“The heels are on, the gloves are off,” Sarah Palin said recently, in reference to her new attack-dog role for the McCain campaign.
If that’s the metaphor that the McCain team wants to use, I would suggest that they’re going to spend a lot of time picking themselves up off the floor.
William Ayers. Rev. Wright. Tony Rezko.
Yawn.
In addition to the fact that we’ve been over these “scandalous” associations in the past and they’ve been found to be not a big deal, the McCain team opens up a different can of worms. If they’re going to play the guilt-by-association game, Obama supporters can, and will, point to McCain’s association with the Keating Five and Palin’s association with the America-hatin’ Alaskan Independence Party. Obama’s campaign is already out today with a video on the Keating Five.
But the bottom line is that that McCain has been going down in the polls. And now he starts up again with the character attacks, at a time when there are some really serious issues the country needs to deal with. We’ve seen this movie before, right? The American people are smarter than this, right? Fool me once …?
We’ll see. I think it’s a recipe for a landslide, and not the kind McCain wants to see.
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