The McCranky-Who??? "Change" ticket: everything you need to know, courtesy of Tom Toles

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Palin's campaign is doing whatever it can to distract voters away from the Republican' stand on the issues. She is standing firm on principle and refusing to be interviewed by the media about anything that remotely has to do with national issues. People are aware of her campaign's stands because we've just lived through nearly eight horrible years of them. Last night the Palin forces had some boring old man in St. Paul address the nation and try to make everyone feel sleepy... and like they wanted some warm milk. It didn't work. So this morning they're trying a new tact.

McCain is a very frightened little man. He wants us to believe he will stand up to the Russians and the Chinese but he wouldn't even stand up the extreme right of his party when they demanded he not take his best friend, Joe Lieberman, on as a running mate and instead agree to an unqualified and untested small town beauty queen. Over at Digby's (link above) Tristero has a long, long list of everything McCain has shown us he's afraid of lately-- from appearing on the same stage as George Bush to discussing his "secret" plan to catch Osama bin-Laden. Instead all we get from that campaign is more and more and more about Sarah Palin. Is he hiding behind her? Or has she tucked him in and now running the show herself?

No doubt you've probably read about her sordid sexual affair with hubby's ex-business partner and how the campaign has gone to great lengths to dramatize and get the media to focus on that and away from the issues. Today they threw more gasoline on the fire by having Palin's ex-lover claim to a judge that it is "an emergency" that his divorce records be sealed. The judge just denied that motion.

The Palin campaign has dragged the nation into a tawdry soap opera with a despicable cast of shady characters. But... whomever thought the GOP would just shuffle off quietly into the night by nominating that boring old man, obviously hasn't been watching the way right-wing parties attempt, historically, to hold on to power, often regardless of the consequences.

I live in the same country as Joe Biden. You?