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McCain’s NC problem
Regarding McCain’s request that the North Carolina GOP pull its recent Obama-bashing ad, Karl had this to say:
The NC GOP throws an ad out there which people see. It generates a little controversy, which trickles back to McCain, who can then take the high ground by asking them to take it down and in the process decry the politics of personal destruction, thus putting his opponents on notice that if they go that route, he has built up cred with the voters for running a clean campaign.
Meanwhile, every news outlet in America will air the ad repeatedly arguing about whether it steps over the line and praising McCain for his high ethical stand.
Beautiful, if you ask me.
Well, a little controversy has become a lot of controversy and McCain, rather than retreat and watch this unfold from afar, continues to dig in:
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.
Agreed. But what once seemed nothing more than campaign rhetoric now seems to be a full frontal assault on “unruly” members of the GOP. Not exactly the galvanizing the figure we had hoped for.
