Investors Business Daily has a must read article up about George Soros, the bankroll behind MoveOn.org.

The article is titled Soros: The Man, The Mind And The Money Behind MoveOn and it really dissects how much one man has come to influence so much if the far left.  More then that it does a nice job of proving that despite their claims to the contrary, money really rules the politics on the left.

I won’t post it all, but I had some comments about select passages.

Over the years, Soros has written books giving his philosophical take on global affairs and acquired a reputation as something of a “stateless statesman.” He calls himself a philanthropist and has given away $5 billion of his now $8.5 billion fortune through his principal vehicle, the Open Society Institute. The institute, in turn, has passed cash on to far more radical groups, such as MoveOn.org.

But Soros is no hands-off donor. According to the Open Society Institute’s Web site: “Despite the breadth of his endeavors, Soros is personally involved in planning and implementing many of the foundation network’s projects.”

Soros says he gives away about $400 million annually.

It’s an admirable picture, but “philanthropy” may be the wrong word. Unlike, say, Bill Gates, who really does put the bulk of his charity into helping the world’s poor through medical services, Soros tends to fund pressure groups and foundations he misleadingly characterizes as promoting “civil society” and “democracy.”

The image gives him moral cover to manipulate democracies whose voter verdicts he opposes.

And that last line sums it up.  He has the power and means to exert a huge amount of power.  His goal?

And since 2003, tearing down what he views as the “fascist” tyranny of the United States, as he has put it, is “the central focus of my life.”

Through networks of nongovernmental organizations, Soros intends to ruin the presidency of George W. Bush “by any legal means necessary” and knock America off its global pedestal. “His view of America is so negative,” says Sen. Joe Lieberman, who, like Gen. David Petraeus, has been a target of Soros’ electoral “philanthropy.” “The places he’s put his money are . . . so destructive that it unsettles me.” Soros’ aim seems to be to make the U.S. just another client state easily controlled by the United Nations and other one-world groups where he has lots of friends

Lieberman is a classic example.  In 2000 Lieberman was a highly respected Democrat, the party’s candidate for Vice President.  Then Joe acted a bit too moderate and shed partisan priorities for national security.  He supported the troops and the war, and in turn, the President, Soros’s primary enemy.  So MoveOn, Kos and other nutroots pushed him out of the party’s nominating for the Senate.

Joe smoked them in the end by running independent and winning.  And in this, Soros and his ilk screwed up major.  By doing so they made Lieberman the most powerful man in the senate, for his decision who to caucus with is the hinge pin of the control of the Senate.  Anti War issues are gentle treated in the Senate.

Joe has shown the power of the moderate, something Bill Clinton clearly demonstrated, being more moderate then not.  But Soros and his kin will not see that the radical elements are the exception, not the rule, and their efforts continue to be focused on moving the Democrat party further left.

MoveOn.org was also pivotal in getting Howard Dean elected chairman of the Democratic Party in a bid to push the party to the far left.

Soros acolyte Arianna Huffington is on record as advocating that outcome. Berating Democrats for their electoral losses in 2004, she wrote: “Have these people learned nothing from 2000, 2002 and 2004? How many more concession speeches do they have to give — from ‘the center’ — before they realize it’s not a very fruitful place?”

Soros also has financed spin outfits such as Media Matters that specialize in providing distorted conservative political statements as grist for leftist politicians and media.

But does he actually support more then just influence?  Yes, he supports fraud:

Soros’ efforts go beyond spin. He has also bankrolled groups involved in the manipulation of elections, an activity that has increased since his money came into the picture. Two groups — Americans Coming Together and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — were sanctioned recently by the Federal Election Commission for fraud.

Ah yes, ACORN, they were a key player in the election fiasco here in Washington in 2004.

Soros pledged $10 million to ACT, which has since been fined $775,000 for illegally funneling $70 million set aside for voter registrations to Democratic candidates.

He also gave at least $150,000 to ACORN, the left-wing group best known for pushing minimum-wage hikes, marching for illegal-immigrant amnesty and harassing Wal-Mart. ACORN has been accused of voter fraud in 13 states since 2004 and was convicted of falsifying signatures in a voter registration drive last July, drawing a fine of $25,000 in Washington state.

Soros says he has ended funding to voter-drive organizations, but he still heads a secretive rich-man’s club called “Democracy Alliance” that has doled out $20 million to activist groups like ACORN.

What about Terrorism?  One World Government?

Read the article and find out.  Frankly the man is scary.

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