MBVD: MoveOn is THE Gift That Keeps Giving...To The GOP

Monday, September 17, 2007

MoveOn is THE Gift That Keeps Giving...To The GOP

Cross posted from Wake up America

Especially to presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.

Quick recap for anybody that hasn't seen the dust up MoveOn caused with an ad attacking General Petraeus, an ad that some Democrats have mildly spoken out against but the majority of Democratic politicians have silently stood by, some hoping that by ignoring the whole issue it would go away, and some, like Hillary Clinton, going as far to pander to MoveOn by reiterating their slanderous accusations.

Republicans immediately stood up and spoke out and John Boehner even proposed a resolution to condemn the baseless accusations which the Democratic politicians blocked from coming to a vote, further pandering to MoveOn.

Caught up? Good.

Enter Rudy Giuliani.

As I said, I have not decided who I will personally endorse yet, but Rudy Giuliani definitely stood up to be counted and went on the offensive against MoveOn and Hillary Clinton and defended General Petraeus against their unfounded attack against the General, a man that was voted unanimously, 81-0, into the position of of commanding our troops in Iraq, with a full page ad of his own in the New York Times.

Take a look at the role call on that vote, Hillary Clinton was one of those that voted unanimously for General Petraeus.

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He then followed that up with a video on his website that pounded the point home.

"Just when our troops need all our support to finish the job, Hillary Clinton is turning her back on them," the ad's narrator intones. "General Petraeus and the brave men and women now serving under him deserve an apology. And our nation deserves better."

His online donations instantly started coming in and support for him rose immediately.

Despite attempts from the left side of the blogosphere, and the Democratic politicians to make this issue go away, it is still being reported on, blogged on and talked about in a variety of mediums and will no doubt haunt the Democratic presidential candidates well into the 2008, for no other reason than they did not step up to the plate and denounce MoveOn for going to far and crossing a line.

As we showed yesterday, active military and veterans alike as well as their families and supporters are understandably upset and angered over MoveOn's attack ad as well as the Democrats that did not condemn them for it, especially Hillary Clinton.

One such Iraq veteran publicly took Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer to the woodshed. In that same piece we showed you the American Legion, which is the largest organization of veterans that exists today and has since 1919 also stepping up and speaking out against MoveOn.

One retired Air Force Colonel is looking for legal help to sue MoveOn for libel on behalf of General Petraeus.

This is not going away and it is a noose around the neck of every Democratic politician that did not stand up and condemn MoveOn's ad against General Petraeus, as it should be.

A piece in The Swamp points out how Clinton is trying to doubletalk her way out of condemning MoveOn, without success.

McCain, too, has repeatedly called on Clinton to renounce the anti-war group's rhetoric.

But as Clinton received the endorsement today of Gen. Wesley Clark, the retired four star general who opposes the Iraq war, she twice refused to do so.

"I made clear my great respect for Gen. Petraeus and his service to our country,'' Clinton said, referring to her remarks at the Senate Armed Services hearing last week.

Clinton said the disagreement she has with her Republican opponents and with President Bush is over how to end the war and how to address the failures of the administration and work towards a political solution.

When asked a second time if she thought the ad went too far, Clinton again said that she has repeatedly expressed her admiration for Petraeus and for the troops.

"I think that speaks for itself,'' Clinton said.

Still, her refusal to explicitly say the ad was unfair has provided great fodder for candidates on the Republican side of the presidential race.

In Florence, S.C., McCain said he couldn't understand Clinton's position.

"I don’t know how you can say you admire Gen. Petraeus and you won't condemn an advertisement that accuses him of betraying the United States of America,'' he said. "That just is nonsense. I hope she'll reconsider and condemn that ad. I've seen her in the presence of Gen. Petraeus and she respects him and admires him. I hope she'll change her position."

It isn't like Hillary doesn't have other problems dogging her already, Norman Hsu being one in a long list, and as she tries her hardest to distract everyone from this MoveOn issue and her standing with them, the rest of us, will not forget and we will not let anyone else forget her words against General Petraeus, the man she voted for to go into Iraq and command and the man she has now betrayed with her words.

MoveOn managed to refocus the American people and forced them to either agree with them, or rally behind General Petraeus, a man who has devoted his life to our country and polls that have been taken since the MoveOn ad hit the paper has shown the public trusts General Petraeus and our military by 68% and even the presidents number rose within days of that ad coming out in the NYT.

MoveOn, it seems, is the gift that keeps giving....to the GOP.

Amazing for a group that has donated, contributed and supported the Democrats for so long.

The problem that the Democratic politicians have now is that it is too late to condemn MoveOn, even if they wanted to, and despite the fact that MoveOn has damaged them and that they would prefer MoveOn to keep giving them money but quit acting out like a spoiled child and making them look bad, MoveOn will not stand down, will not stop acting out because, as they stated so bluntly, they bought and own the Democratic party.

December 2004:

In a December 9th e-mail signed by “Eli Pariser, Justin Ruben, and the whole MoveOn PAC team,” the Soros front group stated: “In the last year, grassroots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the Party doesn't need corporate cash to be competitive. Now it's our Party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.”

Yes, MoveOn.org, the gift that keeps on giving....to the GOP.

[Update] More from the Nashua Telegraph.

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George Bush's March 28, 2007 Discusses Economy, War on Terror During Remarks to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association;http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/03/20070328-2.html
Mitch McConnell's March 15, 2007 Funding For Troops, Not Timelines for Retreat; http://mcconnell.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=270747&start=1
Ronald Reagan's June 12, 1987 Tear Down This Wall Speech; http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/wall.asp
Vice President Cheney's March 12, 2007 Remarks at the AIPAC 2007 Policy Conference; http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/03/20070312.html

Winston Churchill Quotes

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
I like a man who grins when he fights.
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Never, never, never give up.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Ronald Reagan Quotes

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources
Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.
Facts are stupid things.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
How can a president not be an actor?
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Israel was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tryanny and unrest.
Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?".
Man is not free unless government is limited.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.
There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.