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John McCain Watch: North Carolina GOP – “Out of Touch with Reality” Over Jeremiah Wright Ad

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This ad entitled “Extreme” released by the North Carolina Republican Party opposes Bev Perdue and Richard Moore for Governor.

The North Carolina Republican Pary will NOT be pulling the “Extreme” video ad above (featuring Barack Obama’s preacher Jeremiah Wright) despite protestations from Senator John McCain and the Republican National Committee.

In fact, the North Carolina GOP has placed the ad on their web site and is fundraising for its distirbution over the North Carolina airwaves.

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In the meantime, Senator John McCain and presumptive GOP Presidential nominee has started calling his own party in North Carolina names.

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.

Watch the ad. Is there anything denigrating or untruthful about it?

The North Carolina GOP is RIGHT and Senator MCCain is simply WRONG on this issue. And, remember the 11th commandment, Senator.

Flap will be participating in the Team McCain blogger conference call scheduled in a few minutes and will update this post if there is related discussion.

Update:

After participating in the McCain blogger call, Flap’s impression of Senator McCain’s statement towards the North Carolina GOP can be best be found here and here.

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3 Comments

  • ethand

    Three degrees of separation is a little extreme.

    To attack someone because they support someone else who attended someone else’s church!

    If they took that kind of thinking and applied it to every other candidate running for office they could run a lot of attack ads.

  • Flap

    The association of Obama and Jeremiah Wright is alot deeper that you portray.

    There is noting wrong with the ad.

    I have updated the post after the MCCain blogger call and the links will shed some light.

  • Mike New

    I have to agree with this post. It’s not that bad. I do believe that since the Democrats have run so many smearing campaigns against each other lately that McCain is trying to simply run a clean campaign. But, the video is still not that bad.