They know they're loosing momentum (See MSNBC) so they're going to the tried-and-true Rove playbook. 

If you don't have something positive to say about your own plan, make a personal attack on the other guy.

Big difference from the last go-around.  We're not going to take it laying down.  Watch for spots on:

• McCain flip-flopping on "fundamentally sound"
• McCain and the Keating Five
• Palin and Troopergate
• Palin and "I'll block the bridge to nowhere (and still take the money)"

Today the market went below 10,000.  Swell.  Sure, we Dem's hold some responsibility for this but it's the eight years of "Oh, don't worry... the market will handle itself" from the GOP that tipped it all over.  This time around folks are going to see that the emperor, and his crown-prince designate, have no clothes.

Oh, and let's see... Barack was, what, 8 when the Weathermen were doing there nasty stuff.  I guess rehabilitation isn't in the lexicon of the GOP.