Next DNC Chairman: Howard Dean?

Paul writes to call attention to the latest from Move On:

.... A scathing e-mail from the head of MoveOn's political action committee to the group's supporters on Thursday targets outgoing Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe as a tool of corporate donors who alienated both traditional and progressive Democrats.

"For years, the party has been led by elite Washington insiders who are closer to corporate lobbyists than they are to the Democratic base," said the e-mail from MoveOn PAC's Eli Pariser. "But we can't afford four more years of leadership by a consulting class of professional election losers."

Under McAuliffe's leadership, the message said, the party coddled the same corporate donors that fund Republicans to bring in money at the expense of vision and integrity.

"In the last year, grass-roots 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," the message continued. "Now it's our party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back."

Pariser urged MoveOn supporters to help support a DNC chair with a bold vision to represent Democrats outside Washington. Democrats will vote at their February meeting in Washington on a successor to McAuliffe....

In related news, called to our attention by another blogger, Michael "Payback Tuesday" Moore continues to hallucinate:

"Fahrenheit 9/11" director Michael Moore on Monday rejected the idea that Hollywood had hurt John Kerry's chances of winning the White House, insisting that he and other entertainers helped spare Democrats an even bigger defeat.

"For the last month, we've had to listen to a lot of conservative pundits talk about how Democrats need to run away from Hollywood," Moore said. "It's actually the opposite. Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story."

In the final analysis, Moore said, Democratic presidential nominee Kerry was "not the best candidate." President Bush "had a more compelling story to tell and the Democrats didn't, and that has to change."....

Before the election, many Democrats and liberal activists in groups like MoveOn.org hailed "Fahrenheit 9/11" for its scathing critique of Bush and the U.S.-led war in Iraq and saw the film as a tool for rallying opposition.

After Bush's re-election last month, some analysts suggested that Moore and other outspoken celebrities on the left had had become polarizing figures who alienated Middle America as much as they galvanized the Democratic faithful.

But Moore said he and liberal activists, including show business figures, had helped turn out millions of new voters who backed the Democrats on Election Day....

Just to refresh your memory, Faithful Reader, here is who Michael "Payback Tuesday" Moore supported before he supported John "F" Kerry.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 12/10/04 07:58:41 AM
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