Dear Friend and Reader:
WHOEVER SAID “Patriotism is the last bastion of scoundrels” never took into account the last bastion’s lead-up men: 1) Saving your political ass in the face of utter defeat by blaming someone else to distract people from your screw ups, and 2) Using that same distraction to steal votes from your opponent.
Here today, after former Weatherman William Ayers and Joe the Plumber, we give you the next in the series of distractions and scapegoats: the dastardly ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), whose horrific crime against American democracy was to promote it by registering new minority and low-income voters.
New Democratic voter registrants, particularly young voters and minorities, have increased substantially over this last year, not coincidentally in the wake of the Obama candidacy. ACORN, along with unions, local Democratic party chapters and the Obama campaign, have been instrumental in growing the base of registered voters nationwide.
The attack on ACORN by John McCain during Wednesday night’s final debate with Barack Obama — claiming it “may be destroying the fabric of democracy” should give you a clue as to the smoke screens and brush fires the Republican Party are instigating, which also includes an FBI investigation, to delegitimize and prevent a possible Obama victory two weeks before the November 4th election.