Sen. Zell Miller; the Dems' Bill Cosby

Zell Miller, the retired Senator from Georgia has spelled out the many problems within his own party, but his criticisms have fallen on deaf ears. The Marietta Daily Journal features a piece on Sen. Miller's new book, A Deficit Of Decency:

"Why does the Democratic Party insist on letting less than 150,000 of the most liberal Democrats - mostly antiwar secularists in Iowa and New Hampshire - choose our candidate who then has to go out and try to appeal to more than 55 million voters all around this diverse country to win?"

Miller cites the election of Howard Dean to head the Democratic National Committee as proof "Nothing is going to change. Nothing!"

Instead, Dean's congressional leaders, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, "will continue to pull the party to the left."

"Another huge mistake some Democrats make over and over is this class warfare rhetoric. Sen. John Edwards built his entire campaign around it."

An issue that is divisive and "threatening to the party's survival," Miller writes, is same-sex marriage. He says it will alienate "the two groups that the Democratic Party can least afford to have divided" - African Americans and Hispanics. Their intensity of opposition "is off the Richter scale," he writes.

Miller is certain such "value voters are the key" to victory. Yet Democrats underestimate these voters.

Sen. Miller could be the "Bill Cosby" the dems need to set them straight, if they would only listen to him and heed his advice. Instead, they have filed a petition to divorce him from the party. Figures...when the messenger doesn't suit you, get rid of him!