Right?

How many people out there do you think have accepted this Republican talking point without thinking any further about it? I have to admit, I thought, “Maybe they’ve been involved in something shady at some point, but they’re probably not bad as the Republicans say,” and then figured I’d do some research about it later. The Republican allegation was that ACORN’s temp workers turned in registrations with fraudulent information in order to fix elections. So, I guess the idea is that to go along with these fake registrations, they’d create fake driver’s licenses to use these extra registrations at the polls? That is pretty fucking over the top. Stuffing the ballot box seems a lot easier.

Regardless, the Republicans got this out there with pretty much no scrutiny applied to their charge. Impressive, in a way.

A discussion from earlier today:

Dan:
yes!
Dan:
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/08/now_whos_effete.html
Me:
That is awesome!
Me:
After first, I just thought, hey, that’s good.
Me:
But then I reread and saw that it was Obama saying that.
Dan:
yeah, jumping on it right away
Me:
‘Atrios on Obama’s brand new ad about McCain’s house counting problems:
“I think it’s more than 7, but I guess it depends on how you count. I suppose it’ll be okay if Factcheck or similar calls Obama’s ad false like this:
The Obama campaign falsely claimed that John McCain owns 7 homes. In fact, he owns 12.”‘
Me:
That would rule.
Dan:
i’ve seen 4 blogs pick up on this already, hopefully it becomes a big issue
Dan:
also:
Dan:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said at a news conference the two countries have agreed that timetables should be set for the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
Me:
Heh, not even Bush is on McCain’s side anymore.
Dan:
mccain’s probable response: “Surge, surge, surge, surge!!!!”
Dan:
there should be a bet in vegas on if Rudy will say “9/11″ more times than McCain will say “Surge” at the convention
Me:
He’s probably going to call the White House and be all, “WTF guys? I thought we were on the same team?”
Me:
I’d put the money on Rudy.
Dan:
heh, check out the mccain response:
Dan:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/mccain_campaign_response_obama.php
Dan:
it’s like they have some sort of talking points perl script that just strings together buzz words
Me:
Man, just continuing on and on with the outright lies in that last paragraph.
Dan:
./generate-talking-points.pl --with-extra-lies

Undoubtedly, there’s a cron job like that running daily on the GOP’s Ronald Reagan Memorial Server. You know it.