Zell Kicked Out of Presidential Box

[wyethwire]

DNC PRESS RELEASE

New York City - Tonight, NBC reported that a senior Bush Campaign adviser had said that Zell Miller spoke not for the party but rather for himself when he delivered his growling keynote attack last night. Then it was reported that Zell Miller, who was previously on the list of guests sitting in the President's box during the Convention, was no longer on the list.

DNC Convention Response Team Spokesman Matt Bennett said in a statement:

"Hmmm. What a difference a day of witheringly bad reviews – and a challenge to a duel – can make." Bennett continued: "Is this a zig or a zag? Either way, the Republicans are fleeing from the storm caused by their keynote speaker."

Miller Spoke For Himself...
"Some Republicans thought Miller's remarks went too far. One senior Bush campaign aide today told NBC news, 'Senator Miller spoke on behalf of himself.'"


...Is Not Exactly the Same Message We Had Seen Before:

"I'm sure glad Zell Miller's on our side." - Dick Cheney


'He will give them the message that it's perfectly acceptable and respectable to vote for Bush,' said Charles Black, a Republican strategist with close ties to the White House."



MAD AS HELL ZELL: REPUBLICAN KEYNOTER ALREADY BEING SHUNNED

ZIG: Zell IN President’s Box During Convention
Initial List of Distinguished guests in the President and First Lady's box will include:

The Honorable Andrew Card and the Reverend Kathleene Card
The Honorable Dr. Condoleezza Rice
Senator Zell Miller and Mrs. Shirley Miller
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Mrs. Karyn Frist
U.S. Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert Mrs. Jean Hastert
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Governor George Pataki and Mrs. Libby Pataki
Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams
Michael W. Smith (musical performer for the evening) and Mrs. Debbie Smith
General Tommy Franks (U.S. Army, Ret.) and Mrs. Cathy Franks



ZAG: Zell OUT Of President’s Box

UPDATED: List of the President’s Distinguished Guests

The Honorable Andrew Card and the Reverend Kathleene Card
The Honorable Condoleezza Rice
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Mrs. Karyn Frist
U.S. Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert and Mrs. Jean Hastert
Governor George Pataki and Mrs. Libby Pataki
General Tommy Franks (U.S. Army, Ret.) and Mrs. Cathy Franks RNC Chairman Ed
Gillespie and Mrs. Cathy Gillespie, Bush-Cheney\'04 \"W Stands for Women\"
Coordinator Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams and Mrs. Donna Williams
Michael W. Smith (musical performer for the evening) and Mrs. Debbie Smith
Nancy Brinker, Former U.S. ambassador to Hungary and founder of the Susan G. Komen
Breast Cancer Foundation and Race for the Cure

[physioex]

1. Link please....

Zell has outlived his usefulness....And is no longer needed...

[kanrok]

2. Zell's been tossed aside like the used condom he is.

[susanna]

20. Now THAT'S an analogy.

I would never have thought of it LOL. :-)

[kanrok]

29. Susanna, of course you wouldn't have thought of this analogy

I'm a pig, and you're a lady. But you do show a remarkable sense of humor.

[mbperrin]

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[candy331]

4. The man who betrayed Jesus (Judas Iscariot)went off and hung himself

well Zell...well

[DemoTex]

17. Hmmm.. I've got all this ski-rope here. I'll give Zell just enough to .. .

To ...................

[City Lights]

5. The zell stands alone.

No one wants him. Guess ol' zell shouldda had his "friends" sign one a them loyalty oaths before agreeing to hoore for them. Hey zell, go cheney yourself.

[kysrsoze]

50. Uhhh...not really. I was watching interviews with Orrin Hatch, Delay, etc

every one of them said they though Miller's speech was outstanding. They said he said exactly the right things and were happy for what he said. This was AFTER the Hardball incident, which basically got no press except for Olbermann's show.

[onehandle]

6. Link!? nt

[Doosh]

7. lol

[Sugarbleus]

8. If you've been able to listen to ALL the representatives to this

convention, you will see a total flip flop, zig zag, on every issue. This party is ALL OVER THE MAP. They don't agree with each other MORE than WE don't agree with each other. It's insane.

I've been watching C-span Washington Journal... the guests they've had, from the RIGHT, kept shooting the "platform" rhetoric in the proverbial foot--by holding to completely different ideals than the previous RW guests...:crazy:

[Pretty_in_CodePink]

47. Who could listen to ALL the representatives?

If you did you must have a cast iron stomach. If you were able to listen to even most of it you are a true patriot!

[leftofthedial]

9. yet another repuke flip flop

zell--used and discarded

[pinkpops]

10. Portrait of Zell as a dirty sock

[TroubleMan]

11. I think I'll defer my comment to Nelson of the Simpsons:

HA HA!!

[russian33]

12. the founder of Susan G. Komen Found. is a repub? that's a shame

[Zan_of_Texas]

28. Susan G. Komen Foundation founder -- yes, Bigtime R.

She and her husband are big-time donors to the Rs.

[burrowowl]

31. I know of breast cancer survivors

who really dislike the foundation. They do whore for drug companies and never touch subjects like environmental causes, etc. Its like Ronald McDonald rapes the earth, but many say he sets of houses for parents to stay with their children at concer hospitals. Feel good PR and tax deductions for them.

[sadiesworld]

49. Damn, this IS a disappointment.

Komen is on my list of regular charity donations. Are you aware of another breast cancer group with more palatable politics?

[Crachet2004]

13. They can't disown Zell, he was their KEYNOTE SPEAKER!!!

And they should be reminded of this, at every opportunity. Zell speaks for THEM.

[jburton]

14. Cheap whores get no respect, huh?

nt

[UpInArms]

15. I wonder if they left a $1 on his nightstand

'cuz he's just a cheap whore.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

16. Zell MIller is the Republican Party!

"Heil Miller"!!!

:puke:

[AlCzervik]

18. I hope the rnc left him money on the nightstand.

[Just Me]

19. He most likely got an "advance".

The man behaved as though he needed to be in a heavily padded room and on anti-psychotic meds. He was completely unreal.

[Wabbajack]

21. Reverend Kathleene Card?

Cards wife is a minister of some kind? A fudie?

[Desperadoe]

22. Man did they screw up

Now I'm starting to wonder if old Zell didn't just put the screws to these ol' boys.

I know it sounds insane but there is no way that the Pukes ever expected him to go postal during the "Keynote Address". This was defiantly NOT their agenda. That whole deal last night was just a little too screwy to have been the game plan. He made a gigantic ass of the Republican Party in front of the entire nation. It's not just the he came off as insane, he also made them look totally nuts for having him there.

[mom cat]

34. Come on now. The speech was vetted. The Repukes wanted him

to do the dirty work. The vitriolic outburst was red meat for the hate mongers in the base. Now * can look "moderate" in comparison, but they managed to get their hate message out. They used Zell like toilet paper and then flushed. :hurts:. It was just like the Slime Boat liars. * gets the bounce while looking as if he is above it all.

[lapfog_1]

23. So much for his book deal

Once the Repukes are done with him... that's it. No #1 bestseller
because nobody (not even Scaife) will bulk order it to make it
hit the charts. Oh well. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy (NOT!).

[EST]

24. And to think-

just one little joint, a half hour before he spoke...
He'd be laughing along with us!

[praeclarus]

25. well half of you beat me to it but....

... the first thing that came to mind when I read
this was I wonder if the old bastard is feeling like
a cheap ho today.

Now where's the turncoat gonna go? Nader party?

Stupid bastard. ha ha ha!

[belle]

41. Perot, maybe; seems to me they have a LOT in common...

[PurityOfEssence]

26. Hey Zell! How's it feel to be Paula Jones?

They've used you, and now you're an embarrassment. How do you like your new friends now?

[Dhalgren]

33. Yeah! Next month he'll be on celeb boxing!

But who will his opponent be? Hmmm...Tweety?

[PaDUer]

27. Rumor in Scranton, PA is that....

Zell Miller will be speaking at the LaItalian Festival this weekend in Scranton, PA..The repukes will have a Bush-Cheney table set up..

[primavera]

30. People have always been ready to use traitors...

...but they never trust them - and with good reason.

[Spiffarino]

32. How did Zell not see this coming?

Bush has always betrayed people who have helped him gain and regain power, most especially Democrats. It's most likely a character trait he has always possessed. How could Zell Miller not know?

Oh yeah...because he's a fucking idiot.

[SideshowScott]

35. Bush Poltics 101: get someone to do dirtywork, then flush him down.

I really dont know what the motivation is to be a Bush henchman but its something that has been happening over and over..Now Zell got dirty for Bush, Bush does not want the stink to be near him. Rove/Bush Poltics at its most basic folks..
I dont feel sorry for Zell. Now he has nothing. He betrayed his party and the GOP are distancing themselves from him. He should have known this would happen but went ahead anyway.
Bye Zell and never forget you did it to yourself. No self respecting Democrat wants anything to do with you and the GOP used you then kicked you to the curb
Bye!

[The_Casual_Observer]

36. They hand the guy a speech that was cribbed from a rw spam

email and push him out on stage to read it. They even supply him with a fact sheet in case somebody asks him. He is such a rube cracker that he goes along with it because they actually have him believing that they will take care of him and his inbred family later on financially. He does the speech and then goes nuts on the interviews afterwords and we never see his sorry ass again.

[Seabiscuit]

37. I saw his sorry ass again...

on the Daily Show tonight. The comedy routine was hilarious - the routine was encaptioned: "Zell on Earth".

[The_Casual_Observer]

38. Jeeez you had me going there

I thought....he couldn't....

[Rex]

39. ZELL WHO?

Karma is sweet!

[Dr Fate]

40. A man with no friends. Sad.

He used to be a good DEM he cared about Georgia, it seemed. Then he stabbed us all in the back-but I feel sorry for him in a way-he seems like he has gone nuts or somthing...

[Swamp Rat]

42. Out of the President's Box or out of a pod?

[radfringe]

43. ummmm...if Zell was just speaking for himself

then why was he a big featured speaker at the RNC?

Does this mean Guilliani and Ahhh-rnold and Keyes and Cheney and bush* were also speaking for themselves?

Funny - when the feces impacts upon rotating blades - bush* inc. suddenly disavows connections but does not condemn

[kayell]

44. Zelll sold his soul to the republican devil

and predictibly enough, as repukes, they cheated him out of his pay. Of course it was a bad deal all around, as Zell didn't have a soul to sell to begin with.

[0007]

45. This was beyond all expectations.

This was indeed real spicy entertainment. I still can't keep from laughing, the picture in my mind of this man Zell and his words just won't go away. Just when I thought I couldn't laugh anymore, Zell comes out with a declaration of having a dual if the present day law would permit. I'll never forget the look on his face when he made that statement.

[Khephra]

46. I wouldn't get too excited yet

Pro-Bush Democrat Miller Booked with TV Interviews

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=798126&mesg_id=798126

[Tight_rope]

48. Now they could have the democratic whore in the box with them could they!

[cthrumatrix]

51. he was used, and he wanted to do it.... any $$$ involved ?

you have to wonder why the repugs hate people soo much...they had to have saw the speech

[RamboLiberal]

52. I think they're going to be hiding Zell - He went off on another reporter

Yesterday, the firebrand Miller - who is brazenly defying his political party to support George W. Bush - fell silent when I asked him if he's still mad at Matthews.

"I'm thinking about how to answer that," the senator said as he rushed around the floor of Madison Square Garden giving television interviews, at one point angrily ripping into a television reporter who accidently jostled a Miller admirer.
In due course, Miller told me: "I think it was an uncalled-for discourse. I found it pretty obnoxious, as when he attacked Michelle Malkin so unfairly. That's all I have to say about that."

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/228456p-196193c.html

[yelladawg]

53. Oh Boo Hoo

I feel so sad for Zell.

NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fleshdancer]

54. The republicans are done with him now.

they got what they wanted and now they don't need him. If he's lucky, Zell will get a few more vanity interviews from Hannity or Rush's radio show, but that's it. He's done.

[saigon68]

55. Put a fork in him

he's done