Palin Removes the Gloves--UPDATED

We are going to see in the next two to three weeks if John McCain was right or wrong in his campaign's erstwhile gentlemanly tactics in battling Barack Obama for the Presidency.

The past associations of Obama include cut and dried communists, anarchists, felons, utopian socialists, and racists. It should be no surprise that the main stream media has not explored these associations in full detail as it has proven over the past few months, even as Obama ran against Hillary Clinton, that it was solidly in support of an Obama candidacy. However, it appears as if the popularity and novelty of Sarah Palin and her matter of fact charges against Obama's past associations might make the press begin covering the known affiliations, even if they are only studied in faux detail ostensibly to discredit the charges.

John McCain has thus far run an anemic race bordering on political cowardice. His continued failure to point out the obviousness of Obama's past in lieu of a truth seeking press is tantamount to surrender. Perhaps McCain felt he could win the Presidency while not weakening his credentials as a consensus builder. Perhaps he naively hoped the press would clumsily stumble upon Obama's associations and be compelled to report vigorously. Perhaps he simply doesn't have the personality for such a fight.

Whatever the reason, his campaign has been a real stinker. Let us see if Sarah Palin can pull the tightened shroud off of the Democrat ticket despite a protesting press. The charges heaped on Palin will be ugly and unrelenting. She will go from simply being a stupid redneck ditz to being a dangerous tool of the Bush-Cheney-Rove-Hitler Commission to Deny The Obama his Rightly Deserved Status Among The Liberators of The People.

Off come the gloves. We need popcorn!

Update at 1:20 PM: And just this second, still on lunch even, I notice this post on Little Green Footballs: This is a Strategy?

If Palin can save the McCain campaign it might very well be over the objections of John McCain. Is he trying to lose?