Andrew Sullivan really hit it on the nose.

Thanks, Nathan, for providing historical context to your viewers. I can only guess why Miller didn't switch parties back in 1964. Any ideas?

But you are a little out of date with your current perspective. You've heard (see DigbysBlog, Hullaballoo, today) that the GOP distanced itself from Miller's convention remarks?

Lott had made his comment about Strom in '48 several times before. What really happened?

Born-Again Bush wsa moving the old Racist Right out, and replacing it with the Religious Right. That's what Frist is, in fact. The new Ambassador to the UN is John "Born Again" Danforth.

Christ is coming, don't you know, and Israel has to be safe! Then they are going to kill, or convert, all the Jews.

And a good time was had by all!

Cheers.

The sight of Zell Miller extolling the virtues
of bloodshed from the pulpit-like podium of the
RNC sends a chill down my spine. The last people
to witness such filth were probably
burning witches at the stake.

Speaking of "providing historical context"--did liberals also excoriate Zell Miller's segregationist past when he was bashing George H.W. Bush in his keynote address for Bill Clinton in 1992 (when that "past" was 12 years less so and arguably even more relevant)? Or is this another liberal double standard?

Did you see Zell Miller excoriating the
democratic platform when our candidates were
two southern baptists? I admit that Zells
appearance at the '92 convention was a shameless
grab at the neo-segregationist vote, but 12
years later our party has finished the job of
alienating them away to the republicans.
Running a liberal from MA for president again
(after the first one got his head blown off)
should show you that we are serious about that.

Ruester wrote: "Running a liberal from MA for president again (after the first one got his head blown off) should show you that we are serious about that."

Michael Dukakis was also a liberal from Massachusetts.

JFK was killed by a Communist, not a Southern segregationist, so I don't see the relevance of the assassination reference.

Yes, but Dukakis was never the president.
Bobby was also killed, and Dukakis
was murdered at the ballot box. There is an
extraordinary history of bad luck for
liberal candidates from MA, don't you agree?
By running John Kerry for president, we are
purposefully flirting with this sort of
dissappointment again, and I think that should
clearly demonstrate our resolve to you.
If that is not enough, then just consider our
intention to run a woman and a black man on our
next ticket.

Hay, Zel is the least of the Democrats problems.
They still have old White Sheets himself from W. VA in the Senate. Mr. Hang those interlopers Byrd makes Zel look like Rosa Parks with his racist, hateful past.

Old White Sheets and Al Gore's daddy fought all they could against the Equal Rights Bill in 1964.
But you leftists always want to forget those little deails.

Just like you forget Ted's little murder in Mass. If a leftist Hate America First Democrat commits a violent crime just sweep it under the White Sheets......

Actually, according to you idiots, us liberals
always want to remember those old little details.
That is why you are tired of hearing it, no?
in the past;
Democrats were dixiecrats who terrorized
african-americans in the south
in the present;
democrats are liberals who make apologies
for those crimes our elders committed.
I guess, to republicans, "apologists" are
actually "flip-floppers" because they flopped
on the issue of racism...

My point is that Zel was a great manin 92 when he was all fired up as the keynote for Clinton.
I guess once old Zel saw the Democrats allow terrorists to murder Americans in Nigeria, Tanzaniz, Saudi Arabia, New York, Yemem and anywhere else they pleased he got a bit pissed. The porbelm is that Clinton & his leftists did nothing. That set the stage for the murderous Islamic attack of 9/11/01
I know that Democrats fought teh Civil Rights bill in 1964, I know that Democrats put the Confererate Flag up in Georgia, North Carolina. We all know that Bill Clinton's mentor was J. William Fullbright the avid racist. We all know about how Al Gore's daddy voted against all Civil Rights legislation.
The problem is that leftists always play the race card. They want to give blacks money and not jobs. They want blacks to be dependant on the gov't and not on their own families. That gets leftists votes.

Give a man a fish- he eats for a day
Teach a man to fish- he eats for a lifetime