The Sunshine Empire

As a Floridian I am going to continue on with this Georgia political bashing for the time being. I was reading a brewing mini-controversy over the comments of former Georgia Governor and Senator Zell Miller saying that someone should put “Gorilla Glue” on the office seat in the Oval Office to keep President Obama from traveling to other countries.  I say controversy because in reading the reactions there is already a defense of Senator Miller in terms of the “gorilla” portion of the comment.  Let me be sure that I say I don’t know if the former Senator from that state to the north of me is a racist, but these comments were certainly not racist.  Now the former Senator from Georgia is probably the textbook case of political schizophrenia, but his comments with regards to gorillas is pure ignorant chance honestly. His ignorance extends to his belief that all the troubles in the world can be solved by ignoring everyone and just flashing a gun around. Why this man still pretends to be a Democrat is laughable. It proves the gullibility of the Republican elite though. The man that gave the keynote address for Bill Clinton’s DNC Presidential nomination goes before a group of Republicans and says, “I was so wrong for so long, but suddenly I believe you guys so yeah” and what can they do but eat it up like schoolchildren.

So many Republicans trashed Senator Jim Jeffords and Senator Arlen Specter as lacking any legitimacy and respect when they departed from the GOP, but Zell Miller is lionized as somehow seeing the light. I guess that’s because the old man doesn’t have the guts to just say he’s a Republican and get to the back of the seniority line.

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