Just like Bush didn't want to besmirch a wounded vet like Kerry while letting the 527's run rampant with lie after lie.

The difference is that while I'm sure Rove was ultimately behind the Swift boaters, I believe no one attached with the Obama campaign got this mess fired up. It took bloggers and MSM less than 72 hours to find all sorts of problems from pregnancies to lies about earmarks to ties to the Alaskan independence Party. 72 hours. Just how long did the McCain people spend researching this very, very, very important decision?

if nobody watches the convention?

The republicans ARE spending millions on this...and still won't look good.

I think there are a few "Republic of Texas" types that haven't been jailed for tax evasion and firearms charges yet. They will be easy to vet, almost no records anywhere for the gummint to use to track them down.

He's stuck with her now.

With the whole country watching she could bowed out tonite because of the mean liberal media and those cruel Obama people...for the good of her family, you know. There would have been sympathy and second thoughts...too late now. Heckuva pick, Johnnie.

We said "thank you". What else do you think we should be doing now? Send a card? Flowers? That would all be kind of sexist, don't you think?

And yes, if Clinton was the democratic VP, there would be no Palin as republican VP. Why don't you find that fact tremendously insulting?

Women who really care about women's issues are democrats, not republicans.

they have no business wanting to be in the white house. There hasn't been an american president in the last 70 years who hasn't been burned in effigy somewhere at least once. What do these weenies (meant in a generically belittling, non-sexist way) plan to do then? Have their press flack file a protest that their feelings have been hurt? "But I was a POW!" and "How dare you be sexist!" will not stop the Chinese from calling in their IOU's, Russia from rolling over the next former soviet republic, or Pakistan from lobbing a nuke at New Dehli. Palin and McCain want to be my daddy and protect me from the bad men. I didn't always get along with my real father but I respected him because he never whined.

Just read your other 6 letters since you joined 4 days ago. I don't know if you guys still get paid by the post but there are 3 things republicans don't do well: Humor, Irony, and Truth. Stick the basic lies of the party line and you won't sound like quite the goofball. The whole post is about McCain giving up on the Obama calling Palin a pig thing so flogging it further is pointless.

On the other hand, if he was hinting that Palin was a pig and that McCain was old fish, you guys sort of took the bait in a big way, didn't you? Suckers.

dishonest...possibly criminal. But they got balls.

I would be embarassed to break the law so obviously and publically; but then I guess I'm just a big old wuss.

Are you really sure you want to bring up Kenny-boy and Enron? That's not necessarily your hero's and your party's finest hour.

You're writing my speeches if I ever run for office. Nice.

Doesn't "suspend" campaign mean you cease all activities related to it (ads, fundraising, etc.)? Have the ads been pulled? Has Palin "suspended" her campaign...however the hell you can define the peekaboo appearances she's been doing? I know, lets have biden and palin do the friday night gig while the big boys work on the bailout and they can take the VP time slot. That should be good. I'm sure Sarah is eager to be cut loose.

She had a month to work on the talking points and still got them all jumbled in her head.

I despair that there is a chance, however small, that this woman can end up president. A month ago I was thinking, "anyone but Guiliani...he's nuts". Rudy? Where are you now?

If Obama doesn't have a double digit lead by Halloween, the most terrifying visitor at my door would be a kid in a Palin mask shouting "Russia's next door!" instead of "Trick or Treat".

"Boo!"

"Arghhhhhh! Take the all the candy! Please just leave my country alone."

And here I sit with only two middle fingers...

I'm sure it really was Ms. Obama giving the interview. Right after she made an updated "Whitey" tape. It's on the internet; it must be true!!!

Great yarbles reference. Real horrorshow!