it appears that, since mccain has given up all hope that he could win on issues and integrity (wait, he gave up on that long ago), flimsy, empty claims based on lies is about all they can do. again, based upon the roveian assumption that americans are stupid and easily manipulated. but it isn't going to work this time.
this is his final chance at a hail mary, and i won't be surprised if 'obama is a muslim' rumors are rekindled (palin just today claimed he's been 'pallin' around with terrorists')...did they mention his middle name?? he's no joe sixpack! btw, the ny times article palin cites (see, she reads the times, in answer to katie couric's question! and also the economist!) concludes that obama's ties with Ayers are minimal and distorted by mccain's smears.
which leads me to the media, oh the liberal mainstream media, the bane of mccain's existence, at least as of late (he liked reporters not too long ago). apparently the media is to blame for everything. why don't they just let the republican spinsters have a free pass? why must they fact-check and call them out on lies?? jeez, that's not fair.
and, why again, would the MSM want to target mccain specifically? what do they stand to gain? with mccain in office, quite a bit:
more on mccain's corporate tax cut plan available through this link
we've all seen palin speak out against the mainstream media (and mccain likes to hide her from them). apparently katie couric was 100% responsible for palin's complete idiocy, palin saying that she was simply 'annoyed' because couric was tricking her, thus her terrible responses. or something. seriously, though? did she not ask the exact same supreme court question of joe biden? was that really an anti-palin trap? good god. i guess anything off the topics of oil-gas energy, motherhood and maverick-ness is a trap. lucky enough for palin, during the debates gwen ifill gave her several passes when she refused to answer the questions. that was unfortunate.
speaking of the debate, i find it appalling that the expectations for palin was so frighteningly low that her performance was hailed as a wild success, since she didn't completely embarrass herself with a major gaffe. wow, amazing, she kept to the talking points, didn't answer anything she didn't want to talk about, and winked several times (can you IMAGINE if she were a man, and winking and flirting with us?).
the scariest of all was palin's comments on the vice-presidency and cheney and how she seems to be pushing for more authority, a la cheney in the vp's role. cheney's legacy is disturbing, and i shudder to think that cheney's policy of expanding executive power, and the expansion of the vice presidency in particular, would be continued with a mccain/palin administration. that is a nightmare i don't want to think about. remember, palin was asked (as was biden) what the best/worst things cheney has done, and the worst to palin was the hunting accident. another classic palin deflection. biden's answer to the same question, appropriately, was cheney's theory of the 'unitary executive'. and in the debate it appeared as though palin would embrace that same theory. this is scary, folks.
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