counterbias.com/107.html