In an effort to better understand the readership...

The Beagletown reportorial staff has an interest in occasional first-hand observations, and since many readers have worked on campaigns or are in the process of preparing for campaigns or have a serious dread of being shanghaied into a campaign, we extended our research by taking a job.

One of the takeaway learnings of this experience is that people will lie their asses right off regardless of the consequences and that there is really no accountability for lying in a campaign, because the answer is always, "oh everybody does it."

According to the McCain't camp, there is no such thing as a lie. It's okay to say Obama wouldn't visit wounded troops in Lundsberg without media, because "it fits a narrative." A thing doesn't need to be true or not, as long as it fits the narrative.

McCain't has been dubbed Senator Hothead. He left his first wife for a beer baron babe. He was a Keating Five. He was a Cabal of One. He has been on all sides of every position from one end to another. He lets his staff and supporters lie like rugs and puffs up about running a clean campaign.

There's a freaking narrative without having to make schtuff up.