Lefty bloggers pretend that they can win on issues… but their behavior in recent weeks and months and years has shown repeatedly that they couldn’t care less about the issues. Factcheck.org debunks some of the lies being spread on the internet about Sarah Palin.

Today, the McCain campaign released its latest television ad, called “Original Mavericks.” As the McCain campaign notes, “the ad highlights John McCain’s and Governor Sarah Palin’s record of bringing reform to government so that government fights for the people.”

The ad will be airing on national cable and in key states.

The Obama campaign, clearly desperate to make up all the ground he lost, is not only attacking Palin’s experience, which is far superior to his own, but is questioning her record, and trying to claim that McCain and Palin aren’t the mavericks they claim to be.

Obama attacked Palin, saying she supported the “Bridge to Nowhere.” Of course, what’s interesting about this is that both Barack Obama and Joe Biden voted for the “Bridge to Nowhere.”

But here’s the real kicker… Alaska Democrats actually credited Palin with killing the “Bridge to Nowhere”:

Conservative bloggers point out that in their campaign against Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, Alaska Democrats gave credit to Gov. Palin for helping to kill the Bridge to Nowhere.

“Gov. Sarah Palin said the $398 million bridge was $329 million short of full funding, and only $36 million in federal funds were set aside for it,” the Democrats say. “She said it was clear Congress had little interest in spending any more money for it and that the state had higher priorities.”

On another page the Dems say, “Gov. Palin recently cancelled the Gravina Island Bridge near Ketchikan that would have connected the Alaska mainland with Gravina Island (population: 50).”

After it was revealed that the website, run by the Alaska Democratic Party, was giving Palin the credit she deserved, they attempted to hide the page from public view.

Sad. When Democrats like Obama have no record to run on, they try to distort or hide it.

We’re going to win. Democrats are desperate, and we’re on the path to victory.

UPDATE: Obama supporters urging the vandalism of Sarah Palin’s wikipedia page.

UPDATE: It’s really funny reading liberals going nuts about this video. For eight years they’ve jumped on every single verbal gaffe made by President Bush, and have been certainly jumping on McCain in the same fashion. Barack Obama himself claimed in his acceptance speech that John McCain legitimately believed that you are rich if you make over $5 million dollars, when that was clearly a joke. Did that matter to Barack Obama? No it didn’t.

Liberals, if you don’t like us jumping on verbal gaffes of Barack Obama or Joe Biden… tough.

UPDATE: I could also point out some ridiculously offensive things Obama has said too.

UPDATE: Power Line notes that the Obama campaign, desperate to regain ground, is deliberately lying in a new ad that suggests John McCain thinks people making $5 million a year are middle class. Even the Washington Post could concede that Obama was deliberately misleading.

Hat tip goes to kimberly4victory.

Indeed.

There is no doubt that the Obama campaign fears the impact Palin has on the election, and they’re doing anything they can to shame her off the ticket.

The latest attempt comes from Obama campaign member, Howard Gutman, lobbyist and defender of domestic terrorists. who attacked Sarah Palin on the Laura Ingraham Show.

An original member of Barack Obama’s finance committee said Friday that Sarah Palin is putting her career above her family by accepting the nomination as John McCain’s running mate.

Howard Gutman made the argument on “The Laura Ingraham Show,” telling the radio host that the Alaska governor should focus her energy on her unwed, pregnant teenage daughter.

“If my daughter had just come home at 17 years old and said, ‘Mom, Dad, I’m pregnant, we have a family problem,’ I wouldn’t say, ‘You know what we’re going to do? We’re going to take this private family problem … I’m going to go on the international stage and broadcast it to the world’,” he said.

Gutman later added: “If you take a daughter who’s got this emotional strife and subject her to the most intense scrutiny of the world at this time in her life, I think you’ve put your career above your family.”

Obama has previously said that “people’s families are off limits, and people’s children are especially off limits,” and of course, Obama promised to fire anyone in his campaign who spread rumors about Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy.

Okay Obama, keep your word. Fire Howard Gutman.

Meanwhile, the hypocrisy of Gutman’s comments are shameful. Has anyone ever criticized Obama for seeking the presidency while he has a working wife and two young daughters?

UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: Just wanted to pass this along from Gerard Baker:

The best line I heard about Sarah Palin during the frenzied orgy of chauvinist condescension and gutter-crawling journalistic intrusion that greeted her nomination for vice-president a week ago came from a correspondent who knows a thing or two about Alaska.

“What’s the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?”

“One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let’s be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.

“The other kills her own food.”

Now we know, thanks to her triumphant debut at the Republican convention on Wednesday, that Mrs Palin not only slaughters her prey. She impales its head on a stick and parades it around for her followers to jeer at. For half an hour she eviscerated Mr Obama in that hall and did it all without dropping her sweet schoolmarm smile, as if she were handing out chocolates at the end of a history lesson.

Recent reports indicated that Sarah Palin drew more viewers for her convention speech than Obama did for his.

Well, now preliminary estimates show that John McCain last may have had more viewers than Barack Obama last week.

Presidential candidate John McCain’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention drew more television viewers than his rival Barack Obama attracted at the Democratic party’s event last week, according to preliminary ratings from Nielsen Media Research.

Across all broadcast networks Thursday, Sen. McCain’s speech ended the night with a 4.8 rating/7 share, compared to Sen. Obama’s 4.3/7 average, according to overnight numbers from metered households in 55 U.S. markets measured by Nielsen. These ratings are preliminary, however, and are subject to change.

This is huge news if it in fact turns out to be true. For one thing, Obama, given his celebrity status and his gushing praise from the left-wing media, got a lot of credit for attracting a historic number of viewers for his speech. Sarah Palin, we know now, topped him, and she’s at the bottom of the GOP ticket. John McCain, who has arguable suffered from an enthusiasm gap this campaign season until recently, was not even expected to match Palin or Obama. If he tops that, that is huge. And when you consider the fact that unlike Obama’s speech, McCain talked specifics, he appealed to the center and not just the base.

It all comes down to a great kickoff for the general election season, and I’m confident McCain/Palin are on the road to victory.

UPDATE: It’s official… McCain defeated Obama in the ratings war.

John McCain has won the ratings race.

The Republican nominee beat Democratic challenger Barack Obama’s record-setting convention speech viewership by 500,000.

McCain’s address at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night was seen by about 38.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. Obama received 38.4 million.

That means McCain’s speech is now the most-watched in convention history — 41% higher than President Bush’s acceptance speech four years ago, and 1% higher than Obama’s address last week.

In other words, she beat Obama.

Barack Obama apparently isn’t the only “rock star” in presidential politics this year.

After days of intense media coverage about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s qualifications, more than 40 million Americans tuned in Wednesday to see for themselves what they thought of her.

The huge audience for Palin’s acceptance speech rivaled that for Obama’s address at the Democratic National Convention six days earlier, and set a tough standard for the top of her own ticket. John McCain was to accept the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday.

The first two days of the GOP convention essentially

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An audience of 37.2 million people watched Palin on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, Nielsen Media Research said Thursday. PBS estimated its audience at 3.9 million, based on a less reliable sample of several big cities. Nielsen does not count the audience for C-SPAN, which also showed the speech.

Last week, Nielsen said 38.4 million people watched Obama speak at a Denver stadium on the six commercial networks, along with BET, TV One, Univision and Telemundo – four networks that didn’t cover Palin’s speech. PBS added an estimated 4 million to that total.

Consider this an open thread for tonight’s festivities….

As I have on previous nights, I will be twittering the speeches, etc. here.

Excerpts from McCain’s speech are here.

10:04 PM: McCain bio video up now.

11:06 PM: A great speech. A great vision. A great leader. Our next President, John McCain.

I’m going to fight for my cause every day as your President. I’m going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I’m an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach. Fight with me. Fight with me.

Fight for what’s right for our country.

Fight for the ideals and character of a free people.

Fight for our children’s future.

Fight for justice and opportunity for all.

Stand up to defend our country from its enemies.

Stand up for each other; for beautiful, blessed, bountiful America.

Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. Nothing is inevitable here. We’re Americans, and we never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.

She beat Biden.

She virtually tied Obama.

Victory is in site.

For your viewing pleasure:

Irony.
Another GOP rising star…

Excerpts from McCain’s speech tonight…

A former Obama supporter is converted…

UPDATE: From our reader Kahn:

Biden got 5 draft deferments.

McCain’s Moment