Does Mac have the balls?

The million dollar question tonight is whether McCain actually has the balls to bring up Bill Ayers, a 60s radical that McCain and the stooges and organizations who back him have endlessly tried to tie to Obama. In fact, Sean Goebbels has been thumping this "association" for years.

Anyway, this is what McCain had to say about the Ayers issue:

"I was astonished to hear him say that he was surprised that I didn’t have the guts" to bring up Ayers, McCain said on KMOX, a St. Louis radio station.

"I think he is probably ensured that it will come up this time."

McCain was responding to Obama's charge last week that the Arizona senator was willing to make attacks on the campaign trail that he would not say in person.

In many ways, I really do hope that McDrilly brings up Ayers, because it will make him look even more petty that he is. What's worse, if he does raise the issue, it will give Obama a prime opportunity to attack McCain directly about some of his shady associations. G.Gordon Liddy, anyone? Dip-Shiddy last week held a fundraiser for McSame. No big deal, you say? Well, Liddy in the past has had this to say about ATF agents: "Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests. ... Kill the sons of bitches." Nice!

There's more - Dip-Shiddy also concocted plans during the Nixon administration to firebomb the Brookings Institution, kidnap anti-war protesters during the 1972 Republican National Convention, and to kill liberal columnist Jack Anderson. Liddy is also a convicted felon who served 5.5 years in prison for his misdeeds during Watergate. Oh, and who freed him? That bastard Jimmy Carter!

Anyway, Liddy is an irrelevant talking head who is ignored by most. But, that's not the point. It's not a stretch to say that Liddy was involved in domestic terrorist activities. So, if McCain wants to make the mistake of bringing up the equally irrelevant Ayers, Obama should slap him down with a few facts about Liddy. That's what I'd do. Or, he could express amazement that McCain would focus on such minute, stupid details that Americans don't care about. Bet on the latter approach. After all, Obama mostly taking the high road probably has a great deal to do with why he's pulling away in the polls.

Here's what Obama had to say about the possibility of Ayers being raised in tonight's debate:

"I am surprised that, you know, we've been seeing some pretty over-the-top attacks coming out of the McCain campaign over the last several days, that he wasn't willing to say it to my face," Obama said. "But I guess we've got one last debate. So presumably, if he ends up feeling that he needs to, he will raise it during the debate."

One thing's for sure, if McCain goes there, it's going to get really interesting.

Actually, upon further reflection, if I were Obama, I'd say this if McCain goes all Ayers tonight: "You're a desperate campaigner, John. I don't think anyone cares the smears you're using to try and gain traction and favor with voters. It won't work - I feel that most Americans have grown tired of the politics of Karl Rove. I find it ironic that you're employing these tactics now, especially considering what he did to you in South Carolina in 2000." I'd love to see the look on McLame's face if Obama said it. I know he won't, but that would put McCranky in his place in a hurry.