MoveOn want really MoveOn, unfortunately

Politico:

After more than a decade spent railing against the Republican machine, MoveOn wants to move on —even if it means leaving some of its high-minded ideals behind.

Last week, the group’s members chose their top four priorities for the organization, winnowed down from a top-10 list culled from 50,000 suggestions. The decisions they weighed would determine in large part whether the group would become a friend or foe of the Obama administration, a player or a gadfly in progressive politics, a piece of the Democratic machine or a thorn in the party’s side.

What they chose: universal health care; economic recovery and job creation; building a green economy; stopping climate change; and end the war in Iraq.

What they didn’t: holding the Bush administration accountable; fighting for gay rights and LGBT equality; and reforming campaigns and elections.

MoveOn Executive Director Eli Pariser says that this happy alignment with Barack Obama’s agenda — and fortuitous absence of conflict with same — comes in part because “the people he’s listening to and the people we’re listening to are the same people.”

But it also may be a sign that MoveOn’s members want to move ahead – and that they’re willing to make some ideological sacrifices in exchange for real progress.

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I think what MoveOn will do is return to their nut roots base and go over to the defensive, defending the indefensible Democrat programs and politicians. I am surprised they have not embraced Blagojevich yet, but there are plenty of corrupt Democrats for them to embrace as well as randy cheating Democrats for them to embrace. Today's Dems are into both sex and money.