Who Is Tom Allen?

Update 2: It is still available here - with the pdf. The link below is the one ABC News had up to Moveon.org's pdf and it is still dead.

Update: The Moveon.org ad goes down the memory hole on their site.

While many conservatives may have issues with Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins, on the heels of the General Betray Us nonsense, I doubt they'd like to see her replaced by Tom Allen who, in his own words, has been bought and paid for by Moveon.org:

Allen: It is. Of course. MoveOn.org did this huge push for me in June when they found out that Joe Lieberman was doing an event for her (Collins) on June 21st. A couple of weeks before they pitched to their members, and in five days they raised $250,000 for us. That whole netroots community just gets very riled up by the fact that Susan's been a supporter of the President. She's tried to hide it. You can't find much about Iraq on her website. But that's the truth. She's been with Joe Lieberman on this from the beginning.

According to a CNN report, Tom Allen has received more Moveon.org money than all Democrat presidential candidates combined. Moveon.org's disgraceful ad today has shown the group's true colors to be something other than red, white and blue. It's time for Tom Allen to either give the money back, or simply move on himself.

Earlier in the day, Sen. John Ensign, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, called on Democratic Senate candidates to return MoveOn.org donations. So far, only one Democratic Senate candidate, Tom Allen of Maine, has received money from the group, though the amount he has received, almost $250,000, makes up nearly half of the group’s total campaign contributions this year.

Comments

[Purple Avenger]

When even John Kerry says you've gone too far, then you've gone too far. I'm hoping for much much more of this kind of thing from MoveOn in the coming year. Its really going to "resonate" with the voting public ;->

[Kaitain]

It's still on their site.

http://pol.moveon.org/petraeus.html

[Notropis]

It's still linked prominently from their home page. And the home page link takes you here:

http://pol.moveon.org/petraeus.html

which links to the ad at a slightly different url.

So, fortunately, they're more tone deaf than one might fear.

[Notropis]

What Kaitan said....

[Rob]

This link is still working. PDF link is there too.

http://pol.moveon.org/petraeus.html

Maybe MoveOn switched around the URL to force people to have to come to their site to see the ad.

[Dan Riehl]

I don't know. I just followed the link from ABC News and it was dead.

[Qwinn]

"Moveon.org's disgraceful ad today has shown the group's true colors to be something other than red, white and blue."

Oh, I dunno. White and blue, sure, but I wouldn't say they've been shown to be something other than red.

Qwinn

[seekeronos]

I suspect a key colour Moveon.org is fond of is not only Marxist Red, but Journalist Yellow as well... a fitting combination of which is similar to that of the old Soviet flag, or the PRC (Red Chinese) flag.

As for "European White", they likely have a deep and abiding hatred of themselves (those among them who are of European-American heritage) or if referring to "Pure Integrity White", then those who have sold themselves to Hitlary's siren songs have muddied it with the soil of her lies and obfuscations, either splotching it with "Vince Foster Red", "Corrupt Chinese Campaign Fund Green", or "Missile Secret Black", turning the palette into a disgusting, mess of something resembling "Fermented Cow Patty Brown".

And any sense of "Loyalty True Blue", which they assiduously claim to have for America, was sold off to the likes of the Hungarian Internationalist Bazillionaire, Georg Soros quite some time ago.

[nowingker]

Oh brother. How about the average age at Moveon is probably 25, and they have the irrational 100% righteous conviction of their worldview that occurs in the very young and immature and the very stupid and crazy. Matter of fact, Moveon has a lot in common with WingerWorld: righteous indignation that anyone disagrees with themselves, petulance and anger at the slightest deviation in dogma, a tendency toward hysteria and the painting of anyone that does not agree with every point as an evil enemy.

It is immature and stupid to call people names. All the wordplay on people's names is idiotic and coarsens debate, and that includes Hitlery, Democrat Party, libruls, Dimmicrats and all the creations of the right.

General Betray Us is stupid, pathetic, mean spirited and ugly.

But, that doesn't mean that I don't agree that Petreous is more politician than soldier or that his 'the surge worked' but Iraq is still broken line of B.S. is anything but a line of B.S.

I've decided that the last 30 years has seen a rise at the Pentagon of people who are good at politics and not war. The quintesential straight up soldier who tells it like it is when it comes to the mission never gets above a colonal anymore. That isn't a slam on the troops but it seems to me that the people running the war are not very good at war, but are very, very good at spin. It makes sense since DOD has become a bureaocracy and hasn't had to test itself since Vietnam.

[BobInStamford]

"I don't know. I just followed the link from ABC News and it was dead."

Wow, what a journalist. Try here, patriot, http://moveon.org/

Sheesh...

[The Truth About The Iraq War]

Hi,

Thought this news might be of some interest to your readers:

NEW moveon,org TV ad coming out on monday sept 17th...basically calling president bush a traitor.

Catch it here:
http://iraqsinconvenienttruth.com/2007/09/14/908/

For general David Betray Us fans or not:
http://davidbetrayus.com/

Have a great weekend!
Steve