Posted on 11/04/2009 5:54:06 AM PST by markomalley
MoveOn.org is sending out emails today seeking more contributions for its campaign to defeat any Democratic senator who does not fully support Obamacare. Yesterday the left-wing activist group asked members to contribute "to a primary challenge against any Democratic senator who helps Republicans block an up-or-down vote on health care reform." Today, MoveOn reports that it has received $2 million in pledges in less than 24 hours. "It's a clear sign of how angry progressives would be at any Democrat who helps filibuster reform," MoveOn executive director Justin Ruben writes in the new email.
"The larger the war chest we can offer a potential challenger, the stronger the signal we'll send to conservative Democrats," Ruben continues. "So we're setting a huge new goal: $3 million in total pledges by the end of the week. That's plenty to launch a serious primary challenge."
MoveOn is already planning radio ads targeting Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu and Arkansas Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln over the health care issue.
MoveOn's new campaign comes amid much discussion in the political world of divisions among Republicans, with many analysts reading the presence of third-party candidates in New York's 23rd District and in New Jersey, and coming primary battles in Florida and elsewhere, as proof of deep, and perhaps disastrous, divisions inside the GOP. One publication recently dubbed it a "nightmare scenario" for Republicans. But MoveOn's new threat of primary attacks on Democratic lawmakers suggests that the story might be a bit one-sided. Democrats who stray from progressive orthodoxy might be in for big trouble -- and the divisions inside the Democratic party might be just as big a deal as the problems inside the GOP.
I thought this was the unified party? The one with the Independent and Socialist senators......
Soros cuts a check pretty fast.
This is good, actually. Anytime there is truth instead of obfuscation, truth generally wins out.
The ‘rats have a majority because of “conservative democrats” winning in conservative districts and voting for Pelosi and her policies.
If a ‘rat is a true ‘rat, ie, a socialist, in a conservative district, s/he won’t win, because the truth will not be hidden.
Of course the corrupt MSM will discuss how “moderates” are being driven from the Democrat Party...right??
Let the RINO’s and DINO’s form their own party. The Road Kill Party.
FOLKS...please join me in calling your representatives in Washington to fight Obamacare....believe me, ALL the Dems on the Hill are nervous today.....we have enormous leverage at this moment....it will decay with time.
umm, umm, umm
Barack Hussein Obama
hope and change
Barack Hussein Obama
umm, umm, umm
They have NO WHERE else to go! They will have to suck it up, moderate their views, compromise, smell the coffee, realize that the rest of the world is NOT as Marxist as they are!
This will actually give the Blue Dogs cover, they can come out AGAINST these pressure groups from the Left.
If Moveon.org has all of this “clout” -— what the heck just happened in NJ and VA????
MoveOn.org Threatens Democrats Over ‘Public Option’
The left-wing organization MoveOn.org is warning that any Democrat who joins Republicans in filibustering the “public-option” insurance plan will lose support from the organization’s 5 million members.
MoveOn.org issued the threat in an e-mail to its supporters on Tuesday, one day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that the Senate’s version of a healthcare reform bill would include the government-run insurance program.
The group said it surveyed its members and found that 93 percent agreed that “any senator who helps block an up-or-down vote on a healthcare bill with the public option should lose the support of all five million of us — no donations, no volunteering, and no help getting out the vote.”
Although it supports Reid’s bill, MoveOn.org takes issue with a provision that would give states a path to opt out of the public option.
“The ‘opt-out’ version of the public option has real problems,” the group’s e-mail stated.
“The most conservative states in the country would likely opt out, potentially leaving millions of uninsured folks without access to the affordable healthcare a public option would provide.”
Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, an independent Democrat, has already said he would back a GOP filibuster of Reid’s bill because of its inclusion of the public option.
We should do everything we can to encourage these people to pursue a third party.
LOL. The Dems are crowing about how divided the Reps are. the reality is that the Dems can’t pass their agenda despite huge majorities in Congress.
Bump
York hits it right on the head.
The truth is the Dems and their media minions have foisted on the U.S. the most extreme, far left president in history. The extremists are on the left and are seeking to enact health care and cap-and-trade legislation that would fundamentally alter the nation. For the media to call conservatives extremists is laughable. All conservatives want is a smaller, less intrusive government, a balanced budget, and respect for American traditions.
Waiting for the “Night of the long knives”. Where the Hitler/Himmler(SS) wing of the Democrat party will eliminate the Ernst Rohm(SA)wing of the Democrat party.
Oh be still my beating heart! It’s the Dims turn to suffer a split party with Democrats fighting Progressives for the same seat while the Conservative wins due to the infighting alienating Dim voters...
I agree. Let those Blue Dogs know that they are going to have to choose: vote with the President and lose your seat as a consquence; or jump ship completely to the Republican party. Make it very clear that there is going to be no in-between here, Move-on.org. Its the best thing you could possibly do for us.
Ccivil war, any one?
Nah! Thats just the GOP
Civil war, any one?
Nah! Thats just the GOP
$2 million dollars in pledges is not money received. I could pledge $20 million, but unless that money is received, it counts for nothing more that hyperbole.
Funny, yesterday Fox News spent all day talking about how the conservatives are destroying/dividing the Republican party. This story was reported yesterday afternoon, but I heard nothing about it on Fox News. Hey Shep...when are you going to “report” this one???
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great its suicide. Vote for it and lose and don’t they will runa far left who can’t win in the general election. Win Win
Money to defeat Dems. I almost feel like writing a check myself.
The Democratic party is having an internal Civil War among the Marxist-Leninist Wing vs the Trotskyite Wing, yet the 'State Owned Media'(1) only focuses on 'divisions' within the GOP and if it needs to move further to the left in order to, "gain the independents".
So the day I see a NY Times article saying, 'Democrats Move To Right To Gain Independents', I'll know I woke up in an alternate universe.
(1) © Rush
You bet that this is exactly what they will do in 2010 but they will only say that but as soon as they get elected they will go back to their leftist roots.
Legalized extortion
The Dems apparatik at work.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2299225/posts?q=1&;page=51
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Let him know we don’t want Obama DeathCare.
Say no to Obama’s DeathCare.
Send a message; DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS healthcare!
No! NO you don’t, you muzzie pos.
You’re not denying our seniors deserved health care while insuring millions of illegal aliens and while Demorats are REJECTING Obamacare for themselves and their families!
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Isn’t it time for MoveOn to change its’ name to ComeOn?
The DemoRATS are all a pack of worthless parasite socialist/fascists/commies, however, even Obama boot lickers want to get reelected, and voting for Socialized Medicine ObamaCare may end their meal tickets come November, 2010...And HELL’S BELLS! The gravy train ends and the RATS have to go back to the trash dump and eat CRAP.
Ah yes.
The revolutionaries eat their own as the attempt to seize power intensifies.
Hitler killed his closest first. Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky
....”the Reds, the Whites, then the Reds again” (Dr. Zhivago).
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