Posted on 02/14/2006 10:17:11 PM PST by neverdem
All Democrats are not created equal, according to MoveOn.org.
The liberal political action organization has plans to attack members of the Democratic Party when they don’t uphold the "highest values" of the party. But before it gets involved in any nasty Democratic primaries, MoveOn wants to have the OK from its base.
That would mean "grappling with specific right-wing Democrats who consistently side with big corporations and right-wing Republicans" by actively supporting progressive challengers in the primaries, according to an e-mail sent out Tuesday to MoveOn supporters.
The e-mail requests feedback from supporters so the organization can gage whether they have the support needed to enact such a strategy.
In promoting replacement candidates, MoveOn promises to only endorse those approved by its supporters with a viable chance of winning.
Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas is named specifically as a potential target of the organization's new agenda.
"[Cuellar] is wrong on many core Democratic issues like the war and Medicare," says the e-mail. "He often undermines key Democratic initiatives and too often pokes progressives in the eye with his votes and statements. We would start with the worst like Cuellar and work to build a progressive majority one election at a time."
Calls for comment from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee went unanswered.
sweet, this can only help us win these districts which blue dogs have been keeping from going Red since 1994. Maybe they could run against Max Baucus, David Pryor and those wackjobs in SD and ND too!!!
The grate battle within the dem party. The far left v. the middle. I hope the left wins and it looks like they are. This would make all of them irrelevant.
For an organization named Move-On, this group sure hasn't a clue as to how to do that.
These bozos are starting to sound like the jihadists. They don't take into consideration the possibility that they just might lose.
I say they should go for it. I support Move-on.org. They do more to keep republicans in power than the RNC.
Exactly. The Republicans have been in power for awhile, voters won't switch to Lenin overnight.
It's like that person Rush refers to from the Nixon election (after Nixon carried 49 states) who said something to the effect of "How did he win? Everyone I know voted for McGovern..."
I'm not sure that the people would not turn out and vote the extreme Lefties in. They almost did it in '00 and '04
Move on finally got something right,where do I send my $$?
"Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas is named specifically as a potential target of the organization's new agenda."
So he's the one.
But before it gets involved in any nasty Democratic primaries, MoveOn wants to have the OK from its base.
Wonderful, the blind leading the blinder.
Rush has been predicting this for a long time, this is just one more, of many signs that the dummie party is falling apart! Go Move on, Go Cindy SheeMan, Go Kerry, Go Dean & Kennedy, Obama etc. etc....
Moveon wants to do a purge of the Dem leadership? A la the Communist Party?
I'll kick in a few bucks.
"Almost" does not a victory make. ;)
And so it begins.....
The Lib/Dem Civil War has already begun, and we get a ring-side seat to the destruction of a Once-Fine Party....
The REAL JFK must be rolling in his grave over what the Left-Of-Mars crowd has done to the Party.....
This is looking a lot like the 02 election.
Maybe the far right can take a lesson from the dims.
Please don't spend your political energy chasing out us despised moderates from the rep party.
The insanity that makes up the core in that party must be treated precisely like the insane....Constantly aggitated and distracted.
The party does this quite deliberately, for lack of any coherent, cohesive message to offer. They've rationalized themselves into oblivion. No amount of heart-breaking, crushing political defeats can sober them to this reality. These lunatics have all the passion on their side, while the party calculates carefully and chooses which 'outrage' is the most politically viable to undertake. This party is very aware of this country's preception of their base and they've proven to be too far gone for mass acceptance. This rediculous party can't afford to be true to their own selves, much less the entire nation.
The in-fighting is happening NOW, just as we're only mere months from the heat of the '06 elections....6 years of unconscious, unrelenting resistance and spite of this President has produced NOTHING. This is an undeniably conflicted party that is only now just begining to reckon with itself, just like a death row inmate.
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