pissant wrote: “The problem with the “friend of radicals” attacks from the GOP was:
A) They were sporadic at best.
B) They did not tie it into a larger narrrative
c) McCain and the RNC jumped down other GOP groups’ throats for running Rev. Wright ads...”
Absolutely right!
But the problem was that McCain took Wright off the table. If you want to make the case that Obama has close associations with America-hating scumbags, and Wright is off the table... it doesn’t make any sense.
People would not buy the presentation that friendship with Ayers was a huge problem, but Wright wasn’t worth mentioning.
With Ayers they did not paint the whole picture either. It’s easy for Obama to say “I was 8 when Ayers committed violent acts”. The rebuttal should have been swift and damning, but it never came from Mccain or the GOP.