He needs to stop being such a whiny baby. Either dem would have no second thoughts about running an ad far worse against him. The days of honor and respect in politics has ended IMO.

What doesn’t kill you, only makes you pissed off. -Children of Bodom  

McInsane is proving himself to be the perfect Democrat candidate.

As the presumptive nominee, he's the leader of the party. By not backing the NC party, he's, in effect, running against the party of which he's the head. McCain suffers from a disconnect with the political reality around him and seems determined to further neuter the GOP.

For McCain it is the right thing to do.  Conservatives, like me, would not have denounced it but politically it bodes well for McCain.  I'm fine with him denouncing it because they are running it anyway.  He knows he will get the votes of conservatives over either of the socialists that the dems have running so he doesn't have to appease us right now.  McCain will be a lock in the general election because he appeals to the middle more than the other two and denouncing this innocent ad is a way for him to stay above the fray for the moderate vote which is the key to winning.  The greatest thing McCain has going for him in this election is his far left competition.

It is a reality in American politics that one cannot win a general election by convincing voters that he or she is the right person for the job. Elections are won by convincing voters that the other person is wrong.

I detest the use of negative campaign ads, but they do work. It will be interesting to see if McCain changes his tune during the general.

I've remained quiet about this issue so far because I wanted to get the facts without my anti-McCain hatred coloring my decision.

Alas though, it seems my gut reaction was right. Here are my thoughts:

-The ad was not a smear job. It didn't say anything worse than what we've been saying on NB for weeks, and anyway Obama *is* too liberal for NC.

-The NCGOP was not campaigning for McCain in the first place - they were discussing the NC governor race and how the local Dems were loyal to Obama. So I fail to see how it was McCain's business

-Rush Limbaugh makes a lot of sense that McCain's people scream at conservies to shut up and be loyal but then he can stab the GOP in the back whenever he pleases.

McCain had no brilliant strategy when he opposed the tax cuts in 2003 and he has no billiant strategy now. It's more of the same, vintage John McCain, and he'll keep doing it until he throws the entire GOP under the bus.

It was a bad move. But not because of the party disloyalty, in fact that may help him in the short term. It was a mistake because it validates the notion that linking Obama and Wright is racist. As the race continues the left is going to do whatever they can to paint any opposition to Obama in that light and McCain agreeing with them doesn't help.

You don't get anywhere in politics, or life, by alienating your friends for the purpose of appeasing your enemies.  The only thing this assures is that nobody will like you.  Just ask GWB.

John McCain thinks that his actions/inactions are appealing to the chaste "middle-of-the-roaders" and their vote will go to him in November and make him the winner. You don't automatically get all the votes in the middle John, and you're losing the base that you think have to vote for you. NO WE DON'T! You are a craven little man who was once a brave young American. Where'd it all go, John?

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This ad that McVain is so busy repudiating to any left leaning media hound that will listen to him has nothng to DO with him! I know that most national politicians have egos as big as all outdoors, but we do have a gubernatorial election coming up here in NC this fall. And the two leading Democratic candidates, Lt. Gov. Bev Perdue and Richard Moore have practically broken their necks to embrace and endorse Obama. The ad is simply a reminder to the NC electorate of the associations of Obama, and that this is the person the Democratic candidates for governor are supporting. What's wrong with that? And why does McVain think anyone in the NC GOP cares what he thinks of how they run the gubernatorial campaign? The state GOP has to do something since the state has a penchant for electing Democratic governors; the best way to drag them down is to link them to the national Democratic party, since the state usually goes Republican in national elections. Most of the other Democratic candidates for governor in the past have tried to distance themselves from the national Party, but this time they have embraced the national Party...so all of this is fair game, IMO.