Sen. Zell Miller: Democrats out of Touch

The Democratic Party hasn't got a clue about what Americans really want, writes retiring Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga.

In his new book, "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat," due out this fall, Miller, a hard-nosed ex-Marine, charges that the Democratic Party is no longer tapped into the concerns and hopes of Americans, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Miller, who regularly votes with the GOP majority in the Senate, says bluntly: "Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said, 'I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished.' Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, 'I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell.' "

"Many party loyalists will not like what Sen. Miller writes," according to a press release from publishers Stroud & Hall. "Driven by conscience and common sense, Sen. Miller names the self-destructive direction of his party and stubbornly pulls the Democratic family toward reform."

Miller even questions whether the Democratic Party can field a successful presidential candidate in the future, his press relations firm reported.

The book will look at the campaigns of the last two Democratic presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, and outline those positions on abortion, welfare, gun control, the environment, education, immigration and national security that Miller thinks are more in line with how Americans feel.

Miller, who was appointed to the Senate in 2000 after the death of Republican Paul Coverdell, will retire at the end of 2004, when his term expires.

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