it's official.  the mccain camp is off the rails.  it's a bonafide three ring circus with no shortage of clowns.  i'm dizzy trying to keep up with these lunatics.  what in the name of john jangle jingle heimer shmidt is going on with that crowd?  lawyers for troopergate.  lawyers for tax returns.  foreign policy gaffes about spain.  spain?  the fundamentals of the economy are strong.  the fundamentals of the economy are, of course, the american worker.  christopher cox, you're fired!  don't blink.  can't blink.  maverick reformer pow reformer maverick pow.  maverick.  oh, and the lying and the lies and the lyers.  and my latest new fav is from john blabbering about the merits of drill, baby drill. and i'm serious, if you haven't seen this, seriously, i'm not making this up, the candidate himself said it, i heard him and i saw him, are you sitting down, here it is, and i quote:

you look down and there's fish everywhere, there's fish everywhere.  fish love to be around those rigs.  so not only can it be helpful for energy, it can be some pretty good meals as well.

he said that about the view looking straight down from the platform of an offshore oil rig.  no kidding. 

oh yeah, and lipstick...

what will they think of next?  it's an interesting question really.  interesting, because i don't doubt there is a room somewhere, occupied as i write this, by at least three of these bozos trying to come up with an answer.  at this point i gotta figure they're making it up as they go along.  the script for this moving picture was scrapped sometime between the start of obama's acceptance speech and the fireworks at the end.  hell, they tossed out the story boards, too.  piss on it, they threw away the treatment.  they're in that room, right now, sucking down coffee and pulling their hair out, tossing new pitches back and forth.  they're back to the pitch.  square one.  tomorrow is in a couple of hours and the candidate has got to say something.  and then it'll be tomorrow afternoon. and then it'll be tomorrow night. and the next day, and the day after that, and next week.  man, it's still quite a stretch 'til election day.  who knows what tomorrow brings from this troupe?

billy glad, for one, is convinced sarah palin is the future of the republican party.  maybe, why not?  i'm sure at least one of the jugglers in that room is trying to make the case.  wow.  that's a lot of balls to keep in the air all at once.  john nail , on the other hand, is counting the news cycle when palin gets dropped from the ticket.  why the hell not?   i'm sure one of them is pitching that idea.  maybe it's not the same clown who pitched it last night, or the guy the night before, but it's getting tossed around by someone, for sure.

but like i said, who knows what kind of clownin' is coming our way.  it is coming, though.  and i can't wait to read all about it.  man, this is one crazy election.