] The text of a letter former President Carter sent to Zell
] Miller over the weekend ...
]
]
] You seem to have forgotten that loyal Democrats
] elected you as mayor and as state senator. Loyal
] Democrats, including members of my family and me, elected
] you as lieutenant governor and as 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.

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall