More stupidity from Tucker Bounds

The media might not be willing to hit McCain hard for his lies, but Barack Obama sure as hell is. Long quote coming.

“Let’s get the facts clear here,” Obama said, noting the McCain campaign’s new ad that showcases Palin’s opposition to the pilloried pork project. “When she was mayor, she hired a Washington lobbyist to get earmarks — pork barrel spending.”

“When it came to the Bridge to Nowhere,” Obama continued, alluding to the refrain of flip-flopping so effectively used against John Kerry in 2004, “she was for it until everybody started raising a fuss about it and she started running for governor and then suddenly she was against it!”

And in some of his strongest language yet, Obama suggested that, in its new ad, the McCain-Palin ticket was simply trying to “make stuff up.”

“You can’t just recreate yourself,” said the Democratic nominee. “You can’t just reinvent yourself. The American people aren’t stupid.”

In response, Tucker Bounds (the guy who had no idea what Palin did as “commander” of the Alaska National Guard” responded with what could possibly be the dumbest defense of anything I’ve ever heard in my life.

In an e-mail response, the McCain campaign hit back, citing Obama’s most-liberal-Senator ranking by the National Journal as evidence of his partisan inability to negotiate real change. “If he thinks that voters are going to believe his rhetoric on the campaign trail in the absence of any bipartisan record,” wrote McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds, “he’s clearly underestimating the intelligence of the American people.”

Nowhere in there, nowhere in that damn response, did Bounds actually refute anything. Instead, his claim seems to be “Barack Obama is a liberal, and therefore he’s a liar.” That’s the back-and-forth between Obama and McCain at this point. Obama says “you lied about X, Y, and Z,” and McCain hits back with “yeah well you’re a LIBERAL!”

(WILL: I am petty and crass, but I really want the Obama campaign to issue a statement that “Tucker Bounds should really stop being such a douchebag.”)