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If her time on the Wasilla City Council is any guide, she's the next Dick Cheney. The New York Times investigates in "Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes."

Romney calls McCain's attacks a "huge mistake." Even Karl Rove--yes, Karl Rove--says McCain went too far. The St. Petersburg Times runs an appropriately scathing editorial, "Campaign of lies disgraces McCain." Oh, and best t-shirt slogan ever right here.

Palin visits Iraq? Not so much. McCain says Palin never requested earmarks. Palin defends why she did. McCain campaign claims his $600 billion tax-cut proposal doesn't use borrowed money to pay for itself. Former FED chair Alan Greenspan disagrees. At least two New York Times columnists have been paying attention. Read Bob Herbert's "She's Not Ready" and...

I've not been much of a fan of the show (outside their target audience, I'm sure), but finally, finally somebody grills McCain on the lies he and Palin have been spewing and asks him for specifics. (No, he doesn't have any.) I remember watching Ron Paul on The View and he came off a lot better than this. I think the McCain campaign is self-destructing....

A handy collection of video examples.

Today's football funny: Pre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jacksonville Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life

Now we see why the GOP hasn't made Palin available to the press (other than a People magazine puff piece and this Gibson interview). She is devastatingly ignorant of world affairs--it's never good when the reporter clearly knows more than the candidate--and she has the same deer in the headlines, way-too-earnest speaking style that I've seen dozens of...

And the McCain campaign is it. Hence the turn to mud-slinging. I am surprised and saddened to see John McCain run such a dishonorable affair.

In favor of it according to the Wall Street Journal. Lying the campaign trail now to cover it up:

Smooth, smart, funny. The contrast with Palin is jarring.