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LLStarks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:43 PM
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Can somebody explain the conservative fixation of ACORN to me?
For some reason, conservatives like to bring up ACORN or insist that the organization and Obama harbor Ayersian views.

I don't get it.
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:43 PM
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1. Nuts attract nuts
:)
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anigbrowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 05:19 PM
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22. DUzy nomination!
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mountainvue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:44 PM
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2. Some of them seem to think it was
used to steal the election. :eyes:
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harry_pothead Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:44 PM
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3. They don't want to believe that Obama won the election because the people actually supported him.
Fixating on ACORN allows them to do that.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:44 PM
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4. Because it's code these idiots use for black people, n/t
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:46 PM
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6. Bingo! n/t
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Scurrilous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:50 PM
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12. Yep.
In a nutshell.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 05:00 PM
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16. Also an acorn is a nut
and they're way into the subliminal visual.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 05:43 PM
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26. yep.
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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 05:52 PM
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28. Correction
They are not idiots, they are racists... well, ok idiots as well... damn, I had to correct my correction.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:46 PM
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5. you fix in the publics mind democratic party = ACORN
Edited on Mon Jun-29-09 04:46 PM by xchrom
and all the corruption republicans claim goes with it.

that's why ACORN should be defended and the facts presented at every turn.

but don't expect democratic media talking heads to do that.
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The_Commonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:46 PM
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7. From what I can gather...
...it's because Acorn helps black people.
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lisa58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:48 PM
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8. They register people in inner cities to vote and conservatives don't want them to vote.
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:48 PM
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9. Voter suppression is the ONLY hope that the Republican Party has to win elections.
ANY effort to register voters is certain death for them.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:50 PM
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11. Exactly. And their best efforts at suppression are mainly against black voters,
then students and deployed military. They are SCUM.
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:49 PM
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10. The first time I heard conservatives trying to smear them
Edited on Mon Jun-29-09 05:15 PM by noamnety
was when ACORN was doing voter registration drives, and republicans (at least around the Detroit area) were talking about how the key to their winning elections was voter suppression. (particularly suppression of the black vote)
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murielm99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:52 PM
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13. They use ACORN to divert attention from their own
election fraud and election stealing dirty tricks. That's a very common tactic: accuse others of what you are doing yourself.

They know that their own thefts are too complicated and widespread to keep peoples' attention. The public likes their stories short and sweet. If they can demonize one person, like Soros, or blame one group, like ACORN, many simple-minded folk will believe it.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:55 PM
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14. It's simple: ACORN registers the unregistered as voters.
This threatens the GOP.

Of course, the GOP's own antics threaten them far more, but they don't see that.
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Bobbie Jo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:59 PM
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15. Easy to pronounce?
:shrug:
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 05:00 PM
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17. Republicans only can either steal elections, or hope for a low voter turnout.
ACORN registers voters that Repugs feel will only vote Democratic.

ACORN must be evil.
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LLStarks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 05:04 PM
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18. Are there legitimate concerns regarding ACORN?
Or is it all bullshit?
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 05:04 PM
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19. because of the bogus claims of them signing up "ghost" voters in the most recent election...
nt
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 05:06 PM
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20. Millions and millions of new voters! PERIOD.
Edited on Mon Jun-29-09 05:08 PM by L. Coyote
Maybe I was hasty with the "period" because, most of "them voters" are not the same color as "first class voters"!
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 05:10 PM
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21. Conservatives are very obliging
and will hate with all of their being anyone their leaders have given them permission to hate.

It's not like those people ever manage to think about anything.
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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 05:23 PM
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23. Scapegoating.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 05:40 PM
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24. They NEED enemies. And they're rapidly running out of REAL enemies.
Saddam is dead, Khadaffi is now an ally (sort of) and the Soviet Union is gone.

All they have is a shadowy Osama bin Laden who doesn't play fair by showing up at the head of great armies.

So they turn inward. And finding no threats there either, they invent some.

Ergo ACORN. Oh, and Ayers and George Soros.
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 05:42 PM
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25. They need an excuse when they lose elections....
...
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 05:46 PM
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27. It's a small word, and relatively easy to spell.
These are not what you would call geniuses.
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