We always knew our colleague Cord would ruin this nation, we just didn't know it would be so soon.

Find out how he did it, after the jump…

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John McCain and his surrogates have been trying to paint rival Barack Obama as a "socialist" because he wants to "redistribute the wealth," an attack so outdated and outlandish that some are dismissing it as just plane silly. And Obama's no exception.

So said the Senator in North Carolina today:

Because [McCain] knows that his economic theories don’t work, he’s spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. I don’t know what’s next. By the end of the week, he’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my, uh, peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

McCain's camp responded by implying Obama's rubber and they are, in fact, glue.

Barack Obama took a double-shot at John McCain's campaign today.

This commercial, entitled "His Choice," first highlights Republican McCain's repeated admissions that he's not that great with the economy. Those policy decisions, he once said, will be made by his vice-president, which leads to the titular line and a shot of Sarah Palin winking.

Vice-presidential candidates aren't typically attacked in campaign ads, but apparently Obama thinks that Palin, with her scads of bad press, is a ripe target. Fair enough, although we have to admit this advert left a bit of a bad taste in our mouth.

It's not simply the fact that Palin's painted as a bit of a dolt, a sentiment with which we agree, but that she's presented as a dismissive character, not an attitude to take with only the second female running mate in American history. But, what do we know? We're not campaign managers…

Poor Focus Features.

The film company hit gay gold a few years back with Brokeback Mountain, a love story about gay cowboys. Well, the company will tonight premiere its latest lavender adventure, Milk, a biopic about slain San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk. While laymen may assume Focus would want to build the hype, they're eschewing a big hoopla over the homo-tinged feature.

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Things aren't looking so good for John McCain in New Hampshire, where he once stood strong:

Fergus Cullen, the state GOP chairman, was trying to put the best possible face on a bleak political landscape here, when he said over lunch on Thursday, "McCain's doing his job keeping it competitive here in New Hampshire." It is telling when "competitive" is the most upbeat adjective that a party chairman can muster.

That verdict was offered before the Boston Globe released a New Hampshire poll Sunday, which showed Barack Obama leading McCain by a lopsided 54-to-39 percent margin in a state that John Kerry carried by just 9,000 votes in 2004.

Perhaps these numbers explain this shot of McCain's shuttered office….

[Photo via Nielsen Hayden]

Whoa!

We know the Log Cabin Republicans get a lot of shit from the more liberal lavender set and it probably hurts their feelings, but the group's reaction resembles that of the far-right.

Echoing language employed by the likes of Focus on the Family, LCR president Patrick Sammon today sent out an email entitled "The Intolerant Left" in which he gripes about all the homos who hate on him and his fellow Republicans.

Writes Sammon:

As we enter the election's homestretch, gay and lesbian Republicans have come under intense fire from the gay community for daring to speak our minds about this campaign. Instead of arguing the merits of their candidate, too many on the left resort to name calling.

Emotion replaces fact. Name calling replaces logic. In this case, those we often hear speaking about tolerance sound awfully intolerant. We need your help today to stand up to the voices of intolerance wherever we find them.

After writing about "the most pro-gay GOP presidential nominee in American history," John McCain, Sammon goes on to cite criticism from liberal journos like Wayne Besen and Alex Blade, all of which leads up to his desperate, sad plea:

Whatever you can contribute—$25, $50, $100, or more—will help us fight back against the divisive rhetoric from the gay left.

Angry and vicious people on the Left are trying to silence our voices because we dare to speak out as Republicans. Will you be silenced?

"Will you be silenced?" Didn't Tony Perkins use the same argument when fighting hate crime laws, which the right claims will muzzle anti-gay pastors. Just replace "Republicans" with "Christians" - it's eerie. Sammon, we implore you, don't go down that panic-inducing route. It's not becoming on you.

Read Sammon's entire letter, after the jump. Be sure to note his post-script, which is perhaps the most disturbing detail of all!

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The rotund gent you see at right is being indicted in the city of New York for snatching a McCain campaign sign from the hands of a middle-aged woman, snapping it in half and then punching the GOP supporter, who's been described as "small" and "quiet," in the face.

Witnesses to the assault said the man gave no indication as to why he was attacking the lady, to whom he said only, "You people are ridiculous!"

What a crazy man. But what's even crazier is this…

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