It was Bill Kristol's idea

Whose brilliant idea was it to make Bill Ayers the focus of McCain's campaign during this disastrous stretch run for the Republicans? It was none other than neocon ideologue Bill Kristol. Heading into the last debate, he convinced McCain to talk about all the "unsavory characters" Obama's been palin' around with, rather than focusing on all this "economic stuff."

By unsavory, Kristol means leftists like Ayers and me, from back in the day. Ironically, Kristol, the "far right's loudest barking dog," is himself a "red-diaper" baby, the son of Trotskyite-turned-neocon, Irving Kristol. Irving was one of those from the far left who, at some point (like his son) decided that liberal was synonymous with commie and both deserved as big a dose of McCarthyite purging as possible.

McCain campaign, R.I.P.