Coattails?

Sure sounds like Darth Queeg is suddenly trying to stitch them on.  In "Dome," he makes not inconspicuous reference to "Barack Obama and his liberal congressional allies":

That combination guarantees "a massive government, billions in spending increases, wasteful pork....painful income taxes, skyrocketing taxes on life savings, electricity and home heating oil."  The brief shot of the newborn baby being blacked out by the looming shadow of Obamerica was a nice not-so-subliminal touch and cross-connection to the abortion issue as well.

On the positive side are these two ads directed at Michiganders and Ohioans, respectively:

The message seems clear to me: John McCain will "fight" for us, but he needs a Republican majority in Congress to do more than just spend the next four years heroically trying to stem the hard-Left tide.  And we know how hard he fights against his good, close, personal friends across the aisle, don't we?  But with a Congress controlled again by his own party, he'd be giving them leftward hell on a daily basis.

With the House possibly coming within striking distance, what they heck?  Might as well at least attempt to give the rest of the GOP ballot a boost while the proverbial iron is hot.

UPDATE: Here's the "iron," BTW:

I know Palinmania is still running wild, but this has to make you wonder anew about the "overshadowing" factor, doesn't it?:

McCain did not mention the flooding during his brief remarks, which focused mainly on the country’s financial crisis. A steady stream of folks started leaving the rally when McCain started speaking, apparently they were there just to see Palin. [emphasis added]

For all the shitstorming that that Barracuda has endured, would Sailor even still be in the race were she not on his ticket?  And is it better that the Mavericks draw huge crowds half of which get up and leave if Palin doesn't kick off the festivities, or never to have drawn huge crowds at all?  Could this be the one time when people really do vote for the bottom half of the ticket?

UPDATE II: How about in the 2012 Republican primaries (assuming Godbama hasn't driven the GOP underground in the interim)?