I agree, Koppelman is all wet. "Phalin" was a horrible and recklessly irresponsible choice, and "McShame" is now conveniently hiding behind the economic crisis to avoid getting killed at the Friday debate. Everything he stands for has gone belly-up, including foreign policy, so he has no recourse but to continue with lies and hyperbole. Problem is his lies are becomingly increasingly transparent. Now he's running scared because he's afraid he may be cornered into telling the truth for a change, the truth being that he's really running against himself. I hardly call that a gamble. In military terms it's called a retreat, and a cowardly one at that.

In response to whether "anyone will buy McCain's story?..." The answer is YES, a guy named Alex Koppelman will!

Barney Frank handled himself exceedingly well, considering the circumstance of having been set up by such a phony blow-hard. But I have to say the only thing that blows harder than O'Reilly is Koppelman's lame-ass neocon assessment. Alex, try to get a life and be objective and newsworthy for a change. Your redneck proclivities are transparent and unbecoming. Pull up your pants and quit exposing yourself. You're supposed to be a journalist.

...she is not playing dumb, Koppelman, and neither are you. You are just being yourselves.

Nobody's dummy but yours, Camille. You may be sweet on her, but you'll have to compete with the First Dud. Palin's a hypocritical idiot. You can have her, Camille. You can walk hand-in-hand with her back to the Stone Age.

Given that Barack Obama's patriotism has now come into question in a very ugly, pathetic and desperate way, I want to know more about this Todd Palin "dude" and his membership in the Alaka Independence Party, and by association the related activities of his bimbo wife, Sarah, the Alaskan Gov. For her to have the temerity to question Obama when her own husband's membership in this group shows unequivocally that he hates America smacks of white, hypocritical bullshit. Had the Obamas been even tangentally associated with such a group, they would have been politically lynched as traitors and effectively run out of the country.

So please Salon, dispense with all that worthless Camille Paglia crap and investigate and report this unpatriotic, self-serving Palin character for who he really is. And please don't refer to him as Native American. He ain't no Indian. He's a phony. Real Indians wouldn't have such blatant disregard for the steardship of our precious wildlife and environment. The Palins are nothing but just another neo-conservative, Bible-thumping fringe redneck family.

Good job to the reporters of this article. Keep digging. Palin's association with all these reactionary gun-toting anti-

American goons needs to be fully exposed. These people are nothing short of violent racists with bigoted Neanderthal views. They are the KKK white supremacists coming back to haunt us. Dont' let it happen. They have no place in a civilized society.

Listen to some if these virulent, redneck comments. The vicious "pit bull" attack dogs are in full pack mode and snarling for blood. Think about it. If McShame steals the election, he won't make it through Inaugaration Day before one of these extreme gun-loving nuts puts a bullet in his head, claiming it's God's calling to crown Sarah Palin US President, because she will then guide them to their demented self-serving, white-racist salvation. These people are sick.

Troopergate is now being reported in the New York Times. It must be followed with the Palin's long association with the Alaskan Independence Party. Sarah Palin is an out-and-out slimy hypocrite. If she wants to talk terrorism and anti-Americanism, she needs to explain her "shout out" to AIP.

McCain has lost all integrity. He needs to be Dishonorably Discharged from American politics.

No wonder the 17-year old is knocked up. None of them ever go to school. And judging from Sarah's diction neither did she.

Indeed, I immediately thought the very same words. Why is it the Republicans want to pretend to play fair until things don't go their way? Then they cry foul. The whole world is unfair to them, in spite of the fact that their party has had unbridled control of gov't for the last eight years, and they completely fucked it up. Whatever happened to that old arrogance of theirs, and all that "political capital" they were cramming down everyone's throat? They squandered it and lost all faith anyone may have mistakenly had in them. Now they're crying like little spoiled brats.

Forget it, Schmidt, you're a loser. Your party is morally bankrupt, and many of us Americans are sick of you thinking you always have to have it your way. Get out of the way and let someone who knows how to govern clean up this horrible mess you and your party made.

...Is Palin too stupid to usher out a call for basic decency and civility? Judging from her performance to-date, the answer is a resounding YES! She makes a Barbie doll look like a Rhodes Scholar.

As your precious neo-con criminal veep might infamously say,

"Go F____ Yourself."

...would have been a better title. Thank you for the write-up. I'll be sure not to see it.

He should have just fessed up and admitted that he didn't have a choice, much like the right-to-lifers want to do to women who get pregnant.

Letterman missed a huge opportunity when McLame brought up "Toad" Palin. Dave should have immediately asked who the First Dud's been "pallin'" around with in the Alaska Independence Party for 7 years as one of its active members. The AIP hates America.

And forgive me, but when has riding a snowmobile become such a death-defying sport?

...and why the hell should anyone care? The guy writes and thinks like an idiot, then he wants to spout anti-affirmative action and "black privilege" bullshit, all in tortured trailer-trash English. Since when is fairness in tax policy somehow abhorrent? What a dunce. Keep that dude away from a pen or a keyboard. He needs to go back to elementary school.