McCain's Campaign Literally Calls "Bullshit."

I’m not usually one to kick a war hero when he’s down, but things over at the McCain campaign have not-so-spontaneously combusted. From The Atlantic, we get word that they’ve officially gone off the deep end and hit their heads at the bottom of the pool.

Randy Scheunemann, McCain's chief foreign policy adviser, e-mails:

“Just read your post. This is on the record. This is cleared by HQ. It is a fact that Barack Obama was palling around with terrorists. It was a fact before Governor Palin said it in a fully vetted speech and it is fact today. It is bullshit to claim or write anything else.”

Can this be real? You’re swearing on the record in an email to an online journal? Guys.

Guys.

This is America. Unless there’s sports involved you don’t call ‘bullshit’ on the record. At least not in those precise words. These people are starting to believe their own fear-mongering.

What troubles me most is the McCain campaign’s complete and utter dedication to this talking point. They’re clinging to the rhetoric so much they have run the risk of people actually researching the situation and discovering its… shall we say… nuance, and turning around and calling "bullshit" even louder back at them. With ballots. But there's no control here, just a full on dedication to angrily, profanely spewing negativity at an opponent.

I’m going to quote my good friend and (non) editor Chris on this one:

“We've watched a complete meltdown of a presidential campaign.”

I know I’m not the first to ask how in the name of all things holy McCain came to this, but I can't help it. I continue to be astounded by the events of this election. I’m riveted. You know what it’s like? It’s like those level-ending bosses in Revenge of Shinobi where this tiny ninja slowly annihilates the massive monolithic monstrosity with patience, precision and guile. We’re at the really shaky, fiery stage just before the game’s over.