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2007-06-29 Home Front: Politix

Republicans To Make Moveon.org Clone For Conservatives

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-29 10:05|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 A simple test. If the first issue this website faced was the rank and file telling the Republican leadership what they really think, it would be a LOT harsher than what the Moonbats tell their politicos about the Iraq war.

The WH, Senate and probably even the House would NOT like to hear what they would have to say.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-29 10:10|| 2007-06-29 10:10|| Front Page Top

#2 MoveOn.org Political Action says it raised $31.9 million in 2004. It spent much of that to try to defeat President Bush.

Republicans have loved painting MoveOn as a special-interests bogeyman, but have also been jealous and admiring of the groups effectiveness.

Ummmmmmm...they don't look too effective to me...

Posted by tu3031 2007-06-29 10:49|| 2007-06-29 10:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Moveon.org is effective at getting large amounts of money from a few impassioned donors like George Soros. Think how much easier it would be for Republican fundraisers if they could tap a very few donors for a great deal of money, instead of having to please all the little people.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-29 12:03|| 2007-06-29 12:03|| Front Page Top

#4 It's times like this that I want to hit the perp with a rolld up newspaper and shout "NO!" I dislike rabid right-wingers as much as I hate the left.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-06-29 12:07|| 2007-06-29 12:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Just don't clone Soros. One megalomaniacal billionaire who wants to transform humanity to his own creepy specifications is quite enough, thank you.

Posted by Mike 2007-06-29 12:58|| 2007-06-29 12:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Cyber Sarge: While the rantings of extremists on either side are annoying and irresponsible, they do perform a useful function. By reminding the moderate politicians that there is a passionate base that gets a little annoyed when they stray to the middle, but a LOT annoyed when they completely forget who elected them.

For example, if that was a rank and file site, can you imagine the bonfire it would have lit about immigration? The Washington Republicans would have been far more aware that the rank and file, and not just the far right, were carrying torches and pitchforks.

The problem is that politicians really tend to get insulated in the Beltway, where reality is distorted beyond belief. Unless they travel home a lot and talk to their constituents, they really don't know what they are thinking.

It would be much the same if you could only get your news from MSNBC. Pretty soon, you would lose your grasp of what was really going on out there.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-29 17:20|| 2007-06-29 17:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Neither Blakeman nor Rogich are household names -- but both were influential, behind-the-scenes White House players who boast extensive Rolodexes.

At this point, it sounds more like GOP-establishment hacks trying to regain funds from disgusted small donors that have left the RNC.

Posted by Pappy 2007-06-29 23:13|| 2007-06-29 23:13|| Front Page Top

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