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I think the biggest question isn't if he is changing parties, but when
Making Moderates See Red
More and more, our Democratic chairman, Terry McAuliffe, reminds me of a sub-par golfer desperately in need of a mulligan.
The strength of our party has always been our big tent, but lately our chairman seems to be shrinking that tent to the size of one of those snow-cone cups turned upside down. Well, maybe a little bigger than that, say, a dunce cap.
I'll skip over his naming as the "rural" coordinator of our party a man from Massachusetts, but when he puts out statement after statement, TV ad after TV ad, railing against the tax cut, whom does he think he's hurting? Those 18 moderate Democrats who voted for the tax cut, that's who.
In case he forgot, nine are up for reelection next year. Folks such as Max Cleland, Tim Johnson, Mary Landrieu, Jean Carnahan, Max Baucus and others. Why ridicule them and imply they are dumb and wrong?
And now he labels Liddy Dole a "carpetbagger"? How Hillaryous can you get? Down South, even if we vote against them, we are gracious to women or we suffer the consequences. Remember Clayton Williams's refusal to shake hands with Ann Richards in their 1990 governor's race? Southerners don't like that kind of stuff. New Yorkers must not either, as Rick Lazio found out.
Liddy Dole, as we say down South, was "born and bred" in North Carolina. She is no carpetbagger.
Many people whom I respect tell me that Mr. McAuliffe is a good man. I'm sure he is. But every time he speaks, it still sounds to me like fingernails across a blackboard. And he's making more and more moderates see red -- the color that dominated that 2000 election map.
ZELL MILLER
U.S. Senator (D-Ga.)
Washington
Making Moderates See Red
More and more, our Democratic chairman, Terry McAuliffe, reminds me of a sub-par golfer desperately in need of a mulligan.
The strength of our party has always been our big tent, but lately our chairman seems to be shrinking that tent to the size of one of those snow-cone cups turned upside down. Well, maybe a little bigger than that, say, a dunce cap.
I'll skip over his naming as the "rural" coordinator of our party a man from Massachusetts, but when he puts out statement after statement, TV ad after TV ad, railing against the tax cut, whom does he think he's hurting? Those 18 moderate Democrats who voted for the tax cut, that's who.
In case he forgot, nine are up for reelection next year. Folks such as Max Cleland, Tim Johnson, Mary Landrieu, Jean Carnahan, Max Baucus and others. Why ridicule them and imply they are dumb and wrong?
And now he labels Liddy Dole a "carpetbagger"? How Hillaryous can you get? Down South, even if we vote against them, we are gracious to women or we suffer the consequences. Remember Clayton Williams's refusal to shake hands with Ann Richards in their 1990 governor's race? Southerners don't like that kind of stuff. New Yorkers must not either, as Rick Lazio found out.
Liddy Dole, as we say down South, was "born and bred" in North Carolina. She is no carpetbagger.
Many people whom I respect tell me that Mr. McAuliffe is a good man. I'm sure he is. But every time he speaks, it still sounds to me like fingernails across a blackboard. And he's making more and more moderates see red -- the color that dominated that 2000 election map.
ZELL MILLER
U.S. Senator (D-Ga.)
Washington
