Okay, this Joe the Plumber business is really starting to stink like an overflowing septic tank. Never mind that he isn’t a licensed plumber, owes back taxes, and is nowhere close to making $250K a year.

Holy ballot box, Batman! Election Day is ONE WEEK AWAY!!

Yesterday was a busy day for politics in Virginia, with Obama rallies in Richmond and Leesburg, and a visit to U.Va by MSNBC political cartoonist and editor of the widely-read Cagle Cartoon Index, Daryl Cagle.

On Saturday, McCain adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer said McCain would do well in the “real Virginia” which, by her definition, means anyplace south of NoVa. Which would seem to include the heavily Obama-leaning Charlottesville, no?

I am sorry to report that I have not yet received my McCain robocall informing me of Obama’s terrorist-lovin’ ways. In the leadup to the Virginia primary several months ago, Mr. McCain contacted me twice, robotically, to tell me that he is a proud Republican in the mold of Ronald Reagan (heavy emphasis on the mold).

A lot of people, myself included, were taken aback by McCain’s mockery of concern for the “health of the mother” as an “extreme pro-abortion position” in the debate the other night. But if McCain’s actual record on reproductive rights were more widely discussed in this election, his comment might not have come as such a big surprise.

Tonight we got to see the cantankerous bastard side of McCain that he tried so hard to suppress during the last debate. His performance would have been perfect, if he were running for president of the United States of Apeshit.