Posted on 04/26/2008 4:46:16 AM PDT by coffee260
McCain is obviously trying to pick up the black vote for the GOP, hopefully for the long term. Not sure I agree with him, but that is what it looks like to me.
And what makes you think he’s trying to pick up the black vote? Because he denounced a perfectly legit ad calling into question the two gubernatorial candidates in NC’s judgment? I just don’t see it.
He dislikes conservatives. NC GOP, to him, are a bunch of southern, red neck, racists. He’s not a conservative and he doesn’t like them. Period.
Mccain may just be a puppet on a string...I see a Soros string, a Clinton string, a Dean string....
Senator McCain. Please explain to everyone why the ad is racist.
It is also obvious that conservatives ain't buying into it. What can we call this race other that "Dumb and Dumber?
I don’t think so. I think he thinks he’s smarter than those right wing Christian conservatives. And to him the NC GOP = right wing Christian conservatives.
Amen, Bro!
I can understand trying to “court the black vote,” but let’s say it goes from 93% Democrat down to 88% Democrat, will htat offset the conservatives he turns off?
LLS
McCan is just a big of a Rat as Hillary or Obama. He won’t attack them but he will attack his own supporters and GOP operatives. Not one dime from me to either him or the lilly-livered National GOP.
Shows on the news cable stations played Rev. Wright’s so-called sermons repeatedly. Now a few words have been added in the ad, and some of those shows are complaining. If they were so offended, why did they play the sermons in the first place?
I vowed not to send MY money to the GOP, instead I would sent MY money to the NC Republican party. At least their it will be spent on candidates that espouse the same values as me.
BTW, I live in Georgia. We are littered with spineless Republicans.
That is because the dem candidates are so wacked out that McCain believes the conservative vote is locked up and he is free to pander to the crossovers—blacks—hispanics etc etc
Doc, it's a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the liberal brain.
The media told McCain that it was racist, so that was good enough for him...
This is why many conservatives will not waste their money sending it directly to McCain. If conservatives donate, it will be to 527 groups.
Krauthammer said last night that it was McCain who is out of touch with reality. He added that McCain must be out of his mind. The only things that will save McCain from himself are (1) I will vote for him by default, and (2) BO will make even worse gaffs.
This isn’t surprising, and it explains a lot about his reaction.
Because of this, McCain has an opportunity to correct this unforced error on his part and apologize to North Carolina Republicans, saying he misspoke. He should say he hadn’t seen the ad but was told by the media that it was racist. Then he should say after seeing the ad, he sees nothing wrong with it and that the media lied about its contents, that it was tame in comparison to what Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been saying. Then he should say he won’t let any of these false charges and double standards against Republicans from the Democrats and news media stand.
McCain wanting to generally distance himself from the ad is fine. But he went way, way too far in calling North Carolina Republicans “out of touch with reality.” He has offended the very voters of an entire state who he needs to win the election. This is no different than Obama’s “bitter” gaffe. In fact, the damage is far worse. Obama offended voters who weren’t going to vote for him anyways. McCain offended the REPUBLICANS of an entire state HE MUST WIN. It was as stupid as stupid gets. He must work to undo some of the damage. I believe there is now a good chance that Mike Huckabee will will the North Carolina primary now, despite having dropped out of the race. Perhaps that would send a message to Mr. McCain.
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