The McCain camp is in full panic mode. They've saddled up a turkey and they're going to do everything they can to distract you from that fact.

This campaign is going to be ugly beyond ugly in week or so.

Isn't that just a kind way of saying "loose cannon"?

is the new insane.

This woman has enough real political corruption liabilities to sink her and McSame.

EVERY time critics point to an allegation of official Palin wrongdoing, the Goopers will now be reduced to reflexively wailing "STOP ATTACKING HER DAUGHTER!!"

Just like McSame has to use "POW, POW, POW..." as a shield against any and all tough questions.

Poignant.

OK< so Republicans are known for lies. Fine. But now to just smear an opponent with your own faults and claim their virtues? How brazen can these people be? To go out of your way to sell the exact opposite of reality? WOW.

The McCain camp isn't giving out specifics about where this ad is running; they're saying only that it'll be shown in "key states." And that will raise even more questions about the campaign's truthfulness -- is this just another ad that they're releasing without bothering to pay for any substantial amount of airtime?

And didn't you just provide eyeballs for an ad that apparently doesn't say much and for which they may not have bothered to buy much airtime?

I suppose the Obama camp is waiting for Palin's acceptance speech before they start hitting back, but isn't it somewhat odd that the McCain team is comparing Palin to Obama? Isn't it McCain who is running for President?

When McCain ran with the "maverick" label, the word ceased to have meaning. McCain is not a maverick. He never has been. He's a "veerer," a new word I just made up. Occasionally, he veers slightly from a strict party line; usually when his veering won't change the outcome much anyway.

Palin a maverick? Yeah, her ideas are just sooooooo different from what other morons having been saying for years. Before she came along, it was completely impossible to find a champion for abstinence only sex ed.

James Garner is the only real Maverick, but that show was so long ago.

You see, John "Maverick" McCain didn't need another Maverick as his co-pilot. He needed a Goose. You know, a slightly boring but solid person to sit in the back seat and point stuff out to the Maverick to shoot down. Now we have two Mavericks in the cockpit trying to yaw that stick in different directions and its putting the campaign into a flat spin.

At this pint Mavrick McCain definitely isn't buzzing the tower and has already managed to eject his reel right into the canpoy.

Keep on that highway to the danger zone Maverick!

1 – How many times will Palin mention/praise Hilary Clinton in her speech tonight?

2 – How many times will she use some variant of the phrase “tough decision I made as Mayor/Govenor”?

3 – How many times will refer to McCain as a “maverick”?

4 – Will she bring up abortion? Bonus points if she brings up her CHOICE to keep newborn son (a choice she would deny other women).

5 – How many will she evoke her son going to Iraq? (blunted partially by Dems doing the same with Biden’s son).

Anything else we need to watch for?

They're going to clean up Washington? Is McCain going to allow her to go after Phil Gramm?

The Republican message is going a long way to underscore the fact that most of the corruption is in the Republican party.

Is transmogrification the same as reform? Is shape-shifting the same as reform? Is repackaging the same as reform?

Which is it Mrs. Palin? Are you Alaskan first or American first.

And why do the residents of Alaska get all this oil money when it's AMERICAN oil, NOT Alaskan oil. It's on American-owned land. No wonder the state's politics are such a mess.

What was that? I couldn't hear you.

THIS IS JUST ONE OF OBAMA'S CLOSE TERRORIST FRIENDS. HE HELPED OBAMA START HIS CAMPAIGN.

William Ayers is a former member of the Weather Underground Movement, previously known as the Weathermen, a radical 1960’s Maoist movement dedicated to sparking a revolutionary overthrow of the United States government. The group carried out jailbreaks of members, bombings, and incited riots during their run in the 1960’s and 70’s.

Ayers has admitted to being involved in bombings carried out by the group, and is quoted as saying “I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough.”

He went into hiding underground after one bomb went off accidentally, destroying a Greenwich Village apartment and killing three other members of the organization, one who was Ayers girlfriend.

Ayers is linked to bombings of the United States Capital, the Pentagon, and the Harry S. Truman Building, home of the United States Department of State, along with a series of courthouses, jails, banks, and prison administrative offices.

He, along with other members of the Weather Underground, turned themselves in to police in 1981, after a series of official acts of misconduct on behalf of law enforcement officials ensured that they would never be brought to trial for their activities.

And this self-confessed domestic terrorist has current ties to Presidential hopeful Barack Hussein Obama.

….and the media, minus Hannity, are very absent in reporting this.

This is not the only connection that Obama has with known terrorist organizations. In 2001, while serving in a paid position as director for the Woods Fund, the organization issued a grant to the Arab American Action Network, a group that has ties to the PLO. His church published a very pro-Hamas newsletter, and the churches ties with the Nation of Islam, and Jeremiah Wright’s award to Louis Farrakhan, as well as his visit to Libya to meet Muammer Kaddafi.

Do we really need a President, indeed a Senator or any other elected official, who seems to be on such friendly terms with terrorists and their sympathizers?

The Weather Underground Communist terrorists have long peddled the line that their bombings didn't kill anybody, except themselves. The book flap for Ayers book, Fugitive Days, insists that the organization carried out "strategic, bloodless bombings, including one inside the Pentagon."

Bloodless? Tell that to the family of the San Francisco policeman and those who were injured. Newspaper accounts at the time put the number of people wounded at nine.

Riddled with shrapnel, Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell died two days later at San Francisco General Hospital. A memorial was held for him in February 2007. He was a young man with his whole life ahead of him. But to Ayers and Dohrn, he was a "pig."

"Sergeant McDonnell caught the full force of the flying shrapnel, which consisted of heavy metal staples and lead bullets. As other officers tried rendering aid to the fallen sergeant, they could see that he sustained a severed neck artery wound and severe wounds to his eyes and neck," the San Francisco Police Officers Association Journal reports.

"Officers [Ron] Martin and [Al] Arnaud, who were standing several feet from the window ledge, were knocked to the ground and sustained injuries from the flying glass," it says. The blast caused them hearing impairment and shock. One officer was knocked to the floor unconscious, while another "suffered multiple severe wounds on his face, cheek and legs from the flying fragments of the glass."

I obtained Grathwohl's actual congressional testimony.

The testimony was given by Grathwohl to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee on October 18, 1974. He testified:

"When he [Bill Ayers] returned, we had another meeting at which time―and this is the only time that any Weathermen told me about something that someone else had done―and Bill started off telling us about the need to raise the level of the struggle and for stronger leadership inside the Weathermen 'focals' [i.e., cells] and inside the Weatherman organization as a whole. And he cited as one of the real problems was that someone like Bernardine Dohrn had to plan, develop and carry out the bombing of the police station in San Francisco, and he specifically named her as the person that committed that act."

Grathwohl added that Ayers "said that the bomb was placed on the window ledge and he described the kind of bomb that was used to the extent of saying what kind of shrapnel was used in it."

This testimony completely obliterates the notion that the Weather Underground communist terrorist bombings only killed the bombers themselves. Such propaganda is designed to play down the serious nature of the terrorist crimes. It is also designed to make Obama's relationship with Ayers and Dohrn more palatable.

Grathwohl includes this conversation with Ayers in his 1976 book, Bringing Down America: An FBI Informer with the Weathermen. The park police station bombing in San Francisco was "a success," Ayers is quoted as saying,

Grathwohl reveals that Ayers himself knew how to make bombs and didn't care about people being killed. At one point, he says, Ayers displayed a diagram of a bomb, with dynamite and a fuse. The plan was to bomb a police station but an objection was raised that it would also destroy a nearby restaurant. "We'll blow out the Red Barn restaurant," Grathwohl said. "Maybe even kill a few innocent customers". "We can't protect all the innocent people in the world," Ayers replied. "Some will get killed. Some of us will get killed. We have to accept that fact."

Grathwohl says the Weather Underground also considered using kidnappings and assassinations in order to bring about their communist revolution in the U.S.