We knew it was coming, especially when Steve Schmidt joined the McCain camp. But the reasonably civil, rational debate that the likes of Andrew Sullivan and Matthew Yglesias expected has now been thrown to the curb, at least by the Republicans, in favor of the new highly negative ads produced by the McCain folks. It's an act of desperation for a stale, bungling campaign that has failed to generate any enthusiasm at any level, whether it be from small donors, the blogosphere, live audiences, the participants in Web 2.0 (McCain has 8,704 subscribers on his YouTube channel; Obama has 65,248- even Ron Paul has 53,326 subcribers!), or the voting public - see the trend at Pollster.com's National Poll of Polls. The new ads are, at best, juvenile indeed:
There are roughly 98 days left until the election. It's disappointing to think that these two ads may only be the beginning.
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