The enemy is us

Clarence Page refers to us as "enemies". You know, usually we conservatives reserve that kind of language for those from overseas who are trying to kill us. But the Left, and let's include Page in that appellation now, calls citizens who object to corruption and criminality--including underage prostitution-- as "enemies". Let us note, a majority of Americans support stopping the funding, and of those who have been closely following the news, 80% recoil in revulsion at ACORN's activities.

But for Clarence Page and many on the Left, it's not my fellow Americans, it's my neighbors as enemies:

Yet, conservatives underestimate their successes in framing this debate long before Hannah put on her hot pants. Most ACORN coverage in major media has been overwhelmingly negative, according to a recently released study by Peter Dreier, a professor of politics at Occidental College, and Christopher R. Martin, a professor of journalism at University of Northern Iowa. Of the 647 newspaper and broadcast news stories about ACORN that they found in 2007 and 2008, most were on allegations of massive voter registration fraud against the organization.

If the MSM has covered it at all. 647 is not a large number. Incredibly, Page seems to be asserting the media is biased to the right. The usual MSM stance is media silence, but when they do break, could it be because there is overwhelming validity to these allegations? Even Uncle Barney has had enough. And don't give us the old canard that there was no evidence of actual vote fraud. Small comfort we haven't actually caught phony votes being cast at the time. There have been convictions--with the finding that in at least one of these Dem-run urban areas (Milwaukee) more people voted than voters, and that convicted felons have voted illegally--and some were deputy registrars with previous convictions of vote fraud. In Philadelphia, Penn researchers have found more people registered than were eligible to vote. In Nevada, a Democrat prosecutor is relentlessly pursuing ACORN, achieving the cooperation of a key insider. I imagine there will be more revelations.

Harshbarger? Comforting? The former Massachusetts AG who persecuted an innocent family? A gross miscarriage of justice?

Somehow no mention by Page of the embezzlement that was covered up for years. Are ACORN whistleblowers enemies too?

As far as caring for poor people, ACORN has victimized them, repeatedly thrown their employees under the bus (sound familiar?) and skimmed money off the top for themselves and their political allies.

But we who bring all this up are the enemy? Are you nuts? (And in response, we say, Nuts!)