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I would like to endorse North Carolina GOP Chairman Linda Daves for the Republican Nomination for President.

That’s right. If you’re one of those out there thinking “Oh, come on. Not another anti-McCain post” you’re not going to want to read this. It’s bad news about the presumptive nominee.

The past couple days, Sen. McCain has not been very supportive of my birthday. I figured he could at least go out there and say a few conservative things to make me a little more at peace with his status in the party, but no. He had to go and be Mr. Independent Maverick and criticize a state Republican party for criticizing Democrats seeking state office. What great sin did the state level Republicans commit? Oh, my. They tied the state level Democrats to the national Democrats via Sen. Barack Hussein Obama and his controversial anti-American pastor. How awful! To accuse two Democrats of being Democrats no matter what office they are seeking! That’s just terrible. If you haven’t heard or seen it yet, here’s the transcript:

Narrator: For twenty years, Barack Obama sat in his pew listening to his pastor.

Jeremiah Wright: And then wants us to sing God Bless America. No, no, no. Not God Bless America, God (censored) America.

Narrator: Now Bev Perdue and Richard Moore endorse Barack Obama. They should know better. He’s just too extreme for North Carolina

Chairman Linda Daves: The North Carolina Republican Party sponsored this ad opposing Bev Perdue and Richard Moore for North Carolina Governor.

Can you believe it? Republicans going on offense for a change (no pun intended)! This is refreshing, for us common folk anyway. NCGOP Chairman Daves has pledged to keep the ad running.

You get into the higher ranks of the GOP on the national level and it’s worth at least eight years of penance. The presumptive nominee proclaimed thusly from the Katrina-ravaged Ninth Ward:

I cannot in my role dictate to the North Carolina Republican Party what their message is but I can condemn it. I can appeal to the overwhelming majority of Republicans in North Carolina who also repudiate that kind of activity and I am calling on them to repudiate the people the small handful of people that have refused to understand that we are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan and that party–that Republican Party–there is no room for this kind of activity.

Thank you for bringing up Ronald Regan Mr. Senator. He had a thing about not criticizing Republicans. Granted, some of ‘em could use some criticizing now and again, but he just didn’t do it. I believe he called it the Eleventh Commandment. So here you are, invoking the name of Reagan and criticizing fellow Republicans in the same breath? They’re the one’s trying to help out the cause, and they’re not even talking about the Presidential campaign, they’re talking about the NC Gubernatorial race.

And then in an interview ont he CBS Morning Show, this discussion took place:

RODRIGUEZ: The Republican Party of North Carolina is planning to run an ad bashing Senator Obama. I know that you oppose that ad, but they’re running it anyway. So what does that say about you, that you haven’t opposed it strongly enough or that your own party is blatantly disregarding your wishes?

MCCAIN: It means that the Republican Party of the state of North Carolina is dead wrong. They are an independent organization. I’ll do everything in my power to make sure not only they stop it but that kind of leadership is rejected. And the overwhelming majority of Republicans in North Carolina share my view.

RODRIGUEZ: But as the Republican nominee for president, couldn’t you pick up the phone and call the head of the North Carolina GOP and say, don’t run it?

MCCAIN: I have communicated that in every possible way, and I will continue to communicate that.

The high and mighty presumptive nominee, praising the independence of a state party, while at the same time complaining that he’s not getting his way with them. Very down to earth.

RODRIGUEZ: Senator, you have criticized Senator Obama and continue to do so, calling him out of touch and elitist. Someone on the outside looking in might read into that, maybe he would prefer to go up against Senator Clinton in the election.

MCCAIN: I have no preference in this race and I have no influence over it either. I have — I have said that Senator Obama’s remarks concerning the heartland of America are elitist. I didn’t say he’s elitist.

RODRIGUEZ: Would you describe the difference for me.

MCCAIN: Sure. One is a person who’s an elitist and the other one is a person who makes elitist remarks.

So, he (McCain) was only making elitist remarks when claiming most Republicans are unhappy with the ad. And of course, making elitist remarks does not automatically make one an elitist, especially in politics.

Meanwhile, back in New Orleans, the presumptive nominee went on to criticize the soon-to-be previous administration for it’s handling of the Katrina aftermath. The state and local governments made some small errors, but not nearly as bad as the Feds. McCain repeatedly pledged “Never again”

I hope the Wyoming Republican Party will cowboy up and tie certain Wyoming Democrats to the national party. If you’d like to help out the NCGOP keep the ad on the air, you can contribute here.

So, there you have it. You survived another anti-McCain post by me. That wasn’t so bad was it? I mean, I could have written about Mark Gordon.

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