Good Golly, Ms. Palin!

I know she wants to be out there, on her own, saying what she wants to say - but this is getting ridiculous.  How much distance can the McCain camp put between him and the lady who speaks before thinking.
Sarah Palin speaks on the First Amendment 

Somehow, in Sarah Palin's brain, it's a threat to the First Amendment when newspapers criticize her negative attacks on Barack Obama.  This is actually so dumb that it hurts: [...]

Just Crazy

The infighting among McCain staffers appears to be rocketing off the chart. It's probably a good thing (for them) that the election is just a week away.

McCain adviser: Palin is ‘a whack job.’

The infighting within the McCain campaign has become increasingly public, with growing frustrating directed at Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK). Last week, CNN reported that one McCain source called Palin “a diva” who “takes no advice from anyone.” Politico’s Mike Allen reports another McCain adviser’s criticism of Palin: ***In convo with Playbook, a top McCain adviser one-ups [...]

On another matter - it's COLD around here today.  What happened to fall?

Setting Up A Fascinating Week

Looks like things could get really interesting this coming week in the McCain campaign. These stories just keep exploding this weekend.

McCain aide: Palin a "diva" who's looking more out for herself than McCain

Let the fireworks begin, baby. You betcha. "With 10 days to go until election day, long brewing tension between Sarah Palin and key aides to John McCain has become so intense, it is [...]

This Weekend

Big articles. In BIG newspapers.  Bad news for McCain.

Wash Post: "McCain Campaign Post-Mortem"

Now there's a headline that could sink a thousand ships. These stories are devastating to McCain. To his staff. To his voters. To his donors. It's just non-stop bad news, and now "post-mortems" - that's about as bad as it can get. Here is Chris Cillizza's piece about the upcoming, or shall I say impending, New York Times story this [...]

UPDATE: Okay, it's piling on, but...

McCain Adviser Votes for Obama

A bad week for John McCain just got considerably worse: "... Fried announced that he has voted for Obama-Biden by absentee ballot. In his letter to[...]

 

The Honest Voice

Well, NBC's Political guru, Chuck Todd, went out on a limb yesterday and he's still employed today.  That's gotta say something.  If you haven't seen his comment on the McCain/Palin interview, you owe it to yourself to take a moment...

Does McCain blame Palin for his swirling toilet of a campaign?

To hear Brian Williams and Chuck Todd talk, as they did last night on Hardball, you'd think things were perhaps not so peachy these days over at Camp McCain, after they spent the afternoon interviewing John McCain and Sarah Palin together: "Well, Chris, and this something that I -- I wouldn't blame Brian for not wanting to say this, but -- there was a tenseness between -- first of all, [...]

 

Cutting Back

The McCain/Palin TV ads are being reduced, in still-key states. Running out of money and time...

Strategery

John McCain has very little time, dwindling resources, and a limited number of options in order to reach 270 electoral votes. As such, he's having to make some tough decisions. Democrats who monitor advertising spending now put at five [...]

Difference of Opinion

I must admit, I find it hard to believe that this really is the McCain/Palin stance on bin Laden. Still, the quotes are there and they are quite damning.

McCain: I'd let Osama bin Laden go free

Wow. Probably the biggest gaffe McCain has ever made, saying that he'd refuse to catch Osama bin Laden if he had him in his sights. Specifically, McCain and Palin have said that if they knew where bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan, and the [...]

Oh, what the heck. As long as we're doing "quotable quotes", here's another one:

Palin Claims Vice President 'In Charge of the U.S. Senate'

Governor, there's this great document called the Constitution that you should really take a look at [...]

 

The Real Sleaze

Some liberal bloggers are really showing their journalistic teeth in analyzing the McCain/Palin campaign. They're painting quite the ugly picture of what's going on.

Uniquely sleazy

I've suggested more than once that the McCain/Palin campaign is the most dishonest of the last few decades. Today, Josh Marshall goes further, calling the Republican campaign the sleaziest of the last 35 years. Either because of age[...]