And that is saying a lot, because I used to like this guy. Before he went evil during this campaign, I actually thought it would be diffcult to make a decision on Election Day.

But I just saw an ad, and it had the “I approve this message” tagline, so I have given up on the man. I mean, he lost serious ground with his comments over the last few months, and his selection of a VP…well, I chalked that up to desperation and senility. But the lies and invective and blatant misleading bullshit in this most recent ad.

Well, let’s start with this: Sarah Palin is unfit. I am not going to call her an idiot. She is not. I’m not even calling her a freak, even though she does believe the bible is a literal document and that the Earth has only been here for 6000 years. I mean, the concept of walking hand in hand with dinosaurs is cool and all, but I have to err on the side of science here.

Oh, and in case you think I’m a freak, I’m talking about walking hand in hand with Land Before Time good guy dinosaurs, and Dink the Little Dinosaur (check him out on Boomerang!) not, like, those big ass cloned dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. That would be f-ed up.

Anyway, I watched the VP debate – maybe you did to. According to the media, Sarah Palin performed better than expected. So, we expected even less from her? We expected her to be more nervous, to have her voice crack more? We actually expected that she could not reliably pronounce nuclear?

Look, I’m sure Sarah Palin is perfectly nice. I’m sure that she is a loving mother and a fine governor. I’m sure that despite her religion she doesn’t really believe that Catholics and Jews and Muslims and other Christians of a different flav are eternally doomed. I’m sure she honestly does not realize the hypocrisy of believing the bible is 100% accurate and can not, should not and will not be second guessed, but the Constitution is just a loose set of ideas meant to be interpreted.

Hey, if you saw the debate, I hope you didn’t miss the part where she said she wanted to rethink the role of the VP in Washington. Yeah, the person who doesn’t know anything about Washington should be correcting its failures. I mean, I agree, Washington is absolutely nuts, but you should probably know how it works before you propose to change things.

Or maybe not, let’s just start over. Tee hee.

But his atrocious selection of a running mate is not why I have lost all respect for McCain. It’s the ad I mentioned. It’s an ad that deals with a point Sarah Palin tried to raise in the debate – a point that Joe Biden beat her down with. See, there was this vote about funding more weapons for the troops. Biden voted for the measure and Obama voted against it. In the debate, Palin attacked Obama for not supporting the troops. Biden acknowledged that he had had a difference of opinion with his candidate on that vote, but also pointed out that John McCain voted the same as Barack Obama.

In other words, if Palin is calling Obama a douche bag, she’s calling McCain a douche bag. She tried to use bullshit to stain Obama during the debate and looked like an idiot. So what did the McCain camp do? They created an ad that makes the same point.

Evil Obama doesn’t support the troops even though his VP choice did – then they show two quick clips of Biden speaking in favor of this measure way back when. They neglect to mention what everyone who has been paying attention should know – that McCain is just as evil because he voted the same way.

This is sickening. This is mindless smear crap. In the end, the only thing the ad is really saying (when you know the truth) is that Obama and Biden disagreed on one vote. And, since Sarah Palin gleefully promised that she would have lots of disagreements with McCain because that’s what happens when you get two mavericks together…

The truth is, this is what happens when you you get a desperate candidate who will sink so low as to hire the cretins who smeared him in 2000. That’s right, McCain hired the same bastards who made slurs about his military service, his time as a POW, his marital fidelity, and his adopted daughter. I don’t know how he sits in the same room with these fuckers, let alone pays their ridiculously high salaries.

McCain has proven that he is a man without integrity. I don’t need Nikon binoculars to see he will do whatever he must to win, and that alone makes him unworthy of the office he so covets.