Redstate

Perhaps it has something to do with this: With the selection of an old-line Democrat to give the keynote speech at the Republican national convention in New York at the end of the month, the chance of a convention floor fight over the immigration issue may have increased substantially despite the best efforts of the party establishment to suppress the issue... [excerpt from Miller's 2003 book deleted...]  ...Republican Party leadership, however, won't allow the party to adopt a popular position on immigration without a fight... An activist from a state Al Gore barely lost in 2000 reports that Karl Rove's office has warned Republican congressional candidates off from the immigration issue at the risk of losing national party funding. And the Bush campaign, apparently, vetted every delegate to the national convention to ensure loyalty to the party line.

(The "delegates" in that last sentence were apparently those selected to the platform committee.)

If this isn't full strength, damn.

There were practically pictures of this guy next to the pictures of Christ. Now I think I truly understand why.

If this speech is a toned-version of a more conservative speech, I hope he releases the original text.

This may be the best polticial speech I have ever seen, barring some of Reagan's.  I have no doubt it will go down in history as one of the best convention speeches in the modern political era.  This will be one you tell your grandchildren you saw.  Thank goodness it's in prime time.

Part of hte genius is that this man is a Democrat speaking to the Republican convention and attacking the nominees of his own party like no Republican ever could.

I kinda feel sorry for Dick  Cheney to have to follow this act.  I'm sure he'll do fine, but I doubt even W will match this one.

I'd want to be in a bomb shelter if he used the original draft.

I certainly enjoyed the bit about Ted Kennedy. But, it was a mite strong. What he said applies to the far-left, but not so much to moderate Democrats. It might turn off more moderate Democrats who don't like being lumped in with Howard Dean and those further left.

And made him want to go on the warpath.

I know "moderate" Democrats -- some fairly higher-placed ones, too -- who've gone off the deep end over Bush. Nothing Miller said or didn't say would've changed that.

My goodness, could CNN and MSNBC have been more in the Democratic tank this evening? The way they went after Zell Miller in the post-speech interviews, you would think that he would need Secret Service protection soon.

Say it with me: "Oh, that liberal media."

"It might turn off more moderate Democrats who don't like being lumped in with Howard Dean and those further left."

See Sullivan. But he was already turned off.

Anecdotal only, but email from right-leaning independent friend says that Zell looked like "a madman".  Another called it a "disaster" and said, "it's a good thing you can blame it on him being a Democrat".