Posted on 04/24/2008 5:07:45 PM PDT by LJayne
Reports that the N.C. Republican Party is pulling a planned TV advertisement about Barack Obama are false, Republican chairwoman Linda Daves said today.
"I can't be emphatic enough that we're running the ad," Daves said, reports David Ingram. "We are not pulling the ad. It has never been a consideration for us to pull the ad."
Several media outlets, including MSNBC, have reported that the party reversed course Thursday and would not run the ad. The ad has been scheduled to begin running Monday on evening newscasts in North Carolina.
Daves said the reaction received by the party is running 10-to-1 in favor of the ad.
At least one television station, WRAL in Raleigh, has declined to run the ad.
"I think it is inflammatory," said Jim Hefner, vice president and general manager at WRAL. "If that spot was about Senator Obama, that would be one thing. What do Perdue and Moore have to do with Barack Obama's minister?"
Unlike with ads sponsored by political candidates, the station is under no legal obligation to run an issue ad sponsored by a political party, Hefner said.
I don’t know your history with Libbylu, but she was respectful of me. I tried to be respectful of her.
I’m glad we’re on the same side of this one, you and I.
Thank you. And you and your wife as well.
No history w/ her, but she did not appear to be respectful of you, hence my response.
I truly cannot vote for Cap’n Queeg. Just can’t do it.
The ad gets shown and benefits McCain without any penalty for him. I sure hope some GOP strategerist thought this up.
I think it’s a reasonable question to ask if someone is going to vote for Clinton or Obama. I know some folks have considered it, to avoid a McCain term in office.
If we’re that fearful of it...
Personally, I don’t want to have it on my concience that I voted for Hillary or Barack. I can live with not voting for McCain even if they get in. I didn’t set up this mess, and I’m not responsible for bailing the RP out on this one.
If they don’t like losing, then they better tighten the rules by 2012.
I don’t think it was planned out this way, but I think it’s turned into a tactic. So long as McCain continues to point out that the presumptive nominee is not the freaking Pope of the party, and has nothing to do with gubernatorial elections in NC, I don’t see a downside here. In fact, even if McCain ultimately pressures NC to take it down, I don’t see how it hurts him. Politics is politics and it’s a tough business; Republicans whose feelings get hurt because McCain’s gotta do what he’s gotta do to win should maybe think of another line of work to get into.
This anti-McCain fantasy of Republicans staying home in droves so they can let Obama take the White House is mind-boggling. It won’t happen and when McCain wins, they will be all to eager to kiss and make up. Same drill we went through in 00 and 04 when the same people were convinced W was going to sell out the country. If Obama wins because these self-appointed arbiters of “true conservativism” can’t see past their hatred of McCain, they’ll go down in history as nothing less than traitors.
Yech.
http://www.rep-am.com/news/elections/335713.txt
TV stations refuse to air controversial Republican ad
By David Ingram | McClatchy Newspapers
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Charlotte TV station says it will not air an advertisement from the state’s Republican Party that uses a sound bite from Barack Obama’s retiring minister.
“I just don’t think it’s appropriate to be on our air,” said Joe Pomilla, general manager for WSOC in Charlotte. “I think it’s offensive, and I’m not real comfortable with the implications around race.”
I just viewed the ad online and I don’t see a darned thing controversial about it other than Obama’s association with Wright. It’s a good ad, a valid ad. I gave the N. Carolina Pubbie Party $10 bucks to keep running it.
Sounds like they were trying to 'create' a story where none existed. They just wanted to talk about Republican racism, again, where it doesn't exists. Sounds like they also wanted to turn Republican voters against their party. Looks like that part worked, for a while, at least. Some Republicans just jump on any news report that puts the GOP in a bad light. You'd think they'd have figured out what the media is doing, by now.
There are ways to make the point without sounding racist—bring in Ward Churchill in the same ad, for starters.
McCain has gone beyond staying above the fray to biting the hand that feeds him.
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