McCain's Allies Deserting Him-- Soon Only Palin's Terrorist Buddies Will Be Willing To Pal Around With Him

Turns out the only difference was a muzzle, not lipstick

McCain and his pet pit bull (with the lipstick) like to say they represent business. In McCain's case, marrying a rich gangster's pretty daughter certainly paid well but unless you want to count that as "business," the only relationship McCain has had with business is taking bribes, millions and millions of dollars in bribes, conveniently defined as "contributions" by the Congress in which he and hundreds of other crooked pols serve. Meanwhile, business has had a look at his so-called healthcare plan and can barely keep from choking on its own vomit.

[O]fficials, with [staunchly Republican] organizations like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable and the National Federation of Independent Business, predicted in recent interviews that the McCain plan, which eliminates the exclusion of health benefits from income taxes, would accelerate the erosion of employer-sponsored health insurance and do little to reduce the number of uninsured from 45 million.

That is largely the argument made in recent days by Mr. McCain’s opponent, Senator Barack Obama, who has revived a dormant campaign debate over health care with an intensified attack on the McCain plan. Conscious that the issue plays well with swing voters, Mr. Obama devoted a speech on Saturday to characterizing Mr. McCain’s plan as “radical” and a “Washington bait and switch,” and he has reinforced the message in four television advertisements.

McCain's once devoted allies in the media, his base, are, for the most part-- though not the part from Fox nor people who make believe David Broder isn't terminally senile and long past his trip to the glue factory-- disillusioned that their hero turns out to be the biggest scumbag in the history of contemporary American politics. Gee, did they get it wrong! Time Magazine's Joe Klein is so disgusted with McCain's "descent into ugliness" that he's reticent to cover all the "manure" the campaign is farting out in every direction.

It is appropriate that the prime vessel for this assault is Sarah Palin, whose very presence on a national ticket is an insult to your intelligence. She now has "credibility," we are told, because she managed to read talking points off notecards in the debate last week with unwitting enthusiasm.

Over the weekend, she picked up on an article in the New York Times, which essentially says that Barack Obama and the former terrorist Bill Ayers have crossed paths in Chicago, served on a couple of charitable boards together, but aren't particularly close. To Palin-- or her scriptwriters-- this means that Obama has been "palling around" with terrorists.

...[T]his is rather rich coming from Palin, who is married to a man who belonged to a political party-- the Alaskan Independence Party-- that wanted to secede from the union.

Watch and judge for yourself who's palling around with our nation's enemies: