Politics is politics and the language sometimes gets harsh. But enough is enough! And when people start trying to drag the name of Andrew Jackson down into the Republican mud, that's way more than too much!
I've said before that I keep an little bust of the General on my desk. Whenever someone suggests a comparison between him and today's Halliburton Republican's, his eyes glow red. After seeing this, he's about to go into total meltdown:
I'm not particularly a fan of Jackson (partly because of my Cherokee ancestry, but more because of, well, who he was). But, you know, the Democrats are supposed to be the party of Jackson. Zell Miller delivered that ... (From Instapundit.)
Zell Miller "Jacksonian"? Please. I think I'm gonna heave. I managed to get through last evening with no overt physical symptoms. But now I need some Pepto-Bismol.
If somebody can find the story for me of how Old Hickory went over to Vienna and put on a little hat with floppy points on it with bells on the tips and played the court jester for Kaiser Franz II, then I'll grant that there might be some similarity between Andy Jackson and Zell Miller's clown-act tomfoolery Wednesday night.
I'm telling you... Dick Cheney is a scary guy. But when Andy Jackson comes ripping his way out of his grave to put an end to this kind of nonsense, Darth Vader Cheney is going to be running for his "undisclosed location" faster than you can say "no-bid contract for Halliburton."
The still-with-us Hesiod sarcastically agreed: "I actually agree. That speech did sound like it was written in the 1820's."
My Andy Jackson bust is willing to give Hesiod a bit of a break on that one. Only one eye glowed red at that. Look, the two predominant Southern political opponents of Jackson's presidency were Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun. Zell Miller could be seen a buffoon version of one of those two. Not the Andy Jackson one.
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What's scary is watching Zig Zag Zell actually bring a tear to a delegate's eyes as Zig Zag Zell is preaching fire and brimstone! What's even more scarier is reading a Republican blog and having some of these people truly believe that Zell is a prophet from God, Dick Cheney is an apostle, and George Bush is going to lead them to the rapture. That's what's scary.
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That *is* scary. It's probably not too useful to speculate on the state of mind of public personalities like that. But Zell seems to be pretty seriously whacked out. Especially seeing his interview with Chris Matthews afterward - and Matthews is not known for being overly harsh on Republican sleaze-slinging at Democrats - it just looked like he had worked up a head of self-righteous anger and felt perfectly entitled to blow it off at anyone and in any way he pleased. - Bruce
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