… he might consider putting this on national TV, roadblock-style again.

David Shuster on MSNBC just now:

THE BATTLEGROUND TONIGHT IS LIKELY TO BE JUST OUTSIDE YOUR FRONT DOOR AS LITTLE KIDS IN COSTUMES AND WIRED UP ON SUGAR FIGHT FOR THAT LAST MORSEL OF CANDY CORN.

BUT IN POLITICS…IT’S MORE LIKE CANDY “CORNY” WHEN POLITICIANS TRY TO WORK HALLOWEEN REFERENCES INTO THEIR STUMP SPEECHES. AS FOR THEIR KIDS… WELL, THAT’S FINE. LET THEM CELEBRATE, AS THE PALIN CHILDREN DID WHILE THEIR MOM CAMPAIGNED TODAY IN LATROBE, PENNSYLVANIA.

AND…YOU KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN…”JOE-THE-PLUMBER” MASKS ARE NOW SHOWING UP FROM COAST-TO-COAST…DOES THAT MEAN WE SHOULD BE SCARED OF “JOE-THE-PLUMBER?”

SPEAKING OF SCARY… WHAT ABOUT COMMENTS LIKE THESE - DIRECTLY FROM THE CANDIDATES. WATCH.

Joe Biden last night: “Now, look, folks. I know Halloween’s coming tomorrow night. But John McCain dressed up as an agent of change, that costume doesn’t fit, folks. Folks ain’t going to buy that costume.”

John McCain today:  “Here’s what’s going on, it’s Halloween, so what do the Democrats do? Every four years they run out and they try to scare seniors by saying that Republicans are going to take away their Social Security or we’re going to take away Medicare. They do it every four years, and my friends our Americans have wised up.”

FOR THE LOVE OF VINCENT PRICE…WE BEG ALL CURRENT AND FUTURE POLITICIANS TO STICK TO THE ISSUES AND AVOID GHOULISH GAG LINES. PLEASE. THE HALLOWEEN REFERENCES ARE AWKWARD AND NEVER WORK.  NEVER.

Amen.

Our romp through horror-ble Halloween presidential campaign rhetoric continues, this time with John McCain:

“Here’s what’s going on, it’s Halloween, so what do the Democrats do? Every four years they run out and they try to scare seniors by saying that Republicans are going to take away their Social Security or we’re going to take away Medicare. They do it every four years, and my friends our Americans have wised up.”

Rahm Emanuel, spotted at Famous DC

Matthew Sheffield reports in Newsbusters:

In what could be seen as a disturbing sign for the future, the Barack Obama presidential campaign has blocked the Washington Times newspaper from traveling with the Democratic nominee in the final days of the election.

So what happens to the poor reporter who dares violate the edict?  Here’s exclusive video of the punishment …

Is it possible for Joe Biden to make a terrible Halloween line any worse?

Apparently so.

Check out how he destroys his already dreadful Halloween-themed attack he’s been using everywhere:

Now, look, folks. I know Halloween’s coming tomorrow night. But John McCain dressed up as an agent of change, that costume doesn’t fit, folks. Folks ain’t going to buy that costume. He’s a good guy, but agent of change, that’s not what John is, especially when you realize, when you realize, he’s got a tough row to hoe, as my grandfather would say.

Biden’s grandfather said that?  So that’s where that phrase came from! Is his granddad also the source of his Halloween material?

We learn from Michael Silence’s No Silence Here blog that …

On the eve of the presidential election, ESPN’s Monday Night Football game November 3 will originate from the nation’s capital when the Pittsburgh Steelers meet the Washington Redskins. Before the polls open the next day, ESPN’s audience will hear from the candidates when Chris Berman interviews both major party presidential nominees, Republican Senator John McCain and Democratic Senator Barack Obama, during halftime of the MNF game.

Obama on Monday Night Football?  Hey, isn’t that how this whole thing started?

First this:

“If Sen. McCain is elected, we’ll have another president who wants to privatize part of your Social Security,” Obama said. “That ain’t right. Can you imagine if you had your Social Security invested in the stock market these last two weeks? These last two months? You wouldn’t need Social Security. You’d be having a – you know like, what was it. ‘Sanford and Son,’ ‘I’m coming Weezie.’ It ain’t right.”

But, Obama blew it in his attempt to be ‘70s hip. “Weezie” or Louise Jefferson, was a character on “The Jeffersons,” a show about a middle-class black family. Actress Isabel Sanford portrayed her.

Then this:

Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) mocked John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R) purported identities as “mavericks” today, comparing the two to characters from 1980s TV series “Maverick” as he spoke at a rally in Jupiter, Fla.

“I love it when I watch on television on the bus or when I get back to the hotel late at night, I turn on, and there’s John and Sarah Palin…but here’s the part I love: ‘Hey, maverick. I’m a maverick, you’re a maverick, we’re the maverick team, right?” Biden said, eliciting applause and laughter from the crowd.

“Bret and Bart Maverick–I mean, they’re the Mavericks, right?” Biden said, referencing the main character of the 1980s NBC series and his fictional brother, Bart…

What’s next — this?

Barack Obama yesterday:

In Raleigh, N.C., where 28,000 people gathered on a windswept downtown common, Obama joked about McCain’s attempt to label him a socialist.

“Lately, he calls me a socialist for wanting to roll back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class,” Obama said.

“I don’t know — by the end of the week he’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.”

Ah, well then that explains this incident a year ago:

Barack Obama poses this fascinating moral question to a five-year-old:

“We’ve got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money,” Obama said. “If you had a whole pizza, and your friend had no pizza, would you give him a slice?”

That’s not redistribution of wealth.  That’s redistribution of snack.