Jimmy Carter's Letter to Zell Miller

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I thunk this says it all. Personally, I think Zell Miller should be ordered to pay back the money he took from the Democratic Party and Democratic supporters that he took during this time period bacause he perpetuated a fraud on them

In case you missed Jimmy's letter.


Published on Wednesday, September 8, 2004 by the Atlanta Journal
> Constitution
>
> Letter to Zell Miller: 'You Have Betrayed our Trust'
>
> by Jimmy Carter>
>
>
> To Sen. Zell Miller:
>
> You seem to have forgotten that loyal Democrats elected you as mayor
> [of Young Harris] and as state senator. Loyal Democrats, including
> members of my family and me, elected you as state senator, lieutenant
> governor and governor. It was a loyal Democrat, Lester Maddox, who
> assigned you to high positions in the state government when you were
> out of office. It was a loyal Democrat, Roy Barnes, who appointed you
> as U.S. senator when you were out of office. By your historically
> unprecedented disloyalty, you have betrayed our trust.
>
> Great Georgia Democrats who served in the past, including Walter
> George, Richard Russell, Herman Talmadge and Sam Nunn, disagreed
> strongly with the policies of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John
> Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and me, but they remained loyal to the party
> in which they gained their public office. Other Democrats, because of
> philosophical differences or the race issue, like Bo Callaway and
> Strom Thurmond, at least had the decency to become Republicans.
>
> Everyone knows that you were chosen to speak at the Republican
> National Convention because of your being a "Democrat," and it's quite
> possible that your rabid speech damaged our party and paid the GOP
> 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.")
>
> I, myself, served in the Navy from 1942 to 1953, and, as president,
> greatly strengthened our military forces and protected our nation and
> its interests in every way. I don't believe this warrants your
> referring to me as a pacifist.
>
> Zell, I have known you for 42 years and have, in the past, respected
> you as a trustworthy political leader and a personal friend. But now,
> there are many of us loyal Democrats who feel uncomfortable in seeing
> that you have chosen the rich over the poor, unilateral pre-emptive
> war over a strong nation united with others for peace, lies and
> obfuscation over the truth, and the political technique of personal
> character assassination as a way to win elections or to garner a few
> moments of applause. These are not the characteristics of great
> Democrats whose legacy you and I have inherited.
>
> Sincerely, and with deepest regrets,
>
> Jimmy Carter