Watching the campaign segment on ABC News tonight, John McCain was WORSE than Joe McCarthy. And Sarah Palin cheerfully followed his scripted character assassination based on lies.

McCain will surely go down among the most vile campaigners in American history.

But it fits the new faces for America's biggest pirates.

For an excellent article on McCain's life and true character, Make-Believe Maverick, click here: <link>

Made even sadder by his quote from 2000 when his own party trashed him.

MCCAIN: "Uh, I, I just have to rely on the good judgment of the voters not to buy into these negative attack ads. Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don't have much of a vision for the future or you're not ready to articulate it." [The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, 2/21/2000]

He should know. Its a long time since any RepubliCON candidate had any vision whatsoever - except when to become a lobbyist.

"Its a long time since any RepubliCON candidate had any vision whatsoever - except when to become a lobbyist."

Wait a minute...they got a vision of how to fleece the US taxpayers out of over 700 billion before they leave office and give it away to their Goldman-Sachs Wall St. buddies no questions asked, with absolutely no oversight to speak of, and no benefits for the average US taxpayer.

And the stock market still tanked the next day...quite a vision, I must say.