Of Nuts and Dolts . . .

Aside from the crankyness, the bluster and the all-too obvious snearing disdain for Senator Obama, there was one thing more than anything that McCain said in last night's debate that had me initially scratching my head only to slowly realize the idiocy of it which then pushed me into full-gale laughter.

McCain stated that the community outreach program ACORN "is now on the verge of maybe perpetuating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy."

It was like getting smashed in the head with the stupid sledge-hammer. Took me a full minute to realize what McCain was saying.

And once I figured it out, imagine my surprise to find out that our vaunted Democracy's number one imminent ("on the verge") threat is not Osama Bin-Laden, it's not Al-Qaeda, it's not Islamo-fascism (whatever the fuck that is). Hell, it's not even the den of thieving robber barons on Wall Street who've fleeced the country and left us all sitting on the stoop of the poor house. Nope -- John McCain states that our Democracy is "on the verge" of being destroyed by a group of American community organizers because they dare involve themselves in the godawful activity of assisting poor and lower middle income Americans to participate in this anti-democratic activity called "voting." The HORROR!!

With an expansive program such as they have, there's bound to be some shenanigans here and there and there absolutely have been a few isolated cases where ACORN paid canvassers have been prosecuted for voter REGISTRATION fraud. In those cases, ACORN has publicly supported the investigations of employees submitting fraudulent voter registration information, has fired them if evidence supports the charges, and has stated its concern with false information on registration forms. ACORN has been cooperative in these investigations.

Now here's the kicker, ACORN has been doing this kind of voter outreach work for more than 35 years --- why all of a sudden are they an imminent threat to "the fabric of democracy?" Gee -- is it possible it could have anything to do with the fact that the GOP is staring down the gun barrel of an electoral massacre in 3 short weeks?? Nawww --- they aren't that cynical are they? And now comes news that the FBI has leaked a story about an investigation of ACORN, virtually on the eve of the election. One of the Republican U.S. Attorneys fired by that corrupt little toad Alberto Gonzalez in the U.S. Attorney purge scandal, David Iglesias of New Mexico, states this development is pure politics, "a scare tactic," and smacks of the same unethical Justice Department politicization that got him and and several other Republican U.S. Attorneys sacked.

Ultimately, it's an eye-opening indication of how desperate the Republican thugs are. The American people aren't responding to their gutter politics and are threatening to hold the Republican party , their President and their Presidential candidate accountable for the current sad state of affairs in this country on November 4th.

Mark my words -- if the GOP is somehow able to steal this election for McCain/Palin, look to see these ACORN investigations slowly fade from view post-election. It's how they usually end up. Pretty pathetic.

----k