McCain camp still desperate, Palin still making wild claims
On the Rush Limbaugh show, Sarah Palin discussed the ACORN voter registration issue by saying that there is “more to the story” than the media is letting on. She also said:
“Obama has a responsibility to rein in ACORN,”
Of to claim that Obama is responsible for another organization is a complete logical fallacy. But that is typical of Republicans. And the claim that there is “more to the story” is another Typical Republican Tactic. She doesn’t actually KNOW that there is more to the story, or else she would have said what is left to be reported. She just blames the “liberal media” for not reporting the supposed additional part of the story that she doesn’t even know, and probably doesn’t even exist.
The Obama campaign responded by saying that the McCain/Palin campaign is using a:
a starkly political maneuver to deflect attention from the reality of the suppression strategies pursued by national, state and Republican Party committees.
And apparently, this is all much ado about nothing. The ACORN spokesperson was on Greta last night and discussed the thousands of problematic voter registration forms:
We registered nationwide 1.3 million folks over an 18 month period, employing some 13,000 workers during that process. And during that time on a weekly basis, a by-weekly basis, we identified and tagged potential problem voter registration forms. At that time, we notified local boards of elections of those problematic forms.
What we’re hearing about today, Greta, is the accumulation of those forms over an 18-month period that some folks are wrapping in an umbrella of fraud. And that’s just not the case.
These are forms that we identified, we brought to the local board’s attention, and we know that they might be problems and ask for the local boards to identify them.
So they did what they were supposed to do by submitting the information to the election boards, yet the Republicans are attacking them for it WHILE not talking about the voter suppression that takes place within their own party. Again, typical Republican tactics.