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| Currently Reading: "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat" |
| 11.07.04 (4:06 pm) [edit] |
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So, I got to get out of this one-horse-that-laid-down town for a weekend and went to the bookstore in my hometown. I got to see all the new stuff they (Books-A-Million) had. I saw a few things I liked: The Conservative Guide to Liberal Lies, The I Hate Republicans Reader, a Bill Clinton talking doll... all this was far overshadowed by one part of my experience. There happened to be ONE copy of Zell Miller's book left. ONE COPY! Needless to say, I snatched it up and am currently on page 12. I tend to be agreeing with what he is talking about. He also uses statistics in a very familiar way. He states his case much like the opening speech in a debate. Zell is quite convincing in his argument that the Democrat Party has lost the Southern vote. Good Ole Zell makes his case using statistics such as the fact that in Hubert Humphrey in 1976 carried Texas only because of Lyndon Johnson. Also, he made the case that the only Southern state Jimmy Carter in his reelection bid was his home state of Georgia. That 3 separate election years have seen NO Southern states carried by a Democrat. That Al Gore lost HIS OWN STATE, lost Clinton's state, and even lost big time Democrat bulwark West Virginia. Zell makes my case for me: the Democrat party no longer has the Southern vote and it is time the Democrat party woke up and did what it should. He made mention to when JFK and LBJ passed the budget in 1963, they did so with tax cuts across the board, including the top bracket. Zell Miller was voted the most popular governor in history by a leading magazine and left office with an 85% approval rating. What did Zell do? Well, he established the HOPE Scholarship, set up the Georgia Head Start program, and also provided the catalyst for many other educational reforms. How? By cutting taxes AND spending. See, there is a way to do that. Zell downsized government personnel, cut frivoulous spending from Georgia's budget, and cut taxes across the board. But hey, let's think about what people want. Obviously, they want morality and tax cuts. Conservative Democrats are definitely for morality, but realize that gays should be given equal access. How can one person sit and cuss and smoke and drink (destroying his/her temple of God) and then start to tell homosexuals how to live their lives. People that do that need to begin worrying about their OWN spiritual destinies rather than trying to tell a person who loves another person of the same sex that they can't love that person, that it isn't right, and that they cannot have access to their partners in emergencies, have access to inheritances, or even get insurance. Homosexuals are considered "high-risk" candidates for insurance. That in and of itself is horrible. I know a chain smoking 57 year old who is also an avid alcoholic who got a $10, 000 life insurance policy and a non-smoking, non-drinking 45 year old homosexual male who was denied 4 times in 4 days. This nation needs to change; Zell has the right idea of how we can change.
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