Are all conservative Republicans as unhinged as Elizabeth Hasselback? Because if they are then they don't need to vote, they need to be medicated.

Now see this is why I don't watch The View. What the hell is wrong with that woman?

The William Ayers smear is such an incredible reach that I cannot wrap my head around why the Republicans are so desperate to make the connection. Is this really all they have to use against Barack Obama?

In the first place his connection to Obama is completely innocent. While it appears true that Ayers invited local prominent Chicagoans to his home to meet the young Barack Obama in the mid 1990's, and they then served a few years on the board of Woods Fund of Chicago, so what? What does that have to do with anything?

It is not like Bill Ayers spent long afternoons in Chicago teaching Barack Obama about constructing a bomb, or how to make a Molotov cocktail, or how to start a really good riot. All of the evidence simply points to Obama having come into contact with at least one man whose past activities are unsavory at best. Undoubtedly there were others that we, and most probably even Barack Obama, will never know about.

This seems to fall into an ongoing theme with the Republicans. If you spend an afternoon with a man who blew things up in the 1960's, you are a terrorist. If you lived once lived in a Muslim country, you are a Muslim! If you shared a border with Russia, you are knowledgeable about foreign affairs. And if you happen to live in a state with a lot of oil under it, you must be an energy expert. None of those examples make any sense yet ALL of them have been espoused by the McCain campaign.

This is pathetic. And from John McCain, a man who suffered through similar slander in 2000 at the hands of George Bush and Karl Rove, it is especially heartbreaking.