Just like he did last time around, right? :rofl:

Sorry. I just thought that was funny.

And ya know what? The majority of people being stupid/ignorant/etc, sure, that's definitely the case, but they're reasonably well distributed across both sides that to me it's not so much a factor. The way I see it, for every "down with the man, man" quoting hippie, there's another "bring on them A-rabs" war hawk.

As for Zell Miller, he's right in a sense. There's no longer any such thing as a "conservative Democrat" and if he were to run for reelection then he should hypothetically run on a Republican ticket. The reality of a two-party system is that as time goes by each side will gravitate more towards its base and have less of a continuum of viewpoints represented by that particular brand of politics. Whatever bit of liberalism that Senator Miller engages in, it is no longer enough to really be congruent with the Democratic party.

And yes, he's right that most Democrats view our forces in Iraq as occupiers rather than liberators. He's too caught up in the right wing sensibility that soldiers are somehow better citizens than the rest of us and those whom for whatever reason choose not to serve are less entitled to act counter to right wing views. He can talk about that all he wants with his new Republican buddies, because he's a Republican too. He's been a Republican for the last year or so since he endorsed Bush, and really the fact that he's a "Democrat" giving an anti-Kerry speech holds no more water than if it were any of the other Bushies that he hangs out with in dark bars near Capitol Hill.