Can somebody explain the conservative fixation of ACORN to me?

[LLStarks]

For some reason, conservatives like to bring up ACORN or insist that the organization and Obama harbor Ayersian views.

I don't get it.

[The Straight Story]

1. Nuts attract nuts

[anigbrowl]

22. DUzy nomination!

[mountainvue]

2. Some of them seem to think it was

used to steal the election.

[harry_pothead]

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.

[EFerrari]

4. Because it's code these idiots use for black people, n/t

[Xipe Totec]

6. Bingo! n/t

[Scurrilous]

12. Yep.

In a nutshell.

[sandnsea]

16. Also an acorn is a nut

and they're way into the subliminal visual.

[rucky]

26. yep.

[Ohio Joe]

28. Correction

They are not idiots, they are racists... well, ok idiots as well... damn, I had to correct my correction.

[xchrom]

5. you fix in the publics mind democratic party = ACORN

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.

[The_Commonist]

7. From what I can gather...

...it's because Acorn helps black people.

[lisa58]

8. They register people in inner cities to vote and conservatives don't want them to vote.

[billyoc]

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.

[EFerrari]

11. Exactly. And their best efforts at suppression are mainly against black voters,

then students and deployed military. They are SCUM.

[noamnety]

10. The first time I heard conservatives trying to smear them

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)

[murielm99]

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.

[damntexdem]

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.

[Bobbie Jo]

15. Easy to pronounce?

[Ikonoklast]

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.

[LLStarks]

18. Are there legitimate concerns regarding ACORN?

Or is it all bullshit?

[dysfunctional press]

19. because of the bogus claims of them signing up "ghost" voters in the most recent election...

nt

[L. Coyote]

20. Millions and millions of new voters! PERIOD.

Maybe I was hasty with the "period" because, most of "them voters" are not the same color as "first class voters"!

[Warpy]

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.

[Fuzz]

23. Scapegoating.

[Canuckistanian]

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.

[scheming daemons]

25. They need an excuse when they lose elections....

...

[Warren DeMontague]

27. It's a small word, and relatively easy to spell.

These are not what you would call geniuses.