David Neiwert and Max Blumenthal have an intense investigative piece on Salon about who Sarah Palin has been pallin’ around with: radical right wingers and separatists. It goes far deeper into both the secessionists she has worked closely with for the last fifteen years or so and what their relationships have looked like.

This isn’t the only issue floating towards home plate at batting practice speed that could further derail McCain-Palin (Troopergate & Palin’s unpaid taxes are out their too), but it is certainly made more important by the McCain-Palin campaign’s decision to turn their events into Tour de Hate ’08, which has (un)hinged on attacks on Ayers and Wright.