Zell Miller praises Roy Moore, slams gay marriage, rants about God in govt

[RichV]

Say what you want about Kerry, but thank God he's not Zell Miller...

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0204/13commandments.html

Miller bill would fight Ten Commandments rulings

The Associated Press
Published on: 02/12/04

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Zell Miller, whose fiscal conservative viewpoints have long irked fellow Democrats, revealed a social conservative side Thursday during a wide-ranging floor speech targeting what he calls a "deficit of decency."

The former Georgia governor used the 12-minute speech to endorse a constitutional amendment limiting marriage to between a man and woman and a measure to restrict the ability of federal courts to limit the public acknowledgment of God.

Federal courts could not curb state court rulings that allow an "acknowledgment of God," according to a measure Miller and another senator introduced Thursday as a response to the dispute over a Ten Commandments display in Alabama.

"I think it's a good time to have a debate on it," said Miller. "We'll run it up the flag pole and see how many salute."

<snip>

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[Blue_Tires]

1. zell

please kill yourself...sorry i ever voted for you

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Miller needs to see a psychiatrist not a flag pole

This nitwit is the embodiment of the expression "crackpot"

[LiberalFighter]

54. That flag pole is not being used properly

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. "Rap Crap"??? Let's talk about "Bigot Country Music Crap" Zell!!!

Achtung: Fuhrer Zell has spoken.

:puke:

[bluestateguy]

4. According to the Unreasonable Wing of the Democratic Party...

Zell Miller is indistinguishable from John Kerry. What fools.

[Rationality]

9. Oh?

EDIT: If you read it, disregard everything I said. I didn't read the subject line and misinterpreted it all.

[Guaranteed]

5. I saw this speech on CSPAN today...it was DISGUSTING

I couldn't BELIEVE the garbage I was hearing coming out of his mouth. It was the most right-wing, hateful spew I've heard coming out of ANYONE'S mouth in a LONG time. He sounded worse than Rush, Savage and Santorum put together. It was truly unbelievable.

Anyone who can get ahold of the speech and listen to it or watch it should. It'll blow your mind that anyone, especially a Democrat, could be so ignorant and nasty.

[CO Liberal]

6. I'll Give Zell a Salute

A one-finger salute.

:-)

[TheMightyFavog]

37. Just one finger?

I say give him the ol' double deuce!

[LiberalFighter]

55. Talking about one finger salute

On my way home from work I heard Limbaugh used the phrase "middle finger" at least three times. Wouldn't that be an FCC violation??????

[Rationality]

7. If there was any case against voting straight down the party line...

This guy is it. Why doesn't he just leave? At least Ralph Hall had the decency to leave our damn party when he kept going against us.

[Jesus H. Christ]

8. Ignorant fucker.

And people get mad when we make fun of the south.

[The Blue Knight]

10. This guys is the biggest disgrace to the Democratic party ever.

[Fenris]

24. And that includes the late Strom Thurmond!

[foreigncorrespondent]

60. You can't blame the entire south...

...for the limited few. That is like us foreigners blaming the entire U.S. for Bush* and his band of thugs.

[RowWellandLive]

11. Give the guy some credit

after the Jeffords switch he stayed with the party when his leaving would have handed back control. He stayed loyal when it counted. He also campaigned for Cleland although it didn't help. He's a lame duck so it doesn't really matter what he says now. GA is a lost cause for us with or without Zell. This is a non-issue.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

13. Georgia is part of the confederacy.

What can we really ask for?

[Rationality]

12. Is there a way to have him removed from the party?

The DNC was able to keep Lyndon LaRouche out of recognition, and some past President (was it Franklin Pierce? I can't really remember.) was burned in effigy and basically cast from the Whigs. I know Zell hasn't much time but we should send him the message.

[LiberalFighter]

56. If nothing else he would be persona non grata when attending Dem functions

[truebrit71]

14. Zell Miller needs to fuck off...

What an ignorant puke....:grr:

[Kinkistyle]

15. OUT OF OUR PARTY!

There has GOT to be a way to disown members from our party. If pro-choice, anti-death, anti-gun, tree-hugging, vegan, lesbian social worker decided to run for office on the Republican ticket, I am fairly certain she would be assasinated.

[Desperadoe]

16. Full Text at Salon....."A deficit of decency"

Editor's note: Following is the full text of remarks prepared for delivery on the Senate floor by Zell Miller, D-Ga. The remarks originally appeared on Miller's Web site on Feb. 12.

<snip>Does any responsible adult ever listen to the words of this rap crap? I'd quote you some of it, but the sergeant of arms would throw me out of here, as well he should. And then there was that prancing, dancing, strutting, rutting guy evidently suffering from jock itch because he kept yelling and grabbing his crotch. But then, maybe there's a crotch-grabbing culture I'm unaware of.

But as bad as all this was, the thing that yanked my chain the hardest was seeing that ignoramus with his pointed head stuck up through a hole he had cut in the flag of the United States of America, screaming about having "a bottle of scotch and watching lots of crotch." Think about that.

This is the same flag that we pledge allegiance to. This is the flag that is draped over coffins of dead young uniformed warriors killed while protecting Kid Crock's bony butt. He should be tarred and feathered and ridden out of this country on a rail. Talk about a good reality show, there's one for you.

The desire and will of this Congress to meaningfully do anything about any of these so-called social issues is nonexistent and embarrassingly disgraceful. The American people are waiting and growing impatient with us. They want something done.<snip>

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/02/13/zell/index.html

[Ediacara]

18. Jesus H Christ....

I actually agree with Miller re: Kid Rock...

[damnyankee2601]

40. Musical taste is not a valid voting issue. nt

[Ediacara]

43. well luckily

I'm not in Georgia or I might be forced to vote Republican LOL. I'm not a fan of Kid Rock's music, but I was refering to the Flag suit he wore at the Superbowl. Of all the things that should have gotten people upset, it should have been that, and not the split second nipple view...

[damnyankee2601]

46. Flags are context sensitive.

If you desecrate one as a paid promoter of the NFL/Military Industrial Complex it's called patriotism.

If you desecrate one as a protestor against a crappy president, its called treason.

[gimme a break]

49. We gotta stop the back biting

I personally found the whole half-time show repulsive. I was just glad that Kid Rock didn't throw it to the ground. At least he handed it off.

But, Miller is old time Democrat. He has the Democrat values my parent's hold. My parents (who are Yankees) agree with him on nearly every point.

I now live in the south where family values and patriotism is a big issue. We need to find a way to reach out to the moderates that could be major swing votes. The attitude that "we don't need the south" won't wash. If Gore had carried his own home southern state, FL would have been a non-issue.

If Democrats want to win, they have to be the compassionate party not the mirror image of the Republicans. Fighting against each other is the last thing we should do.

[countmyvote4real]

20. Yeah, we want something done about assholes like Zell and * nt

[EX-CONservative]

63. Ed Anger?

Does Zell Miller moonlight as Ed Anger for the Weekly World News?

They sound alike!

Maybe his wife is Dear Dotti???

[waldenx]

17. Zell is running for VP

he knows Kerry will pick the most right wing Democrat.

[damnyankee2601]

41. Don't be ridiculous.

Kerry wouldn't pick a head case like that.

[HerbieHeadhunter]

19. Exactly what keeps him in our party...

and why can someone in our party not kick him the fuck out and piss on him on the way down.

Seriously, kick him out.

[eileen from OH]

21. I don't believe in HELL, really

but if there IS a hell, and it admits those who have totally fucked their fellow man, I'm guessing that ol' Zell is on the ballot for chairman.

eileen from OH

[damnyankee2601]

42. Hell is real.

It's called Washington DC.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

22. Let's run Zell up a flagpole and see how many salute.

[markus]

39. nevermind

eom

[Fenris]

23. I'm sorry, when did the Confederacy reemerge?

:crazy:
That man's a loon.

"Yes, there's a deficit to be concerned about -- a deficit of decency.So, as the sand empties through my hourglass at warp speed -- and with my time running out in this Senate and on this earth, I feel compelled to speak out. For I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow."

:crazy:That's insane! It's like he put a bunch of awful metaphors (and a great Dylan line) into a blender and hit pureé.


"I'm not talking just about an exposed mammary gland with a pull-tab attached to it," Miller said. "Does any responsible adult ever listen to the words of this rap-crap? I'd quote you some of it, but the sergeant of arms would throw me out of here, as well he should."

:crazy:Pull-tab? How does Miller know the technical term for that?

"And then there was that dancing, prancing, strutting, rutting guy evidently suffering from jock itch because he kept yelling and grabbing his crotch," Miller said. "But then, maybe there's a culture of crotch in this country that I don't know about."

:crazy:OMFG HE JUST SAID CULTURE OF CROTCH! HE'S FUCKING INSANE!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

33. The "Confederacy"?? Look around you...people like Zell exist in...

...every state, not just the South. And these people have been aided and abetted by the NeoCon Junta since they took over in December 2000. Their fanatical religio-cultural beliefs drive everything that they do, to include conducting an illegal and immoral war in the Middle East.

"Insane"? Yes, indeed. What makes it worse is that they are in control and know it.

[LeinesRed]

25. Bu'Bye, Zell

Please take your cracker ass over to the other side of the aisle...Red Rover Red Rover send Chafee, Snow and Collins on over!

[belle]

26. Is he related to Dennis perchance?

Miserable fuckwit; why does he even bother?

[ComerPerro]

27. Man, I watched this on the Senate floor today

And I was fucking pissed off.

Isn't he the same person who, just a few weeks ago, was saying how we are in a war and we can't waste time with squabbling and issues such as setting social agenda?

Fucking asshole

[Spider Jerusalem]

28. I'm reminded of something Thomas Jefferson said.

Patrick Henry (best remembered for saying "give me liberty or give me death") was strongly in favour of establishment of official state-sanctioned religion in Virginia in the 1780's. In a letter to James Madison, Jefferson said (approximate quote) "it seems to me that the best thing we can do is pray devoutly for his death."

[silverpatronus]

65. just posting to say...

that i'm a HUGE transmetropolitan fan. whaddaya think, is bush the smiler or the beast?

[xxqqqzme]

29. there is a huge deficit

of dignity. I believe zell is one the leading examples.

[Jacobin]

The emerging leader of the American Taliban

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[dusty64]

31. This guy is absolutely

loathsome and is the perfect example of whats wrong with Washington. How did so many extremists and "religious" nutcases manage to gather into positions of power anyway, they really are NOT reflective of American. He has gone way over the line and deserves so kind of punishment from the Party, can't they strip him of money and perks that he is sucking off of? I think there may be a backlash against his ravings, he really has lost his mind.

[waterman]

32. Zell Miller needs to just shut his piehole and disappear

[Matilda]

34. I wonder how, and why, he became a Democrat in the first place?

Doesn't make a lot of sense, he really seems to be in the wrong
party altogether.

[RichV]

36. Ah, but a SOUTHERN Democrat

Different breed, particularly when Zell was cutting his teeth as a politico. Remember, Strom, Trent Lott, Phil Gramm, Mac Collins, lots of others were Dems once too. They just had the decency to switch parties.

[JanMichael]

35. What a fruitcake. I wonder when he'll switch over to the AFP?

(the American Falangist Party)...

[bushisanidiot]

38. Zell Want's Cheney's Place Next To Pres. AWOL

that way he can secretly put his hand on his knee during those all nighter "heads of state" meetings.

[kodi]

44. miller makes all cranky old men look worse than they are

zel is still a dixiecrat who appeals to mankind's worst traits.

the patina of southern gentlemenly chivary he shows masks his deeper bigotry and ignorance of the world around him.

[saigon68]

47. patina of southern gentlemenly chivary

Nah--- He's just rotten to the core. These are the fine gentlemen who wrote the laws prohibiting "negroes and caucasians" to marry.

[David__77]

45. Dixiecrat...

He's not much better than Jesse Helms any more. I think history left him behind and, like all reactionaries, he's having a psychiatric problem with regard to the changing world and is desperately clinging to his tattered standard.

[devinsgram]

48. I never realized

they could pile shit that high.

[ProfessorGAC]

50. Zell Miller Praises Judge Who Can't Uphold The Law!

What an idiot! Hey Zell, Moore was sanctioned by his own peers for his inability to rule on and follow the law of this country. That is not a reason to praise. It's a reason to condemn. Look up the difference in the dictionary. They have one in the Library of Congress.
The Professor

[wicket]

51. He should leave the party

He's nothing but an elephant in a donkey suit.

[peterh]

52. OK…all at once****The Constitution is not a popularity contest****

What many, if not all, politicians fail to remember is their oath to uphold the constitution upon entering office….The Constitution is not a popularity contest…it is not to be ignored when one happens to be in disagreement with it….it is the foundation of our Law while the bible is not….

I seem to remember US Civics being a requirement in school back in the 60’s…..are they even teaching it anymore?

[jsw_81]

53. Zell Miller is a disgrace

[KamaAina]

57. Yo Zell! Listen up!

Bush* is not dumping Cheney from the ticket. You;'re wasting all this hot air, not to mention all the good will you ever built up in Ga., for nothing.

Loser!

[David__77]

58. I had not thought of a Bush-Miller ticket.

We should perhaps prepare for that contingency. We would have to eviscerate Miller as a Thurmond-type Dixiecrat to the rest of the nation. It wouldn't be hard with how he sounds these days.

[Zomby Woof]

59. Zell Miller is a uniter!!!!

He is the one "Democrat" that unites us all!!! Need an antidote to the GD2004 Primary flame wars??? We've got Zell in LBN!!! The one who unites us all in loathing and contempt! :D

Zell Miller eats :hurts:

[RichV]

61. Good call

He's a uniter, not a divider ;-)

[oasis]

64. Zig Zag Sellout Zell. (eom)

[mike1963]

62. Just sent this asshole a little note

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/userletter/?id=35871&letter_id=71098151

[Cooley Hurd]

66. Zell must have Alzheimers...

...because these are the rantings of a man with dementia.