Well, finally, FINALLY, the press is beginning to call McCain on some of his absurd lies. I don't know who McCain has become. I don't think it's him calling the shots in his campaign, because even he seems uncomfortable with how his campaign is being run. It's probably that disciple of Karl Rove that's telling him to just go out and lie, lie, lie, that the truth doesn't matter.
I don't think he really likes all this lying. It doesn't suit him. He's not particularly good at it. Maybe that's why he picked Palin, in part -- she can lie easily, with a charming gleam in her eye while she does it. But the facts remain the facts, and finally the press has grown a pair and is advocating for truth and confronting his campaign about all the lies. His promise to run a clean, honorable campaign? That too was a lie, obviously.
But...I think it's too late. When you lie to the public, blatantly, over and over again, you lose credibility. Even your supporters begin to wonder, hmm, yeah, he's my man, but boy, I didn't know he was *this* dishonest, and do we want *another* lying dishonest president when we just had one for the last eight years? War hero = good. Unrelenting liar = bad. War hero = long ago. Unrelenting liar = now. Hopefully it's becoming clear to people that the John McCain of old is not the John McCain of today. You CAN'T elect the John McCain of old, because he left and doesn't appear to be coming back. All you can do is vote for the utterly dishonest John McCain of now.
We shall see how a campaign based on lies over substance works. When even Karl Rove thinks you've gone too far, you have gone too far. I mean, that's like Hitler calling you a bad guy.