MoveOn has become a force to be reckoned with

Rolling Stone ^ | Feb. 24, 2005 | TIM DICKINSON

[JesseJane]

"It's our Party," MoveOn's twenty-four-year-old executive director, Eli Pariser, declared in an e-mail. "We bought it, we own it and we're going to take it back."

[JesseJane]

~fyi ping~

[mewzilla]

In fact, there appears to be an almost willful ignorance about who actually composes MoveOn. "We're pretty light on the demographics," Boyd says without apology.

Gee, I wonder why. Snort.

[Semper Paratus]

The lefty wackos are taking over the 'rat party from the bottom up.

It's a beautiful thing.

[deepFR]

They signed up 500,000 supporters with an Internet petition -- but Bill Clinton still got impeached. They organized 6,000 candlelight vigils worldwide -- but the U.S. still invaded Iraq. They raised $60 million from 500,000 donors to air countless ads and get out the vote in the battle-ground states -- but George Bush still whupped John Kerry. A gambler with a string of bets this bad might call it a night. But MoveOn.org just keeps doubling down.

With friends like this, who needs enema's?

[2banana]

For a political organization that likes to rail against "the consulting class of professional election losers," MoveOn seems remarkably unconcerned about its own win-loss record.

But there's little evidence that the huge investment yielded a political profit. If speaking to the center was MoveOn's goal, "they failed miserably," says Greg Strimple, a media consultant who advised the Senate campaigns of three GOP moderates. "None of their ads had an impact on the center electorate that needed to be swung." If the group's leadership saw anything broken with its advertising during the campaign, though, it shows no signs of fixing it. In a rush to get its new Social Security ad on the air, MoveOn didn't even test it.

Like so many other Internet start-ups, MoveOn has raised -- and burned through -- tens of millions of dollars, innovating without producing many concrete results. Any reasonable analysis shows its stock may be dangerously overvalued. Those banking on MoveOn had better hope it is more Google than Pets.com. Because should the group flame out, the Democrats could be in for a fall of Nasdaq proportions.

I would suggest selling short...

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...MoveOn has become a force to be reckoned with...

Great, its time for a reckoning.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Its just a matter of time before the Donk Party has a completely new name. I'm guessing it will contain "Children and Families" or something like it.

[SoFloFreeper]

Oh, yeah, Moveon.org has such a great track record. Lots of successes.

[johnandrhonda]

"It's betting that its 3 million grass-roots revolutionaries can seize the reins of the party and establish the group as a lasting political force."

Know what you get when you add 3 million zeros together?

[dirtboy]

MoveOn has become a force to be reckoned with

So is an open scuttling valve on a ship.

Thanks for the ping.

[MadIvan]

Moveon is guided by a tiny, tightknit group of leaders.

Reminds me of the Bolsheviks and the revolutionary vanguard. Lefty idiots, if you're reading this, the only way Lenin got traction in Russia was because that society and its government had collapsed due to the First World War. Before the war, Lenin thought he was going to die in obscurity. He should have.

Regards, Ivan

[TChris]

You must understand that the average liberal doesn't measure their success by actual accomplishment. The fact that they said something, got angry and shook their fists is just as good, in their world, as actually doing something. Fearless leftie leader, William Jefferson Clinton, demonstrated this philosophy time and time again.

[Guillermo]

"It's our Party," MoveOn's twenty-four-year-old executive director, Eli Pariser, declared in an e-mail. "We bought it, we own it..."

Hehe, imagine if Ralph Reed had of said this after the 1994 election...

[tobyhill]

Moveon is toast! Of their "so-called" 500,000 members, 90% of them can't vote because they're either felons or rent skippers that are not registered properly at their newest address. In 2 years Moveon will be as obsolete as ACORN.

[Jibaholic]

MoveOn is a force in the Democratic Party's battle between the hardcore leftists and the centrists of the DLC, but they are a disaster for the party. The bigger the mouthpiece the MoveOn crowd gets, the more everyday Americans realize that the Democratic party does not share their values.

[Semper Paratus]

I expect the 2008 Convention to have a "Salud to Che Guevra" night.

[Uncle George]

Next step; Elect Rodney King and rename it" Can't We All just Get Along And Move On .Com"

[Guillermo]

"And if you'd been reading any of their publications, you'd think that we were a bunch of wildass lunatics."

No, actually, I believe you're a bunch of wild-assed lunatics because of what you yourself say and write.

Wild ass lunacies always speak for themselves.

[SoFloFreeper]

If "a force to be reckoned with" were plant life, this would be FREE REPUBLIC:

And this would be Moveon.org:

Notice the tree has been destroyed from the inside by termites.