Man, they wasted no time marginalizing this lunatic. And if you believe what ZigZag said was not approved beforehand by the GOP, then you just bought the final lie in this horrific episode.
GOP backs away from Miller's blast
After gauging the harsh reaction from Democrats and Republicans alike to Sen. Zell Miller's keynote address at the Republican National Convention, the Bush campaign - led by the first lady - backed away Thursday from Miller's savage attack on Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, insisting that the estranged Democrat was speaking only for himself.
Asked about Miller's deeply personal denunciation of his own party's nominee, Laura Bush said in an interview with NBC News that "I don't know that we share that point of view." Aides to President Bush and his campaign said Miller was not speaking for all Republicans.
Late Thursday, Miller's name was removed from the list of dignitaries who would be sitting in the first family's box during the president's acceptance speech later in the evening. No explanation was immediately offered.
Democrats were furious. Led by Kerry himself, who planned to fire back sharply in a midnight rally Thursday night in Ohio, Democrats accused Miller of lying about Kerry's record and predicted that his address would backfire in the way Patrick Buchanan's "culture war" speech at the 1992 Republican convention damaged the first President Bush.
