Politics: Zell Miller - man w/o a party

The GOP, worried about a convention speech backlash akin to Pat Buchanan's "Culture War" speech in '92, is distancing itself from Zell Miller's keynote address. Miller was moved out of the Bush family box during Bush's acceptance speech for no good reason. John McCain and Laura Bush aren't even quick to validate him, though McCain makes sense, and Laura doesn't, as always.

And besides, Miller has spoken highly of Kerry as recently as March 2001:

My job tonight is an easy one: to present to you one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders – and a good friend. He was once a lieutenant governor – but he didn't stay in that office 16 years, like someone else I know. It just took two years before the people of Massachusetts moved him into the United States Senate in 1984. In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington. Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so. John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment. Business Week magazine named him one of the top pro-technology legislators and made him a member of its "Digital Dozen."John was re-elected in 1990 and again in 1996 – when he defeated popular Republican Governor William Weld in the most closely watched Senate race in the country. John is a graduate of Yale University and was a gunboat officer in the Navy. He received a Silver Star, Bronze Star and three awards of the Purple Heart for combat duty in Vietnam. He later co-founded the Vietnam Veterans of America.

Yup. This guy sounds incompetent and unfit to lead America. I think Zell needs a trip to a neurologist. I'm diagnosing a frontal lobe lesion, Phineas Gage style.