The economy is in a tailspin;  his "suspending my campaign" gambit was a failure;  his disastrous VP pick was handily crushed in her "debate" with Joe Biden ("you betcha!").   His poll numbers are collapsing. What does John McCain do?  He knows he's wrong on all the issues, so he refocuses his campaign on smearing his opponent.

This is an admission by McCain that if the campaign is about issues, or about his own judgement, he loses.  The only path he can see to winning is tearing down Barack Obama with a hail of lies and distortions.  This isn't surprising since smearing opponents with lies and distortions is the only thing McCain's Rove wanna-be strategist Steve Schmidt knows how to do.

These people are pathetic.

Barack points this out in this new ad: