"MoveOn.org: Practicing Republicanism w/o license?"
I'm so tired of hearing all the rightie outrage about the moveon.org ad -- "General Betrayus". I personally didn't like it .. and, as much as some righties would love to think so, it sure doesn't represent the mainstream Democrats I know.
And the Democratic presidential candidates probably haven't said anything against the ad for the same reason the Republican presidential candidates didn't stand up and condemn those inflammatory and outrageous ads the Swiftboaters put out attacking Vietnam veterans back in '08. Nope, the Republicans sure didn't have any trouble with unkind words about men in uniform back then.
Daily Kos says it better than me: "If the Republicans held themselves to the standards they complain that MoveOn violated, President Kerry would be working well with Sen. Max Cleland. The attacks of the Saxby Chambliss campaign and the lies of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are far more foul and as Sen. McCain put it, "McCarthyist" than that ad."
Everyone can be outraged all they want, but the bottom line for savvy pols on both sides of the aisle is -- When running for office, you don't piss off the people who are campaigning for you and/or raising big money for your side.
Nevertheless, a CNN poll showed that the public is still on the side of the end-the-war Democrats. It will take more than that ad to change the minds of fed-up war-weary Americans.
