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MoveOn is Sounding Shrill

March 6th, 2008 by Rich

Is it just me or is Moveon.org getting shrill?

A few weeks ago it was laughing at the republican party because they couldn’t choose a candidate. Something that seemed odd at the time because the Dems had two strong candidates but had yet to decide on either one. Seems even stranger now as the GOP has settled on a candidate–one Rush Limbaugh seems to think is more liberal than Hillary–and the Dems still can’t decide.

Yesterday I received another MoveOn email that started:

It’s official: John McCain is the Republican nominee. That means that as of today, his No. 1 priority will be attacking our candidates.

He’s already accusing both Clinton and Obama of wanting to “surrender” to terrorists because they want to end the disastrous occupation in Iraq.1 And now his attacks will get much louder: He’s got access to enormous party resources, including the whole Republican noise machine.

Now, I’m not sure where the “surrender” quote came from, but I also heard the GOP getting on McCain because he had referred to both Obama and Hillary as “patriots.”

Seems no one likes this McCain guy; not the Dems, not MoveOn, not the GOP faithful, and certainly not Rush Limbaugh.

MoveOn makes me feel dirty for supporting either Dem candidate right  now.

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One Response to “MoveOn is Sounding Shrill”

  1. Jonathan Says:
    March 6th, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    MoveOn.org has taken a lot of heat from Camp Hillary for endorsing Barack (based on a vote by members), but I think it was a dignified action and more major bodies of democratic gravity should follow suit before the party is just as polarized as the country. The sooner a nominee is named, the sooner the tears will dry on the cheeks of the other half of the party, and the sooner we… err.. the Democrats can sharpen their collective sabers for what is sure to be one of the most charged races in history.

    I was at a call party for MoveOn last weekend, calling voters in Texas to educate them on the terribly confusing Primary/Caucus system. More sad than the utter ignorance that exists out there, was the increasingly-evident stress fractures within the party. Although a lot of folks said they would be happy with either candidate, others were very angry with MoveOn’s endorsement and sounded like a McCain vote waiting to happen.

    I say enough of the mud-slinging. Let’s form a joint ticket and flip a shiny nickel to decide who wears the pants.

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