BRAIN FREEZE

Sarah Palin's return to chilly Alaska has evidently caused some serious brain-freeze. At a Republican Governors Association convention in Miami, Florida (where you'd think her brain would have thawed), Palin told her fellow Republican Governors -

not to let obsessive, extreme partisanship ... get in the way of doing what's right.

Palin also -

criticized the national media for wanting to "dissect the past."

This from a woman who couldn't stop talking about William Ayers, whipped up crowds with her talk about Obama "palling around with terrorists" and one was one of the most polarizing candidates in recent history. In fact, Palin has been blamed for an increase in death threats against Obama. According to the Standard -

The Secret Service warned the Obama family last month that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the Democratic candidate, coinciding with Palin’s attacks.

And now she's calling for an end to partisanship and criticizing the media for wanting to dissect the past?

Really, Governor!? And you're supposedly the future leader of the GOP?

All of which begs the question: who is the real Sarah Palin?

GUILT BY ASSOCIATION

Oy, will this William Ayers thing ever go away!?

Robert Gibbs smacks down Sean Hannity.

DISTORTED VIEW

"Say it ain’t so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again."

But it seems McCain/Palin can point backwards, 40 years ago, to William Ayers.

How come they can point backwards and Biden can't bring up the current administration?

Anyway, McCain/Palin continue to try and portray Obama as sipping cherry cokes together with Ayers. It's outlandish. It's old news. And it's false.

Verdict: False. There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are now "palling around," or that they have had an ongoing relationship in the past three years. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Ayers is now involved in terrorist activity or that other Obama associates are.

But that isn't stopping this smear campaign.

And now it has spilled over to The View, where Elisabeth Hasselbeck is all sorts of wrong. She thinks Ayers is still a terrorist and said "we didn't do enough bombing."

A book Ayers penned about those years, Fugitive Days, landed him in hot water on Sept. 11, 2001. That morning, the New York Times ran a story about the book in which Ayers said, "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough." Ayers' statement was made before the World Trade Center attacks, but its timing led some to believe it was in response. "My book is in fact a condemnation of terrorism in all its forms -- individual, group and official," Ayers later said in a letter to the Chicago Tribune.

It's going to be an ugly month.

LET THE SMEARING BEGIN

With a month left until election day the McCain campaign announced that it's going to step up its attacks on Barack Obama.

From Straight Talk to Smear Talk. Let the smearing begin!

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday slammed Sen. Barack Obama's political relationship with a former anti-war radical, accusing him of associating "with terrorists who targeted their own country."

"Our opponent though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country."

Palin was referring to an article in the NY Times about Obama's relationship with Ayers.

Palin failed to mention the article

concluded that "the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called 'somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.' "

Several other publications, including the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The National Review, have debunked the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship.

This is an extremely important election and we can't let people get away with out and out lies.

If you know anyone who's on the fence about who to vote for or is considering voting McCain/Palin, pass this post (and more to come) along to them.