I ghost-wrote letters to the editor for the McCain campaign

I'd say about 50% of voters are stupid, 40% think they're smart but they're half-stupid, and 10% are smart. Those who don't vote are either the stupidest of the stupid, or they're the smartest of us all.

I like how people are calling voters stupid.

No matter who is doing this, it is so ethically wrong it is ridiculous. There is nothing left to trust.

Seriously. Obama's campaign most likely does this as well.

Nothing new here, this stuff ( and worse ) goes on all the time and all "sides" do it.

Deplorable?

A former roommate of mine actually got a paying gig ghostwriting essays for rich college applicants.

This is just another sleazy attempt by the GOP to sway voters.

However, the story does make me want to fake-volunteer for the GOP campaign.

Can anyone say, "saboteur."

Horrible, but in no way surprising. I wish more ghost writers who do this would come out and condemn this kind of thing.

It is time for progressives to start writing letters to our newspapers. Fortunately our letters will be true, though.

The GWB fueled McCain campaign will stop at nothing to get their puppet in the White House.
Nothing.
Enough.

This from the man who said "I will run an honorable campaign." I guess that was just another in the long string of lies John McCain is willing to tell to get elected.

This is sad, but given the garbage his campaign has been shoveling lately, not really surprising.

Exceprt for Salon.com article:

"The assignment is simple: We are going to write letters to the editor and we are allowed to make up whatever we want -- as long as it adds to the campaign. After today we are supposed to use our free moments at home to create a flow of fictional fan mail for McCain. "Your letters," says Phil Tuchman, "will be sent to our campaign offices in battle states. Ohio. Pennsylvania. Virginia. New Hampshire. There we'll place them in local newspapers."

Place them? I may be wrong, but I thought that in the USA only a newspaper's editors decided that.

"We will show your letters to our supporters in those states," explains Phil. "If they say: 'Yeah, he/she is right!' then we ask them to sign your letter. And then we send that letter to the local newspaper. That's how we send dozens of letters at once."

No newspaper can refuse a stream of articulate expressions of support, is the thought behind it. "This way, we will always get into some letters column."

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There is absolutely nothing McCain won't do to win. It's Bush all over again.