William Ayers

Just ask old Confederate Yankee, who informs us of the following from the ‘thinkin’ room’:

Dear 52,

It seems the man you entrusted with your vote lied about his relationship with domestic terrorist and attempted mass murderer Bill Ayers.

Many of you either didn't hear about Ayers, or accepted Obama's evolving explanations that Ayers was "just a guy in his neighborhood," or someone that he thought had gone through some sort of terrorist rehabilitation—perhaps at the Yasser Arafat wing of the Betty Ford Clinic.

But now that Ayers has come out and admitted that their relationship is very close—"family friends" is how he put it—how does that make you feel?

You've been conned in to voting the family friend of a known terrorist into the White House.

How does that make you feel?

Well color me stupid! I’m going to load up the shotgun, hop in the pickup and head on down to the election office and get my vote back! It’s amazing how stoopid a majority of this country really iz. We’ez shudav known we waz in fir a hoodswinkin’. Dam that edumacated negro and his terroist frinds.

OK – now it’s time to leave redneck idiot land on the right of the blogosphere and get back with the majority of this country who basically don’t care about this crap. Hell we just survived eight years of a President whose grandfather was one of Hitler’s little helpers.

This poll from Rasmussen shows how bad of an issue Ayers has been for McCain:

Just 28% of voters believe that John McCain’s campaign has been helped by talking about the relationship between Barack Obama and William Ayers. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 50% believe talk of that issue has hurt McCain’s effort while 15% say it has had no impact.

The day of effective right-wing smear tactics is coming to an end.

Here is a PDF version of a pamphlet I got in the mail today addressed to me from the Ohio GOP. It's trying the failed game plan of the McCain campaign to make Ayers an issue.

That's how long their new Ayers ad is and now we have video:

BarbinMD calls McCain out on this as being a "coward":

McCain didn't have the guts to mention Ayers name while face-to-face with Obama, instead waiting until he was safely back in his cocoon of race-baiting rallies and Fox News interviews before going with his latest lie and smear campaign. Pitiful.

I believe this would be a perfect question in the final debate. "Senator McCain - You have spent the last several weeks trying to connect Senator Obama and 60's radical Bill Ayers. Why didn't you bring this up during previous debates?" Let's see if McCain has the cahonies to say anything with Obama right there.