Written by: Beck

MoveOn.org has decided to absolutely delight me by announcing to Terry McAuliffe & company that the Democratic Party is its bitch.

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."

MoveOn.org has concluded, I have to assume, that Kerry lost the 2004 election because the party was too moderate. Bush and the Republicans, meanwhile, continue to move to the middle in ways (fiscal policy, UN appeasement) that are only likely to bother people (like me) for whom the Democratic party remains an even worse option.

It's not so much that the Republicans are taking over the country. It's that the Democrats are giving the country to the GOP on a silver platter.

(Hat tip: The Corner)