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Summary: Miller IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH for the Democratic Party!
Review: Really, this work is a paen to fascism; the Miller elicits a knee-jerk subservience to George W. Bush that leads one to conclude that Miller's ... was as erect as possible just thinking about his "commander and chief."Miller's subconcious homoerotica would belong next to Henry Miller's works, save for the fact that Henry was a literary giant, and Zell, well, let's just say that this tome is the "dark and stormy night" of fascist-loving devotionals.
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Summary: Naive Nine
Review: Someone buy nine copies of this book and send it to those clueless Dems running for president. I don't care for Dubya one little bit . . . but I wouldn't trust the Oval Office to any of these losers. Aren't there other options? Hopefully one of the Naive Nine, as Zell calls them, will read this book and wise up to the cares and concerns of the people who actually vote in their party in places other than New York City and Los Angeles.
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Summary: Do we need two Republican Party's Zell?
Review: This guy comes from a long line of political opportunists from the south. I remember him giving rousing speeches on behalf of Bill Clinton back in 1992 and in 96. If Zell had his way we would have a two party system. Two conservative parties! One is enough Zell. So glad you are retiring.
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Summary: Zell's 2x4 to the Heads of Fellow Dems
Review: What a fun read! Incredulous that he would cite names & not care who he ticks off, I laughed out loud on a number of occasions (out of surprise as much as admiration for his cojonnes). Zell absolutely takes his Democratic family to the woodshed, walloping left & right. I can't count the number of times my mouth dropped open & I uttered "Oh my God!" while reading this book. I'm a rock-solid Democrat, & while I don't agree w/ everything he says, he does have a point: the Dem Party is in danger of collapsing at the center because it's pulled so far to the fringes by so many well-meaning but short-sighted groups.
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Summary: Essential Reading
Review: Essential reading for conservative, centrist, and liberal alike. Anyone who cares about this country, regardless of political persuasion, will benefit from this true patriot's keen understanding of the political process, the faults which keep it from being all it can for the American people, and how to fix these faults. A NATIONAL PARTY NO MORE is a textbook in political ethics which should be read on K Street, Wall Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, and on your street. Kudos Senator Miller! You're my kind of politician.
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Summary: Moving in the Right Direction
Review: I loved this book. Zell Miller hit the nail on the head with his interpretation of the current national Democratic Party. It's a shame more Democrats aren't listening to Miller's insightful examinations of the state of politics today.
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Summary: The Debate Begins
Review: I've had an opportunity to read this book in its manuscript form and it is sure to launch a national debate about the future of the Democratic Party. Senator Miller is to be congratulated for his honest review of the current political landscape. The national Democratic Party has all but written off the south, and unless that changes, its future is surely in doubt. A must read for all who care deeply about the future of this country.
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Summary: An honest appraisal of where the Democrats went wrong
Review: Zell Miller tells what has gone wrong with the Democratic Party. He does an admirable job of mixing biography and political philosophy. Many contemporary "Democrats," with little memory of their party's past will wonder what Miller is talking about. Miller harkens from a different era, when government intrusion was considered wrong, except in unusual circumstances. He comes from another age where people relied on themselves, their families and communities. This was long before the idea of special rights for special groups, "entitlements" to feed from the public budget, special interests growing fat on taxpayer dollars and every real or imagined societal problem needing a bureacracy of its own and still more taxpayer dollars to support its zealots. In other words, Miller remembers and pines for a Democratic party that maintained a semblance of commonsense and pragmatism. This isn't a political polemic. It isn't another of those angry screeds that seem to be pouring from right and left alike. It is instead a remorseful tome, a longing for a past that was unquestionably a better place to be. A society that saw in itself the solutions, for the most part, of its own problems. Miller isn't without guile here. He really doesn't address many of the more unsavory aspects of his own party, such as its resistance to civil rights through the 1960s. But he does accurately paint a portrait of a national political party that long ago shed any honesty and now panders only to a special interest groups and uses taxpayer money to support them, a party that seems to exist only to extend its own power with little regard for the future of the nation. Jerry
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Summary: An Excellent Analysis of the Party at the Crossroads
Review: In this excellent book Mr. Miller lays out how the democratic party has veered dangerously off-course. The problem in this book is in no way unique, it is a problem as old as organizations. It is a problem which befell the predecessor of the Republican Party known of in history books as the "Whigs". Like the Whigs the Democratic Party of today is not centrist enough in nature to sucessfully obtain/hold onto power. While the comparision is not perfect in that there was only one Whig President, its policies and idealogies were out of step with those of most American's within its time. For it was not until Lincoln himself a former moderate whig that the sucessor to the Whig's party were able to began a rapid ascent towards greater political power. Like the Democrats the Republican Party has faced similar bouts of internal division/decay which opened the door for the decades long accendency of the Democrats after 1932. Two problems loom large for the democrats these consist of what the role of government , followed by internal division following the convention of 1968. While many american's like the social programs such as (Social Security/Medicare)they are increasingly leery about the idea of expanding the waist size of the current government for other programs like (National Health Care). Indeed many favor minor modifications to ensure stability of current programs as opposed to the creation of major expansions. In addition enthusiasm for new programs is muted by a public that knows full well who is going to have to pay for them. More troublesome for the democratic is the idealogical shift in the party since the 68' convention. Prior to the 68' convention you could be pro defence, support tax cuts and hold judeo-christian values. Now an increasing tide of former democrats feel so unfairly maligned they are unlikely to return to the party for a generation or more if that. Indeed this is where the book hits the problem squarely on the head. The book correctly outlines how 1968 broke the donkey's back. Based on the party reversing itself on key principles supported by most americans such as (strong national defense, interventionism in places like S Korea, Berlin, etc) and (Lower Taxes as inacted by J.F.K in the early 60s). To create an posionious atmosphere for moderate/mainstream democrats to rise to the surface. While Kennedy and to some extent Clinton knew how to harness the center within the party. Poor and undisciplined leadership have created a crisis of leadership and allowed an opportunity for the ghosts of extremism from 68' to rise to the surface.
Alas if the party fails to correct its current course and fails to adopt centrist policies a decades long isolation from political power if not outright extinction is a very real possibility.
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Summary: Sad but true
Review: Zell Miller's book is a portrait of a man basically betrayed by what used to be a truly NATIONAL party. Instead, Miller shows us a Democratic party dominated by extremists, and hardly recognizable as the part of JFK. Miller comes across as a man with values weary with disillusion. In that sense, this is one of the saddest and most touching politcal books I've ever read. It appears that there is no room left in the Democratic Party for a moderate or conservative viewpoint. Have we come so far now that liberal is synonomous with Democrat? Must you take the morally perilous road in order to placate your party? Be he conservative Democrat, disillusioned Independent, Zell Miller and his book are a throwback to an earlier era where country and beliefs where held above fringe groups and the "nothing is wrong unless it's Christian, military, or pro-life in nature" mentality. Where is there for a compassionate man who believes in a strong America, a moral party platform, and compassionate social system left to go?
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