Serious Flip Flop

It's going to be hard for Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) to say anything in his Republican Convention Keynote Speech that won't be a flip flop from what he said in his Democratic Convention Keynote Speech in 1992.

The conservative Democrat becomes the first person ever to deliver keynote address to BOTH major parties. He was tapped this year to nominate George W. Bush.

But in 1992, he nominated Governor Bill Clinton for the Democratic nomination -- in the same city, in the same arena.

Miller now claims the Democratic Party has "grown apart from him." But in his 1992 speech, he praised the Democratic Party for changes as grew up:

“My family would still be isolated and destitute if we had not had FDR's Democratic brand of government. I made it because Franklin Delano Roosevelt energized this nation. I made it because Harry Truman fought for working families like mine. I made it because John Kennedy's rising tide lifted even our tiny boat.

“I made it because Lyndon Johnson showed America that people who were born poor didn't have to die poor. And I made it because a man with whom I served in the Georgia Senate -- a man named Jimmy Carter -- brought honesty and decency and integrity to public service.“
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“I am a Democrat because we are the party of hope. For twelve dark years the Republicans have dealt in cynicism and skepticism. They've mastered the art of division and diversion, and they have robbed us of our hope."

You can find a transcript of Miller's entire speech to the Democrats here. And you can watch his 1992 speech nominating Bill Clinton for President here.