Vitriolic
…hateful…nasty…rage…. These are the words we have been seeing
and hearing in the media ever since the speech by Senator Zell
Miller of Georgia during the Republican National Convention last
week.
Dear Editor,
Vitriolic…hateful…nasty…rage…. These are the words we have been seeing and hearing in the media ever since the speech by Senator Zell Miller of Georgia during the Republican National Convention last week.
Terry McAuliffe, head of the Democratic National Committee, has been out front virtually seeing red over the “hate” coming out of the Republican convention. But before his Republican-bashing goes too far, Mr. McAuliffe needs to stop and ask this question, “At whom is Senator Miller’s rage directed?”
The answer is… Terry McAuliffe’s own Democrat Party. Senator Miller, a lifelong Democrat was addressing the candidate and policies of his own party when he named his RNC speech. “I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of American to fight for freedom over tyranny.”
He went on to say, “Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today’s Democratic leaders see American as an occupier, not as a liberator…. Tell that to the one-half of Europe that was freed because Franklin Roosevelt lead an army of liberators, not occupiers.”
It was not many years ago that Democrat Senator Henry Jackson of Washington led Congress in support of a bipartisan policy of strong national defense. The intensity of Mr. Miller’s speech would seem to be based not on spite or hate, but rather on a sense of betrayal by his lifelong political party.
To put it in immediate terms, where does a strong-defense, pro-life, family value Democrat go within his own party? What policies and which Democrat leaders champion those values? Yet those values were central to the Democrat political calculus for many decades.
No, Mr. McAuliffe, your anger at the Republicans is misdirected: Zell Miller and other traditional Democrat voters like him around the country have simply no place in the small weak-defense/pro-abortion tent that is the present Democrat Party.
Al Kelsch, Hollister
