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To: NOW who wrote (50344)	7/5/2004 11:31:30 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 89467

Perhaps it is you that has the more extreme POV, which you naturally perceive as moderate even though your POV is far from moderate. You mistakenly perceive that Zell Miller is not a centrist since his genuine moderate positions on many issues seem extreme to you. You don't believe me that Zell Miller is a centrist? How about what others have documented? Are all of them completely wrong too? <font size=4>Miller, Centrist Coalition Senators Unveil Bipartisan Economic Stimulus Plan<font size=3> miller.senate.gov ....<font size=4>Miller's credentials as a loyal Democrat are unassailable<font size=3> -- he delivered Georgia to Bill Clinton during the primaries in 1992 at a time when many doubted Clinton's ability to win. In July 2000, when Georgia's Republican Senator Coverdell suddenly died, the Democratic governor called Zell Miller out of retirement and appointed him to Coverdell's Senate seat, which he won in his own right in the next election. Though Miller promised to represent all Georgians, not just the Democrats, no one thought this nonpartisanship would extend to the organization of the Senate. <font size=4>And when Republicans tried to woo him into joining the Republican Party in order to get back control of the Senate after Jeffers of Vermont changed coats, Miller politely but firmly declined their most extravagant offers..... He's a Democrat, period. .....Senator Miller lays out, by example at least, a program for what a centrist Democratic Party might look like.<font size=3>.... <font size=4> Miller believes in compromise, you see -- a dirty word to extremists of any stripe. He believes that in a democracy, nobody should get everything their way.<font size=3> ornery.org <font size=4>Zell Miller on Principles & Values Member of the Senate’s “Centrist Coalition”...... Member of Democratic Leadership Council. <font size=3> issues2000.org <font size=4>Zell Miller is a Moderate Conservative <font size=3>VoteMatch Candidate's Political Philosophy The below is a way of thinking about the candidate's political philosophy by dividing the candidate's VoteMatch answers into "personal" and "economic" questions. It is only a theory - please take it with a grain of salt! .... ....Where the candidate's Personal score meets the Economic score on the grid below is the candidate's political philosophy. <font size=4>Based on the above score, the candidate is a Moderate Conservative.<font size=3> issues2002.org <font size=4> Zell Miller is a Moderate Conservative. Click for explanation. <font size=3> issues2000.org Zell campaigned hard to reelect Senator Cleland and Governor Barnes in 2002. He supported Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the last three presidential elections. Is Zell just too conservative? <font size=4>The American Conservative Union rates members of Congress, and Senator Miller received only a 47% conservative voting record in 2002. Miller is a genuine moderate, whose voting record is to the left of almost every Republican in the Senate. <font size=3> intellectualconservative.com <font size=4> From the Atlanta Business Journal.... Miller is the last of a dying breed of Democrat.<font size=3> He was a New Democrat before there was such a term. He hails from a tradition of Democratic leader such as the late Henry "Scoop" Jackson or closer to home, Sam Nunn, Carl Vinson and Richard Russell,<font size=4> all leaders more moderate in their outlook then the national Democratic Party and more willing to find bipartisan solutions for national issues.<font size=3> bizjournals.com <font size=4> Back in 1992, after all, Miller was a moderate Southern Democrat who declared, in a keynote speech at that summer's Democratic convention, that Bill Clinton was "the only candidate for president who feels our pain, shares our hopes."<font size=3> washingtonmonthly.com