NC GOP Tells RNC To Piss Off
Glad to see someone in the Republican Party growing a set (via Sister Toldjah and Memeorandum)
Per the RNC, the national leadership of the Republican Party has been in contact this morning with the North Carolina GOP, urging them to refrain from running the “Extreme” ad. The party says that the content of the anti-Obama ad, which references the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is “not appropriate” and “unhelpful.”
The NC GOP is an independent organization not bound to the recommendations of the national party. A spokesman from the NC party declined to comment on any conversations between the RNC and the North Carolina team.
The ad?
Senator McCain has asked the NC GOP to not run it, and, even though I co-blog over at McCain Blogs, this is one thing I disagree with him on. Just like with Reagan, Bush 41, and Dubya, as well as other Republicans, I do not go in lock step with everything they do and say.
The RNC needs to understand that politics is nasty, and they are not going to get anywhere by never responding to the sh*t the Democrats and their peeps throw around, and sometimes need to initiate it. Republicans have sat back for 8 years and have barely said boo! back to the Democrats and their minions as attack after attack, lie after lie, smear after smear came at them.
Those of us in the right-o-sphere keep saying that the national figures need to go after the Dems, to stop taking it on the chin, to call them on their BS. Yet, the minute one of them gets snippy, such as the times Ann Coulter has done it, many call foul, say they are mean, and that these types of attacks are beneath us.
One of my favorite lines from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean has Orlando Bloom’s character, Will Turner, saying to Jack Sparrow “You cheated,” to which Sparrow replies “Pirate!” In this case “Politics!”
The NC GOP say “the ad will run.”
Others: Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, and Gateway Pundit
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April 24th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
No responses yet !?
Well…. I liked it.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I totally disagree - I think McCain absolutely did the right thing distancing himself from that. Remember Willie Horton? People associate that with Bush ‘41, not Floyd Brown and Citizens United, and Bush had NOTHING to do with it. Remember McCain’s “illegitimate black baby?” McCain himself resented W because of that crap, and W didn’t have anything to do with it, either. People still talk about how ugly 2000 in SC was because of that smear, and Bush was the one who was held responsible for it in the long run. This NC GOP ad is nothing like that “illegitimate baby” smear, but still-it’s close enough to the belt that McCain had to speak up, or he’d be accused of negative campaigning, and it’s not even an ad for him.
It’s also just plain disingenuous-those two candidates can be faulted for supporting teh Obamination, but they don’t have a thing to do with Jeremiah Wrong. But most of all, John McCain doesn’t need to be tarnished by it, especially when he’s letting the Dummocrats self-destruct.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
I see your point about McCain, Beth, and, rethinking it, I think you are right, at least as far as he goes.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:33 am
Disagree with the “point”. The media will always hold the most important Republican available for any scandal (Bush41 for Willie Horton - he had nothing to do with it - Al Gore broke the story and gets off scot free). Someone more articulate than Bush43 - and our Republican “leader” talking heads should so aggressively refute these lies that the media stops pounding them home.
Too bad we don’t have any Republican leaders.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
So Bob, do you think if McCain had NOT denounced the ad it would have made a difference in how the media behaves, with the way they spread lies as fact? Don’t you think it’d have had quite the opposite effect?
What about the last five years while the media has parroted the “Bush Lied” meme that the Left keeps repeating? Republicans have been aggressively refuting that lie all along, but it hasn’t gone away.
I’m also pissed about how the media is fed their talking points by the Left, but confirming their accusations isn’t the way to change their behavior.