“We’re going to get a little tougher,” a senior Republican operative said, indicating that a fresh batch of television ads is coming. “We’ve got to question this guy’s associations. Very soon....”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27018572
from the article you linked.....
The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. appears to be off limits after McCain condemned the North Carolina Republican Party in April for an ad that linked Obama to his former pastor, saying, “Unfortunately, all I can do is, in as visible a way as possible, disassociate myself from that kind of campaigning.”
...That’s a big problem. the Wright association is the most damaging because of the videos. If Mccain doesn’t use Wright, I think he’s done.