RightMarch Bills Itself as Conservative Answer to MoveOn

By Jimmy Moore
Talon News
June 24, 2004

Conservative political action group RightMarch.com has billed itself as the "leader in online conservative grassroots activism" to directly counter the leftist agenda of MoveOn.org.

On Tuesday, RightMarch.com took out a full-page ad in USA Today containing excerpts from a passionate speech delivered by conservative Sen. Zell Miller (D-GA) on the floor of the U.S. Senate recently.

Miller said in his speech that he has grown weary of the "hand-wringing" of liberal groups like MoveOn.org over the prison abuse controversy in Iraq.

RightMarch.com was so impressed by Miller's comments that they conducted a $90,000 fundraising drive to run the nationwide ad in USA Today this week.

Self-proclaimed as "an umbrella site for conservative groups," RightMarch.com says it exists to quickly respond to the attacks of liberal groups.

CBS News Sunday Morning recently called RightMarch.com "the conservative answer to the liberal outlook of MoveOn."

Boasting a healthy membership, RightMarch.com also encourages its members to frequently contact their federal legislators in Washington about pieces of legislation important to conservatives.

RightMarch.com founder and director William Greene said it angers him to see groups like MoveOn.org using the Iraqi war as a political tool to discredit and destroy President George W. Bush and members of his administration.

In fact, MoveOn.org's push to have Bush fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently especially infuriated Greene in light of the excellent job he has done conducting the war in Iraq.

"We're fighting fire with fire," Greene exclaimed.

Looking back at Miller's poignant speech, RightMarch.com said Miller expressed common sense ideas that have been completely ignored by the majority of the media.

"Those who are wringing their hands and shouting so loudly for 'heads to roll' over this seem to have conveniently overlooked the fact that someone's head has rolled - that of another innocent American brutally murdered by terrorists," Miller said in his speech. "Why is it? Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?"

RightMarch expressed hope that the new ad would be "exposing the blatant hypocrisy of the liberal media and the self-serving left-wing politicians who are just trying to use the Abu Ghraib issue as a political 'football'."

The money needed for this ad was raised exclusively online by RightMarch.com in less than two weeks.

"In doing so RightMarch has taken a page out of the liberal's very own handbook," Greene stated.

And like MoveOn.org, RightMarch.com said conservatives deserve to be updated on the happenings "from the right" by taking "the tactics of the left to get the message out."