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I thought there was something familiar about McCain, but I just couldn’t place it.

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone:
She appeared to be completely without shame and utterly full of shit, awing a room full of hardened reporters with her sickly sweet line about the high-school-flame-turned-hubby who, “five children later” is “still my guy.”

Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she’s a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power.

Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she’s the tawdriest, most half-assed fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest common denominator, a character too dumb even for daytime TV -and this country is going to eat her up, cheering her every step of the way. All because most Americans no longer have the energy to do anything but lie back and allow ourselves to be jacked off by the calculating thieves who run this grasping consumer paradise we call a nation.

The Palin speech was a political masterpiece, one of the most ingenious pieces of electoral theater this country has ever seen. Never before has a single televised image turned a party’s fortunes around faster.

And:

But watching Palin’s speech, I had no doubt that I was witnessing a historic, iconic performance. The candidate sauntered to the lectern with the assurance of a sleepwalker – and immediately launched into a symphony of snorting and sneering remarks, taking time out in between the superior invective to present herself as just a humble gal with a beefcake husband and a brood of healthy, combat-ready spawn who just happened to be the innocent targets of a communist and probably also homosexual media conspiracy. It was a virtuoso performance. She appeared to be completely without shame and utterly full of shit, awing a room full of hardened reporters with her sickly sweet line about the high-school-flame-turned-hubby who, “five children later” is “still my guy.” It was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag.

Sarah Palin’s performance in the vice presidential debate did have an affect on undecided voters — just not the one the McCain campaign had expected or hoped for. The McClatchy/Ipsos poll found:

If they had to vote immediately after watching the debate between Republican Palin and the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, 52 percent of the 456 undecided voters who were surveyed would vote the Obama/Biden ticket, the poll found.

It also found that Palin’s performance in the debate did nothing to clinch undecided votes for her running mate, Arizona Sen. John McCain. Before the debate, those same undecided voters were leaning 56 percent to 44 percent for McCain. The day after the debate, the numbers tilted 52 percent to 48 percent for Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.

In March 2008, John McCain said:
“Throughout his life John McCain has held himself to the highest standards and he will continue to run a respectful campaign based on the issues.”
— McCain campaign manager Rick Davis in March

I can’t prevent or control rhetoric that people use — that are members of my party. But I have been very, very clear that we need a respectful campaign and the American people want it. We certainly don’t need any impugning of character, integrity or anything else in this campaign. So I again urge Republicans and anybody else, to just — let’s show respect and make Americans proud of this campaign … frankly, it will enhance our chance of winning if people say, “look, those people are running a respectful campaign.”

McCain was reacting to spurious attacks launched by his supporters against Barack Obama, including one from Iowa GOP Rep. Steve King, who said Islamic terrorists would be “dancing in the street” if Obama were elected.

McCain’s statement came days after his campaign manager, Rick Davis, sent out a memo calling on supporters to “follow John’s lead and run a respectful campaign focused on the issues.” Davis also wrote:

Overheated rhetoric and personal attacks on our opponents distract from the big differences between John McCain’s vision for the future of our nation and the Democrats. This campaign is about John McCain: his vision, leadership, experience, courage, service to his country and ability to lead as commander in chief from day one. Throughout his life John McCain has held himself to the highest standards and he will continue to run a respectful campaign based on the issues. We expect that all supporters, surrogates and staff will hold themselves to similarly high standards when they are representing the campaign.

The noble maverickistic John McCain — if he ever existed — has apparently now been supplanted by a snarky, snarling double-talking misinformer, who will do or say anything to get elected.

Sourcing: Quotes from McCain and Davis can be found on the Fox News website.