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<\/p>\nAs of today John McCain is trailing Barack Obama in almost every measured poll, and his electoral count looks grim.\u00a0 What’s more, Obama is raising considerably more money as McCain, which gives you a pretty good idea where the bets are from a corporate standpoint.\u00a0 And so the smear campaign has begun in earnest.<\/p>\n
Last week Governor Palin accused<\/a> Senator Obama of consorting with domestic terrorists, a charge based on a New York Times article that reported that Obama had known a member of the Weathermen.\u00a0 The problem with this is that the article also went on to state that their ties were very limited to several business meetings and an occasional chance interaction in the neighborhood in which they both lived.\u00a0 Other media have similarly debunked<\/a> this charge.<\/p>\n Now the Republicans are claiming<\/a> that Obama is taking money from overseas, only that have not produced a single shred of evidence to support their request for an investigation by the Federal Election Commission.\u00a0 Here’s the problem for the Republicans with both of these charges: they’re baseless.\u00a0 When people repeatedly make baseless charges, we are reminded of the boy who cried wolf.\u00a0 Just how many times can one get away with it without hurting his reputation?<\/p>\n In Governor Palin’s case, since she has very little going for her already, it’s a short trip to the bottom, from which she will not return.\u00a0 She did herself a disservice by accepting this nomination and being McCain’s bulldog.\u00a0 Had she not done so she could have probably slipped right into a U.S. Senate seat.\u00a0 Now she’ll have a difficult time running for dog catcher.<\/p>\n For nameless GOP operatives filing lawsuits, it won’t be so bad for them as it will their entire party.\u00a0 The mud must stick somewhere, and if it won’t stick to the target, and it won’t stick to a nameless flinger, it will stick to who they represent.<\/p>\n Republicans should be pretty frustrated with such tactics because as 1992 demonstrated it is perhaps better to lose one election and attempt to hold the moral highground, and then come back two years later and try again.\u00a0 For John McCain it’s just sad.\u00a0 I view the man as a hero from Vietnam, one who stood as a sometimes lone voice for veterans of that mess, and who has now authorized behavior that should be beneath him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As of today John McCain is trailing Barack Obama in almost every measured poll, and his electoral count looks grim.\u00a0 What’s more, Obama is raising considerably more money as McCain, which gives you a pretty good idea where the bets are from a corporate standpoint.\u00a0 And so the smear campaign has begun in earnest. Last … Continue reading “Dumb and Dumber: Watching Republicans Self-Immolate”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}