I hope McLame reads this.

[BadCat]

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[Lauri]

Medved was hyperventilating over the NC ad as well today.. i just had to shut him off.

I think McCain needs to let the states do what they want to do as far as their own down ticket issues..

[DumbAss Tanker]

I think they are perfectly right to ignore his collegial Senatorial pontifications so he doesn't drag their
State races down to the 'Failure to launch' level of enthusiasm Conservatives in general have for his whole Presidential campaign.

[Uhhuh35]

We need commercials like that to counter the Left, McCain won't do it. He's just too willing to let himself be taken hostage and tortured by the Democrats until the election.

[DixieBelle]

What's he so afraid of at this point? I think this is overreacting on his part. Or he's thinking ahead and hoping it won't come back to bite him. Oy....

[Chris_]

Looks like McCain is going to let the Dems walk all over him.

"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.

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2535509420080425

[Duke Nukum]

McLame is out of touch with reality. 

I love my country more than I like inane slogans that try to get me to vote for John McCain.

[formerlurker]

I haven't had a drink since July 2001.   I am going to need to be tanked to vote for this guy.

The incredible country we live in and these three clowns is  all we have to chose from?   

[dandi]

I haven't had a drink since July 2001.   I am going to need to be tanked to vote for this guy.

The incredible country we live in and these three clowns is  all we have to chose from?   

We had others early on, but they weren't the safe, slick, pre-packaged, middle-of-the-road, made-for-tv candidates like McCain. Consequently the MSM and the American people ignored them. We still seem to like the "comfort food" versions of politicians, at least on the right. I guess people just aren't fed up enough yet.

[Wretched Excess]

Senator ***** really needs to read this letter and PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT IT SAYS...

http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2008/04/24/man-up-sen-mccain/

On Wednesday, John McCain demanded that the North Carolina Republican Party remove a TV ad featuring Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s “God damn America” sermon which is being used to portray two Democratic gubernatorial candidates who support Barack Obama as “too extreme.” “There is no place for that kind of campaigning,” said the Republican nominee for president. Memo to Sen. McCain: wake up and smell the coffee.

The 20-year relationship between Barack Obama and his anti-American, black separatist “mentor” is fair game. So are his political associations with former Weather Underground terrorists William Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn and his “close friendship” with indicted real estate developer Tony Rezko.

Mr. Obama is not running for college president on some lunatic left-wing campus, Senator. He’s running for the most powerful office in the world, and the public ought to be well acquainted with the company he’s kept and keeping–loud and often.

Incredible as it seems from here, perhaps you’re still naive enough to believe the media which has treated you with kid gloves whenever you tilted left is going to give you even-handed coverage once the slug-fest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama produces a winner. One would think the hit-piece published by the New York Times regarding your ostensible extra-marital affair–a compendium of innuendoes, shoddy reporting and outright lies–would have given you a clue as to what is coming.

Either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama will do anything and everything to undermine your candidacy. How do I know? Take a good look at what they’re doing to EACH OTHER, Senator. Multiply by ten.

This is one American who’s damn tired of a Republican candidate for president who thinks going toe-to-toe with two irredeemable socialists is “unseemly.” Better to “disrespect” them than that part of the American electorate–hopefully a majority–which yearns to see a Republican show a little backbone. Nothing is more “hardball” than a presidential election.

“Man up,” Mr. McCain.

atahlert@comcast.net

while I respect your opinion, BC, the alternative is infinitely worse.

I think you should rethink your position.

[Wretched Excess]

I haven't had a drink since July 2001.   I am going to need to be tanked to vote for this guy.

The incredible country we live in and these three clowns is  all we have to chose from?   

reality happens, FM.  it just works out that way.

[Lauri]

well, lets look at this way; a seasoned politician out there yanking people's chains at 70 years of age is just unseemly. i can think of a lot of conservatives that would be turned off if he were to start catterwalling like Hilary and Obama at every turn. plus, he has 300+ million people to try and please and he is trying to take the high road.

so let him.

it gives the other side absolutely no ammo against him, but it keeps the Reverand Wright BS out there agitating.

i think this will work out just fine.. and  Hilary or Obama will yet again do something stupid soon enough.

[Wretched Excess]

don't count yourself to be somehow philosophically superior, BC.

We all hate our nominee.  I am just willing to live with him.

[Lacarnut]

well, lets look at this way; a seasoned politician out there yanking people's chains at 70 years of age is just unseemly. i can think of a lot of conservatives that would be turned off if he were to start catterwalling like Hilary and Obama at every turn. plus, he has 300+ million people to try and please and he is trying to take the high road.

so let him.

it gives the other side absolutely no ammo against him, but it keeps the Reverand Wright BS out there agitating.

i think this will work out just fine.. and  Hilary or Obama will yet again do something stupid soon enough.

I think that this is a smart move on his part. In private, he is probably gloating over the fact that the Magic Negro and this race huckster are joined at the hip. Look at all the mileage this gets. McCain is taking the high road after all he needs  independents to win the election. All of the conservatives voting for him will not get him elected unless he can not pick off the majority of the independent voters. I don't think that some conservatives understand that fact.

[Duke Nukum]

well, lets look at this way; a seasoned politician out there yanking people's chains at 70 years of age is just unseemly. i can think of a lot of conservatives that would be turned off if he were to start catterwalling like Hilary and Obama at every turn. plus, he has 300+ million people to try and please and he is trying to take the high road.

so let him.

it gives the other side absolutely no ammo against him, but it keeps the Reverand Wright BS out there agitating.

i think this will work out just fine.. and  Hilary or Obama will yet again do something stupid soon enough.

I think that this is a smart move on his part. In private, he is probably gloating over the fact that the Magic Negro and this race huckster are joined at the hip. Look at all the mileage this gets. McCain is taking the high road after all he needs  independents to win the election. All of the conservatives voting for him will not get him elected unless he can not pick off the majority of the independent voters. I don't think that some conservatives understand that fact.

I feel lucky I don't have to vote for him because all the disgruntled Hillary or Obama voters will.

[Chris_]

don't count yourself to be somehow philosophically superior, BC.

We all hate our nominee.  I am just willing to live with him.

That is not a position, WE, I think the man is a first class ***** and an incompetent ass.

However, I will vote for him just to keep the socialists out of office.

Come November, there is going to be a BIG run on clothespins.

[Lacarnut]

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Come November, there is going to be a BIG run on clothespins.

[/quote]

I used a clothespin the second time around for daddy Bush and Jr. Let's give this turkey a try. I do not think he will give us a socialist utopia with higher taxes like the 2 Democraps would.

[Lauri]

well, lets look at this way; a seasoned politician out there yanking people's chains at 70 years of age is just unseemly. i can think of a lot of conservatives that would be turned off if he were to start catterwalling like Hilary and Obama at every turn. plus, he has 300+ million people to try and please and he is trying to take the high road.

so let him.

it gives the other side absolutely no ammo against him, but it keeps the Reverand Wright BS out there agitating.

i think this will work out just fine.. and  Hilary or Obama will yet again do something stupid soon enough.

I think that this is a smart move on his part. In private, he is probably gloating over the fact that the Magic Negro and this race huckster are joined at the hip. Look at all the mileage this gets. McCain is taking the high road after all he needs  independents to win the election. All of the conservatives voting for him will not get him elected unless he can not pick off the majority of the independent voters. I don't think that some conservatives understand that fact.

McCain came out hard yesterday, or friday, against Obama's support by Hamas..

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Bush has tried the respectfully-disagreeing-statesman schtick for 7 years and it damn near cost us the war.

[Chris_]

Clinton: McCain could do more to stop Wright ads

GRAHAM, North Carolina (CNN) — “I believe that if Sen. McCain were serious he would do more than send a letter. He is the putative nominee,” Clinton told reporters. “I think that he could very clearly tell the North Carolina party, tell the Mississippi party that he would not tolerate those kinds of advertisements and I’m waiting to see whether he does that.”

Obama has said that questions about his relationship with Wright are a legitimate political issue. Asked if she would engage on it, Clinton seemed to put the issue to bed by responding that she has made it clear that in Obama’s position she wouldn’t have stayed in the church.

“I regret the efforts by the Republicans to politicize this matter,” she added.

Just what the GOP needs... advice from someone who can barely run her own campaign and is coming in second place to an empty suit. 

[Lauri]

Clinton: McCain could do more to stop Wright ads

GRAHAM, North Carolina (CNN) — “I believe that if Sen. McCain were serious he would do more than send a letter. He is the putative nominee,” Clinton told reporters. “I think that he could very clearly tell the North Carolina party, tell the Mississippi party that he would not tolerate those kinds of advertisements and I’m waiting to see whether he does that.”

Obama has said that questions about his relationship with Wright are a legitimate political issue. Asked if she would engage on it, Clinton seemed to put the issue to bed by responding that she has made it clear that in Obama’s position she wouldn’t have stayed in the church.

“I regret the efforts by the Republicans to politicize this matter,” she added.

Just what the GOP needs... advice from someone who can barely run her own campaign and is coming in second place to an empty suit. 

nobody is buying what Hilary is peddling... in fact, a lot of the DUmmies seem to think its the Clinton's who brought about the Wright issues. As for North Carolina and Mississippi, they are free to do as they choose and neither she nor McCain do a thing about it. Apparently, North Carolina's GOP is getting a lot of new money thanks to those ads, so McCain needs to back off.

and Hilary is just trying to make a news cycle since its nothing but Obama and Wright right now.. 

[paladin0]

McCain is right, the NC Republican party should stay away from the Rev. Wright issue. The media is doing the job, and if the Republican party jumps on the bandwagon it could backfire and erase the negative. Let the media expose Wright, the Republican party should remain silent on the issue.

Paladin0

[rich_t]

I don't think that McCain understands southern conservatives.  If he keeps pissing them off he will lose the election regardless of how many independents he might pick up.

p.s.  Hell, I don't think the man understands real conservatives period.

[Lacarnut]

Clinton: McCain could do more to stop Wright ads

GRAHAM, North Carolina (CNN) — “I believe that if Sen. McCain were serious he would do more than send a letter. He is the putative nominee,” Clinton told reporters. “I think that he could very clearly tell the North Carolina party, tell the Mississippi party that he would not tolerate those kinds of advertisements and I’m waiting to see whether he does that.”

Obama has said that questions about his relationship with Wright are a legitimate political issue. Asked if she would engage on it, Clinton seemed to put the issue to bed by responding that she has made it clear that in Obama’s position she wouldn’t have stayed in the church.

“I regret the efforts by the Republicans to politicize this matter,” she added.

Just what the GOP needs... advice from someone who can barely run her own campaign and is coming in second place to an empty suit. 

The worst thing McCain could do is politicize this issue. Let the talking heads in the media, liberals, moderate democrats and the two candidates fight it out among themselves. No sense in McCain getting bloodied over this; take the high road and let the circus continue without his involvement. 

[Duke Nukum]

Clinton: McCain could do more to stop Wright ads

GRAHAM, North Carolina (CNN) — “I believe that if Sen. McCain were serious he would do more than send a letter. He is the putative nominee,” Clinton told reporters. “I think that he could very clearly tell the North Carolina party, tell the Mississippi party that he would not tolerate those kinds of advertisements and I’m waiting to see whether he does that.”

Obama has said that questions about his relationship with Wright are a legitimate political issue. Asked if she would engage on it, Clinton seemed to put the issue to bed by responding that she has made it clear that in Obama’s position she wouldn’t have stayed in the church.

“I regret the efforts by the Republicans to politicize this matter,” she added.

Just what the GOP needs... advice from someone who can barely run her own campaign and is coming in second place to an empty suit. 

The worst thing McCain could do is politicize this issue. Let the talking heads in the media, liberals, moderate democrats and the two candidates fight it out among themselves. No sense in McCain getting bloodied over this; take the high road and let the circus continue without his involvement. 

Too bad his first instinct was to jump in feet first in a very lame attempt to court media favor.

He's backed off now that his own guys have told him he can't win by angering Republicans but since his first instinct is always, first, second, and always, to be liked by the media, it will probably happen over and over again.

I wonder if there is a chapter of Media Whores Anonymous he could attend?