A Party Bought And Paid For
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 9/21/2007
Election 2008:
MoveOn.org once crowed that it had bought and owned the Democratic
Party. With the Senate now blasting its tactics, that's an open question. But not,
apparently, for Democrats running for president.
The Senate voted 72-25 on Wednesday to stand up for the integrity of America's
leading military field commander, Gen. David Petraeus.
Everyone knew what it was really about: MoveOn's big-bucks ad in the New York Times
that outrageously attacked Petraeus even before he gave his report to Congress on the
Iraq War's progress.
MoveOn.org's Sept. 10 full-page ad childishly played on the field commander's name as
"General Betray Us," in a pre-emptive bid to obscure any potentially positive news
about the war getting out.
The Senate's nonbinding resolution was simple enough: It expressed "full support" for
the general returning from the field of battle and "strongly" condemned "personal
attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all members of the United
States Armed Forces." Given that they voted 81-0 to confirm him less than a year
earlier, it was a reasonable gesture.