Hoist, Meet Petard

In "Why McCain Lost " by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, there is a quote from a friend of the authors that cracked me up.

He added that all the talk about Obama’s links to terror, to Islam, to
bombers has also had the effect of intimidating elderly Republicans from
even putting McCain/Palin signs in their yards.

It serves them right. He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.