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Do you think that it's acceptable for a political party member to speak out against their own party at an opposition party function?

NEW YORK - Hailed by Republicans as 'the conscience of the Democratic Party,' Georgia Sen. Zell Miller (news, bio, voting record) asserted Wednesday that Senate colleague John Kerry (news - web sites)'s indecisiveness would encourage terrorists and weaken the country's defenses. 'George Bush (news - web sites) wants to grab terrorists by the throat and not let them go to get a better grip,' the Georgia senator said. 'From John Kerry, they get a 'yes-no-maybe' bowl of mush that can only encourage our enemies and confuse our friends.' To a den of cheering Republicans, Miller delivered the keynote GOP address, a resounding denunciation of Kerry and the Democratic Party to which he has belonged for half a century. He enthusiastically endorsed President Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election. 'I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home, a God-fearing man with a good heart and a spine of tempered steel,' Miller said. 'The man I trust to protect my most precious possession: my family.' The partisan crowd went wild, holding up signs saying 'We love Zell' and 'It's Zell Miller Time,' when he said 'No pair has been more wrong, more loudly, more often than the two senators from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.' Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) followed Miller to the podium and said, 'I'm sure glad Zell Miller is on our side.' Still, Miller said he has no plans to become a Republican — he's not seeking re-election — and his vote for Bush will be his first for a Republican in 52 years as a voter. Miller gave the Democratic keynote address 12 years earlier in the same Madison Square Garden, and his colleagues seethed in anger — calling him a turncoat and organizing protests at his office. Miller, meanwhile, was scathing in his criticism of fellow Democrat Kerry. He said no one had been 'more wrong, more loudly, more often.' 'For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues

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