Posted on 12/02/2004 1:13:03 AM PST by kattracks
After President Bush won re-election, many political observers expected MoveOn.org to move into retreat. The sentiment surrounding the liberal online powerhouse was neatly summed up by The Onion, a well-known satire publication, in its spoof headline: "MoveOn CurlsUp InCorner."[snip]
Armed with over $30 million raised from donors ranging from students to billionaire financier George Soros, MoveOn moved well beyond cyberspace -- organizing star-studded concerts, airing television ads produced by A-list Hollywood directors and mobilizing 70,000 members to walk precincts in key battleground states.
But the efforts proved ultimately unsuccessful, and amid the inevitable postelection recriminations MoveOn came in for plenty of heat.
Republicans took aim at the group for allowing a member's proposed TV ad comparing Bush to Adolph Hitler to be briefly posted on its Web site.
Others complained that MoveOn and other so-called 527 organizations like America Coming Together and the Media Fund sometimes worked at cross-purposes with the Kerry campaign, creating a hodgepodge of confusing messages.
Still others said that while MoveOn was effective in stirring up a sense of righteous anger among hardcore Democratic partisans and anti-war activists, the message didn't necessarily resonate with swing voters.
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"People really feel like they're at the beginning of a movement rather than the end of a campaign,"
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
over $30 million raised from donors
What a waste!
They must be some where.X-M carries them on it's left talk channel. Great comic relief it's almost as funny as reading DU in short doses.
They could call themselves moveout.org and do the same thing. Move out!
Say, Isn't that pretty much the definition of Evil?
Check their pedigrees. They are hardcore Marxists, disguised as "middle-class concerned citizens". They are the umbrella group for all the loonie movements.
Grass roots and Soros are two words that have no place in the same sentence, but it gives them that folksy populist appearance. KGB had hundreds of them around the world.
Lt.-Gen. Ion Pacepa, (KGB insider; deputy chief of Romanian foreign intelligence DIE and the highest-ranking defector from the Soviet bloc,) has written numerous articles detailing the KGB front organizations in the US and rest of the world.
They have several problems, but, fortunately, do not understand them.
First, they think money is everything, so it is used to hire all those "volunteers" to do the leg work.
Second, they think lies will change peoples minds, since network news has done it for so long, but they forget the alternative media.
Third, they hate and hate destroys.
There are more, but why bother, since they act as a black hole for money that would have gone to the dem party. They are dead men walking.
Ha Ha, I just read that. After I clicked in, I was at the beginning of a movement....and had to step away for awhile.
Results seem to be the same as theirs.
Maybe they can hire Dan Rather for webcasts and forgeries.
Exactly. Its reminiscent of 'United We Stand' back in '92. Remember them? Anyone?
"People really feel like they're at the beginning of a movement rather than the end of a campaign,"
Bowel movement?
They lost big, and they still aren't as cool as FReepers. :)
LOLOLOLOLOL!
I did poll watching at an Elementary School in Las Vegas, NV.
In the 8 hours I was there, there were three different Moveon.org people.
All were from California.
All had cells & names/phone numbers/lists of "their" voters to call.
All called their voters and checked the posting of the voters who had voted every two hours.
They were organized.
Exactly. All MoveOn has to do is keep the spectre of the "Evil Right" in the paranoid minds of the left and the money will roll in. It's like printing money.
Not fair - you stole my joke!!!
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