After saying that George Bush is the only person who can defend our national security and telling Democrats that they are traitors for seeking to elect someone else, Zell Miller actually said that no one should "make national security a partisan campaign issue." The longer quote:
And he [Wendell Wilkie] made it clear that he would rather lose the election than make national security a partisan campaign issue.
Shortly before Wilkie died he told a friend, that if he could write his own epitaph and had to choose between "here lies a president" or "here lies one who contributed to saving freedom", he would prefer the latter.
Where are such statesmen today?
After the speech, he challenged MSNBC TV host Chris Mathews to a duel. (I'm not making this up.)
Actually, now that I think of it, that kind of sounds like a good idea.