"The McCain campaign's further descent into ugliness"

So John McCain has jumped the shark. Consider these words from the typically right-wing-friendly Joe Klein:

I'm of two minds about how to deal with the McCain campaign's further descent into ugliness. Their strategy is simple: you throw crap against a wall and then giggle as the media try to analyze the putresence in a way that conveys a sense of balance: "Well, it is bull-pucky, but the splatter pattern is interesting..." which, of course, only serves to get your perverse message out. I really don't want to be a part of that. But...every so often, we journalists have a duty to remind readers just how dingy the McCain campaign, and its right-wing acolytes in the media (I'm looking at you, Sean Hannity) have become--especially in their efforts to divert public attention from the economic crisis we're facing. And so inept at it: other campaigns have decided that their only shot is going negative, but usually they don't announce it, as several McCain aides have in recent days--there's no way we can win on the economy, so we're going to go sludge-diving. …

It is appropriate that the prime vessel for this assault is Sarah Palin, whose very presence on a national ticket is an insult to your intelligence. She now has "credibility," we are told, because she managed to read talking points off notecards in the debate last week with unwitting enthusiasm. Over the weekend, she picked up on an article in The New York Times, which essentially says that Barack Obama and the former terrorist Bill Ayers have crossed paths in Chicago, served on a couple of charitable boards together, but aren't particularly close. To Palin--or her scriptwriters--this means that Obama has been "palling around" with terrorists. … In any case, this is rather rich coming from Palin, who is married to a man who belonged to a political party--the Alaskan Independence Party--that wanted to secede from the union.

It's time to dissolve the Republican party and replace it with a more serious opposition party.

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It's time to dissolve the Republican party and replace it with a more serious opposition party.

Funny. I've felt that way about the Democrats since 1994. But perhaps if the Republicans dissolved the Democrats would stop trying to market themselves as Republicans Lite. That would help a lot.

"Former" terrorist Bill Ayers??? Isn't that like saying former terrorist Yassar Arafat. Or former terrorist Osama BinLaden? They all used to do that terrorist stuff, but not anymore!!! Here's some good stuff on The relationship between the Obamas and the Ayers.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/04/23/barack-and-michelle-and-bill-and-b…
From Obamas campaign director. "They are Friendly"
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/04/23/barack-and-michelle-and-bill-and-b…

David: Given that Arafat is dead, I think we can safely say that his terrorist days are behind him. Osama bin Laden's are surely not, so I cannot imagine why you'd say anything so silly.

Bill Ayers is some dirty hippie who did shit when Obama was 8 years old, and long before I was born, and I honestly cannot get myself to care.

I'm more curious why Sarah Palin and her husband maintained such an extended relationship with the secessionist movement led by a man who declared that he was "not an American" and swore "I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."

And why did John McCain vote repeatedly to protect domestic terrorists from federal prosecution over domestic bombings? Why does he remain close to a self-described "old friend" who got a 20 year sentence for political terrorism, and has since urged his followers to kill federal agents: "resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests. � They've got a big target on there, ATF. Don't shoot at that, because they've got a vest on underneath that. Head shots, head shots. � Kill the sons of bitches."