The quiet Soros-funded ground game
posted at 9:48 am on July 12, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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John Fund writes today about an extensive project on the Left to transform politics on a local and state level. The project, Democracy Alliance, was founded by George Soros in 2005 and has raised over $100 million in donations since then. The project intends to extend progressivism throughout formerly conservative areas in order to prepare the ground for national elections — and they’re off to a pretty good head start:
Offshoots of leading liberal national groups were set up including Colorado Media Matters in 2006, to correct “conservative misinformation” in the media. Ethics Watch, a group modeled after Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, was started and proceeded to file a flurry of complaints over alleged campaign finance violations — while refusing to name its own donors.
Western Progress, a think tank to advance “progressive solutions,” opened its doors as did the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, one of 29 such groups around the country. Then there’s Colorado Confidential, a project of The Center for Independent Media, which subsidized liberal bloggers. CIM has set up similar ventures in Iowa, Minnesota and Michigan, with funding from groups such as the Service Employees International Union, and George Soros’s Open Society Institute.
On the electoral front, Progressive Majority Colorado has set up seven offices with the goal of “recruiting progressive leaders” as candidates. America Votes-Colorado promises to coordinate the largest voter mobilization effort in the state’s history. “All of this activity has flown under the radar,” says Ed Morrissey of the conservative blog Captain’s Quarters. “But efforts to change the political ground game may have real long-term consequences.”
More audaciously, in Michigan, signatures have been filed to put a sweeping reorganization of state government on this November’s ballot. The measure, pushed by a group called “Reform Michigan Government Now,” contains at least 36 distinct provisions that take up a dozen pages of fine type. “It’s a Trojan Horse dressed up as My Friend Flicka,” says Lawrence Reed, president of the conservative Mackinac Center.
I’ll have to get John to update his Rolodex, but I’m happy to note that I made a small contribution to this reporting.
John does an excellent job in setting out the challenge to conservatives. When the DA was first set up, Barack Obama was just getting his desk in order in the Senate, but the timing could hardly have been more propitious for a progressive army of activists. In fact, it may explain how Obama managed to dethrone Hillary Clinton in the primaries. Soros’ ground game had to have an effect on Obama’s fundraising and popularity, and in a cycle in which Obama barely prevailed, it may have made all the difference.
However, that comes at a price. Now that Obama has thrown the Left under the bus on FISA reform, public financing, and the death penalty, that ground army of activists may have a lot less enthusiasm for the rookie Senator. It won’t turn on him entirely, but it may generate less money and a lot fewer volunteer hours than it did in the primary cycle.
As Fund notes, this is about more than just 2008’s presidential election. This is an attempt at a generational change in political direction. The Right had better wake up to this threat and act accordingly.
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Thank you Uncle Soros!
RobCon on July 12, 2008 at 9:51 AM
We need some very wealthy conservatives to fund conservative groups to counter Soros.
2theright on July 12, 2008 at 10:01 AM
Soros sure can pick ‘em. First, Kerry, now Obama. Wonder if Obama starts to tank, Soros will fund an effort for Hillary.
Wethal on July 12, 2008 at 10:08 AM
George Soros has his hand in everything. I saw him testify at a Senate hearing in June about oil speculators and their potential “misbehavior.” He testified as an expert while saying he has no expertise on oil markets. And every senator just ate it up!
warrenmr on July 12, 2008 at 10:09 AM
“The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering—a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons —a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting—three hundred million people all with the same face.”
aquaviva on July 12, 2008 at 10:10 AM
How to buy a country. I suspect if Uncle George’s dream of creating a socialist Big Rock Candy Mountain out of the U.S. ever comes true, he isn’t planning on being one of the simple workers sharing the fruit of their labors with the rest.
a capella on July 12, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Actually, Wealthy Conservatives are not in scarce but not having a good Conservative Republican candidate is THE problem.
Anita on July 12, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Where the hell is Bond and ‘Q’ when you need them?
Limerick on July 12, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Fortunately the reform petition for Michigan government didn’t get enough signatures to get on the ballot so now they have to go back to the legislature to do anything. They are trying to call for a constitutional congress to try to rewrite the state constitution. Even the liberallllllll! governor Jenny Grandholm didn’t like the petition.
flytier on July 12, 2008 at 10:16 AM
We must come up with a vaccine for this quickly spreading liberal disease. Urge your friends to drink more orange juice instead of the kool aid being spewed by liberal commentators on cnn and msnbc. Let’s get the truth out there.
Travis1 on July 12, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Please remove this freak’s pix from my computer.
Wade on July 12, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Multi-millionaire “gay” advocate Tim Gill has transformed Colorado by buying election victories for pro-homosexual Democrats. their governor just signed a law allowing so-called transgenders to use any restroom or locker room they want.
Where are the conservative wealthy activists?
jgapinoy on July 12, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Maybe I am just trying to find a Boogey Man to pin some of the frightening things going on right now, but this is my guy. When you make a fortune by ruining the economies of business and even countries, you need to be watched. The fact that he is so hand in glove with a major political party adds to my discomfort. While I am not saying our country is perfect, I think that our founders tried to take into consideration that in changing times things would need to be done differently but to change our country’s foundamentals needed to be hard to do. Mr. Saros and the Democratic Party want the changes to be quick and outside the process and that’s just wrong. How can you say you love the country when you want to change it so radically? And I can’t get past my, probably silly, feelings that he is behind the lastest bank collapse along with his buddy Schumer. I know the bank was in sad shape but maybe the current legislation under consideration would have helped it back on the road to recovery. Now we won’t know because in order to make the President look bad and Republicans incompetent it had to be sacrificed.
Cindy Munford on July 12, 2008 at 10:19 AM
I trust ACORN is not sitting on the sidelines in all of this.
hillbillyjim on July 12, 2008 at 10:22 AM
As active as Soros is in politics, and knowing that Soros is the guy ‘who broke the Bank of England’ you have to wonder if he is still playing that game, but with the US economy this time. If you believe that he is, you also know he has allies.
So, how do we stop him and his allies? Information? Education? Regulation? Surveillance? Force of arms?
rockhauler on July 12, 2008 at 10:24 AM
LOL, Bill Buckley is dead.
I am noticing the Algore ad on the right side of the page uses an image of Gore about 100lbs lighter.
So superficial.
benrand on July 12, 2008 at 10:24 AM
The GOP needs to abort the rino-packaging and assert an organized front against progressive Marxism.
Republican conservatives unite under the big tent as the GOP (drop RNC formality) and hyphenate their party affiliation as “G” for the “Grand Get Going” Grand Old Party.
The conservative Constitutional platform is built, like Noah’s Ark, by Fred Thompson, to weather the storm. Don’t just get on board, make your voice heard where you are. The ark is not an insulation from reality, it is the preservation of the finest that our Creator blessed us with. Stand up for the Constitution’s integrity, and expend your energies outward against the onslaught rather than bickering amongst yourselves about who gets which spot on the ark. In Jonah’s whale tale, he got tossed overboard for having refused to say what he knew was true where he knew was most needed to be heard, for fear of unpopularity and societal abuse. When that storm hit, he got tossed overboard anyway. He may as well have saved himself a lot of trouble, at least save himself a few days in the whale’s belly, by just saying what he knew he had to say when he had to say it in the first place.
Just stand your ground and do not flinch at abuse from “Philistines”. Remember David’s youthful scorn and brash faith in doing what he knew needed to be done with one small stone aimed front and center on target.
Choose your target wisely when expending your energy to battle. Hone your networking alliances against Marxism aka progressivism, not against our own selves containing special interests. Integrate a conservative alliance.
To hell with Marx and brain death!
Conservatives can agitate as well as anyone. Conservatives can quietly via purchases or in public on the streets in support of our troops boycott Marxism en mass. Consevatives can mount mass mailings and call ins with superior success. Conservatives can write letters to the local editor as well as (if not better than) anyone. Conservatives for justice can donate BETTER than anyone given the righteous cause of our Constitution’s integrity.
To hell with Soros and globalmongers. To hell with favoritism of big business corporatism vs. small business entrepeneurism that is the vanguard of the Grand Old Party even if the elitists leading the RNC have chosen to erase. Physician, heal thyself.
Caeci caecos ducentes. The blind are led by the blind. Leaders are not more knowledgeable than the ones they lead.
maverick muse on July 12, 2008 at 10:35 AM
soros is a fugitive from French justice.
when the French think you’re scum, then you must be pretty effin low.
sad thing; he owns a piece of mccain.
sigh.
excerpt from link above:
The highest court in France on Wednesday rejected a bid by George Soros, the billionaire investor, to overturn a conviction for insider trading in a case dating back nearly 20 years, leaving the first blemish on his five-decade investing career.
The panel, the Cour de Cassation, upheld the conviction of Soros, 75, an American citizen, for buying and selling Société Générale shares in 1988 after receiving information about a planned corporate raid on the bank.
He remains the only person convicted in the Société Générale affair. Two others, Samir Traboulsi and Jean- Charles Naouri, were acquitted.
SOROS = SCUM.
reliapundit on July 12, 2008 at 10:40 AM
Communists did the same thing in the old Soviet Union, sometimes producing election wins of near 100%.
It would not take but one good conservative candidate to expose the hoax. Anybody can beat nothing.
tarpon on July 12, 2008 at 10:42 AM
Isn’t the salary of Juan Hernandez paid from one of the Soros backed groups rather than McCain campaign funds?
a capella on July 12, 2008 at 10:45 AM
It is no coincidence that the ACORN mob (pictured beside Fund’s column at the WSJ) wear red t-shirts, like their Chavista comrades to the south.
Hannibal Smith on July 12, 2008 at 10:55 AM
Wake up to this problem ? The right has completely ignore this problem. Everytime I talk to them about this I get blank stares.
The democrats run elections like a professional well oiled machine. The GOP runs elections like its a high school play.
I wont hold my breath because again I have warned and pointed out this problem to the RNC since 1995 and I get a shrug.
William Amos on July 12, 2008 at 10:56 AM
+1
Absolutely, but the truth cuts both ways.
Ultimately it is the “get out the vote” that wins. Rather than harping on our own special conservative interest, we all need to BE part of the ark where ever we are, not just using the object of the ark for survival, but ourselves being logistically part of the ark’s structural integrity.
THAT exercise of internal substantial fortitude conquers Soros’ design. Since faith without works is dead, the Grand Get Going! Invest your own contribution along with the widow’s mite. Observe your local dilemmas and write succinct letters to your local editors clarifying conservative means to set straight the problem at hand.
maverick muse on July 12, 2008 at 10:56 AM
Moveon.org on steroids? Could be, but they are fighting a strong dislike of the extremist liberal tendencies that America refuses to entertain.
IMHO, the best they could hope for is to be noticed which will lead to their downfall. General Betrayus anyone?
DannoJyd on July 12, 2008 at 10:56 AM
You folks have just looked at the Anti-Christ…truely the most dangerous man in the world today.
DoctorDentons on July 12, 2008 at 10:56 AM
What in the bloody hell happens to Republicans when they take political office?
It’s like they go into a trance: “must protect mother earth, must pay for affordable health care for illegal aliens, must help people, must increase self esteem.”
That is why clowns like ACORN and Soros are so confidently going in for the kill. There is literally no opposition.
Who in the world gets to these RINOs to turn them into such useless loads of crap?
The 1994 conservative revolution was nothing but a stunt. Every one of those clowns sold out, and it simply boggles the mind. Did someone get pictures of Newt in a gladiator suit? Is that it? What is going on?
I’m telling you, we have to step up the fight a notch.
jeff_from_mpls on July 12, 2008 at 10:57 AM
Who is shocked that Soros owns interests in everything? Play us against each other–don’t play his game for him, and don’t play dead either or you may get it in spades.
maverick muse on July 12, 2008 at 10:59 AM
Yes. We can and will prevail against evil from the likes of Ahmedinejad and Bin Laden. This is much more insidious.
hillbillyjim on July 12, 2008 at 10:59 AM
Yes. We can and will weather the likes of Ahmedinejad and Bin Laden. This is much more insidious.
hillbillyjim on July 12, 2008 at 11:01 AM
oops! I thought I’d hit the wrong key…..note to self…..patience is a virtue.
hillbillyjim on July 12, 2008 at 11:03 AM
What in the bloody hell happens to Republicans when they take political office?
same as everyone else
Fighting them tooth and nail to get their response, getting ANY politician to uphold their Constitutional sworn duties is hell. Geez, we need a conservative agenda militia as well trained and disciplined in their media work as our military in defense of our Constitution. That’s what I thought the mouthpieces of blogs and radios realized as their responsibility, as they have possession of the means not only to research but to distribute the word. Would that our leading conservative voices would ally. They already have our support. They already recognize the need. But it takes more than they’ve to date been willing to assert of themselves as a body.
Where Obama is the mascot of irresponsibility,
conservative Ego needs to appreciate e pluribus unum.
maverick muse on July 12, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Soros tentacles aren’t restricted to openly liberal organizations. You can bet he also owns some Republicans. He’s a very smart guy and has made his fortune exploiting weakness, so has a talent for sniffing it out. He knows the major explotable weakness for all politicians is their desire to stay in office.
a capella on July 12, 2008 at 11:10 AM
The problem is the elitist attitude of the Republican leadership. There is no conservative ground game, there are no grassroots efforts, there is no plan. It’s just good ole boy and more good ole boy.
The only bright spot is Mitt Romney gets it. He has the only plan in town, and the good ole boys have tried to cut his legs off at the knee.
Ed, you are absolutely right. The Republicans need to get their heads out of the hinterland and wake up. There is no excuse for what is happening except ignorance and greed.
eaglesdontflock on July 12, 2008 at 11:16 AM
There’s an oxymoron to go with the moron’s picture.
whitetop on July 12, 2008 at 11:24 AM
What happens to elected officials, not just republicans.
For example, there is a place in the great northern forest where a mining concern wants to begin exploiting a mineral deposit. The local government holds hearings, the environmentalists show up in mass. The conservatives don’t. Conservatives have jobs, they go to work every day. The environmentalists also have jobs. Their job is to show up at local government hearings and present the leftist party line.
The local government sees a room full of leftists, doesn’t see any conservatives, and the government goes to the mob.
rockhauler on July 12, 2008 at 11:29 AM
I have seen conservative’s responce to this. Its basically to send out massive emails asking for more money and pointing fingers.
That isnt a solution to the problem yet they continue to act like it is.
William Amos on July 12, 2008 at 11:33 AM
Here is an example of a soros group
This is an enviromentalist group. Are they asking for volunteers or donations ? NO
Responsibilities include:
Recruit and train volunteers
Raise money and awareness for environmental issues such has global warming, clean energy, and more
Bird-dogging candidates at campaign events
Educating voters on the candidates’ environmental record
Educating voters on their polling locations
Bring the environment to the forefront of Election 2008
Salary & Benefits:
Commensurate with relevant experience. Opportunities for advancement are available beyond the election, and we encourage people to seek increasing levels of responsibility with Environment America for the long term.
Locations:
Environment America is currently hiring organizers in NH, PA, OH, MI, WI, IA, NM, CO, NV, and VA. Placement will happen during the 3 day training in July, and candidates must have the flexibility to relocate.
We are seeking candidates in the following cities: NH: Concord , Portsmouth . PA: Philadelphia , Pittsburgh , Erie . OH: Columbus , Toledo , Akron , Dayton . MI: Ann Arbor , Grand Rapids , Lansing . WI: Madison , Milwaukee , Grand Rapids , Green Bay , Ames . IA: Des Moines , Cedar Rapids , Ames . NM: Albuquerque , Santa Fe . CO: Denver , Boulder , Fort Collins , Colorado Springs, Pueblo . NV: Las Vegas , Reno . VA: Arlington , Fairfax , Richmond , Norfolk , Virginia Beach, Newport News , Hampton .
William Amos on July 12, 2008 at 11:40 AM
I notice that they didn’t bother with the western end of my Commonwealth. They probably (and should) know that even the staunchest Democrats here wouldn’t fall for their fast talk and ‘high-falutin’ rhetoric.
My father is a life-lone hardcore Democrat, and he is solidly behind McCain.
(prediction)
Rural Virginia goes for McCain in big numbers.
hillbillyjim on July 12, 2008 at 11:57 AM
life-long damnit.
hillbillyjim on July 12, 2008 at 11:58 AM
Virginia narrowly went for Webb over Allen so dont count them out.
William Amos on July 12, 2008 at 12:02 PM
Story from today
William Amos on July 12, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Yeah, but the contrast in the percieved differences between Webb and Allen, compared to those between Obama and McCain, is something totally different.
hillbillyjim on July 12, 2008 at 12:08 PM
The problem is that we have no elected conservative leadership. We can control both houses but if we have no conservative leadership in the whitehouse, it just doesn’t move. The leaders that we elect need to believe in the movement as a whole, not just some of it.
The question is where do we go from right here, right now. Bambi will be a disaster for the country. McCain won’t do much better and his election will damage the conservative movement, the question is, how much. Were really in a pickle here. I can’t vote for Bambi and McCain is the very thing in the republican party that has gotten us where we are. Yes he’s great on Iraq, spending and a few other things but he is so wrong on so many things that I see him as an enemy of conservative principles.
We just have to remain positive and look to the future. We have some good people up and coming, we’ll be OK, we just have to weather a storm.
Big Orange on July 12, 2008 at 12:10 PM
e before i yadda yadda.
hillbillyjim on July 12, 2008 at 12:12 PM
We know that Obama is a marketing scam owned by the Daley machine, but do we know if Daly is owned by George Soros? Stay tuned.
volsense on July 12, 2008 at 12:42 PM
Nice to know of this… three months before the general election.
Too little, too late. There’s nothing conservatives can do at this point, and Soros and Co. know it.
I said it before, and I’ll say it again. You better get the three things you will need from November on: your Bible, your passport, and your gun. The Obama thugs will begin the rampage in earnest after they take power. If they can elect him to office, they can make us the pariahs of America in no time. And you will never imagine what they’re about to do with our liberties, and with us.
We have to get ready for the persecution to come. And no, I don’t believe Soros is the Anti-Christ. But he comes scarily close…
newton on July 12, 2008 at 12:58 PM
We’re spending more and more time in the Bahamas. Once we get 50% of our assets offshore, we’ll be in a position to make the move permanent after the Messiah comes to power
lonesomecharlie on July 12, 2008 at 1:02 PM
Soros is also heavily involved in a flap in Romania over an old Russian Gold mine and doing his usual manipulation of the government and then stepping in on his white horse at 10 cents on the dollar.
When you talk Colorado another pair you can’t miss who are assisting with that is Jon Stryker and his sister Pat.
Look them up and see where they fit into this whole picture including their own agendas.
CommentGuy on July 12, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Are you trying to say that conservatives are actually planning a permanent exile?
I don’t want to give any of my money to those Marxists. Where do I sign?
newton on July 12, 2008 at 1:24 PM
I wouldn’t be surprised if Soros was also one of those speculators behind the fall of the dollar…
newton on July 12, 2008 at 1:25 PM
This is pretty much how Hitler got started too, except he wasn’t a billionaire.
drjohn on July 12, 2008 at 1:37 PM
Wonder if he plans to pilfer the homes of Jews when he rules America, like he did as a kid in Germany. He is evil and he is dangerous. We need to get a strong group of wealthy conservatives to beat him back!
ihasurnominashun on July 12, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Soros has me deeply worried, especially since he’s allowed to work mostly under the radar. It gives me hope to see you covering this, and I hope you beat on it like a drum.
petefrt on July 12, 2008 at 2:17 PM
Someone asked “where are the wealthy conservative activists,” and I think part of why there aren’t so many is because of the nature of conservatism. The wealthy conservatives are busy working and probably think the politicians should be working harder to get their messages out themselves.
Conservatism (which is inherently productive and busy) doesn’t lend itself to activism as easily as liberalism (which is inherently unproductive and relatively idle) does.
Kensington on July 12, 2008 at 2:46 PM
It is only when good people stand by and doing nothing will ilk like Darth Soros be allowed to call the shots in this country. Time to bring this guy out from under the radar and into the forefront, for all to see.
pilamaye on July 12, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Just a thought. I wonder if we can talk Jesse Jackson into cutting Georgie’s nuts off???
byteshredder on July 12, 2008 at 3:42 PM
Summary: “Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop.”
:-)
newton on July 12, 2008 at 4:40 PM
The problem is we have an elitist leadership that believes they can ignore conservatives and only come to us when they need votes and money.
William Amos on July 12, 2008 at 4:51 PM
To me, there’s your problem. Far too many are wanting a fictional character to come and save them.
If any damned fool can’t see that for Obama to win would be for Soros to win, then that when Soros does win, that fool–and all the rest of us, will be good and truly damned.
While McCain was far from my first choice, I’m not such an idiot that I think that voting for him is an any way comparable to voting for Barry and letting this man who hates everything I hold dear be the power inside his empty head on his ceremonial throne.
Soros is an old man, folks. This is his last shot. If he can’t get Barry elected, he’s done for.
If I was someone contemplating wasting my vote or not voting, that would be reason enough for me to realize that it’s never a perfect world, and choices always have consequences.
Typhoon on July 12, 2008 at 5:21 PM
Someone should trick Soros into stepping onto a French-flagged yacht with a few gendarmes waiting to pick him up.
njcommuter on July 12, 2008 at 6:20 PM
George Soros is hands down one of the most dangerous men in the world. I hounded Cavuto and O’Reilly back in ‘04 to bring the man’s name up. They finally did, and Cavuto even did an interview with him. But his control over the far left and over Obama’s campaign rarely get mentioned. Fox should do an investigative report on Soros and his financial dealings. Now.
Connie on July 12, 2008 at 6:24 PM
Soros is one of the most dangerous men in, and to, America.
Entelechy on July 12, 2008 at 6:27 PM
Thanks Ed, for highlighting the article and your timely insights about this looming disaster.
I hope and pray Americans read and reflect on how dangerous this situation has become. Is it too extreme to state that this looks like an attempt by the new “communication powerbroker” elites at funding a progressive’s revolution? Can they really get away with buying the government and our future?
It reminds me of certain historical situations when a revolutionary weapon is introduced into a conflict. Those with the new weapon(longbow, stirrup, etc)can often move so quickly to establish an advantage that their opposition may not catch up in time.
Soros formed an alliance with many of the new elites who made their fortunes while revolutionizing the communications industry. They developed new web-based strategies that have caught us unprepared.That weapon combined with the radical left’s access to massive funding has changed the nature of the stuggle. If Americans don’t decide to mobilize very soon, this growing cancer could inflict a mortal wound to our constitution and our country’s future.
Any conservative who hopes that by sitting out the election they will punish McCain and the Republicans will gain that goal, but by doing so, may help shove the radical movement into permanent political, social and cultural domination and our goals over the edge of no return.
Ragnell on July 12, 2008 at 6:52 PM
Can anyone offer a serious and plausible explanation of why men this rich are in favor of the destruction of the very system that made it possible for them to become so?
Even a semi-free capitalist system that allows for political favor mongering to enrich the system gamers has to depend on some degree of productive activity, else there would be little to loot.
It’s a mystery.
JDPerren on July 12, 2008 at 7:22 PM
The downturn of the economy was orchestrated by those who exploited its weaknesses with the specific purpose of winning the election in November. Soros complained about the weakness of the dollar, but it doesn’t mean he and his minions didn’t contribute to it. I think he complained to throw off any speculation that he was involved in it.
Connie on July 12, 2008 at 7:38 PM
Yes, and not just in America. The man buys governments for a living.
Connie on July 12, 2008 at 7:43 PM
I’ve come to the conclusion that while the right has strength in its convictions, we’re generally less psychotic about our stands than the left is. We don’t seem to generate the same kind of “grassroots” activism that the left does. What a handfull of lefties can accomplish, it takes a whole movement on the right to just give a little pushback. Since I don’t want the right to become as crazy as the left, I have no idea what the solution is. Maybe a couple more mega-rich righties to superfund those movements and try to offset Soros and his ilk.
Big John on July 12, 2008 at 7:55 PM
That’s because our focus is on the individual, rather than on groups.
That’s because they have the backing of the media.
Work at promoting conservatism at the local level where the individual counts for something.
Connie on July 12, 2008 at 8:18 PM
Ed, I think you grabbed the wrong screen cap, that’s Helen Thomas.
labrat on July 12, 2008 at 9:24 PM
B I N G O ! ! ! glad to see somone else getting it and pointing it out.
Desperate people do desperate things.
Create social desperation and choas. Blame it on conservatives for not drilling for oil and using our food chain for ethnolol.
And guess what happens???
allrsn on July 12, 2008 at 10:06 PM
Soros gives out lots of money but his donations don’t give him any say in what those various organizations do. He made his money legally exploiting a financial gap between policy and reality during the days of the ERM ranges.
If you think of him as a leader of the far left you are wrong… he certainly is engaged in helping overthrow the regime of the last eight years and he has enabled that opposition. Not a bad thing.
If you are looking for reason for the rise of the political left in the US look no further than the current Administration. That has motivated even quiet independents into opposition. I would not be surprised if the pendulum swings the other way when the grass roots behind Obama are upset at the failure to deliver.
lexhamfox on July 12, 2008 at 10:30 PM
For Soros it is a giant ego to destroy. For others it is a need to lock themselves in as a tiny ruling class controlling all wealth and prosperity. (power)
allrsn on July 12, 2008 at 10:31 PM
A few weeks ago Rush mentioned that the risisng price of oil was attributed to market forces where demand exceeded supply as well as an expected shortage of supplies into the future (hence speculation on future shortages driving the price of oil up now.) However, Soros has shown an ability to mess up the market in the past (UK bank and Asian currency crisis in 1998). To mess up the markets (gold, mortgage, oil, US dollar) someone needs a lot of money and have a cause for which he is willing to LOSE significant amounts of that money for a higher purpose (not profit driven). Investors/speculators like George Soros (and possibly Warren Buffett) have shown a willingness to use their financial clout to influence economic and political situations exlusively towards a socialist/communist type of government/world order. This whole process is going outside the bounds of the free market and free politics (intentionally not working in their own best interests financially) to undermine the process to favor a very small elite group of people.
jerseyman on July 12, 2008 at 10:44 PM
We have seen a progrssives/socialists/communists waging a cultural/moral war for the past 40 years. A legal war in the courts and justice system has been fought as well, making solid but rather steady gains (four Florida justices almost stole the 2000 presidential election). Economic war has been waged over the last ten years by Soros and the Chinese with support by various elements in the US (congress, Hollywood, ‘progressive’ business elites). Who has the influence to change the direction?
jerseyman on July 12, 2008 at 10:55 PM
Soros- Loser.
profitsbeard on July 12, 2008 at 11:29 PM
Soros is, quite simply, absolute proof that Evil does exist.
And forgetting the French investment and Bank of England currency shenanigans, the essence of this Jew-hating Jew’s profoundly fetid corruption is rooted in his adolescent assurance of his personal survival by actively searching out and betraying other Jews to the SS/Nazis.
I believe he is most assuredly a major puppeteer behind the current bizarre global energy turbulence and the fathomless financial sector chaos.
Mojamaiko on July 13, 2008 at 2:03 AM
You can’t count on a rich person or two. They control the schools, unless the schools are taken back it is over THEY indoctrinate your children from Kindergarten through college and inundate them with propaganda through the media daily. It is going to take action at the grassroots level. Individuals are going to have to get involved and take action. Hoping someone else will solve it will go no where. As someone noted in another post we may be reaching the point where the tree is in need of watering.
jwp1964 on July 13, 2008 at 6:58 AM
Multi-millionaire “gay” advocate Tim Gill has transformed Colorado by buying election victories for pro-homosexual Democrats. their governor just signed a law allowing so-called transgenders to use any restroom or locker room they want.
Where are the conservative wealthy activists?
jgapinoy on July 12, 2008 at 10:17 AM
You mean like……Larry Craig?
DfDeportation on July 13, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Same place as the not so wealthy conservatives; you McCainiac supporters threw them in the trash to go chase leftist and illegal alien votes. You don’t get to have it both ways. You don’t get to nominate a candidate who peed on conservative positions for 8 years and then demand that you are still entitled to the money of the folks who’s values got soaked. Politics always comes down to give and take. Some conservatives may vote for McCain but I’m betting the money is going to be a lot slower. Maybe you should find some wealthy center lefties to to pick up the tab…oh..gosh..they’re all giving to Obama. Well, good luck anyway.
austinnelly on July 13, 2008 at 1:22 PM
I think that Mr. Soros better watch his Karma. He’s too old and too heavy with bad karma for the Brave New World he hopes to create. Nevertheless, he is only part of the globalist ‘interests’ that we must marginalize. America is ripe for the plucking.
Christine on July 13, 2008 at 2:24 PM
I hope you’re aware that this law was signed by Bush:
http://www.pwcias.com/home/eng/globalwatch_us_may2008.html
Ann NY on July 13, 2008 at 8:01 PM
Buying up our country by the day. A government of the Soros, by the Soros, and for the Soros….
adamsmith on July 14, 2008 at 9:17 AM