John McCain is asking the N.C. Republican Party not to air its new ad linking two Democratic candidates for governor to Barack Obama's controversial former minister.
McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee for president, sent N.C. GOP Chairwoman Linda Daves an e-mail today about what he called an "offensive advertisement."
"From the beginning of this election, I have been committed to running a respectful campaign based upon an honest debate about the great issues confronting America today," McCain wrote.
"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. In the strongest terms, I implore you to not run this advertisement."
Jeffrey Sadosky, a spokesman for McCain, told Dome that the campaign has not heard back from state party officials.
Update: The Republican National Committee is also calling on North Carolina GOP officials to pull their new ad.
“Senator McCain has been very clear that he expects to run a respectful campaign based on the critical issues confronting the nation," Danny Diaz, an RNC spokesman, said in an e-mail.
"The RNC has been in contact with the NC GOP and communicated that we do not believe the ad is appropriate or helpful and have asked that they refrain from running it.”
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Re: McCain asks N.C. GOP to pull ad
Too bad we live in such an environment of suffocating, free speech stifling, political correctness that you can't criticize Obama without being called racist. If Perdue and Moore cravenly want to endorse Democrat presidential front-runner Obama, then why can't the NCGOP remind the voters about it? I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that the RNC and McCain would disavow Linda Daves' gutsy ad.
The deranged Pastor Jeremiah Wright, whom Obama calls his spiritual mentor, whose afrocentric (instead of Christ-centric) church Obama has attended for twenty years, says "God damn America", that the 9/11 attacks were America's just desserts, and that America created the AIDS virus to kill blacks. Obama is also good friends with unrepentant ex-Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, whose only regrets are that the Weathermen "didn't have enough bombs". NC voters should know that about Obama, as they should know Perdue and Moore both endorsed him.
Nice comments, "riverrd", calling the NCGOP a "criminal, immoral, racist group of neanderthals". What, no "fascists" or "Nazis"? No comparison of Linda Daves to Hitler? I'm sorry you had to restrain yourself...
Jeffrey Sykes offers more intelligent commentary, but wonders "why should Republicans spend any money attempting to undermine the credibility of either Democratic candidate for governor?" Gee, Jeffrey, could it be because a Republican (likely NC senator Fred Smith or Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory) is going to be running against one of these two Democrats to be our next Governor, in a state that's heavily Democratic and has had only two GOP governors in its entire history? If you really care about our high taxes and this state's prosperity, Jeffrey, then you need to support your NCGOP when it battles the Democrats over our state's future.