Zell Miller

Ouch.

The Democratic Convention had Ronald Reagan Jr speak. He is not a politician but has a familiar name.

The Republican Convention had Zell Miller speak. He is a life long Democrats, was Governor and later Senator. He introduced Bill Clinton at the 1992 Democratic Convention and said George Bush (Sr) should be retired. Last night, Miller said he was still a Democrats, but the Democrat Party was not interested in protecting his family and that family is more important then party.

If Sam Nunn or even Lieberman were the Democratic Nominee, Miller would be out stumping for the Democrats and his sharp tongue would be lashing the Republicans. Read his speech, this is an angry man. He is angry because the party he is a member of and has supported all his life has left him and will not take the war on terrorism seriously.

The NY Times has a transcript of Miller's speech. He is not a Republican, but he is a nationalist and is angry the Democrats do not seem to remember they are Americans first and Democrats second.

Two Tiered Justice

One for the rich. One for the rest of us. Kobe rape case dismissed. Apparently, money can buy you freedom.

New York on Protestors: "Whiners, wusses & wimps"

The editors at the New York Daily News tear into the protestors in NYC:

Some protesters these people are. Civil disobedience customarily involves a willingness to suffer some measure of discomfort. Ask Gandhi. But this is the bunch that demanded the city provide them with designer bottled water. Cute, aren't they?

The editors also give the NYPD high marks:

Real police-state abuses, mind you, have been not much in evidence this week. No skulls were cracked Monday night when a detective was pulled from his scooter and pounded unconscious outside Madison Square Garden. The men and women of the NYPD showed similar restraint and professionalism yesterday as self-professed anarchists marched and bellowed around and about the town to celebrate their designated Day of Civil Disobedience.

New York was a good choice for the RNC.

More on the 527's

Over at Vodkapundit, there is a more detail write up on the 527's and the Kerry Campaign. Also included in the comment sections are additional verifications such a FEC filings of people who worked or work on both.

Again, working on a 527 and a campaign is NOT illegal. But if the mainstream media is going to say its bad that people who work on the Swift Boat 527 also have any connection with the Bush campaign, then they SHOULD also document the connections between the 527's and the Kerry campaign and/or Democratic party.

(hat tip Instapundit)

Protesters Disrupt Meeting

Protesters interrupt a Republican youth meeting, resulting in at least one 20 year old delegate injured. Did they do this to convert Republicans? Obviously not, so one could speculate that their motives were intimidation and publicity.

Where does the border between a difference of opinion and suppression of speech start? The actions of the 'protesters' border on repression--a charge that the more liberal members of our society level with regularity at the very people they are attempting to intimidate.

Convention and/or political round up

I can't say I read Dick Morris very often. Usually he is silly, boring or just plain wrong. However, once in a while he hits a home run. Today is a day. His write up of Laura Bush's speech is right on.

The protestors in New York are unhappy with FOX news and especially unhappy that the ratings of FOX during the convention are very high. Especially compared to CNN or MSNBC.

The New York Times is also unhappy that the Republicans would dare to hold their convention in its city and by the NYT actions are making it well known the "paper of record" isn't interested in being the paper of record but rather being a partisan paper as they are in the UK. Well if they want to be a Democratic paper, I think that is fine because if any company wants to drive away a large number of its customers (read moderate and conservatives), they will only be hurting themselves because the advertisers won't purchase as many adds.

And finally, if one repeats a lie often enough, does it make it true? Well that is what the media seems to be trying to do about the Swift Boat adds. The Washington Post has an opinion by Benjamin L. Ginsberg on the double standard about the Swift Boats and the scrutiny it and its donors are receiving verses the liberal 527's. Now Ginsberg is not a disinterested party in the matter, he was a lawyer for both the Swift Boats and for the Bush/Cheney campaign.

Ginsberg also points out that what he was doing is NOT illegal nor is it illegal for the folks working on the liberal 527's and the Kerry campaign. However only the Swift Boat 527 is given the scrutiny.

I do believe the media should treat all 527's the same, either condemn them all or praise them all and investigate all possible conflit of interests or ignore them. But to only scrutinize one 527 and ignore the rest is a double standard.

New bombing in Israel

For the first time in six months, the bad guys won. Tuesday two suicide bombers got through and bombed two buses in Israel. Those fun loving folks at Hamas claimed responsibility. The area where the bombs went off is along a stretch of the boundary between Israel and the West Bank where the security wall has not been completed.

Tell me again why the wall is such a bad idea? It keeps the bad guys and those who support them (the Palestinian populace) away from the Israelis. The Palestinians should be thanking Allah every night the Israelis don't act like those bunch of savages in Hamas, putting bombs on buses or dropping bombs indiscriminately with the idea of killing as many people as possible. Eventually, when the Palestinian people decide they want peace and live more then the promise (so far an empty one) of the destruction of Israel, then peace will win. Until then only more death and defeat will be the Palestinian have to look forward too.