"The McCain campaign just keeps looking more and more silly for trying to push this out as some kind of blemish on Obama. He is alienating the THINKING people in the Republican party by continuing this stupid Ayers connection slander. Every day, there are more and more Republicans announcing their dissatisfaction with the slimy tactics McCain has turned to."

Where were these "thinking" Republicans when Karl Rove was using the very same slimy tactics to influence the last two Presdiential elections in favor of GW Bush? And, specifically, in the 2000 primaries, where McCain was the victim of some particularly nasty Rove/Cheney/Bush slander?

Looks to me like these rats are abandoning a sinking ship not because of any distaste for McCain's newly-adopted mainstream-GOP dirty-tricks tactics, but purely and simply because he's losing.