Conservativeland: Leave Your Mind At The Door, Papers Required
Today’s denizen of Conservativeland is Bruce McQuain of QandO who now believes MoveOn failed because their ad didn’t swing public opinion or Republicans to vote against the war. Because, as we all know, the entire war issue always hinged on MoveOn, right? Those Republicans were just poised to vote to end the war, but then they saw the MoveOn ad and that’s all she wrote!
My, how stupid. MoveOn created a provocative ad, as a result the Republican party and their leader the President decided to attack them rather than address the issues of the war and the men and women dying as a result. MoveOn is raising a significant amount of money that will, in the long term, be used to promote progressive causes and their membership rolls will be increased.
As I noted in the comments to that post, the more important issue was that testimony by David Petraeus and a primetime speech by President Bush did not move the needle in favor of the war forever position. MoveOn is great and all, but in the pantheon of things their organization pales in importance next to the military and the White House. That the president is so wrong that his sphere of influence only has any sway with a deluded 25% or so of the population is more concerning to me than whether an interest group like MoveOn “failed”.
But this is Conservativeland, and logic need not apply.
(and yeah, I and many others aren’t scared the President of Iran might use words — shudder)
More on Soro’s OSI and the threat to democracy from Investors Business Daily -
“The irony here is that Soros claims to be an advocate of an “open society.” His OSI does just the legal minimum to disclose its activities. The public shouldn’t have to wait until an annual report is out before the light is flipped on about the Open Society’s political action.”
http://ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=275526219598836
War? What war? There’s a George Soros over there!!!