The Wall Street Opinion Journal reports:

Acorn officials bill themselves as nonpartisan community organizers merely interested in giving a voice to minorities and the poor. In reality, Acorn is a union-backed, multimillion-dollar outfit that uses intimidation and other tactics to push for higher minimum wage mandates and to trash Wal-Mart and other non-union companies.

Operating in at least 38 states (as well as Canada and Mexico), Acorn pushes a highly partisan agenda, and its organizers are best understood as shock troops for the AFL-CIO and even the Democratic Party. As part of the Fannie Mae reform bill, House Democrats pushed an "affordable housing trust fund" designed to use Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac profits to subsidize Acorn, among other groups. A version of this trust fund actually passed the Republican House and will surely be on the agenda again next year.

Acorn and its affiliates have pulled some real stunts in recent years. In Ohio in 2004, a worker for one affiliate was given crack cocaine in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. During a Congressional hearing in Ohio in the aftermath of the 2004 election, officials from several counties in the state explained Acorn's practice of dumping thousands of registration forms in their lap on the submission deadline, even though the forms had been collected months earlier.

Since ACORN is a nationwide organization, it is prudent that everyone in the nation know exactly what type of scofflaws are operating among them.

Face it. The liberal democrat message does not ring with a majority of American voters. One only has to notice the recent, not-so-inconspicuous absence of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid from the national spotlight to put two and two together on that. The only way that liberal democrats can win nationally is to

1. Run as conservatives. and/or

2. Perpetrate voter fraud.

Pretty sorry state of existence, if you ask me.

(h/t NAM blog)