May 2, 2005

Miller, party of one? Miller, party of one?. . .

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Perhaps surprisingly to fellow Democrats—in light of the intensely vitriolic attack he launched on them at the Republican convention last summer—former Democratic Georgia Senator Zell Miller says in a new book that the Dems could win back the White House in the next presidential race. Even more surprising is the person Miller suggests may do it: Hillary Clinton, whom he deems a “warrior.” As Jeffrey McMurray reports in an Associated Press wire story, the book, A Deficit of Decency, is “less scathing than his previous offering, A National Party No More.” McMurray says, “Democrats still get the lion’s share of Miller’s blame for a breakdown of social values, but the book is also peppered with occasional compliments for them, mostly backhanded ones.” For example, Miller says he likes Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, one of the Senates most conservative members, “but is afraid liberals are pulling Reid to the left.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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