i am also generally pro-life: anti-torture, anti-death penalty, and anti-war. i respect people who view abortion as murder, but i don't consider them to be pro-life unless they're also with me on the death penalty, war, poverty; and vote to help people on issues that seriously impact the poor, single mothers, the unborn, and children.

most of the so-called pro-life movement unfortunately just acts to control women. i wonder whether father newman also chastised parishioners who voted for bush (a mass murderer in my opinion).

if it were an ad for keeping the darkies to the back of the bus, would you make the same arguments? how about putting the japanese in camps? what if an ad proposed death to israel (the state, not the people)?

i don't think you're money grubbers, and while i understand your argument, i think i might even disagree with the idea that running only lefty ads would make it appear that you are endorsing the lot of them -- i visit several sites that do that, and i feel no compunction to assume endorsement; i presume instead that they're buying a more targeted ad service. and you know? i like that. the crap ads are all around me, i don't need them in clearly partisan news sources as well.

if anything, i'd actually click on the ads more often. as it stands, i avoid clicking altogether because i don't always know what slime i'll end up with.

her star is falling rapidly. i admit to schadenfreude.

it won't help to only make the point that this can't affect actual voting, that almost none of these fraudulent voter registration cards will lead to actual votes. that still smells primarily like fraud to the now infamous "joe sixpack".

the salient point here is that temporary workers hired by ACORN are responsible because they personally gain income from meeting a sort-of quota, that ACORN itself is not creating these registrations, that ACORN itself is already flagging them as fraudulent, that ACORN must (or thinks it wise to) turn the cards in whether or not they think they're fraudulent -- and if you're under scrutiny, i think it is wise. ACORN works _with_ election officials and prosecutors.

yes, the registrations can also usually not be used to actually vote while not entitled to vote because they're not created for actual people with false ID who then vote an extra time. they're created for fictitional characters who'll never show up to vote (like micky mouse) or for people who wouldn't ever vote in that location (like the starting lineup of the dallas cowboys).

and of course the republicans' own efforts are the real voter fraud -- in their zeal to keep a few unentitled people from voting (which is not a problem in significant numbers) they're disenfranchising hundreds of thousands eligible voters by contesting their rights via technicalities such as having moved recently.

but obama himself needs to do more here than try to minimize how much he's been involved with ACORN. this is getting whipped up, and he needs to explain it to defuse it. this isn't ayers; it's actually more important.