The ACORN nonstory

The right-wing intelligentsia is so politically bankrupt that they have to go after ACORN, of all people!

I didn't think busting ACORN would be on the forefront of what passes for the wingnut conscience, but apparently the rightists have exhausted everything else. So they go after a nonpartisan community group like ACORN.

Wingnuts hate it when people with political interests different from theirs vote. That's what all of this boils down to. So they fight ACORN's voter registration efforts.

I've heard rumblings about the Bush regime trying to bring racketeering charges against ACORN, but I have yet to see any details. This wouldn't surprise me, given Bush's record of abusing his power to go after political enemies.

Right-wing Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) has gotten in on the act. The unsavory asshole has written a letter to Michael "Mucus Man" Mukasey asking him to launch a nationwide criminal investigation of ACORN. Cornyn even called ACORN a "criminal enterprise."

Like it ought to matter what someone who urged the assassination of judges who issue rulings he disagrees with thinks? If anyone in this story is a criminal enterprise, it's John Cornyn.

I don't place any credibility in the bleatings of America-hating terrorists like Cornyn, who deserves to be expelled from the Senate for threatening judges. Cornyn is under strict orders to go fuck himself.

ACORN itself has in rare cases suspected bogus registrations, but when it suspects such, it reports the matter to authorities. ACORN has what it calls "a zero-tolerance policy for deliberately falsifying registrations."

It's also known that right-wing activists in Cleveland have been turning in blatantly phony registrations to ACORN in an effort to set ACORN up and then reporting ACORN to the local elections board. (Republican supporters were found to have voted fraudulently in Washington state 4 years ago - but these weren't ACORN registrations.)

In short, the ACORN flap is as weak of an issue as all the other grievances the Republicans have pumped up during this campaign.