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2004-12-10 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Korora 2004-12-10 12:04:23 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

Posted by gromky 2004-12-10 12:54:35 AM|| 2004-12-10 12:54:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Can't wait till the denunciation posters start going up...Damned wreckers! Capitalist tools all! Long live Howie Dean, Hero of the People's Revolution!

Posted by mojo 2004-12-10 1:08:56 AM|| 2004-12-10 1:08:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "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,"

Sure. And the crack dealer at 135th and Lenox Ave also can raise huge sums in short order. But how did you spend the money, sweetheart, and to what effect?

Let's see: Dean burned and crashed after blazing through $50 million in a matter of weeks. And then during the fall campaign, you bought scores of redundant and utterly pointless ads in the bitterly contested state of... New York. Full pagers in MSM publications targeting... loyal Dem supporters. And all while Rove was out-registering and out-hustling and out-organizing you sh*theads-- and with 1.4 million volunteers.

MoveOn, the dotcom version of a political organization. DreamOn's more like it.

Posted by lex 2004-12-10 1:19:28 AM|| 2004-12-10 1:19:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 He then went on to say "The rich, especially those who didn't earn their money and don't work are the real Democratic base, especially celebrities who are paid obscene amounts of money for just turning up somewhere. People like (fill in your own names here). These are the intellectual driving force behind the party ....."

Posted by phil_b 2004-12-10 1:20:37 AM|| 2004-12-10 1:20:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Dotcom idiots with the souls of plutocrats: "Itâs our party: we bought it, we own it, and weâre going to take it back."

Posted by lex 2004-12-10 1:21:02 AM|| 2004-12-10 1:21:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 A surplus of money was the worst possible thing that could have happened to the Dem organization in this campaign. If they'd had less money and more intelligence, they'd have done as Rove did and developed an organizational model that relied on sober, intelligent, disciplined adults working for free rather than paid union hacks with bullhorns and idiotic kids looking to show they too can waste millions on ads that preached to the choir.

Posted by lex 2004-12-10 1:25:02 AM|| 2004-12-10 1:25:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Note to FRED: Ads by Google's not very intelligent, is it?
I mean, advertising on Rantburg for (see right side of this page)"Beat Bush Gear" and "Don't Blame Me I Voted 4 Kerry.com" and Emily's List ?!

Posted by lex 2004-12-10 1:44:00 AM|| 2004-12-10 1:44:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I make it a habit to click on sites like Soros and Emily's List. They have more money than brains, and it's fitting they help pay for this site.

Posted by ed 2004-12-10 6:22:36 AM|| 2004-12-10 6:22:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Here's hoping that moveon.org helps the democrat party become the 21st century version of the Whigs...

Posted by M. Murcek 2004-12-10 8:50:20 AM|| 2004-12-10 8:50:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 ed, ditto-ing that. I consider it an appropriate form of moolah redistribution.

Posted by Sobiesky 2004-12-10 8:56:43 AM|| 2004-12-10 8:56:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 I for one welcome the prospect of more Republicans = Hitler ads (this time with "official" Democrat Party label firmly affixed), more calls for US defeat in Iraq, and more demands for the media to be less "conservative" in their coverage.

The 2006 midterms beckon, and MoveOn is ready to tell all those red state rubes just how evil and stupid they are. *eg*

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-12-10 9:24:53 AM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2004-12-10 9:24:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 "Call me crazy..." No problem!

Posted by Tom 2004-12-10 9:30:41 AM|| 2004-12-10 9:30:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 pass some of that popcorn, Gromky?

Posted by Frank G 2004-12-10 9:57:18 AM|| 2004-12-10 9:57:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 "Well, I for one welcome our new moonbat overlords."

/DNC

Posted by BH 2004-12-10 10:15:12 AM|| 2004-12-10 10:15:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 If the Democrats succeed in marginalizing themselves, who will fill the vaccuum?

Posted by eLarson 2004-12-10 10:48:22 AM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2004-12-10 10:48:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 "Yeah! We lost by a very close margin this time....let's see if we can lose by a landslide in 2006!"
Grass-roots contributors = George Soros and that Progressive Insurance guy.
Must be the new math.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2004-12-10 10:55:36 AM|| 2004-12-10 10:55:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 Mr. Soros paid good money for you, so assume the yoke of your indentured servitude like a good little moonbat now.

Posted by Mike 2004-12-10 11:52:13 AM|| 2004-12-10 11:52:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 In 1997, arch-lefty Thomas Frank bit the hand that fed the American Left when he published his remarkable expose of the commercial media culture, The Conquest of Cool. This remains a landmark of cultural history and the best exposition yet of the real nature of the dominant media culture.
Tom was still in his 20s at the time and his attack on this particular form of corporate dominance may have been just a fit of youthful idealism, but this could also be part of a larger pattern of gradual self-destruction on the Left.
Move-On's attack on its own power-base, corporate donations, would fit the same pattern; the fantasy ideology directed against itself by people too arrogant and too deluded to avoid being taken in by their own propaganda.
It is fatal hubris.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-12-10 12:28:22 PM|| 2004-12-10 12:28:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 "All your party's base are belong to us."

To accentuate the positive, since MorOn says that it can control something it paid for, does that mean they support people who want to develop the land they paid for?

Posted by jackal 2004-12-10 12:41:25 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2004-12-10 12:41:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Heh heh heh.

Thanks for the popcorn, gromky. Next batch is on me. ;-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-12-10 3:25:42 PM|| 2004-12-10 3:25:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Emily's list?

You mean Our Emily has been financing the Democratic Party?

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-12-10 6:43:57 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-12-10 6:43:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake -- Napoleon.

Moveon, you just keep doing what you are doing... And Mr Soros, keep cutting those big checks and claiming its "grass roots" that finance things for your bought and paid for organization. Keep on fooling yourself - you keep getting the great results like you got this time, especially after you run off the professionals in the party that can run a campagin, leving you with demagogues and dimwits like Oliver "What-chu-talkin-bout" Willis.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-12-10 11:03:00 PM|| 2004-12-10 11:03:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Oh please...please...please pick Howie!!!

eeeYEEHAA!

I gotta get me one of those big bags of popcorn!

Posted by Darth VAda 2004-12-10 11:31:54 PM|| 2004-12-10 11:31:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake -- Napoleon.

Moveon, you just keep doing what you are doing... And Mr Soros, keep cutting those big checks and claiming its "grass roots" that finance things for your bought and paid for organization. Keep on fooling yourself - you keep getting the great results like you got this time, especially after you run off the professionals in the party that can run a campagin, leving you with demagogues and dimwits like Oliver "What-chu-talkin-bout" Willis.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-12-10 11:03:00 PM|| 2004-12-10 11:03:00 PM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by OldSpook 2004-12-10 11:03:00 PM|| 2004-12-10 11:03:00 PM|| Front Page Top

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