Something else from Zell Miller’s remarkable speech at the GOP convention. No comment needed:

And like you, I ask which leader is it today that has the vision, the willpower and, yes, the backbone to best protect my family?

The clear answer to that question has placed me in this hall with you tonight. For my family is more important than my party.

There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.

In the summer of 1940, I was an eight-year-old boy living in a remote little Appalachian valley.

Our country was not yet at war but even we children knew that there were some crazy men across the ocean who would kill us if they could.

President Roosevelt, in his speech that summer, told America"all private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger."

I didn't watch the speech, but apparently the crowd went wild.

Thanks to Lew Rockwell for publicizing this.

Update: I've since watched the video online. For the record, there was no applause immediately after the Roosevelt quote. Applause came four lines later, after a reference to Wendell Wilkie, Roosevelt's 1940 Republican opponent:"And he [Wilkie] made it clear that he would rather lose the election than make national security a partisan campaign issue." It's fair to say that Roosevelt's hideous quotation got no enthusiastic response—in fact, no response at all—from the convention throng. (Why didn't they boo?) Video is here.