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McCain 3: Rise of the Machines
Politics Daily — Filed under: Republicans, John McCain, Featured Stories, Scandal, Sarah PalinAs Sam Stein reported earlier today, John McCain appears to be employing the same Robo-call firm that was used to smear him in the 2000, when he ran against President Bush. The firm, FLS-Connect, is currently spreading McCain's message that Barack Obama "worked closely" with Bill Ayers, and therefore may be a threat to America's safety: Any tie between the McCain campaign and FLS represents an ironic twist of fate and a reflection of just how far the Arizona Republican has moved politically in the last eight years. ...

Prominent McCain Supporter: I'm "Absolutely" Concerned That Obama Is Anti-American
TPM Election Central — This is a must-watch: On MSNBC just now, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who has been a prominent McCain-Palin supporter on the cable talk shows, went on perhaps the most bizarre and McCarthyite rant about Obama that we've seen from a supposedly-respectable politician in this entire election. Check out these clips: Bachmann said she's "absolutely" concerned that Obama is anti-American. She attacked him for his association with, um, his wife, which she said raises questions about Obama's love for America. And -- in true Red-Scare form -- she called on reporters to investigate which ...

Bonkers
HorsesAss.Org — Check out Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann on Hardball accusing Obama and other Democrats of potentially being anti-American: This insane asylum escapee is in a tight re-election contest against Democrat El Tinklenberg, and you can help out him out here.

One of These Things Is Not Like the Other
The Mahablog — Never underestimate the ability of the Right to stoke its victim complex. Headline at Pajamas Media: Obama Supporter Assaults Female McCain Volunteer in New York As the media fumes over nonexistent hate at Palin speeches, it ignores leftists who go berserk on city streets. Oleg Atbashian writes, While the Democrat-leaning media continues to scare undecided voters with bedtime stories about some mythical angry McCain supporter whom nobody has seen, here is a real district attorney’s complaint documenting an unprovoked assault by an enraged Democrat against a McCain ...

Connecting the dots
Political Animal — CONNECTING THE DOTS.... Time's Karen Tumulty sees the pattern . There is now a pattern emerging from the McCain campaign and its surrogates. Instead of trying to persuade Americans who aren't in their camp (the sign of a campaign that thinks it can win), they are trying to de-legitimize them (the sign of a campaign that thinks it can't). That's what you hear in Sarah Palin's disquisition in Greensboro, N.C., on "these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation." (So what does that say about the rest of the country?) That is what you ...

On McCain's Behalf, Would Someone Please Call the Suicide Hotline?
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — Some mornings I awake, scan the papers and then drop to my knees and pray the November deadline be extended for this presidential race, just so we can see how ultimately squalid, how utterly and at times even comically inept the McCain campaign can get. Because I don't think they will have exhausted all the Titanic-ally inane possibilities in just the next couple weeks. Doubtless they have an abundance of more jaw-dropping goodies in store for us, but for heaven's sake they need time. More time. And they certainly cannot be expected to unveil their remaining inventory in, say, one weekend. But Lord knows this past weekend they sure as hell tried. Digging deep into ...

Poetic justice? You betcha!
Lawyers, Guns and Money — El Tinklenberg, who is running for the Minnesota congressional seat currently occupied by professional lunatic Michele Bachmann, saw his campaign bring in nearly half a million dollars in the 24 hours after Bachmann's unhinged performance on Hardball Friday evening.

Emanuel Invokes Powell after Bachmann, Hayes, Kuhl Attacks
News — Emanuel Invokes Powell after Bachmann, Hayes, Kuhl Attacks House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.) invoked former Secretary of State Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama today in hitting back at House Republicans' recent wave of patriotism-based attacks. Emanuel responded today, in a statement released by his press office, to three recently reported attacks by House Republicans that questioned Democrats' motives and patriotism: Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-Minn.) assertion that Obama is anti-American, Rep. Randy Kuhl's (R-N.Y.) claim at a John McCain rally that Democrats "want Americans to suffer" for their own political ...

Virginia Foxx Jumps On the McCarthyite Train
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Jindal, Race, and the Right
Ross Douthat — Dave Weigel weighs in on the subject here; Daniel Larison here. I think that liberals trying to understand the conservative mind, circa 2008, should take this passage from Larison to heart:  ... never underestimate the Republican desire to get on the high horse of anti-racism and egalitarianism, to say nothing of the even greater desire to demonstrate that they are in no way racist ... The small cottage industry out there cataloguing the "real racism" of liberals represents a genuine conviction in the modern GOP that they are the only true defenders of color-blind equality. The Republican obsession with ...

Two Very Ugly Faces Of Mindless Republican Obstructionism: Connie Mack & Michele Bachmann
DownWithTyranny! — An unholy triad: Connie, Mary & Michele This morning, CNN had Florida reactionary Connie Mack on to spew some venom about Tim Geithner after the announcement of how to get rid of the toxic assets that had accumulated on the books of American banks while George Bush's hand was steering the ship and while Connie Mack and his Republican colleagues were ...

And Your Point Is?????
No Runny Eggs — Rasmussen has shown itself time and again to be an accurate pollster. Some might say that they lean a bit to the right in their assessment of poll results but I find that they tend to be pretty fair in their assessments. That said, every now and then I see a poll interpretation from them that I scratch my head and wonder what it is that they are trying to say. Once such poll is a recent one that they released on favorability ratings for some Minnesota politicians. The title of the article pretty much lays out the problem I have with their analysis: Klobuchar Bests Franken, Bachmann Among Minnesota Voters Franken has obviously ...