Election Day: T - 1Day and Counting

"... I was always impressed with the fact that [President Bush] was such a straight shooter, that he treated the First Lady with a degree of tenderness and reverence that you don't always see, and the unabashed love that he showed his daughters and his parents. I like the fact that he's a strong man of faith who's the same kind of guy on a Saturday night that he is on a Sunday morning. I just liked the man... I was one of those Americans who had grown weary of seeing our country attacked and we not responding... on each and every one of these attacks on Americans, there was absolutely no response, or an inadequate response. It was almost as if we were sending them an engraved invitation to attack us. And finally they did. And I am so thankful, and America should be thankful, that George W. Bush was president at that time. I thought that he met that challenge head on. He's a very plain spoken man, and I think when he says that he's going to carry this fight to the enemy, the enemy knows that he's a person who will... and I longed for a leader that had a little Churchill in him... I don't think we could have a better man. He's a man who means what he says, says what he means, has a strong backbone... He will best protect my family in a time of war, and make no mistake about it: we are at war... this country is much safer because George W. Bush has been president... We've taken out or made neutral countries like Afghanistan where the Taliban ruled and Al Qaida trained. That's changed. Pakistan, where they did most of their recruiting, now is more friendly to the United States. That's changed. The Saudi's had helped the terrorists by raising money for them. That's changed. Qaddafi has suddenly gotten religion and he's no longer harboring terrorists or seeking to acquire a nuclear bomb. It's a much safer country, and it's safer because George W. Bush had the discipline and made hard choices."

-- Zell Miller, Democratic Senator from Georgia, and served 2 terms as one of the nation's most popular governors. A life-long conservative Democrat.