The hypocrisy of McCain-Palin is so blatant it's almost funny

John McCain's campaign released a new ad Wednesday that portrays Democratic operatives as a vicious wolfpack hunting VP nominee Sarah Palin.

“The attacks on Governor Palin have been called ‘completely false’…’misleading,’” says the female announcer in the 30-second spot, which points to a report from Factcheck.org shooting down many attacks on the Alaska governor. “And they've just begun.”

The announcer cites a Wall Street Journal column that 30 Democratic lawyers and researchers have been “air dropped” Alaska to conduct “dig dirt” on Palin.

That column, by pundit John Fund, cites anonymous sources in reporting that unnamed Democrats have descended on the Alaskan capital of Anchorage. The Democratic National Committee and the Obama campaign have denied sending anyone to Alaska to conduct research into Palin’s past.

(Oh, pundit John Fund should go back to school...the capital of Alaska is Juneau, not Anchorage.)

Never mind the months of anti-Obama ads the RNC and McCain campaigns have been running, ones where they blatantly lie, try to question the religion/patriotism/experience of Sen. Obama...now that the Republican-Rove campaign machine is fully behind McCain (and that is the only thing Palin brought to the table), it's full-on Swift Boat time.

One of the comments contained a list of Obama's actual accomplishments, which stack far higher than Sarah Palin's:

US Senate:
Introduced "Lugar–Obama," which expanded the Nunn–Lugar cooperative threat reduction concept to conventional weapons
Co sponsored the "Coburn–Obama Transparency Act," which authorized the a web portal to make congress spending public information.
Introduced follow-up legislation: Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending Act of 2008.
Sponsored legislation requiring nuclear plant owners to notify state and local authorities of radioactive leaks.
Co-sponsored the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, which was signed into law in September 2007.
Introduced the Iraq War De-Escalation Act of 2007.
Sponsored the "Iran Sanctions Enabling Act"
Co-sponsored legislation to reduce risks of nuclear terrorism.
Sponsored an amendment to provide one year of job protection for family members caring for soldiers with combat-related injuries.

And as many have pointed out, the McCain campaign has been doing this sort of thing from the beginning, while Obama has been out there campaigning on issues.

Republicans, and self-styled "mavericks" like McCain and Palin, are a group of idea-less Rove-style Swift Boaters.

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