The Green[e]house Effect: a Weblog

• Andrew Sullivan: "I'm not easy to offend, but this speech was gob-smackingly vile. ... I watched a Democrat at a GOP Convention convince me that I could never be a Republican."

• David Adesnik: "Pathetic and dishonest."

• Gene Healy, the Cato Institute: "Unprincipled, hawkish, and dim: Zell's found a home in the modern G.O.P."

• CNN commentator Jeffrey Toobin: "That is the single most negative speech I have ever heard at a political convention."

• Matt Welch: "[T]his was the most frightening political speech I had ever seen in my life."

• Jeff Jarvis: "Anybody note the irony that Zell Miller complains about Kerry as a flipflopper yet Miller is the biggest flipflopper of them all?"

• CNN commentator Joe Klein: "I don't think I've ever seen anything as angry or as ugly as Miller's speech ... you have angry inaccuracies by the basketful here tonight."

• Matthew Yglesias, The American Prospect: "I don't believe I've ever heard a more disgusting speech delivered in the English language."

• Kevin Drum, Washington Monthly: "F––– you, Zell."

• Publius @ Legal Fiction: "Seriously though, this speech was a public relations disaster."

• David Sirota, Center for American Progress: "The evil Emperor from Star Wars and Sen. Zell Miller really do look alike ..."

• Paul Waldman, The Gadflyer: "If a puppy had wandered up on stage, Miller would have grabbed it and bitten its head off."

• Atrios: "Wow, I never thought Zell would be able to improve on the original German version of Pat Buchanan's ’92 speech, but he did."

• Kos: "What a frickin' disaster for the other side. Zell was downright frightening."

Wow. Feel the love, y'all.