McCain camp's phony lipstick charge won't fly.

Talkleft:

John McCain's phony outrage over Sen. Barack Obama's use of the cliche and oft-used lipstick on a pig analogy in reference McCain's co-opting of his change meme when McCain/Palin will just be a continuation of failed Bush policies.

The Obama campaign, via Politico:

Enough is enough. The McCain campaign’s attack tonight is a pathetic attempt to play the gender card about the use of a common analogy – the same analogy that Senator McCain himself used about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health care plan just last year. This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run.

I heard this story. All I can say is that Palin and McCain are one of a kind. Two peas in a pod. They are both a bridge to nowhere team. Obama's statement is old school. Obviously, Grampa and Palin need some serious schooling on slang. "You put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig" is a slang for when someone tries to dress something up, but it is still that something. This slang was used before even by McCain himself.

FLASHBACK:"I think they put some lipstick on a pig,but it's still a pig." – John McCain criticizing Hillary Clinton's health care plan, October 11th, 2007

"You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig."– Fred Thompson, January 15th, 2008