They will trot out Wright and Rezko on top of Ayres.

but, Obama has:

John's pal, G. Gordon Liddy, a convicted felon for their Ayres

John Hagee for Rev. Wright

Charles Keating for Tony Rezko.

For everything they trot out to try to tar Obama with, he has an equal to throw right back in McCain's face.

I should be thrilled over Obama's lead in the polls but, it's been tamped down by the sheer hate these rallies are full of.

Part of me thinks it's the rabid rightwing base that thrives on hate and anger, programed into them by rightwing idiots like Hannity and Limbaugh.

I think they are upset over losing. It was always a very good possibility but, I don't think the reality of it hit until the past couple weeks and they cannot deal with it.

But, Obama is not only black but, with his father's background, he is everything they scapegoat. Muslims, blacks, democrats, ect.

the thought he is kicking their ass is galling to them.

But, so many of their base glory in being violent and ignorant.

And it only takes one to cause a tragedy.

Last spring a man like these people, the base type, entered a mainstream church he considered leaning liberal and shot it up during service and killed several people.

He said he wanted to kill liberals.

With the ginning up and the over the top attacks by Paling and McCain, using the code words and pushing the right buttons, have unleashed the ugliest of their mob mentality.

One, a bit more unhinged, can decide to do whatever it takes to stop Obama and do violence.

but, I have tamped it down during the primaries and the general.

I don't even think about the possibility we will win because I cannot deal with being disappointed again.

My whole adult life has been during the conservative revolution beginning with Reagan's 1980 win. It's been hell to live under it and so, I've escaped by reading alot of books on FDR and the 1930s., imagining what it would be like to live under a great democratic president.

I could see we were heading into a economic collapse because common sense said it could not be sustained. But, even with 1932 dancing in the air for awhile, I dismissed it. Now I see it written and talked about everywhere.

And the one candidate I honestly felt excited about and felt could be a transformative candidate happened to be running this year and is on the cusp of getting elected.

Though, by no means do I see Obama as an FDR (there was, alas, only one and we will never see the likes of someone like him again), I do see Obama and have, as someone who has all the gifts to be on the scale of a very good president.

Rovian politics is dead and discredited.

The gop just has not gotten the hint, or at least the far right.

Saner republicans have seen this and are readjusting to the new mood and political climate.

The far right is still clinging dearly to their beloved slime, smear and lie tactics because that is all they know. And it's what they live for.

But, in truth, the average person has moved on and has no time for the garbage

my mom is from France and still a citizen. So, I have a duel citizenship. If McCain is elected I have decided to move in with relatives in laHarve, France and be done with this country.

The latest wrong by the pundits is the Obama is too cool and smart. He needs to stop showing how smart he is and learn to bowl and be like the guy with the lunch pail and burp coffee.

Try telling the out of touch beltway bubble people that what voters want is smart and level headed.

After 8 years of chimpy with his idiocy and cowboy shoot 'em ups people are desperate for someone with a cool head and lots of brains.

There is also a backlash against ignorant, uneducated big mouth and nasty.

The 'redneck' republican types

Even republicans are rebelling against them.

And, another thing the pundits are wrong about is being a progressive democrat. They still think people want conservative ideas and republicanism.

That being a progressive is bad.

Wrong. People want some government involvement and people want some democratic ideas. People are moving left.

What is bad now is conservativism. But, the pundits never got the memo. They still think it's all republican all the time.

And that we need to hide our progressive ideas and leanings.

If that was so, then the charge of socialist against Obama by McCain would work. so would the Ayres thing.

Both backfired because no one cares. no one is recoiling from the charge of Obama being the 'most liberal in the senate'.

Actually it's people like Joe McCarthy Bachmann and all those wrap yourself in the flag types that are getting hit.

Someday, the dust will settle down and books will be written about this election.

And the pundits and the conventional wisdom will be the comedy relief in the story.