ads. He may have won the World Series of Slime today, however, with this endorsement from the Yoda of dirty politics. From Fox News Sunday:WALLACE: Alright, for fair game, what does McCain do that goes one step too far?Even a faint rebuke from Rove is biblical in proportion down in the political mud pit. However, there have been some pretty good scorecards turned in by the other judges, those high-BS-threshold referees in the press.
ROVE: McCain has similarly gone one step too far, attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100% truth test.
St. Petersburg Times (Editorial): McCain's straight talk has become a toxic mix of lies and double-speak.My favorite is from Tim's Joe Klein:
Jay Bookman, AJC: The volume and audacity of lies pouring from the McCain campaign is startling and even historic...That's really something, lying straight out about a FactCheck group, knowing that you're going to get caught but not giving a damn about it.
Back in 2000, after John McCain lost his mostly honorable campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, he went about apologizing to journalists--including me--for his most obvious mis-step: his support for keeping the confederate flag on the state house.The sad fact is, though, that the whole point of a smear is that the more you try to wipe it away, the more you spread its residue. McCain can sacrifice his honor. His base cheers him for it, his opponents jeer, but the watercooler set doesn't read FactCheck.org.
Now he is responsible for one of the sleaziest ads I've ever seen in presidential politics, so sleazy that I won't abet its spread by linking to it, but here's the McClatchy fact check.
I just can't wait for the moment when John McCain--contrite and suddenly honorable again in victory or defeat--talks about how things got a little out of control in the passion of the moment. Talk about putting lipstick on a pig.

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