Tonight on MSNBC Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow reported on one of the most truly pathetic moves made in a campaign replete with same by "Maverick Reformer" John McCain.

Operating on the apparent assumption that rules of decency are out of bounds and off the table even when it applies to his own family, McCain now has as a member of his team none other than Tucker Askew.

Askew, who lives in the world of campaign slime, was one of the "masterminds" behind the intensely racist attacks against McCain on behalf of then Governor George W. Bush that turned the 2000 Republican South Carolina primary campaign in the Texan's favor by alleging that the Arizona senator's daughter was "black."

It turned out that McCain's daughter Bridget is Bangladeshi and not African American.  This scurrilous tactic that was said to have helped Bush to a severely tainted "victory" and turned the tide of the entire campaign, putting the Texas governor in the front runner's position, which he never vacated.