Close, but no. Moveon started as a "you CAN'T impeach the president just for getting his dick wet" movement. It ignored inconvenient facts like, say, provable perjury by a high government official and sworn member of the Supreme Court Bar. The censure idea was a fig leaf. But it was an effective fig leaf, because it made the whole thing look like a sex scandal when it wasn't.
Note that their next step was the "we will remember" campaign - a classic of rejectionist action. It was only after that that they morphed into a policy-advocacy group.
And yes, they play fast and loose with the facts. That's been their hallmark since day one.
The initial anti-war protests were, quite bluntly, mostly anti-Bush folks. They picked up momentum, esp. as things ramped up WRT Iraq. But the core? Domestically, it was anti-Bush. Overseas, much more anti-American-exceptionalism.
And yes, I found it amusing that everyone on both sides was running on a "not-Bush" campaign basis. But 2006, I didn't see Dem's campaigning _for_ an agenda, so much as _against_ the Bush/Republican agenda. And I'll note, further, that what agenda they _did_ run on, they didn't bother to stick to. Nancy Pelosi's pledge to clean up Congress always makes me laugh, esp. WRT the shenanigans of her annointed golden boy, John Murtha.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2009-04-17 07:16 pm (UTC)Note that their next step was the "we will remember" campaign - a classic of rejectionist action. It was only after that that they morphed into a policy-advocacy group.
And yes, they play fast and loose with the facts. That's been their hallmark since day one.
The initial anti-war protests were, quite bluntly, mostly anti-Bush folks. They picked up momentum, esp. as things ramped up WRT Iraq. But the core? Domestically, it was anti-Bush. Overseas, much more anti-American-exceptionalism.
And yes, I found it amusing that everyone on both sides was running on a "not-Bush" campaign basis. But 2006, I didn't see Dem's campaigning _for_ an agenda, so much as _against_ the Bush/Republican agenda. And I'll note, further, that what agenda they _did_ run on, they didn't bother to stick to. Nancy Pelosi's pledge to clean up Congress always makes me laugh, esp. WRT the shenanigans of her annointed golden boy, John Murtha.