THE REAL McCAIN?

The political left has felt, with some legitimacy we might add, that the Democrats were swift-boated and flip-floppered right out of the White House in 2004 (with maybe a little election-day shennanigans thrown in).

They're not about to let it happen again in 2008.

Democracy for America, the grass-roots group that brought Howard Dean's campaign into prominence in '04, has begun a little payback for 2008 already.

They've put together a nearly three-minute blog ad questioning McCain's straight-talker image.

Take a look here.