<!– /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:”Cambria Math”; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:1; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750139 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:”"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,”sans-serif”; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –> For anyone left who might doubt how low McCain will go, I hope they’re ready for McCain’s closing argument.  After the ACORN pseudo-scandal didn’t blossom and the Ayers conspiracy-weaving didn’t blow up (*ahem*), McCain’s leading us into some dark territory.  It’s sad, too, because – unlike you – I was a McCain fan in my younger days.  Had he not been sunk in South Carolina (in part by Bush’s whisper-and-robocall campaign), I’d have considered voting for him over Gore.  Forgive me, I was young and naïve at the time.

The only remaining respect I have for McCain is in thinking that if maybe he were running against someone else this year – Clinton, perhaps – he’d be campaigning his hardest and sticking to the higher road he’s long represented in our national narrative.  But that’s not much credit to give someone, the idea that they’d take the high road for anyone they didn’t absolutely despise.  People forget that the Obama-McCain rivalry didn’t start during, or after, the primaries.  It started in 2007, after McCain took a trip to Iraq to prove it was safe.  Obama pointed out that McCain had to be accompanied by helicopters and a hundred soldiers.

McCain’s aides fired back what was the opening salvos of this campaign: “Obama wouldn’t know the difference between an RPG and a bong.”

If that’s the opening argument, how low will the closing argument go?