The whole guilty by association has seem to die, at least for now and the ratcheting up the veteran, hero, war thingy has caught fire again.  I am sorry sports fans but the McCain campaign is running around looking for a hook that will help them in the polls.  So far they have come up with zero!

But I had to take one last shot….sorry……it is a weakness.

Barack Obama‘s campaign is citing the University of South Carolina’s speaking invitations to William Ayers and Republican Gov. Mark Sanford’s role as school trustee to counter Sarah Palin‘s efforts to link the presidential candidate to the 1960s radical. In an e-mail to reporters, the Obama campaign said Mr. Ayers is a “distinguished scholar” at the University of South Carolina, where Mr. Sanford serves as the ex-officio trustee while governor. “By Governor Palin’s standards, that means Governor Sanford shares Ayers’ views,” the e-mail read. Mr. Sanford rejected the argument. A university spokesman said Mr. Ayers has spoken six times over the last 13 years at the university’s Museum of Education but has “no ongoing connection or relationship with the university.”

One more time……

Todd Palin continued an official membership in the Alaska Independence Party until 2002, more than 30 years after the Weather Underground went out of existence and Barack Obama was a child. When Todd Palin was a member the Alaska Independence Party, Sarah Palin was the mother of his children. Sarah Palin, as Alaska’s governor, told the Alaska Independence Party to “keep up the good work” as they were about to nominate conspiracy buff Charles Baldwin for president.

The Alaska Independence Party has a history which it has not repudiated and a commitment to policies that would be considered “anti-American” across the political spectrum, policies that have produced separatist wars in many parts of the world. Americans deserve to know if Sarah Palin still agrees with that party’s views, and even if she wants to be an American rather than an Alaskan citzen.

I am still amazed that the MSM has not even tried to be balanced in this war of words.  Only bloggers seem to have the cajones to take on the oddity known as Palin and the self-described hero, McCain.