Opinion

MoveOn.org moves on beyond the Clintons

MoveOn.org was born to fight the drive to impeach President Bill Clinton, its purpose to push the nation to “move on” to more important issues. Now the group wants to move on from the Clintons altogether.

Its members voted Tuesday to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton by the widest margin in MoveOn.org’s history.

It’s easy to see why a grassroots Democratic outfit would reject Clinton. Set aside the ethical murk of the Clinton Foundation’s finances and even the email mess. To the left, she’s far too cozy with Wall Street (for all her desperate efforts to show otherwise).

In contrast, as Ilya Sheyman, MoveOn.org’s political action executive director, put it, the members were “inspired by [Sanders’] track record of standing up to big money and corporate interests.”

We’re not “feeling the Bern,” but the party might: MoveOn will now try to push Sanders over the top in Iowa and New Hampshire. This one may be a real race after all.