the citizen-viewer

The last two days of the news cycle, which equals a month in presidential campaign time in September, have been bad for McCain/Palin. Mostly because it’s been all about the lying. Some of the new revelations:

Palin lied about going to Iraq
Palin lied how much energy Alaska supplies to the U.S.
Palin lied not banning books in the Wasilla Public Library
Palin lied firing the head of Alaska state police
Palin continued to lie about opposing the bridge to nowhere after Charlie “Bulldog” Gibson forced her to admit she was lying on national television.
The McCain/Palin campaign even lied about the size of crowds showing up for their rallies.

And the pre-9/11/08 lies in their ads and about Palin’s reform record continue. The change has been not that they keep lying but that the media is calling them on it. This is making the news all about McCain/Palin, and all bad about them. That’s the reverse of where they were in GOP convention week, when it was all about them and mostly all good. Just as the Palin move captured the media cycle and stole some of the bounce form the Dem convention, the tactic of stealing the headlines is coming back to bite the Republicans in a big way. They can’t drive the media coverage and disrupt the Obama campaign if they are playing defense covering for their own lies.

The tracking polls have leveled off and the McCain bounce seems to have run its course. For all those campaign apparatchiks who read this blog, take note. Monday morning should be the day for a full-court attack on McCain as a do-anything, say-anything liar who continues the Bush tradition of lying to win. Don’t bother mentioning Obama, just drive up McCain’s negatives and keep it up all week.

The other side gave you the opening. Now finish them off.