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Early in the summer of 2008, when obama was on his european rockstar tour, the republicans ran a series of humorous ads ridiculing and lampooning him. As the season progressed, his figures began to shrivel and the republicans showed strength. Then after McCain was nominated, all the most effective ads were never seen again.

Sarah Palin has shown by example how to cut this creep down to size. Any candidate too cowardly to take the fight to the enemy does not deserve nomination, no matter what the "polls" say.

Someone even said “Palling around with terrorists”.

They said it was ‘going rogue!’ and shut down that asap!

It was the meme that could have won the 2008 election.

[hb] Any candidate too cowardly to take the fight to the enemy does not deserve nomination, no matter what the "polls" say.

Rush is putting his finger on it, but for some reason he cannot come out and actually say it.

There is some organic reason the GOP refuses to fight the Democrats in the court of public opinion. This scenario has played out over, and over, and over, and over.

In 1976, Gerry Ford took the "high road" and lost to pretender Carter, whose "decency" and "post-Imperial Presidency" franchise wasn't all that strong, given Ford's equal creds as a decent guy, one of the regular fellows in Congress who was straight and danced with his wife. Ford lost.

In 1996, Dole refused to engage Clinton on Clinton's weaknesses -- glaring weaknesses (can you spell "Arkancide"? "Chinagate"? "Troopergate"?) that could and should have cost Clinton the presidency. Clinton first used his media contacts to nudge the suggestible 'Pubbies into nominating Dole in a walkover, and then he mopped the floor with Dole, as Dickie "Toe-Sucker" Morris's (Chinese-reptile-money-defrayed) polling data showed he would.

And we all know about John McCain in 2008.

Why won't Republicans engage these creeps on their real, their genuinely unsavory liabilities?