1. It was Karl Rove who ran the campaign against McCain in South Carolina. Not the democrats.

2. In 2000 the republicans accused McCain of having an illegitimate child by a prostitute. They called him the manchurian candidate, they said that he'd cooperated with the enemy and that he'd had a homosexual relationship. They also revealed that Cindy McCain had stolen drugs to feed her habit and that she had somehow evaded prosecution.

3. So far McCain and the republicans have called the democrats "defeatocrats" and pro-terrorist....even anti-American. They have lied about what Wesley Clark said about McCain.

Sorry bubba. It is the republicans who engage in smear and slander.