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.
Mccain may just be a puppet on a string...I see a Soros string, a Clinton string, a Dean string....
It is also obvious that conservatives ain't buying into it. What can we call this race other that "Dumb and Dumber?
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?
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
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.
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 win the North Carolina primary now, despite having dropped out of the race. Perhaps that would send a message to Mr. McCain.
McCain’s a genius. His campaign was cruising along without a care in the World, while Clinton and Obama tore each other up. Then he decided to pick a fight with - wait for it - North Carolina Republicans. If there’s a way to lose, McCain will figure it out.
I just saw the ad, and I really, truly, don’t get it. I don’t get the shock and horror over the ad. It’s like that idiot Barbara Boxer emoting about how awful it was to have partial-birth abortion DESCRIBED on the Senate floor — but the procedure itself? No big.
Idiots.
Let me preface my comment by saying I am NOT a McCain supporter BUT, as I view it, he is taking advantage of the democrat dilemma, while clinton/obama are self destructing and the whole party is in chaos, he is be presenting himself as a candidate the dims can vote for.
The dimocrats have used this tactic for decades of moving to center to garner republican’s vote but the difference is, the democrat politicians, their MSM and the base KNOW they are lying and will return being the liberals they are as soon as they are elected.
could someone link the ad. I haven’t seen it either.