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JHB

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6. Look! It's Halley's Comet! with Fangs! Communist Fangs!

Thu Jun 7, 2012, 07:57 PM

Jun 2012

I have to keep pointing out to these people that ACORN tended to annoy the real estate interests in (usually Democratic) cities, and their registration drives (and things like the New Party) stood to upset local politicians' applecarts. The upshot of this is that they had no friends in high places. So when the wingnuts targeted it, it was real easy for the Democratic establishment to just jettison it.

The Great and Powerful ACORN of their imaginations was just the scary projected shadow of a mouse. But they're not the reality-based community, are they?

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"Obama�s Third-Party History" (National Review) - expect to hear this [View all] underpants Jun 2012 OP

Thank for the heads up. SoutherDem Jun 2012 #1

I was a New Party member in the 90s Luminous Animal Jun 2012 #2

I heard about NP in the late 90s at a meeting Paulie Jun 2012 #12

They're grasping at straws now... Drunken Irishman Jun 2012 #3

Actually they are trying to pile it on underpants Jun 2012 #5

Meh...stuff like this means little. Drunken Irishman Jun 2012 #7

Membership in a third party or organization won't be the issue MindOverMatters Jun 2012 #4

Welcome to DU Tsiyu Jun 2012 #8

Look! It's Halley's Comet! with Fangs! Communist Fangs! JHB Jun 2012 #6

Anyone should have been proud to be associated with ACORN, and I'm sure if he was, sabrina 1 Jun 2012 #9

Nobody really cares except hardline partisan Democrats who won't be voting Robme TheKentuckian Jun 2012 #10

More piddly BS from NR and the BBs. Bolo Boffin Jun 2012 #11

Non story Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2012 #13