Lee Atwater - the last real fighter of the Washington GOP establishment.
John McCain lost my vote a long time ago. This incident only validates my views of John McCain.
Posted on 04/24/2008 1:16:05 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - North Carolina's Republican Party on Thursday withdrew an advertisement critical of Democrat Barack Obama's links to a controversial preacher, Republican John McCain's campaign said.
McCain senior adviser Charlie Black said he had been informed by the Republican National Committee's representative in North Carolina, that the state party had agreed to withdraw the ad.
McCain, the Republicans' presumptive presidential nominee, had appealed to the state party to withdraw the ad, saying he wanted to run a respectful campaign.
Obama has come under fire for attending a Chicago church for two decades where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was pastor. Wright has drawn criticism for statements including saying the U.S. government spread the AIDS virus to black Americans. He has since retired.
The 30-second ad in question attacked Democratic North Carolina gubernatorial candidates Beverly Perdue and Richard Moore for their endorsements of Obama, referring to the Illinois senator's "judgment" in supporting Wright and calling him "too extreme for North Carolina."
North Carolina is one of two states holding the next crucial Democratic primaries on May 6 in the tight race between Obama and Hillary Clinton to oppose McCain in the November presidential election.
Wimps.
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
No Guts!!!!!! No Glory!!!!!
McCain is making Olmert look like a fighter.
They can’t handle the truth
Hey John, run a respectful campaign. But, when the opposition hands you ammunition that helps your case and is not a fabrication of the truth, then use it.
As gutless as the GOP leadership in Mass.
Typical spineless pubbies.
As Bernie Goldberg says: “Crazies to the left of me, WIMPS to the right!”
Honesty Sucks. PC is Love!
Idiots=politicians flushing the country down the drain.
Didn’t someone just want Linda to run for VP?
***Wimps.***
I was just going to type that.
Bears repeating
Wimps
Free publicity!
Yeah, that's what he's doing...
McCain is a pussy.
Damn...I was just praising them! I should have known better....the NCGOP is back to a social org for Monica Lewinsky Republicans.
Oh good grief. What a bunch of losers.
Let’s wait until the general election please
I think it unconscionable for people to think that Obama’s justification of his relationship with the racist Rev. Wright is acceptable in a President of the United States. It is not acceptable, and it is not illegitimate or racist to point out the issue. It is precisely the anti-white racism that Obama is pandering to that is the problem.
John Mcshame can go pound sand !He does not believe in Free Speech
Cowards.
.....I’m having trouble finding the ad on YOU TUBE....anybody got a link so we can start passing it agound....thanks
I am going to say it, “Where in the f**k is this party’s backbone?” I am glad I am not voting this year, McCain the Republican and the RNC are a bunch of spineless jellyfish and the Democrats deserve to win at this point.
McCain never fails to give me a reason not to vote for him.
Something happened to the POW who was held at the Hanoi Hilton and the Senator who is now running for president. He had character and integrity then. What happened?
Ypu give cats a bad name.
Lee Atwater - the last real fighter of the Washington GOP establishment.
John McCain lost my vote a long time ago. This incident only validates my views of John McCain.
NCGOP needs to change its name to MONICA LEWINSKY MEMORIAL SOCIETY
oops, wrong ad, sorry.
Well, we can hope so, but given McStains past antics this is starting to look like the Dole '96 campaign. Can there be such a thing as a Rino Chicken? We may find out in Nov.
Where’s that Daves chick now?
The new invertebrate GOP.
Not whimps. They are playing the democrats like a fiddle. We want this close, but not too close.
I think this is a smart move.
Castration Day
What campaign has Charlie Black ever WON????
(not sure if this story is true yet)
Damn!
I think there's a good possibility this chain of events is all part of a "general" strategy.
I can hope, can't I?
In any case, the ad will live on on youtube, and has already got huge national attention because McCain "objected" to it.
Somehow that ad featuring lies about Mitt Romney timetables in Iraq was in good taste back in the GOP Florida primary. But Romney was a Pubbie, and you know how McCain feels about those.
You can view the ad here for now. But, hurry, they may remove the link.
http://www.ncgop.org/home/index.asp
Precisely why McQueeg will lose (that plus he's really a Democrat).
hey!!!! you forgot to add DEMOCRAT pu$$y to that......
Well, it’ll be the LAST respectful campaign for about a century. If the republic even survives a century.
As to this ad, had McCain not complained, the ad would not have gotten nearly the coverage it did, keeping the Wright issue alive (as it should be). It also fits with his bucking the party maverick image that had the presstitutes (probably regrettably now) making him acceptable to many 'rats. Lastly, with little funds, he is going to be hammered by leftist 527 hit jobs. Let's see if the great uniter Obama has as much "class" in condemning these ads.
In short, we all need to avoid knee jerk "there he goes again" reactions to his public stances (his comments on Katrina being the most recent). Hillary and her goons are going to do the dirty work for at least the next two months and I think that McCain's campaign has a game plan that will not give us red meat but will be fulfilling in the end. Heaven help us if they are not successful.....
good point!
Whew, shades of 2009 to 2017, here we go. John will singlehandedly destroy Conservatism.
Bummer. Republicans deserve to lose every election if they’re determined to be cowed by their adversaries.
This ad did get nationwide publicity for just a few plays in NC.
Good strategy.
spineless, babbling wussy’s
Now, that is well said and right on.
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