Move On endorsed Lamont

[TSIAS]

I don't recall seeing such outrage when MoveOn endorsed Lamont over Lieberman in the 2006 Senate primary. The concept was the same for that endorsement. Something like 85 % of the membership choose to endorse Lamont.

While I agreed with their decision, you could make the same argument that they were working against a Democrat. Lieberman was still a Democrat at the time, and had been in office for three terms. I don't remember DU'rs moaning that MoveOn was betraying their membership.

[kerrygoddess]

1. They endorsed Dean too

lotta help that was.

[TSIAS]

4. They didn't endorse Dean

He "won" their primary, but didn't get the 50 % to secure the official endorsement. Although the straw vote did garner Dean a lot of good press and arguably gave him the momentum to become a front-runner.

[kerrygoddess]

my bad - yes it was a straw poll.

getting too old to remember things

[usregimechange]

2. DU turns on the progressive base, who would have ever thought...

[aquart]

5. "Progressive base," my Aunt Fanny.

[usregimechange]

6. wtf?

[readmoreoften]

10. You've got more pictures of Obama on your posts than a schoolgirl with a crush.

Get a grip on yourself. He's a fucking politician, not a Tiger Beat centerfold and not the progressive messiah.

[TSIAS]

12. 2 pics?

Hardly anything to complain about. And at least it's bandwidth friendly.

[Kittycat]

17. Are you going to make me change my avatar & siggy now?

seriously, why does it bother you so much? I personally enjoy seeing his siggy. And I've seen several clinton & edwards supporters with similar picture set-ups. Do you call them out, or just choose to limit it to Obama supporters?

[aquart]

3. Now that's just mean.

[DiamondJay]

7. but we liked Lamont

and MoveOn wasn't working against a Democrat, they were working with a DINO. LAMONT was the one with a D next to his name on the ballot

[Zueda]

8. Mmm.. I'll shut-up

[TSIAS]

9. Lieberman was a Democrat as well

I hate Lieberman as much as the next guy. However, he was still a Democrat and not terribly more conservative than many other Senate Democrats.

[VolcanoJen]

11. And soon-to-be McCain running mate!

So it looks like MoveOn members got the Lamont vote right, too. ;-)

[RiverStone]

13. Obama has the better anti-war record - what's the big fuss?

There is no ambiguity there - between the 2 candidates, Obama wins on that point.

Unions choose, newspapers choose, other politicians choose --- and MoveOn chose. Did Clinton feel owed or something?

Obama deserved their endorsement and of the members that voted, Obama won by a landslide.

[kerrygoddess]

15. welll let's stack his real and proven votes in the Senate up

to HRC's. Ummm.... wow... same votes. Nice. What ever happened to anti-war when he joined the Senate - heck he couldn't support Kerry Feingold.

[Freida5]

14. Don't forget the Kerry endorsement.

[robbedvoter]

16. No Moveon member was for Joementum. Not a democrat.