MoveOn has already revolutionized Democratic politics, energizing the party faithful in ways Karl Rove would envy. Karl Rove doesn't have to envy it. He's got an even better one. Yep, Democratic turnout in the election was at an all-time high, and MoveOn had a big part to play in that. But Republican turnout was even higher, and that happened because Ken Mehlman built a nationwide army of volunteers, all organized on the Internet, that beat the MoveOn army at the ground game. Why does MoveOn get all the attention? Because reporters are all a bunch of liberals. They have no clue what the Republicans are doing; they never talk to any. So it's MoveOn-this and MoveOn-that, with nary a word about the fact that MoveOn got its butt kicked in the election by a better-organized army of Internet activists on the right. |
It's my theory MoveOn.Org's efforts backfired and helped elect President Bush.
And some of those Dems were voting for 43 :)