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Originally posted by Cowperson@Sep 3 2004, 01:52 PM
If we were being fair, we would note that reaction from mainstream Republicans to the keynote speaker, Zell Miller, was his comments were "over-the-top," "embarrassing" and filled with "personal hate for John Kerry."
At least that's what I was hearing on the talk shows when I was in the USA earlier in the week. People were kind of rolling their eyes at his comments.
It seemed if they could turn back the clock they would have had him tone it down a bit.
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I don't think this was an Al Sharpton where he just went off script and riffed for 45 minutes. I guarantee his speech was known by convention organizers and party leaders long before Miller unleashed hell on national television. Zell was given the keynote address
because he is a Democrat with personal hate for Kerry.
IMO, Republican efforts to distance themselves from Zell Miller's tirade are perfectly consistant with the way they addressed the Swift Boat attacks -- they let others do their dirty work and once the damage is done they then back away and try to appear innocent and contrite.