Obama Palin' Around with Ayers - or - "Palin Around With the Truth"

You might say that, if you're a former small town mayor / sophomore Governor / Republican Vice Presidential nominee from Alaska, putting on a show while adopting an exaggerated fauxy (err, folksy) accent which doesn't tolerate the letter "g", while simultaneously finding yourself on the losing end of trends in both National and vital Swing-State polls.

If you're any less desperate than that at all, "Palin' around" has an entirely different meaning, including (but not limited to) the following examples:

• Spending game day together painting each others faces.
• Firing up the grill and putting the moose on the barbie.
• Playing a rousing round of Wii Sports and drinking beer.
• Getting together with the wives for an evening of BINGO.
• Celebrating your children's birthdays together.
• Taking in the newest summer blockbuster on opening night.
• Cleaning out clogged gutters together in the fall.

And so on.

Unless Sarah Palin has some sort of super-secret intel which suggests that Obama and Ayers ever took part in any activities similar to the ones listed above - and recent events indicate that if the evidence were super-secret, McCain wouldn't have let her know about it - her assertion that the two are "pals" or were somehow "palin' around" (dontcha know) must be taken as lies at worst, or the worst kind of desperation politics at best.

If misrepresentations like this foreshadow the substance of the oft-mentioned "expanded presence" of Governor Palin, the McCain campaign is likely to find itself spiraling further downward in polling trends.

If McCain didn't learn from the primary-era mistakes (whether they were the mistakes of Clinton or the GOP doesn't much matter) regarding Obama's association with Rev. Wright, they're about to learn them real fast, and in the most painful of ways, as they try the same strategy with Ayers.

Perhaps the phrase "Palin' Around" should now be redefined to mean:

"Lying or stretching the truth and lashing out when backed into a corner."

Sounds like the sort of thing a pit bull might do. Who knew Michael Vick and John McCain had so much in common?

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