The far left thinks they've bought the Democratic party, now they want it back.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Liberal powerhouse MoveOn has a message for the "professional election losers" who run the Democratic Party: "We bought it, we own it, we're going to take it back."The good news is that the chances of a centrist leading the Democratic ticket anytime in the future just keep getting bleaker and bleaker.A scathing e-mail from the head of MoveOn's political action committee to the group's supporters on Thursday targets outgoing Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) chairman Terry McAuliffe as a tool of corporate donors who alienated both traditional and progressive Democrats.
"For years, the party has been led by elite Washington insiders who are closer to corporate lobbyists than they are to the Democratic base," said the e-mail from MoveOn PAC's Eli Pariser. "But we can't afford four more years of leadership by a consulting class of professional election losers."
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You broke it, you bought it... (Below threshold)1. Posted by M. Murcek | December 10, 2004 1:40 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
You broke it, you bought it. Isn't that how it's supposed to work?
1. Posted by M. Murcek | December 10, 2004 1:40 PM |
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Posted on December 10, 2004 13:40
2. Posted by Eric | December 10, 2004 1:56 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Did they keep the receipt?
2. Posted by Eric | December 10, 2004 1:56 PM |
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Posted on December 10, 2004 13:56
3. Posted by Jinx McHue | December 10, 2004 3:47 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
My gosh. The party's already starting to self-destruct? It's only a little more than a month after the election.
3. Posted by Jinx McHue | December 10, 2004 3:47 PM |
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Posted on December 10, 2004 15:47
4. Posted by Jim | December 10, 2004 3:58 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
MoveOn should take the reins for the DNC. Like I've heard -- it's the gift that keeps on giving.
4. Posted by Jim | December 10, 2004 3:58 PM |
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Posted on December 10, 2004 15:58
5. Posted by BurbankErnie | December 10, 2004 5:03 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ever since the election, I have gotten the greatest pleasure watching the Left EAT THEIR OWN!!
5. Posted by BurbankErnie | December 10, 2004 5:03 PM |
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Posted on December 10, 2004 17:03
6. Posted by Henry | December 10, 2004 5:22 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
the party self destructed right after the election.
don't you remember all sorts of stories about who is going to actually head up the DNC?
6. Posted by Henry | December 10, 2004 5:22 PM |
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Posted on December 10, 2004 17:22
7. Posted by CrankyOldConservative | December 10, 2004 6:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Woohoo....will somebody pleeeeeeeeeease tell me where I can contribute to the MoveOn PAC?
7. Posted by CrankyOldConservative | December 10, 2004 6:35 PM |
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Posted on December 10, 2004 18:35
8. Posted by Mr. Hawaii | December 10, 2004 10:43 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
A bit OT but some not so good news for Republicans....
It looks like Kerik has withdrawn his name for consideration in the DHS secretary position. Personally, I think he would have made a good one.
Even more OT, I managed to post on this... amazingly enough in a timely, though brief manner... it's shameless begging for a Wizbanging! ;-)
8. Posted by Mr. Hawaii | December 10, 2004 10:43 PM |
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Posted on December 10, 2004 22:43
9. Posted by BR | December 11, 2004 6:16 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Here's my novice TOT - totally off thread (if that is what "OT" means) -
Can a third party, non-weblogmaster request a wizbanging for someone else's site? :)
I think BummerDietz's scyllacharybdis.blogspot.com would be well-linked to wizbangblog on the CBSgate subject, especially the latest 2 MSM hit pieces on conservative bloggers. (Threads entitled "Embittered Bill Moyers-Goebbels Attacks" and "CBS: Irony-Free Zone")
9. Posted by BR | December 11, 2004 6:16 AM |
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Posted on December 11, 2004 06:16
10. Posted by Veeshir | December 11, 2004 7:57 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I don't think that's good news.
The GOP is starting to get cocky. The last thing we need is for them to think they're power is unassailable.
10. Posted by Veeshir | December 11, 2004 7:57 AM |
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Posted on December 11, 2004 07:57
11. Posted by Harvey | December 11, 2004 10:29 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Veeshir - Cocky, yes, and plenty of reason to be. But I don't think they've become complacent or incautious. Should the DNC actually start looking viable, coherant, or sane again, the GOP will snap to.
11. Posted by Harvey | December 11, 2004 10:29 AM |
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Posted on December 11, 2004 10:29
12. Posted by Nomorelies | December 11, 2004 10:05 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Kind of reminds me of the movie FATAL ATTRACTION. You gotta be really careful who you shack up with. Otherwise I think it's funny. The DNC was on the skids and Moveon.org is simply greasing them.
12. Posted by Nomorelies | December 11, 2004 10:05 PM |
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Posted on December 11, 2004 22:05
13. Posted by -S- | December 12, 2004 8:32 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Welllll....I'm not at all surprised by this Moveon latest missive. I described them as a terrorist organization (I mean that, in the truest sense of the expression, based upon Moveon's behavior) earlier on in this past year, based upon many if not all of their ads and truly alarming email "newsletters" -- the ad they ran that featured a failing U.S. military man was truly an enemy of the nation at work -- anyway, I've considered them to be terrorism-at-work for a while now.
About this latest thing they've declared, at least they don't have guns (I don't think their membership is prone to gun ownership as a majority, but you really never know), but, once they start brandishing weapons, it's time to call in the military to respond to them, because their published material and these various threats and statements seem quite terrorising in theme.
But it's refreshing to see liberals finally dropping the pretense: the Democratic Party was, it seems, a commodity and the liberal value system really was/is based in commerce after all -- all that flowery idealism by the recent liberals of the DNC campaign, that negates the American commercial efforts (all those "rich" "business" people versus the "people"), what WAS that?
13. Posted by -S- | December 12, 2004 8:32 AM |
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Posted on December 12, 2004 08:32