Former President Jimmy Carter wrote a great letter to Senator Zell Miller, expressing disappointment at Miller's freakish, lie-filled, gut-bustingly hilarious speech at the RNC.
Everyone knows that you were chosen to speak at the Republican
Convention because of your being a "Democrat," and it's quite possible
that your rabid and mean-spirited speech damaged our party and paid the
Republicans some transient dividends.Perhaps more troublesome of all is seeing you adopt an established and
very effective Republican campaign technique of destroying the
character of opponents by wild and false allegations. The Bush
campaign's personal attacks on the character of John McCain in South
Carolina in 2000 was a vivid example. The claim that war hero Max
Cleland was a disloyal American and an ally of Osama bin Laden should
have given you pause, but you have joined in this ploy by your bizarre
claims that another war hero, John Kerry, would not defend the security
of our nation except with spitballs. (This is the same man whom you
described previously as "one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of
this party's best-known and greatest leaders — and a good friend.")
