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To: michael97123 who wrote (51576)	6/25/2004 8:12:14 AM
From: Andrew N. Cothran	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

Well, you have creative thoughts at 3:00 a.m. I hope I am wrong but you do sound a bit desperate. Things are not nearly as dire as you might think. Actually events are running in Bush's favor except in the minds of Demos who hope and pray for something, anything, to keep him from winning reelection.

To: michael97123 who wrote (51576)	6/25/2004 1:13:52 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

Michael.... What would you think of a Bush/Giuliani ticket. Does Giuliani have too much baggage? If you run out of options in entertaining your grandson, teach him to spell his name with cheerios or any round cereal......Trix is really good. Every time he gets a letter right he gets to eat it. -gg- M

To: michael97123 who wrote (51576)	6/25/2004 6:36:13 PM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793955

Speaking of Zell Miller: Sen. Miller to Speak at GOP Convention 1 hour, 39 minutes ago By JEFFREY McMURRAY, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Georgia Sen. Zell Miller, the highest profile Democrat to endorse President Bush (news - web sites) for re-election, will speak at the Republican National Convention later this summer, a congressional aide said Friday. Miller drew a sharp rebuke from the dean of the state's congressional delegation, Democratic Rep. John Lewis, who called the senator's decision "a shame and a disgrace." According to the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, Miller will give his address on Wednesday night of the four-day convention in New York that begins Aug. 30. The Bush-Cheney campaign was expected to make an announcement Monday, the aide said. The speech by Miller, a former two-term governor, comes 12 years after he delivered the keynote address for Bill Clinton (news - web sites) at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, also held in New York. Miller, who is retiring in January, has voted with Republicans more often than his own party and has been a key sponsor of many of Bush's top legislative priorities, including the Republican's tax cuts and education plan. In May, Miller spoke at the Georgia Republican convention and criticized Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) as an "out-of-touch, ultraliberal from Taxachusetts" whose foreign and domestic policies would seriously weaken the country. "I'm afraid that my old Democratic 'ties that bind' have become unraveled," Miller said. In 2001, Miller had told a Georgia Democratic Party gathering that Kerry, the four-term Massachusetts senator and decorated Vietnam War veteran, was "an authentic" American hero who had worked to strengthen the military. Miller's recent book, "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat," is now a national best-seller. In it, he assails members of his own party, including Clinton. "I think he has sold his soul for a mess of pottage," said Lewis, in a reference to a speech Miller gave as a congressional candidate 40 years ago in which he argued that President Johnson was "a Southerner who sold his birthright for a mess of dark pottage" because of his support for the Civil Rights Act. Pottage is defined as a thick soup or stew of vegetables. Miller later changed his position on civil rights, even leading an unsuccessful fight as governor to remove the Confederate emblem from the Georgia state flag. Bobby Kahn, the chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party, said he wasn't surprised. "Maybe I'll switch to the Republican Party so I can speak at the Democratic Convention and bash Bush," Kahn said. "It makes about as much sense." Kahn was a top aide to Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes, who appointed Miller to the Senate following the death of Miller's predecessor, Republican Sen. Paul Coverdell. "I advocated his appointment," Kahn said of Miller. "He said he would be independent and he was for a while, but he hasn't been lately. He's been in lockstep with the Republicans and I don't know what's happened to him. It's really kind of sad."