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March 3, 2005

Rolling Stone Slams MoveOn

Posted by Eric at 9:22 am. Filed under: General

Kevin at Wizbang points to this Rolling Stone article and has a good laugh.

Like so many other Internet start-ups, MoveOn has raised — and burned through – tens of millions of dollars, innovating without producing many concrete results. Any reasonable analysis shows its stock may be dangerously overvalued. Those banking on MoveOn had better hope it is more Google than Pets.com. Because should the group flame out, the Democrats could be in for a fall of Nasdaq proportions.

More…

Now that Howard Dean has been named chair of the Democratic National Committee — an ascension that MoveOn helped to engineer — the Internet activist group is placing another high-stakes wager. It’s betting that its 3 million grass-roots revolutionaries can seize the reins of the party and establish the group as a lasting political force. “It’s our Party,” MoveOn’s twenty-four-year-old executive director, Eli Pariser, declared in an e-mail. “We bought it, we own it and we’re going to take it back.”

The Moderate Voice says:

As we see it, a fundamental issue is whether MoveOn.org is trying to reach the center and attract centrists or, rather, trying to convert centrists to move a bit more in their direction. And that, in a nutshell, is the Democratic party’s struggle as it heads towards the mid-terms and 2008: does it choose to define its identity by moving more towards the center, or does it consider that me-tooism and opt to accentuate differences with the GOP by taking sharper, more confrontational, positions?

If it miscalculates and makes a choice that doesn’t turn out to be the wise one, than all of MoveOn.org’s volunteers– and big bux –won’t make a dime’s worth of a difference.

VodkaPundit, The New Editor, Rosenblog, and Instapundit are all linking to this story as well.


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    Even the liberal mag Rolling Stone seems to have some doubts about the impact of moveon.org on Democratic politics. (H/T Wizbang) They signed up 500,000 supporters with an Internet petition — but Bill Clinton still got impeached. They organized 6,00…

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