Monday October 6, 2008, 8:01 pm
When the far right wing clowns running the North Carolina Republican Party ran a racially-tinged attack ad during the primaries tying Obama to Wright, McCain graciously denounced it. "I've said again and again, I do not believe that Sen. Obama shares Rev. Wright's extremist views which he has stated," said McCain, and promised to "disassociate myself from that kind of campaigning."

Either Palin never got the memo, or McCain has flip-flopped and flushed his honor down the toilet yet again in his quest for the presidency. The latter is certainly possible. With McCain-Palin's chances cratering like the economy, McCain has clearly signaled it's time to get McDesperate.

Responding to rising GOP fears that the election is slipping away, the McCain campaign has decided their only hope is "turning a page on this financial crisis," in the words of one senior McCain adviser, and relentlessly tearing down Obama.

"It's a dangerous road, but we have no choice," echoed another top McCain strategist to the NY Daily News. "If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we're going to lose."

But there's more going on with Palin's off the reservation moves than simply carrying out the McNasty plan of attack against Obama. Sarah Palin has her own agenda. She wants to be president, and knows this election is her best shot at elbowing her way into the Oval Office.

Laura Chase, Palin's campaign manager during her first run for mayor of Wasilla in 1996, remembers a night they chatted about her ambitions:

"I said, 'You know, Sarah, within 10 years you could be governor,' " Ms. Chase recalled. "She replied, 'I want to be president.' "

And she's not going to let John McCain stop her. At a rally yesterday in Omaha, Nebraska, playing defense far within the red state zone, Palin also claimed to be making her own calls about which states she barracudas into:

"The pundits were saying, 'Check out where she's going. She's going to Nebraska.' The pundits were saying, 'The only reason she would be going there is because they're scared. They have to shore up votes,' " Palin said. "I so wanted to reach into that TV and say 'no.' I'm going to Nebraska because I want to go to Nebraska," Palin said.

These incidents are not the first time Palin has bared her naked ambition. In September, she made a revealing slip when she flipped the ticket at a rally in Iowa, referring to a "Palin and McCain administration." This happened back when the campaign was still babysitting Palin by restricting her to joint appearances with McCain. Now all bets are off as to what she'll say next out on the trail on her own.

Tuesday October 7, 2008, 6:20 am
But there's more going on with Palin's off the reservation moves than simply carrying out the McNasty plan of attack against Obama. Sarah Palin has her own agenda. She wants to be president, and knows this election is her best shot at elbowing her way into the Oval Office.

Tuesday October 7, 2008, 6:21 am
Since she now knows McCain won't dump her, Palin is in the driver's seat and plans to stay there. And her take-no-prisoners nasty streak and extreme right wing views have found kindred spirits now that she's fully staffed up with veterans of George W. Bush's slash-and-burn, hyper-partisan campaigns. Like Tucker Eskew, Palin's new chief of staff, who was instrumental in trashing McCain when he helped run Bush's 2000 primary campaign in South Carolina.

Tuesday October 7, 2008, 6:21 am
Far from a fresh crop of reformers, the Republican operatives who are currently stage managing Sarah Palin are virtually all transplants from the Bush White House. As one Republican strategist told the Washington Post:

"It's insane to me that at the same time that it's running saying it's not going to be the Bush administration, this campaign looks like the Bush campaign on steroids."

Tuesday October 7, 2008, 6:22 am
Reminiscent of how John Edwards helped keep the Democratic ticket disorganized in 2004 by sticking to his own playbook, Palin is showing the nation McCain is already an afterthought for her. She even said so at the debate, reminding us she "joined this team that is a team of mavericks with John McCain, also." Mr. DeMille, she's ready for her 2012 closeup

Wednesday October 8, 2008, 6:23 pm
I am voting independent this year. Ron Paul looks real good nader is my second choice. Obama war with packistand and Palin war Iran. no win either way. I am doing a write in vote I want peace and truth.

Wednesday October 8, 2008, 7:23 pm
It looks to me like Palin knows that McCain is going to loose. So she building a base with the right to back her when she runs for president in 2012.

Wednesday October 8, 2008, 10:50 pm
Palin seems to be an almost empty husk.She looks a liability now that the initial veneer has cracked..and she now seems to stumble from bad to worse.Her speeches,merely contain repeats of disproven ideas
..Climate change isn't real ..McCain is a maverick... Saddam had wmds...Im a hockey mom ..
I wonder how she could possibly meet minds, with other world leaders !

Gordon Brown..Aye the UK economy, is presently based, on a heterodox version of the neo-endogenous growth theory..would you introduce such economic policy Sarah ?
Palin..Im a hockey mom..
Sarkozy..We share some of the free market beliefs of the USA,.how do you see American industry responding to the present climate of economic and environmental chaos Sarah?
Palin..Im a hockey mom

Thursday October 9, 2008, 6:39 pm
noted and thanks Blue !
Palin is pathetic !Her rally's are getting violent and rowdy and she stands there and says nothing while one person yells kill him ,"meaning Obama," and yet others are shouting terrorist when she says he's not like us.
It seems the story I read about her awhile back when a waitress called Palin racist against indigenous and black people and said she overheard Palin in the resturant one day say to a friend after Obama won the primary ,,so sambo beat the bitch ,,now after hearing her talk at these rally's smearing Obama with a smile on her face I can believe its all true !This woman is a racist and a menace and frankly I hope after McCain loses the election she also loses her governorship in Alaska.How did this woman who really is very uneducated and not at all worldly in experiences ever get to be mayor and then governor of Alaska that's what I want to know ?

Thursday October 9, 2008, 6:52 pm
Nice evangalic Christian she turned out to be eh !
Now what do you suppose she meant when she said that Obama would diminish the prestege of the Presidency ,,if that wasn't a racial remark I don't know what was !

I am stunned by that crowd in Ohio of racist rednecks that were sceaming and hollering verbal attacks on Obama and one of then after Palin was saying the media has gone easy on Obama and complained they were not doing their job turned to a press camera man who happened to be black and said you better sit down boy . What I want to know is why the secret service that were there didn't stop her rally for inciting violence and racism ?