BLAZEr Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 God Bless the great State of Georgia, and its sensical and clear thinking senator Zel Miller: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Publ...03/309nqnas.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Yes, Georgia sure is a wonderful state, along with Sen. Zell Miller! :D Makes me proud to be a Georgia native! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellenita Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Will he have to change political parties? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PedroX Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 He won't have to change parties, and I pray that he doesn't. We need more good Democrats, almost as much as we need good Republicans. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLAZEr Posted October 30, 2003 Author Share Posted October 30, 2003 No Zell, it seems, will be the National Spokesperson of "Democrats for Bush" those coalitions are pretty common out West. In New Mexico we have "Democrats for Pete" Domenici is our Republican (kinda RINO) Senator. In Texas, they had Dems for Bush all along his Governorship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.SIGGA Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 All this prolife victory stuff that I never thought would happen in my lifetime is going to make me a DEM for Bush if I don't watch out :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellenita Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 OK, now I'm really confused! Senators can support a person in the other political party for president? MPs in the UK would be hounded out of the party if they did that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLAZEr Posted October 30, 2003 Author Share Posted October 30, 2003 Yeah its very different here. Zel Miller is a Conservative Democrat. He very rarely lines up with his party (He's pro-life, they're pro-death, He's for lowering taxes, they're for more social spending) . . . and even though he is remaining a Democrat (around here political Party is like religion, you are what your parents were) he is choosing to endorse Bush. Now, his party won't like it and they will call him all kinds of names, but he doesn't care . . . he's from Georgia (they love him there) and he retires next year from the Senate . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP2Iloveyou Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 Zell Miller is a good man. I have always been a Zel fan. Pete Domenici isn't really a RINO. He's pretty conservative. You want to talk RINOs in the Senate, look at Lincoln Chafee, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter, and Peter Fitzgerald (although he at least is pro-life, to bad he's retiring.) Looking ahead to 2004 Senate races, Republicans will probably pick up three seats IMO. Georgia and South Carolina are near certain pick-ups. North Carolina is also likely, although the democrats can run Erskine Bowles again. If John Breaux retires in Louisianna, that's another probably GOP pick-up. Democrats are also vulnerable in California, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nevada, and Arkansas. Indianna and Florida are POSSIBLE republican pick-ups, but Bob Graham and Evan Bayh are pretty popular. Vermont, New York, Connecticut, and Maryland are safe for the democrats. The only vulnerable seats held by republicans right now are in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma, although if J.C. Watts runs in Oklahoma, it is a done deal. Pay attention to the Mississippi governor's race on Tuesday. It will tell quite a bit about public sentiment heading into the primaries. This is great time for political junkies like me! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP2Iloveyou Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 OK, now I'm really confused! Senators can support a person in the other political party for president? MPs in the UK would be hounded out of the party if they did that! party affiliation is much looser here. Due to the fact that we are a two party system as opposed to the many different parties that win seats in the British parliament, American political parties must have a "bigger tent" so to speak. In many ways though, Zel Miller really is a republican in democrat's clothing. It goes both ways though. I can think of about six republicans off the top of my head that should be democrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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