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To: LindyBill who wrote (66786)9/3/2004 5:05:39 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) of 793770
 
Pistol-Packing Zell
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Some followup on the Chris Matthews Hardball whacking by Zell Miller. Hermain Cain, a rising Republican who nearly won the primary to run for Miller's soon-to-be vacated Senate seat, gave Miller on stage at the Garden, a set of dueling pistols. Beautiful.

In the wake of Zell Miller's fiery denunciation of John Kerry at the GOP convention, the national media has been working overtime to remind people that Mr. Miller once worked for Georgia's axe-handle wielding segregationist Governor Lester Maddox backed in the 1960s. Curiously, this is something they never brought up when Mr. Miller was a loyal Democratic Governor or Senator.

But last night at a Club for Growth reception honoring Mr. Miller, Herman Cain, the former chairman of Godfather's Pizza and an unsuccessful GOP candidate for Mr. Miller's Senate seat this year, isn't having any of it. An African-American, Mr. Cain says attacks on Mr. Miller are "bunk." "When I campaigned and people asked me who I wanted most to be like in the U.S. Senate, I always said Zell Miller," he told me.

Later, Messrs. Cain and Miller embraced on stage and Mr. Miller was presented with a pair of 18th-century dueling pistols -- an obvious reference to the duel he said he'd like to have with Chris Matthews of MSNBC as the two tangled on air Wednesday night after Mr. Miller's controversial speech. (source: OpinionJournal's Political Diary email)
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