Michelle Malkin » The GOP ad John McCain doesn’t want you to see

The GOP ad John McCain doesn’t want you to see

By Michelle Malkin • April 23, 2008 02:50 PM

What is the big freaking’ deal? The RNC and John McCain are spanking the North Carolina GOP for running an ad against the state’s Democrat gubernatorial candidates titled “Extreme.” It points out Barack Obama’s longtime association with America-basher Jeremiah Wright, notes that both Dem candidates have endorsed Obama, and deems them too radical for voters. Here’s the ad:

McCain is demanding that the ad be withdrawn (via ABC News, hat tip- Allah):

“I have been committed to running a respectful campaign based upon an honest debate about the great issues confronting America today. I expect all state parties to do so as well. The television advertisement you are planning to air degrades our civics and distracts us from the very real differences we have with the Democrats,” said McCain in a letter to the North Carolina Republican Party Chair Linda Davis.

McCain demanded that Davis discontinue plans to run the ad: “It is imperative that you withdraw this offensive advertisement.”

The RNC sniffed that the ad was “Not appropriate and unhelpful.”

Hey, neither’s watching GOP standard-bearers making nice with Nancy Pelosi on a couch or making utter fools of their out-of-touch selves.

But I digress.

Some McCain supporters are spinning the disavowal of the ad as a masterful strategy to stay above the fray.

Nonsense. It’s an idiotic strategy to convince more rank-and-file Republicans to stop giving money to the Beltway GOP elite.

Here’s the NC GOP website. They’re asking for support. Help ‘em out if you can.

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#201

On April 24th, 2008 at 2:30 am, wild thing2 said:

This is why we need Hildabeast in there to the bitter end. McCain wont fight Osama Obama but she will!
#202

On April 24th, 2008 at 2:37 am, libocrat said:

RetFireman, I read you last 2 posts and you are a good man, and a pissed off Conservative. God Bless you sir.
We/I have only ONE CHOICE…McCain.
It’s boiled down to Stalin (Rodham) or Hugo Chavez/Daniel Ortega..(Obama) or McCain……(I reach across the aisle so people will like me!!!!) BTW, you heard that analysis from me FIRST.
Mr.McCain is either naive or relatively liberal. I choose #2. I believe Senator McCain does not carry CONSERVATIVE CORE VALUES. He is accomplished honorable, and by virtue of his current wife and his WAY TOO LONG STAY IN D.C. extremely wealthy and able to withstand the Socialism of the LEFT until and after his dying day.
McCain doesn’t have passionately held VALUES. Rodhams doesn’t either. Her only VALUE is RODHAM and her own agrandizement.
Obama is an angry liberal, who has never ever ever ever, been a proud American. I friggggging LOVE, our national anthem. Obama doesn’t. He has been spoon fed the PAP about his Blackness making him a victim of the SYSTEM and THE MAN.
Obama doesn’t LOVE AMERICA.
It’s crystal clear to me.
I DOOOOOOOOOOO LOVE AMERICA.
#203

On April 24th, 2008 at 2:44 am, libocrat said:

Puhiawa, you asked what John Kohn Kerry Heinz dreams about?
He dreams about himself. In his dreams he REALLY GOT INJURED in Viet Nam.
He REALLY earned John Heinz fortune.
He REALLY won the Presidency.
John Kerry Kohn Heinz is the biggest phony in the Senate. Ted Kennedy runs a close second. Imagine Ted getting “SWIFT BOATED”!!! Kennedy was at least a REAL LIVE TRUST FUND FAILURE.
John Kerry Kohn Heinz, INVENTED HIMSELF.
And TROLLED for RICH CHICKS. KERRY-HEINZ is the male Rodham. No one really likes him. His next friend will be his first.
#204

On April 24th, 2008 at 4:15 am, Buckaroo said:

#197

if you think it’s really this absolutely hopeless, seven months prior to the general, and 1 to 2 [or more months] prior to the other side even settling on a nominee, then mebbe you should think about offing yourself so you won’t have to see the alledged coming armageddon.

/a plurality of this board has GOT to get a grip — sheesh …
#205

On April 24th, 2008 at 5:19 am, RetFireman said:

On April 24th, 2008 at 2:37 am, libocrat said:

Don’t get me wrong…I am not one of those that are staying home in November and not voting. I will be casting my vote for McCain. I take it you are new here, I think, and missed out on all the debating and such we had when Romney left and such.

And Buckaroo…WTF? Seriously, the one that seems to need the grip is the guy that is talking the way you are. Offing myself? Get over yourself.
#206

On April 24th, 2008 at 5:37 am, graysonret said:

It seems no matter who we vote for, come November, we’ll be the loser. Whoever wins will have the same inaugural speech: “I’m going to raise your taxes so you have less money” (cheers). “I’m going to take away your liberty/rights” (more cheers). “I’m surrendering to terrorists, and downsizing our military” (standing ovation).
#207

On April 24th, 2008 at 6:16 am, ajmontana said:

puhiawa said:
McCain is creepy. A lying jerk who will turn out to be the Jimmy Carter of the GOP. This guy will turn on anyone. Mark my words.

you’re so far off here you might as well been in tibet. Jimmy Carter and McCain are polar opposites. He may say he can reach across the aisle but really how often will he have to? The Dems have had nothing but bad ideas from the get go, no need to reach.
#208

On April 24th, 2008 at 7:04 am, zorro said:

On April 23rd, 2008 at 10:39 pm, franksalterego said:

McCain was one of the idiots who held up GW’s nominees. He goes along to get along.
–zorro

I jus’ luv it, when someone makes up their own facts.

Did I make up the Gang of 14? No, of course I didn’t. Maybe you just forgot.
#209

On April 24th, 2008 at 7:56 am, dartagnans_blade said:

franksalterego said………

Funny, how trolls always tell on themselves, isn’t it.

Hey numbnuts….if you have a point make it………..troll?
What an idiot!
#210

On April 24th, 2008 at 8:13 am, USMCgramma said:

Still talking about NC GOP Primary? We want Dems out of state offices, McCain needs to shut up. Our choice is limited to him, Huckabee or Paul - we’re voting “No Preference” for President. I resent not having a real voice/choice. It was made for us long ago. The only protest we can make at this time is to ignore him in the primary.
#211

On April 24th, 2008 at 8:49 am, Member-VRWC said:

It doesn’t take linking Perdue and Moore endorsements of Obama to make them unworthy candidates for NC governor. Both are tied to current governor Mike Easley’s corrupt and ineffective administration and both have major stink on their shoes as a result of actual performance in office.

It would make a lot more sense to smack down BO because he received endorsements from crapweasels like these 2. More of that questionable association he seems so fond of — Rezko, Wright, Ayers, etc.
#212

On April 24th, 2008 at 9:05 am, miker said:

I’ve said it before, but Juan McAmnesty will never get my vote. I won’t even say he is a RINO, he is more a Democrat than a Republican. As long as he has Juan Hernandez on his payroll, he will never get my vote or my money!!!!
#213

On April 24th, 2008 at 9:37 am, rogerbacon said:

The more I think about it I realize that this is an AMAZING strategy. Think about it for a second. We’ve all heard the Hillary supporters and the Obama supporters say they won’t vote for the other guy if he wins the nimination. However, we all know that most of them will probably come around and vote for whoever is at the top of the democratic ticket because the presidency is so important. State offices are another matter though. If the GOP ads can tie candidates to Hillary or Obama there is a very good chance that the other’s supporters won’t vote for that guy come election time believing, rightfully so, that his/her endorsement may have been at least partly responsible for their candidate not winning. The GOP should be trying to get every state-level candidate on the record of who they support right now. Sew the seeds of division and enjoy the harvest in November.
#214

On April 24th, 2008 at 9:37 am, Barry F. said:

I listened to several pundits, Democrat and Republican, on different Fox News programs last night and they all seemed to agree, that Obama’s association or being “friendly” with Ayers, having Jeremiah Wright as a “spiritual advisor” for years and attending Farakhan’s Million (closer to 500,000) Man March are all legitimate questions to raise and do not qualify as personal attacks with no basis.

I hate to agree with Hillary Clinton but, if Obama can’t take the heat of a primary, he sure as heck isn’t going to be able to handle the scrutiny he will get in the general election, let alone that pressures of being POTUS.
#215

On April 24th, 2008 at 10:16 am, ThackerAgency said:

Well, this is the last straw for me. I’m in NC and I will NEVER vote for McCain. He personally has been involved in killing the NC GOP for his entire career. We don’t like outsiders telling us what we can and can’t do.

There is NO WAY that McCain wins NC after this. On this same election ballot, we have votes for tens of millions of dollars in bond money to pay for new schools that are overcrowded because of illegal immigration. For every bond initiative that people vote for/against, they will remember how McCain has sold them down the river.

My brother is voting for Obama. The media here is in the tank for Obama. Tobacco here remembers McCain’s work on the ‘Trial Lawyer Entitlement Program’ known as the McCain tobacco settlement. Farmers lost their farms, and trial lawyers took money from this state because of it. McCain personally has done more damage to this state than anyone.

We suffer through commercials for democrats 20-1 and it would be good to have an R commercial. This commercial had nothing to do with McCain and he had no business commenting on it. McCain will NOT win NC. I certainly won’t vote for him. He won’t be president without NC. . . I’m not worried about him picking out the drapes for the white house because this sealed his fate in NC. He is a total loser. He won’t be getting any support from locals for this election, and my uncle is a R mayor here. . . I know this state - McCain is pretty well hated here.

I will never support him. . . I don’t care who becomes president.
#216

On April 24th, 2008 at 10:21 am, franksalterego said:

Did I make up the Gang of 14? No, of course I didn’t. Maybe you just forgot.
–zorro, On April 24th, 2008 at 7:04 am

The Gang of Fourteen was created to force an up or down vote…It succeeded in getting both Roberts, and Alito seated on the SCOTUS.
#217

On April 24th, 2008 at 10:22 am, DagneyT said:

As Rush Limbaugh said, we have to “bloody up” Obama, because John McCain will not!
#218

On April 24th, 2008 at 10:32 am, zorro said:

Frank,
McCain sided with the democraps to prevent the “constitutional option” (call the nuclear option by liberals) from being enacted. McCain is RINO.
#219

On April 24th, 2008 at 10:38 am, franksalterego said:

The FACT of the matter:

The Gang of 14 term coined to describe the bipartisan group of Senators in the 109th United States Congress who successfully negotiated a compromise in the spring of 2005 to avoid the deployment of the so-called nuclear option (or constitutional option) over an organized use of the filibuster by Senate Democrats to prevent the confirmation of conservative appellate court candidates nominated by President George W. Bush.
–wikipedia
#220

On April 24th, 2008 at 10:42 am, DBNinKY said:

F&F ran the ad in their six o’clock hour as part of a discussion, and I didn’t see anything objectionable about it.
#221

On April 24th, 2008 at 10:48 am, franksalterego said:

Frank,
McCain sided with the democraps to prevent the “constitutional option” (call the nuclear option by liberals) from being enacted. McCain is RINO.
–zorro, April 24th, 2008 at 10:32 am

Lemme’ see if I got this straight…

In your humble opinion, a Conservative, siding with the opposition to get Consevative judges confirmed is, somehow, wrong?

heh,heh,heh
#222

On April 24th, 2008 at 10:57 am, franksalterego said:

Just in case, it hasn’t sunk in, consider, that the Democrats in the Gang of Fourteen, sided with McCain…Not, the other way around.
#223

On April 24th, 2008 at 11:03 am, zorro said:

Frank, I understand your support for the RINO. The fact remains, McCain sided with the democraps so the “constitutional option” would not be exercised. I believe the Executive Branch has the power to nominate judges. The Senate functions to advise and consent. Not filibuster and neither advise nor consent. McCain is a RINO.
#224

On April 24th, 2008 at 11:17 am, franksalterego said:

Zorro,

So, you are in fact, going to sit there, and tell me, that when you can get 7 members of the opposition to come around to YOUR point of view, it makes you a RINO?

Who is the Sly Old Fox in THAT scenario?
#225

On April 24th, 2008 at 11:20 am, Trollman said:

libocrat said:

SEAN? How did McCain “SMEAR” Romney.

McCain smeared Romeny when, I think it was the day before the Florida primary, McCain twisted Romney’s words and claimed Romney called for an open timeline for withdrawal along with the Democrats.

“Straight Talk” indeed.

But what goes around comes around. The Democrats later twisted McCain’s words, saying he didn’t care if the war went on for 100 years. That is a lie, just like the lie McCain spread about Romney.

Sigh, the more I think about McCain, the more I realize how much I despise what he stands for.
#226

On April 24th, 2008 at 11:25 am, emjem24 said:

Ignatius Reilly #120 said:

Thank you for your awesomely stated post. I couldn’t agree more. Though I will reluctantly vote for McCain, this isn’t to say I don’t have more than a few grievances with him (and the Republicans) as a whole.

There are so many of us that feel that McCain was the absolute WRONG choice for the Republicans. However, whether it was crossover Dems or Independents that hijacked the Republican primaries to influence the selection of McCain is neither here nor there now. He’s been selected…. whether or not I like it.

As a military spouse and proud Conservative, I’m genuinely scared. I’ve seen what happens when liberals control a whole occupational field (like education) and decide who should be selected to join their elite group of indoctrinators. I’ve seen how the lack of logic and just plain insanity has taken over the Dems with Obummer as their likely nominee. How people buy into that is just crazy.

I don’t want to be like Europe. I’ve been there, and frankly, socially, economically, culturally, politically, they’re messed up. I don’t want that for us. Both political parties have screwed up and it’s now time to break with the past (if voters could just see it) and hail in new ideas, political parties, people.

Another scary thing I’m seeing is how our leaders are so out of touch with both the military and regular folks. Useless, selfish politicians can pontificate about how “evil” our military is to appeal to their constituents whining for their free goodies when they’ve either never been in the military, were in the military for such a short time as to to not really gain much of an impression of its mission and purpose, or just plain look down on it. Washington, DC is insulated to the point of echo chamber strength. Most of these politicians are the same animal with more or less makeup. Of course, there’s the occasional exception on both sides as well.

Americans, when they stop complaining about oil, food prices, healthcare and how overall crappy their lives are, will begin to wonder why things don’t change when they vote in the same old useless has-beens. The problem is, many Americans are so useless and selfish, and like the pork given to their disticts, that they perpetuate the gravy train.

I would really like it if we could amend the Constitution to reflect the following:

1. Military service as requirement to be a Rep., Senator, or President. How can anybody possibly say they understand the military when they’ve never been a part of it. Sorry, Obummer, that doesn’t include you. Sorry, Hilly, just because you thought of joining doesn’t make you experienced to make military decisions.

2. Term Limits- they were needed like so yesterday. When the position ‘politician’ becomes a career then our political system becomes a stinking, fetid sewer pit of cronyism that doesn’t deal with the issues facing the country. And no, Nancy and Newt, that doesn’t mean climate change is more important than say our dying dollar.

There, I’m done. You really got me with your comment. You stirred the extinguishing flame of hope inside me still burning for an America where the whiners and insiders don’t win, the American people and her military do.
#227

On April 24th, 2008 at 11:32 am, Rinoalert said:

This is more of the Bush compassionate conservatism. How did that work out in fighting liberalism over the last 8 years?

Oh wait, McCain wants to advance the liberal agenda and many of you fools will vote for it.

We have had enough McClellans- we need a general who will fight.
#228

On April 24th, 2008 at 11:39 am, JustifiedRight said:

I’ve said it time and again - it isn’t that John McCain isn’t a conservative. The problem is he doesn’t fight for his conservatism.

When the liberals come around, he folds like a cheap umbrella.
#229

On April 24th, 2008 at 11:40 am, MrOlympia said:

We better be seeing more adds just like this one(only better)once the Dems finally select their candidate.

You want to talk about bitter? I will be even more bitter if I don’t see adds similar to this one via a constant stream on my TV. In the event Hitlery gets the nomination there is plenty of material available, THAT IS TRUE and speaks volumes about her, that better be used against her!

Obamanation needs to be exposed for what he is and one of them is that this mulatto sides with his blackness rather than for all people. His is a bigot and lies better than the Clintons. I don’t trust him (or Hitlery) with running our country. Using true information to “out” the candidate must be done.
#230

On April 24th, 2008 at 11:50 am, emjem24 said:

Sean said:
Why does the fool McLame keep attacking every republican or conservative who tries to help his campaign? He is doing nothing but given the race hustlers in the media ammunition. Part of me will die when I go into the voting booth and pull the lever for this fraud. We can only pray that there is still a conservative bone in his body. What great options we have this year. A Marxist, an arch criminal, and the king of the RINO’s.

Sean, I hate to go all cinematic here but I think this terrible election year offerings are a little bit like Wizard of Oz… it’s really the Wicked Witch of the East (Hilly) and her two flying monkeys, Obummer and McCain. I’m hoping maybe somebody like Glenda the Good Witch (fill in a good McCain VP pick here) will step into the fray.

So who would play Dorothy…. maybe I need to switch Dorothy and Glenda around?
#231

On April 24th, 2008 at 12:01 pm, TanyaB said:

Something I have been angry about for several years now, is the Republicans constantly giving over to the liberal left. They feed their own to the sharks in order to “get along” or as they put it “reach across the aisle”.
When the Democrats say it is a non- partisan decision,.. what they mean is the Republicans caved again.
And I feel the same way the Republicans in North Carolina do.
I feel the same about my Governor in Oklahoma, that yesterday endorsed Obama.
#232

On April 24th, 2008 at 12:06 pm, henryinga said:

How anyone can cut off their nose to spite their face is beyond me. I didn’t want McCain to get the nomination, I wanted Thompson, but since McCain’s the nominee, I’ll vote for him. It’s just not about princples. Obummer and Shirlery will nuke the country, if they go in.They don’t have the country or the peoples welfare at heart. They only have their own selfish goals in mind. They’ll bring the troops home by June of ‘09 and wave the white flag of surrender to the terrorist. In the meantime, taxes will go skyhigh, socialized medical care will cause people to die while waiting for treatment.
No, I didn’t want McCain, but I’m not about to stand idley by and allow a democrat to be the next President. As another poster stated, I can rest assured that I did my best to keep a democrat out, and can sleep at night.
#233

On April 24th, 2008 at 12:54 pm, longbow said:

I don’t want a Democrat to be President either. But I’m not sure that electing the Democrat’s best friend is the answer, either. “Maverick” McCain is certainly not a friend of conservatives and indeed acts more like an enemy in many of the things he has done.

If either of the Democrats gets elected - The Witch or The Empty Suit, The Marxist or the Socialist - that may energize the Republicans to grow a spine and a brain and oppose their agenda, at least more than they have up to now.

But if McCain gets elected most Republicans and all the RINOs will go along with almost everything he wants - and the Democrats will be delighted to have someone in the Oval Office who works so well with them. We’ll have Gullible Warming initiatives. We’ll have even more illegals storming across the border with little to no fear of getting caught. We’ll have tax and spending increases. We’ll have non-stop pushes by the liberals and the media to get what they want from McCain who if history is a predictor, will fold like a wet paper bag in his desire to reach across the aisle.

We’re in for a rough four years no matter who wins. The best I hope for is gridlock and stalemate.
#234

On April 24th, 2008 at 1:05 pm, zorro said:

So, you are in fact, going to sit there, and tell me, that when you can get 7 members of the opposition to come around to YOUR point of view, it makes you a RINO?

Who is the Sly Old Fox in THAT scenario?

Yes. The “constitutional option” should have been exercised. It would have ended the notion that the Senate PICKS the judicial nominees. They do not pick them. They are expected to offer an up or down vote, that is all. A simple majority is all that is needed. Just like past Senate have done since the inception of our Republic.

McCain is RINO and sides with democraps. You can vote for the “Sly old Fox”, I will not.
#235

On April 24th, 2008 at 1:48 pm, Xrlq said:

Michelle, Sean, Member-VRWC, I don’t think this ad is intended to influence the national election at all. Democratic Presidential candidates haven’t carried NC since 1976 and they aren’t about to start now. However, either Moore or Perdue may well win the governorship, as have many other Democrats (including the incumbent) in the recent past. Hence the strategy of attempting to peg whoever wins the gubernatorial nomination on Obama, not because he’s black, not because he has ties to a racist, and not even because he would generally make a worse candidate than Hillary. The only reason they are singling out Obama is because they are betting (safely, I think) that Obama will be the nominee.

I haven’t lived in NC nearly long enough to pretend to be the expert in NC policitics that I once pretended to be in CA, but I do know this much: if NC voters perceive the Democratic nominees for President and governor as two peas in a pod, Republicans will win both races handily. If they don’t, say hello to Governor Moore or Perdue.
#236

On April 24th, 2008 at 2:14 pm, MrOlympia said:

TanyaB I totally agree with you.
#237

On April 24th, 2008 at 3:38 pm, Hardhead said:

As great a country as the United States is, why can’t we come up with a decent GOP presidential candidate for the most important and powerful job on earth?

I expect weak candidates from the liberals, but are there no real conservatives out there who have any interest in leading this country? This is sickening.
#238

On April 24th, 2008 at 5:08 pm, TheOtherSide said:

On April 24th, 2008 at 1:48 pm, Xrlq said:
Michelle, Sean, Member-VRWC, I don’t think this ad is intended to influence the national election at all.

I have to disagree. This is completely intended to influence the national election. Look at the timing. If this ad were to air in the run-up to the general election I might agree with you, however if this is an ad meant to influence the gubernatorial race, then why run it during the primaries? General election polling indicates that in an Obama-McCain matchup NC would be a toss up, however in a Clinton-McCain matchup NC would lean very favorably towards McCain. The NC GOP is airing this as a “Vote for Clinton” ad.

The key to determining the intention of this add is timing! Why slam both dem gubernatorial candidates during a primary? Why not save those resources until the general election?