It never ceases to amaze that John McCain has no worries about being sullied by association with the Bush-Cheney regime:

Dick Cheney will enter the heart of the 2008 fray Monday with a fundraiser for the joint McCain-RNC Victory fund, according to an aide to the vice president.

Cheney is set to headline a closed-press reception in a private home in Raleigh, North Carolina, Monday night.

The money will go to the North Carolina Victory fund, which is the voter contact account set up to help candidates from McCain on down the ticket.

Cheney’s flacks have made it clear that none of the money he raises will benefit the N.C. Republican Party, which is set to air Swiftboat-style ads linking Barack Obama and two Democratic candidates for governor, Bev Perdue and Richard Moore, to the controversial, out-of-context statements of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s former pastor.