MoveOn to Democratic Party: 'We Own It'

AP via Yahoo News. ^ | 12/9/04 | By SAM HANANEL, Associated Press Writer

[So Cal Rocket]

WASHINGTON - 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."

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 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."

Under McAuliffe's leadership, the message said, the party coddled the same corporate donors that fund Republicans to bring in money at the expense of vision and integrity.

"In the last year, grass-roots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the party doesn't need corporate cash to be competitive," the message continued. "Now it's our party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back."

Pariser urged MoveOn supporters to help support a DNC chair with a bold vision to represent Democrats outside Washington. Democrats will vote at their February meeting in Washington on a successor to McAuliffe.

DNC spokesman Jano Cabrera declined to engage in a tit-for-tat with MoveOn, but praised McAuliffe's efforts.

"Call me crazy, but I think the fact that for the first time in party history we outraised the Republicans, and did so primarily through grass-roots fund raising is something to be proud of," Cabrera said.

Among those vying for the party chairmanship is former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, an early darling of MoveOn's cybernetwork of activists when he ran for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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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."

It appears George Soros must be a communist. Capitalists understand Return On Investment.

[nopardons]

Obviously,but this pick is just too funny for words!

[mainepatsfan]

I don't think MoveOn really cares how they get their money. Heck if the Saudi royal family wrote them a check they'd take the money and then use it to run an ad attacking Bush for being too close to the Saudi royal family!!!

[visualops]

Pelosi met with HAMAS leadership last August

No kidding? Can't believe I missed that one. And I don't suppose anyone called her on it, eh?

[nopardons]

Oh I do,I doooooooooooooooooo! I'm literally giggling myself into tears,here. hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

[mainepatsfan]

I can hear Martha giving a speech on the senate floor now..."...Medicare will go broke as you can see on this chart I made myself.."

[MikeHu]

"All your base are belong to us."

[nmh]

Great!

Let the extremists take over the Demoncrats. People will vote for more Republicans.

[mainepatsfan]

Word of caution to MoveOn...don't threaten the Clintons. It's not good for your health.

[visualops]

Nah...he's nuts and MoveOn's head is so swollen they barely fit through the door.
MoveOn is power hungry, and you can expect the next 3 years to be a tooth and nail fight for the Dem leadership and power. They scoff at the corporate money, but they'll take it in a heartbeat.

[visualops]

Agree totally.

[jerry639]

I have came to the conclusion that most of the posters at DU are:
1. Teenagers who post there during class.
2. Inmates at the insane asylum, that were introduced to computers.
3. Trailer Park residents, who get free internet and computers along with their subsidized rent.
4. All of the above.

[mainepatsfan]

What about twenty something trust fund brats?

[NewLand]

Go MadHow Go!

[SquirrelKing]

The ol' Titanic Deck Chair Shuffle continues.

LOL

*flies buzzing*

[MissouriConservative]

"How old is Jimmy Carter, and is he ever gonna meet his maker? The same thing goes for Castro."


I thing I just thought of a bad alternate ending to Thelma and Louise......lol

[Bonaparte]

I sure hope the boys at moveon succeed in occupying all the important party posts. They'll drag the party right over the the far-left cliff. They and the other democrat 527s way outspent the few competing 527s and still got clocked. On a measley $27 million, the Swift Vets & POWs were by far the most effective of the lot.

[Libloather]

"We bought it, we own it, we're going to take it back."

[Texas Songwriter]

I hope Move On is able to insinuate itself completely into the Democrat party. This would be the best possible move for Republicans. Move On is equated in the American mind as Dean's scream, radical Hollywood, Michael Moore, Streisand, Baldwin, and on and on. I hope they can pull it off. That would complete the true definition of Democrat and put a face on it with a trail of evidence to pull from to advertise against the dems in the next election. I think the obfucaction wing of the party will, however, win the day and continue to prevaricate.

[Texas Songwriter]

The word is "obfuscation", silly