A Sarah Palin supporter pulled a loaded handgun while leaving a campaign rally in Colorado on Monday! The gun-toting Palin reported waved the gun at another driver after they got into a dispute while attempting to leave the event:

This post from the NYT Caucus blog raises two urgent questions, 1) WTF is “aggressively directional men’s wear, 2) What did the Palins’ RNC-endowed fashion splurges actually buy?

In his first TV interview after picking his running mate, John McCain famously described Sarah Palin as his “partner and soulmate,” but now at least one interviewer is picking up a less friendly vibe from the Republican ticket. Sam Stein reports:

Watch the video. Yes, my friends, he’s done it again.

At a rally in Pennsylvania today, John McCain tried to criticize Barack Obama and John Murtha for criticizing the endemic racism in certain parts of western Pennsylvania. He didn’t quite pull it off.

Young Political Majors is a GOP-linked consulting firm that has been accused of tricking California voters in to registering as Republicans under the guise of signing a petition to get tough on child molesters.

Why have the Republicans redoubled their attacks on the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) as Obama’s lead increases?

Turnabout is fair play. Last night David Letterman asked John McCain about his continuing relationship with Watergate burglar and domestic terrorist G. Gordon Liddy.

John McCain portrays himself as a martyr for enduring a racist push polling campaign at the hands of Karl Rove and company during the South Carolina primary in 2000. That ordeal became a symbol of his personal integrity in the face of the Republican machine.

Exhibit A, John McCain in last night’s presidential debate: EXHIBIT B, Internet video classic, Dramatic Chipmunk: Uncanny, isn’t it?