Even Kathleen Parker enjoying ACORN's national humiliation

By now most Americans are familiar with the acronym ACORN — the un-pithily named Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — and all its attendant problems: charges of voter registration fraud, embezzlement, tax arrears, corruption and, most recently, accusations of aiding and abetting illegal immigration, prostitution, tax evasion and child abuse…

Also problematic for this former military wife turned champion of the downtrodden is the odd tension between her new Republican fan base and her affection for President Obama. Reid embraces the irony with a sharp wit and a seen-everything attitude. It’s a wacky world out there when a former ACORN activist becomes a darling of the right-wing media.

Then again, Reid says that mainstream media outlets, with the exception of the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund, weren’t interested in her story when she tried to tell it more than a year ago. As political wisdom goes, you have to hunt where the ducks are…

Reid would like to see all board members and all senior staff gone. She thinks the Justice Department should investigate the charges of civil rights violations under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act that ACORN 8 filed in January. And, though grateful that the president stepped up to the plate on ACORN, she wishes he would go further than he did during Sunday’s talk-show round robin.