When you’re the incumbent Republican Governor of Kentucky running twenty-points behind two days before the election, it’s gotta be time to go gay.

“Now do you want a governor who’d like Kentucky to be another San Francisco?” crooner Pat Boone asks in a robo-call recorded on behalf of Gov. Ernie Fletcher.

Andrew Sullivan says Obama can transcend our divided politics.

Steve Clemons: Pakistan nightmare could metastasize through region.

Does Condi Rice have a Pakistan policy — or a Pervez Musharraf policy?

Before we get too far into the week, I wanted to flag two featured conversations we’re hosting this week at TPMCafe. First, at TPMCafe Bookclub, Susan Faludi is discussing and debating her new book The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America. Her kick-off post went up this morning and you can read it here.

Meanwhile at TPMCafe Table for One UCLA public policy professor Amy Zegart discusses the intelligence failures that led to 9/11, which she wrote about in her new book Spying Blind. You can read her first post of the week here.

Rudy’s comic egomania has surfaced again. You know, in earlier episodes, Rudy was a clean-up worker on the scene at 9/11, then a major foreign policy leader as Mayor of New York City.

Now he’s saying ‘been there done that’ on waterboarding. Those are just the kind of tactics he used to bust up the mob, says Rudy.

Even McCain is calling him on it.

Forget which currency runs the international oil market. You know it’s getting bad when supermodel Gisele Bundchen demands payment in Euros.

With little fanfare, NYTimes.com started allowing public comments on its articles and editorials last week.

From Roll Call (sub. req.):

Despite their rhetoric about not wanting to hand President Bush another “blank check” for the Iraq War, Democrats appear poised to give him exactly that — enough cash to keep the war going full steam for as long as six months, no strings attached.

Democratic leaders continue to fear GOP attacks that cutting off or slowing funds would hurt the troops, despite anger among the Democratic base over the party’s failure to use Congress’ power of the purse to end the war.

Rudy goes under the radar to reach conservative voters. We have one of his New Hampshire mailers on illegal immigration.