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I don't like having to write this because John McCain still has my vote.

But just because John McCain is our nominee does not mean that he is above error or that we should not make noise about it when he does something so thoroughly bone-headed as to hand the Democratic Party and their media arm the perfect cover (himself) to recast any further mention of Obama's entirely voluntary 20 year association with a hate-mongering conspiracy-theory-promoting joke of a "pastor" as a "racist" attack.

As it is, the Democrats' National Party Organ was only too eager to go along with it. It's now on the way to being part of this election's narrative; 2008's very own "Willie Horton" moment, a contrived episode the Left would cite forever as Republicans winning based on "hate".

The assertion that Mr. Obama is "just too extreme for North Carolina" is a clear bid to stir bigotry in a Southern state ...

Of course, it goes without saying that for the elitist latte-sipping blistering idiots that comprise most of the nation's editorial boards, whites, especially Southern whites, will always and forever be just a hair's breadth away from donning sheets, burning crosses and going on lynching parties in black neighborhoods - all they need is just to see a black man on their television screens.

The completely non-racial Willie Horton ad was shoe-horned to support the "R is for Racist" narrative (which has, and continues to cost us a lot of votes - and not just from the black community) using this exact same travesty of logic. Apparently any ad that features persons of color in a negative context must be an appeal to the "typical" (i.e. non-journalist) white person's inner-Nazi.

I'm pretty certain that if Senator Barack Obama was, instead, Senator Bernard O'Connor (white) who is found for twenty years to have taken for a mentor a white Far Left priest who celebrated 9/11 as the "chickens coming home to roost" because of a lack of Universal Healthcare, gay marriage or tax rates below 70% from the pulpit (a some other Leftist shibboleth), he would be pretty much gone from the race no matter how many journalists he could make spontaneously soil themselves in orgasmic bliss from saying "Hope™" and "Change™".

The Times concludes - thanks to McCain, establishing for the rest of the MSM the position that any criticism of Obama and his relationship with Wright is "stir[ring] up bigotry";

Senator McCain was right when he said, of the new ad, that "there’s no place for that kind of campaigning — and the American people don’t want it, period."

Now he needs to get his party to listen.

As usual, McCain gets his fix of media love, bought at the cheap price of facilitating his party getting the shaft, simply because Mr. Maverick saw a way for himself to score a few cheap media points and he went with it by (once again) heaving members of his own side under the bus.

All without actually seeing the ad in question.

McCain said the ad was described to him: "I didn’t see it, and I hope that I don’t see it."

Why in the name of all that is Holy did he not even consider the possibility that the NCGOP deserved the benefit of the doubt ... at least enough for him to ask for a moment to see the 41 second ad before he decided to rain attacks on the character and motives of the NCGOP's leadership?

Let's not fool ourselves; this was not some clever strategic decision to get the ad some more (free) airplay because he "secretly" approves of it and wants it to remain on air for as long as possible, i.e. he's only "pretending" to be above the fray. This argument of a rather large contingent of McCainiacs desperately trying to convince the other (rightfully) enraged occupants of our Big Tent to er ... "calm down" is utter nonsense.

First of all, McCain, according to the self-same McCainiacs, is all about "Straight Talk" and this sort of deepcover doublecross strategy very neatly contradicts that. Second of all, he didn't see the ad, he only heard a description of it (probably from one of the many Democrats (i.e. "journalists") riding in his campaign bus/plane) so he had no basis upon which to so categorically declare it out of the bounds of decency. Third, the ad concerned the two Democrats competing in their state's gubernatorial primary, and made no mention of him so he could have just as easily avoided being press-ganged into the Obama's Defense Corps.

Another contingent of McCainiacs argue that the ad was indeed the most horrific ad in the history of political campaigning and that if McCain had not denounced it, he would have lost by a landslide in November, the GOP would lose all our seats that are up for grabs in the Senate and 100+ seats in the House ...

Well, I exaggerate, but all of the lesser variants of this are just as ridiculous - the idea being pushed is that by denouncing this ad, McCain just made himself more attractive to "moderates" who (we are assured without any evidence - like a poll, for example? - beyond the shrieks of MSM editorial page writers) are so horrified by the sheer evil of it that none will likely ever vote Republican again.

Nonsense. Again.

I continue to find it hard to be convinced of the notion that for a Republican (and, strangely enough, only a Republican) to appeal to "moderates" it is absolutely necessary for him to launch broadsides at his own party as bigoted, intolerant, dishonorable, and out-of-touch reprobates as McCain has done (often seemingly at the media's behest) far too many times over the past seven years. It, no doubt, appeals to the sensibilities of the 90+% Democrat media, but I've begun to doubt that attacking your own side really appeals to the "middle" ... or else we'd be seeing "moderate" Democrats doing the same thing to their side.

Bottomline; McCain was wrong. And while I know expecting him to deign to apologize to the people he flung under the Straight Talk Express' wheels is a recipe for disappointment, he should at least consider having Linda Daves standing by his side on the stage next time he is in North Carolina.

The bottomline is that didn't even bother to see the ad before condemning a woman who I'd bet would still work tirelessly to help him win her state in November despite what he willfully blindly did to her reputation (i.e. Linda Daves is now officially a "racist") in exchange for a few days of positive mention in newspapers that would endorse his opponent when all is said and done.

I'm still going to vote for him though, because he is still head, shoulders and knees above the two empty-suits battling to be his opponent. But I'm not going to hide that I wish I didn't have to. All that I ask is that he make it just a little easier by simply not turning his guns on our own troops. It's hard enough having to contend with the Democrats, the MSM and Soros' 527s. Our own nominee joining them is not cool.

He's had seven years to burnish his Maverick™ credentials. The MSM has rewarded him richly for it.

Even if he wasn't our nominee, that should be quite enough.