Perhaps the Last Real Democrat has died in Georgia

  I have met Zell Miller several times in my life but cannot say I was anything more than just another person he met during his storied Political Career. I posted a story about one of my escapades during the 1970s.  I left out the rest of the story. After the incident with the transmission we went to a local Hotel to wait for transportation.  It was early morning and we encountered Zell Miller and a "bevy" of supporters in the bar.  He was at that time a big wheel in the Democratic party.  Common sense and propriety motivated me to leave that part of the Drag Racing story out of the article in this link:    Drag Racing In Atlanta

   Like most Marines, Zell would tell you what he had on his mind regardless of what you thought of him.  He left the senate with the admonition that he was sick of the crap in Washington. Contrary to what some might think, I voted for Zell Miller (A Democrat) on several occasions. I did not always agree with his positions but that is what makes political choices so interesting. You must look at the sum total of a candidate's beliefs and choose those that more accurately match our own. Here is a summation of his life after his passing recently at the age of 86.

   Here is an extract of his life from Wikipidea:

  Miller's successor as governor, Roy Barnes, appointed Miller to a U.S. Senate seat following the death of Republican Sen. Paul Coverdell in July 2000. While the Democratic Party's historic control of Georgia politics had waned for years, Miller remained popular. He defeated Mack Mattingly in a special election to keep the seat in November 2000.

Miller often supported Republicans and criticized Democrats during his tenure in the Senate. He supported much of George W. Bush's agenda, including tax cuts and oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He supported pro-life policies as a senator, after supporting abortion rights as governor. However, Miller remained a Democrat, saying, "I'll be a Democrat 'til the day I die." Miller campaigned for fellow Georgia Democrat Max Cleland in his 2002 re-election campaign against Republican Congressman Saxby Chambliss, despite their ideological differences.

Miller argued in his book A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat (authored and published in 2003) that the Democratic Party lost its majority because it does not stand for the same ideals that it did in the era of John F. Kennedy. He argued that the Democratic Party, as it now stands, is a far left-wing party that is out of touch with the America of today and that the Republican Party now embraces the conservative Democratic ideals that he has held for so long. The book spent nine weeks in the New York Times Best Seller list for hardback non-fiction, rising to fourth position.      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zell_Miller

   Perhaps in what time I have remaining I will find another "DEMOCRAT" to vote for. I am growing weary of voting for "DEMOCRATS" cloaked in Republican robes. I dearly wish my "Libertarian" party would gain some traction in the public's mind. Semper fi Zell