[Miller fired back:] Whenever I left the governor's office in January of 1999, the Democratic Party controlled both houses [of the Legislature], the Democratic Party in Georgia had most all of the statewide elected officials, ... It's been dismantled on Bobby Kahn's watch.

The Democratic Party today has gone further and further to the left. It's left me, it's left moderates and it's left a lot of people who want to support a strong commander in chief,

[Sen. Zell Miller, D-Georgia, wrote Bush to offer congratulations.] I would like to offer my sincere congratulations and pledge my support to work across party lines with you to bring this country together and move it forward, ... You will be my president, and I wish you the very best.

What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?

My family is more important than my party.

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.