Posted on 12/09/2004 2:26:04 PM PST by 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.
Wait - I thought all that political money corrupted the system cut it off from ordinary Americans.
Yes, yes, I see their point. If only the party will move further to the left then success will surely follow.
Like Rush was saying today, this is the Rat's 40 years to wander the desert to atone for their intolerable arrogance and enslavement of others. Couldn't have come at a better time.
Got me on that one. Just the mental picture of that one chair disappearing to where the sun don't shine is too much to ponder.
Now I've got to go on DU with all the other Freepers and contribute the anger and angst. The spittin' and the fussin'. Adding to the turmoil is our raison d'etre.
Me too.
But, sometimes I wonder just what it is we are really winning in the end. I got into a pretty heated dispute yesterday with two women wh see themselves as Republicans. They argued vehemently that ALL children should have access to free healthcare.
Sorry...couldn't read beyond that. Was just laughing too hard. How anyone could call a multiple-election loser's outfit a "powerhouse" is beyond me. ROTFL! Talk about the Leftist media's being blind to their own propaganda! LOL!
BTW, DU is claiming this as a wonderous thing! :)
Thank a "big tent" RINO for that nonsense. They think that we can only beat Democrats by acting just like Democrats.
As I point out to all the chimps who insist that health care is a right, gun ownership is a right as well...so when can I look forward to the government giving me guns for free?
Big difference between a right and an entitlement...
Ask them how many visits to the doctor they are willing to deny their own children so that others may have "free" healthcare. Or how many hours they are willing to spend at work and away from their children so that others can have "free" [fill in the blank].
We couldn't begin to make this stuff up.
The Election of 2004, the election that just keeps on giving.
That jackass is kidding only himself. Last I saw, the Leftists were almost exclusively funded by billionaire neo-socialists like George Soros, Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates.
Considering the effect that MoveOn and Moore and their ilk had on the Dems' election chances, this is clearly a case of "you broke it, you bought it." The DNC middle-of-the-road types were doing their best not to alienate moderates and swing voters and the leftists just kept helping the GOP. If these loons succeed, we could see centrists like Joe Lieberman switch parties. "A National Party No More", indeed.
Geez, we could win the next election 80:20
Go Left, Young Fools!
I am still awaiting my reply from Pro-Flowers.com. This sucks too, They are the best in the Biz.
Is that a threat --
or is that a promise?
Remember when Saddam gave that talk on Al-Jizz about how the Americans should leave him alone or springs of blood would flow in the desert? Remember the lilies he had on the table in front of him as if to say "It's your funeral?" Now there was a dictator with flair. But what I mean to say is we should send the rats funeral lilies. Or would that be hate speech?
Ya know, Moveon.org would be far more believable if they weren't a wholly owned subsidiary of Soros Inc. Also, if they weren't allergic to the truth, it would be nice.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ... Pass the popcorn please
This is gonna be a fun New Year :0)
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