Posted on 04/25/2008 10:11:23 AM PDT by Wade827
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain accused North Carolina's Republican Party of being "out of touch with reality" over its refusal to pull an advertisement criticizing Democrat Barack Obama.
In an NBC interview aired on Friday, the Arizona senator said he has done all he can to persuade the state party to cancel the television ad that criticizes Obama as "too extreme" because of controversial remarks made by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
"They're not listening to me because they're out of touch with reality and the Republican Party. We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan and this kind of campaigning is unacceptable," McCain told NBC's "Today" Show.
"I've done everything that I can to repudiate and to see that this kind of campaigning does not continue," he added.
Asked if the state party's unwillingness to heed his call raised questions about his leadership, McCain replied: "I don't know exactly how to respond to that."
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McCain will soon be brought to heel or he will lose.
McCain is bound and determined to lose this election.
“We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan and this kind of campaigning is unacceptable...”
Personally, I think that Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Reagan would have big problems with Obama’s relationship to Wright.
Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Reagan were all hard core political brawlers in their day and would be appalled at McCain’s attitude in this election.
A disaster in the making. And when we need a good conservative the most. DAMN
“McCain will soon be brought to heel or he will lose.”
;o) (sigh) yeah.....What a great election year.
we have 2 candidates who are despicable
and one who is terrible.
Decisions, decisions, decision.
McCain needs to be removed at the convention.
McCain’s calling somebody, “Out of touch with reality”?...........That’s a real hoot!..............
Johnny boy, we are just being Mavericks and not towing your line.
I mean that is how you have been to conservatives the last 8 years, so you should understand or better yet GET USED to it!
Will do. Thanks.
Pot meet Kettle.
I emailed him. Told him to stand up for Conservative Principals and quit pandering to the Demcrats or he would lose and until then, he will get no money from me. Thanks.
What an idiot......the Democrats are the RACISTS and it is perfectly illustrated by Jeremiah Wright.....
Yeah, he is determined to snack defeat from the jaws of victory.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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