the Democrat republicans love to love (Zell Miller)

[Cocoa]

http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-et-barabak9jun09,1,6575776.story?coll=la-home-style

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WASHINGTON — Zell Miller is telling a tale, a parable about a mountaineer, his new bride and their stubborn mule.

The silver-haired senator from Georgia is seated in his office on Capitol Hill, amid small shrines to Mickey Mantle and the U.S. Marine Corps, wearing a charcoal gray suit and shiny black cowboy boots. He has made it his mission lately to torment the Democratic Party, his lifelong political home, and verbally torture John F. Kerry, the party's presumptive presidential nominee.

The tale involves a balky mule being hit with a 2-by-4 and ends with the mountaineer threatening his young wife with the same. As Miller grins, having made his point about asserting one's self, he steals a glance at his chief of staff, a young woman sitting a deferential distance away.

It seems a small concession to the notion that, just maybe, in this age, among a certain set, joking about spousal abuse may not be the most politic thing, funny as the story is. But then the 72-year-old Miller is retiring at the end of his term early next year, and if there are any bridges left standing, it is not for lack of incendiary effort.


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[billbuckhead]

1. Zell is a cautionary tale.

About what, I'm not sure.

[Canuckistanian]

2. What is Zell's problem?

He's due to retire, he could have a nice reception party with his constituents and he seems to go out of his way to endorse Bush.

Not only that, but he's jumping onto the wrong ship. I don't see many other converts to the new Bush religion.

[Manix]

3. ...a pathetic, bitter, old man......good riddance!

[ecoalex]

4. Zell

Needs to climb further up shrub's butt.What is it with these "good ole boys" ? It seems the South is another demention (pun ).