Zell Miller delivered a ferocious, fire and brimstone speech against John Kerry at the Republican convention in 2004. Yet only three years earlier, he gave a very warm speech on Kerry's behalf:
http://www.alternet.org/election04/19761/
What happened? Why did Miller make such a dramatic transformation at the end of his career?
He represented the old southern democrats who were socially conservative and in the middle on economics. Really Miller belonged in the GOP after the Clinton administration if not earlier.