Look, you sound like a really smart, reasonable person, but what you do seem to lack is a sufficient appreciation for the power of Alinsky's techniques, and the skills of the Democrats in applying those techniques - this is Alinsky 101: to destroy the message of the opposition, you isolate, polarize, ridicule, or, to put it verbatim, here's Rule 12:
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.(This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Ok, we have the target - the tapes - now we freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it: Any time someone mentions "those ACORN tapes" the Democrats immediately say "oh yeah, weren't those filmed by so-and-so? Why yes, now that you mention it, they were, and you know what, six months later that guy got busted trying to tap Mary Landrieu's offices by pretending to be a telephone repairman. Now that's just beyond the pale, how can you trust someone who goes around trying to break into the offices of a Congresswoman and tap her phones?...."
Do you see where I'm going with this? The actual content of those tapes never gets discussed again, and each time the Democrats do this little song-and-dance, the more outlandish the purported behaviour will get, until it's been built into some sort of latter-day Watergate break-in, with Breitbart in the role of Nixon, or worse yet, of Haldeman or Ehrlichman (maybe then Palin becomes Nixon in drag??).
Sorry, but with all due respect, the value of those tapes has been destroyed by this little antic.
