WHAT MILLER SAID

Here’s the quote. Forty years ago, Zell Miller said that Johnson was “a Southerner who sold his birthright for a mess of dark pottage.” It’s a vile, bigoted, evil statement. He has since renounced his remarks. But since Miller also resurrected an ancient and disowned quote from Kerry on the U.N., this record is fair game. The unvarnished truth is that Miller was once a proud bigot toward blacks and, now that that is no longer acceptable, he is a proud bigot toward gays. I’m appalled that the Republican party would use as its keynoter someone who was once a proud segregationist. I’m appalled that decent people like Glenn Reynolds prefer to look the other way. I’m told that doesn’t count by some Republicans because Bill Clinton used the same man – for the same purpose (and before Miller became even more rabid). That’s a defense? You know Republicans are desperate when they use Clinton as a moral exemplar. The objects of Zell Miller’s hatred have shifted; but the spirit is the same. What was once the dark stain of the Democratic party is now being used by Republicans. And it is cheered to the ceiling by people who really should know better.