The Republican Party has no shame, nor apparently a sense of decency. Now its the Washington State GOP, the latest pro-McCain organization to attack Michelle Obama for having said she's proud of America.

Not surprisingly, I think it's a stupid, ineffective ad. The funniest part is that they have at least two shots of the American flag flapping in the wind with the stars on the right hand side of the flag. Hmm...I wonder why they think the stars ought to be on the right instead of the left where most Americans put them?

Anyway, if there is a substantive point here, it's that you could make the same dumb attack on John McCain himself. He has variously said that he didn't love the country until he was 31 years old and on the campaign trail last month said it was "tough" to be proud of America.

A few weeks ago, I put some of his comments together into a satirical movie trailer called "The Glass House of McCain." Here's a new and updated version of that video, intended to illustrate the absurdity of the GOP's line of attack: