McGrumpy stars in his own musical

Pass the popcorn, it’s Republican Fight Week

Palin’s ‘going rogue,’ McCain aide says

“[Palin] is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser. “She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.

A Palin associate, however, said the candidate is simply trying to “bust free” of what she believes [...]

Pew Research: McCain collapses in latest national poll

The latest Pew Research poll shows Obama with his widest margin ever over McCain, 53% to 39%.

Failin’ Palin must have been sleeping during 8th grade civics class because yesterday she said the vice president is “in charge of the United States Senate.”

What a freaking moron.

McCain campaign quandry. Conflicting slime attempts

From the comments on Political Insider’s post about the multiple messages emerging from the erratic McCain campaign.

The reason the McCain campaign has resisted using a Jeremiah Wright attack is simple. Wright is a Christian minister, and the campaign does not want to contradict the Obama Muslim rumours that are being peddled on McCain’s [...]

Current poll data shows Obama lead

The well-regarded FiveThirtyEight.com Super Tracker projects Obama up by 4.9% on election day.

The Daily Kos tracking poll, which aggregates results from several polls, show a slight bounce for Obama and drop for McCain after three days of McCain gains, this before the Powell endorsement. That outlier Zogby poll of a few days ago [...]

The angriest man in America

From Margaret and Helen. Margaret does most of the blogging, she’s 82.

Joe the Plumber? Joe Six Pack?  The new McCain strategy seems to be banking on a lot of guys named Joe with a beer in one hand and a pipe wrench in the other. Is this a political campaign or a dating service [...]

John Sidney McCain jumps the tracks

The oracle that is the Internet Anagram Server returns the following for “John Sidney McCain”

John Is Mendicancy Achy Demonic Jinns Cosmic Ninny Jehad Comic Hyena Djinns

All of which makes about as much sense as the McCain campaign these past few days. Let’s see if I have this right. McCain was going to release [...]

Watching the McCain campaign self-destruct

Remember how we used to joke about John McCain looking like an old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn? It’s only in retrospect that we can see that the keep-off-the-grass period was the McCain campaign’s golden era. Now, he’s beginning to act like one of those movie characters who steals the [...]

Keating Economics

Here it is. The new Obama campaign video about McCain and the Keating Five, and their part in the scandal that led to the collapse of 1,000 banks – and inexorably to the present day meltdown. You can view and download it from Keating Economics.

Servers are jammed now, even YouTube. Alternate site. [...]

Obama puts on the brass knuckles. McCain and the Keating Five bank scandal

Keating Economics: John McCain and the makings of a financial scandal goes live Monday Noon EDT with a 13 minute video about John McCain role’s in the Keating Five bank scandal. (This video is a 35 second teaser.)

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Remember, the Keating Five isn’t just another scandal, it’s a financial scandal in which [...]