Democrat Senator Zell Miller of Georgia has announced that he will vote for President George W. Bush next November. Democrat Senator Zell Miller of Georgia has announced that he will campaign for George W. Bush’s reelection if asked to do so.

Zell Miller is a Democrat, and he has been offered, no doubt, some high prizes if he were to make the switch. He has refused, but at the press conference held when then-Georgia Governor Roy Barnes appointed him to fill the vacancy left by the untimely death of Senator Paul Coverdell, Miller told those assembled: “I will serve no single party but rather 7.5 million Georgians.”

That is what he thinks he’s doing with his latest announcement, and that is what he is doing. Bypassing CNN, headquartered in Atlanta, the Georgia Senator told Fox News yesterday:

“The way I see it is, that these next five years are going to be crucial in determining what kind of world my grandchildren and great grandchildren live in, and I don’t want to entrust that to any of these folks that are running out there on the Democratic side. I’m going to vote for George Bush,” Miller said in a taped interview for Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes show.

Of the Democrats’ anti-Bush — disguised as anti-war — rhetoric, Miller said:

“It makes me ashamed. It’s a disgrace for anyone to talk about — talk like that in a time of war. … You know, if some of these folks have been living back to that April night in 1775 when Paul Revere came riding through, saying, ‘The British are coming, British are coming’ - if Howard Dean was living back then he would have yelled out the window, ‘Shut up I’m trying to get some sleep in here.’ It’s a disgrace.”

He told further told Sean Hannity:

“I’ve given this a lot of thought. I think that George Bush is the right man in the right place at the right time. The way I see it is, that these next five years are going to be crucial in determining kind of world my grandchildren and great- grandchildren live in.

And I don’t entrust that to any of these folks that are running out there on the Democratic side.

I included so much of what Miller said because he sounds like so much of what I’ve been reading in the blogosphere and hearing from friends. It’s what I meant when I wrote Tuesday night that: “We have to win this one. If we don’t, civilization dies. The 2004 Presidential election is the most important political event in this history of the United States. We are playing for keeps.”

“This does not mean I am going to become a Republican,” Miller said yesterday. “It simply means that in the year 2004, this Democrat will vote for George Bush.”