A match made in Mordor
It's somehow fitting that news of this comes out on Halloween: Zell Miller, faithless and accursed, crosses party lines to support noted Tolkien scholar Rick Santorum.
Former Sen. Zell Miller, a Georgia Democrat who supported President Bush in 2004, will head a new group of Democrats supporting Pennsylvania GOP Sen. Rick Santorum's reelection bid."I am not involved in any other race in the country," Miller said during a radio interview Monday, according to a news release from Santorum's campaign. "I am only doing this for Rick Santorum. I believe in Rick Santorum's leadership that much."
Santorum is trailing in public polls to his Democratic challenger Bob Casey, Jr.
Apparently Miller just couldn't pass up yet another opportunity to betray his former party, much as he did when he spoke in support of George Bush's reelection at the GOP convention. He's hasn't exactly backed a winner this time; not only is Santorum behind in the polls, but he's hard up for funds for TV ads in this critical final week before the election. Frankly, it's hard to imagine what Miller can possibly do for Santorum's sinking campaign that a doorstop couldn't do, and with considerably less anger.
(Cross-posted.)
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