Progressive group MoveOn.org which has endorsed Barack Obama, is asking members and sympathizers to sign a statement that says millionaire donors should not be allowed to dictate how the Democrat party's candidacy is won, encouraging them to match funding that would otherwise derive from fat cat donors.

Referring to the letter sent to Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday in which Hillary Clinton's campaign asked the Speaker of the House Speaker to retract statements she made a week earlier calling for superdelegates to "...follow the will of primary and caucus voters..." MoveOn appealed to Pelosi not to waver on her initial pronouncement regarding Democrat party unification.

“The Democratic nomination should be decided by the voters -- not by superdelegates or party high-rollers. We’ve given money -- and time -- to progressive candidates and causes, and we’ll support Speaker Pelosi and others who stand up for democracy in the Democratic Party.”

MoveOn’s political action team calls Sen. Clinton's influence peddling “the worst kind of insider politics...billionaires bullying our elected leaders into ignoring the will of the voters." 

It is difficult, regardless of one's political ideology, to disagree with the preceding statement.  However, its source must be questioned -- vigorously.

For starters, MoveOn, while it bills itself as an "independent organization", has been the recipient of more than $1 billion of George Soros' funding according to most reports.  Billionaire Soros is certainly free and wealthy enough to support any candidate he likes. 

But there are legal limits to the dollar amount Soros or any fat cat can contribute to individual candidates.  Therefore, supporting any number of websites that have a major Internet presence and also produce radio, TV and newspaper ads gets contributors like Soros a lot more bang for their political buck. 

Examples of MoveOn media activity includes a well-known full-page ad in the New York Times not-so-cleverly renaming Gen. David Patraeus "General Betray Us" for the success of his leadership in the ongoing troop "surge" strategy in Iraq.

MoveOn, notably, also supported John Kerry's failed anti-war bid in the last presidential race, spending huge amounts of media money, to counteract the Swiftboaters' attacks on Kerry.  Of course, Theresa Heinz-Kerry, the former candidate's wife -- a billionaire in her own rite -- helped both her husband and George Soros to fund MoveOn and any number of ancillary Soros web-based organizations. 

Hillary Clinton and wealthy supporters of her husband's administration were among the original contributors that helped fund and legitimize the activities of organizations like MoveOn.  Ironically, they are ready to throw Sen. Clinton under the bus -- and have threatened to discontinue their support of Speaker Pelosi if she refuses to get on board their bus -- in what appears to be a move merely to insure the most elect-able candidate will be nominated by the Democrats this time around.

Tactics like this exemplify “the worst kind of insider politics...billionaires bullying our elected leaders into ignoring the will of the voters." Conservatives are waiting to see which of their own the left will move on next.