The point behind bringing it up now is to make THE ONE spend the last month of the election defending his negatives. I believe McCain truly does want to win this election, otherwise he would have picked Lieberman as his running mate. They’d have had fun together on the campaign trail and might have made a somewhat decent showing, however, THAT would have been a half-hearted move. He knew he would energize the covervatives with Gov. Palin, though I doubt even HE know how much.
But, as I said, by Gov. Palin bringing up the Ayers connection, by the RNC filing suit to look into Obama’s campaign contributions, etc ... they’re making him focus on those negatives. Similar to how they made him spend time defending his lack of experience against Gov. Palin’s executive experience.
I appreciate you putting it that way.