The main moonbats behind MoveOn changed their rules to favor “None of the above,†but misunderestimated their colony, who came up with a 70% supermajority to endorse Sen. Barack Obama.ÂÂ
The “winner” accepted the long-term kiss of death from the “Gen. Petraeus/Betray-Us” crowd to get access to its estimated 1.7 nutballs in the Super-Duper Tuesday states. As noted at The Nation:
Organizers said they would “immediately” begin mobilizing on behalf of Obama, leading turnout programs and phone-banking members of MoveOn in targeted states. The group made seven million “GOTV” calls for Democrats in the mid-term elections, and it has an extensive voter file database.
The Republican National Committee wasted little time in using the endorsement to highlight Obama’s title as the newly-crowned “most liberal” member of the Senate (the very link I earlier suggested the endorsement would raise) and to ask why a group founded to defend the Clintons was now rejecting Sen. Hillary Clinton.
(h/t Weasel Zippers.)
Bonus:  The official MoveOn press release quotes comments from its members including this:
“Barack Obama represents CHANGE in so many levels. He brings HOPE that America can, again, be respected by the rest of the world and that Americans can be proud, again, of our leaders!” — Isabelle Mollien, Denver, CO
The ALL CAPS are in the original.
Comment by MayBee on 2/1 @ 1:42 pm #
The ALL CAPS are in the original.
That makes it just all that much more perfessional. MoveOn is no RINKY DINK organization. They’ve bought and paid for the DEMOCRATIC party.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 2/1 @ 1:45 pm #
but wat a burn for bilary.
sssssssssssssssss
thass gonna leave a mark.
;)
so….wat do u guyz do? vote mccain? throw ursef behind romney-the-doomed?
Comment by Carin on 2/1 @ 1:51 pm #
I think I’m going to start CAPITALIZING key WORDS in my comments.
either that, or go all all lowercase and no punctuation
what do you guys THINK?
Comment by cranky-d on 2/1 @ 1:53 pm #
I will give tepid support to Romney (I was a Fred! person) and decide later whether I will even vote for president this time if Romney doesn’t survive. It may be that my concern for our servicemen and women will overcome my disgust for the way McAmnesty treats the members of the party he is supposedly a member of. If I were sure the Dems could be trusted to treat national defense and the armed forces properly, it would make a huge difference to me.
Comment by cranky-d on 2/1 @ 1:56 pm #
carin — don’t forget to make dilleberat missspellings along with teh all lower-case an no punktuation thingy
its edgy, baybee ;)
Comment by MayBee on 2/1 @ 1:59 pm #
baybee
I like that!
(I’m ashamed to admit I have done all caps on some words before. It’s idiotic, I know, but sometimes I’m lazy that way. I’d never do it for a presidential endorsement or any real kind of correspondence. So I can still make fun of it, right?)
Comment by McGehee on 2/1 @ 1:59 pm #
Oooh! Flying monkey season! Where’s my shotgun?
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 2/1 @ 2:00 pm #
u guyz dont membah me?
im crushed.
when i was a guest blogger here i recieved death threats over my punktuation.
;)
Comment by BJTexs on 2/1 @ 2:03 pm #
The endorsement represents the CHANGINESS that HOPEFUL CHANGE brings to the CHANGELICIOUS HOPEFULACIOUS platform of BARRY O’KENNEDY, the candidate of CHANGEROONEY HOPEFISTIC CHANGY HOPEYFULLISTICNESS!!!
collapses
Comment by BJTexs on 2/1 @ 2:08 pm #
Whoa! Levels of CHANGE!! Sweet!
Comment by kelly on 2/1 @ 2:19 pm #
Righteous, indeed. Are there any seats left on the mezzanine level? That way you’re up high enough to smell all that changeyness floating through the air.
Comment by MayBee on 2/1 @ 2:30 pm #
nishi- I remember you so well, I even remember when you didn’t write like that.
Comment by Maggie H. on 2/1 @ 2:49 pm #
Who cares who Move On endorses? Who cares who old Ted Kennedy endorses? Or Caroline? Good Lord, she doesn’t even remember her father that well. It’s all a political stunt. We know that Ted Kennedy and John Kerry are out to keep Hillary from being the nominee. But that doesn’t change the fact that she would be the best president. I am a life-long Democrat, but will vote Republican if Obama is the nominee…others I know will do the same.
Americans are about to make another mistake…as they did eight years ago..and repeated four years ago. Will they never learn?
Comment by BJTexs on 2/1 @ 2:54 pm #
Please take a moment to look up the definition of fact in your friendly, neighborhood dictionary because I don’t think it means what you think it does.
Comment by BJTexs on 2/1 @ 2:56 pm #
kelly:
So many levels of meaning…AND CHANGINESS! You bring the doobie, I’ll meet you at the mezzanine.
Comment by Carin on 2/1 @ 2:59 pm #
But that doesn’t change the fact that she would be the best president. I am a life-long Democrat, but will vote Republican if Obama is the nominee…others I know will do the same.
So … none of this stuff bothers you?
Comment by alppuccino on 2/1 @ 3:06 pm #
“But that doesn’t change the fact that she (Hillary) would be the best president”
Someone’s been listening to John McCain.
Comment by kelly on 2/1 @ 3:14 pm #
You’re on, BJT.
On another note, I wonder if we’ve just spotted the first of a once thought, never-before-seen species, a rara avis as it were, with Maggie: a Moby from the right!
“I am a life-long Democrat, but will vote Republican if Obama is the nominee…others I know will do the same.”
Comment by BJTexs on 2/1 @ 3:16 pm #
Kelly;
When any commentator represents their opinion as fact I tend to tune them out and stop caring about their motivations.
Nuance, the other white meat!
Comment by Andrew on 2/1 @ 3:18 pm #
I am utterly torn by this. I really can see it both ways, looking at Hillary or Obama and CRINGING, and looking at McCain and knowing perfectly well he’s going to Rochambeau us the minute he gets the chance. I can see “staying home” as a way of reminding the GOP that we ought not to be abandoned, and I can see voting him in and sticking it out, the “Shit, I voted for Dole, we survived Nixon” argument.
Because if we stay home, Hillary’s win gets portrayed as the “pivot” election with TEH PUBLIC MANDATE given by the triumph of the New Progressivism. Can’t see how this makes Conservatism stronger.
Then again, how does having a “Conservative” who’s not going to govern as one help us?
I honestly don’t know what I’m going to do on election day if McAmnesty wins the nom. This sucks.
Comment by kelly on 2/1 @ 3:23 pm #
Where have all the flowers gone?
Comment by McGehee on 2/1 @ 3:47 pm #
Me, I’m gonna do research.
Comment by JD on 2/1 @ 5:04 pm #
nishizonoshinji – We like you. Much.
BJ – If not for Barry’s message of changeyMcHopefullchange, civilisation as we know it would be plummetting on a firey trip straight to hell.
Comment by Rusty on 2/1 @ 5:33 pm #
What you need to remember is that should Obama be elected the Whithouse will be run by the same people who are currently in charge in Chicago.
Should the Clintons win the Whitehouse will be run much like Venezuela.
It’s your vote. Make it count.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/1 @ 5:37 pm #
Listening to Romney last night in the debate from the night before I really liked him. He’s smart. He has a tawdry past but that’s just cause he’s a lot from Massachussetts. I think he would be a fun president cause he’s a better person than most of the Republicans in Congress especially the Senate and they know it.
Comment by cranky-d on 2/1 @ 6:29 pm #
nishi: I was teasing.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 2/1 @ 7:07 pm #
well….happyfeet that is the issue.
he’d prolly make a fine president, or least better than clinton.
but if romney got the nomination alla sudden the whole country wud find out all the mormon whacktheory, and mormon beliefs are right next to scientology on the wierd spectrum.
mccain cant attack him on that it wud look bigotted.
think The Handmaid’s Tale meets the new NIN disc, Year Zero.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 2/1 @ 7:11 pm #
i know mormons and im sry but theres a ton of weird exploitable stuff.
i mean they have to wear “special” underwear for cripes sakes.
and its not pretty.
:(
Comment by McGehee on 2/1 @ 7:15 pm #
Nishi, you need to check out a few Baptists I could tell you about.
Tube tops at weddings. Beer at a funeral.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 2/1 @ 7:29 pm #
Scary Larry Johnson is pissed, pissed, pissed about this.
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/02/01/fuck-you-moveonorg/#more-1446
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 2/1 @ 7:40 pm #
pfft
i had a mormon boyfriend…happyfeet u wud not like that underwear.
it is very unattractive and itchy to boot.
i know jack mormons, they pretty common out here in the west.
my bf’s dad an uncle (elders in the church) rode their horses into the cowboy bar in jackson hole drunk as skunks.
but! mormon whacktheory of which i have only mentioned a very few examples is a big fat exploitable target for say, the moveon slander machine.
whoever runs against the dems shud ideally not have a big fat bullseye painted on his forehead.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/1 @ 7:44 pm #
Mormons are good. McCain is a fag and also he is a scrotum. A very heroic scrotum, but more faggy and scrotal than heroic, really. Especially before next Tuesday.
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[...] Topsecretk9, in Karl’s earlier post about the MoveOn endorsement of Barack Obama, alerts us to Larry Johnson’s consequent meltdown: So much for principle. When the Republican led effort to condemn MoveOn.org for its ad calling General Petraeus on the carpet for being a political hack and betraying the troops, who stood with MoveOn’s right to have a voice? Hillary Clinton. Barack “the Coward†Obama voted PRESENT. Why? He didn’t want to have to stand for something that might be unpopular in a national election. [...]
Comment by happyfeet on 2/1 @ 7:46 pm #
Ok maybe Mormons need to stop with teh wacky but you can’t help what religion you’re born into. You can help not elect a faggy scrotum though.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 2/1 @ 8:41 pm #
mormons are good an mormons are fine….but, like scientologists…..their faith is their CHOICE.
whoever is the repub nominee is gonna have a very hard time anyways without the added burden of expoitable professed whacktheories.
mccain has lost u support, and u seem to want to throw in behind mitt….well…i think u shud choose someone electable…..at a minimum.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/1 @ 8:43 pm #
Your faith is not your choice when your dad is loaded.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/1 @ 8:50 pm #
I think also you way overestimate McCain’s “electability.” McCain is all about making the election a “clear choice.” Cause he’s old and pompous and entitled and the Democrat is young and either pigmented or betitted and full of new ideas. That’s the whole deal right there. The media stopped for real loving him cause of the war. Now he’s just useful.
Comment by B Moe on 2/2 @ 12:53 am #
Orson Scott Card is a Mormon, and also one of the best authors I have read. Ever.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 2/3 @ 11:30 am #
But the Democrats — who all seem to believe in the Global Warming religion, and some of whom attend rather… bizarre… churches themselves — are exempt from any such criticism.
Comment by Anna Keppa on 2/3 @ 11:35 am #
“Change, change CHAAAAAAnnnnge…
Change of fOOools…”
(with a tip o’the hat to Aretha)
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