April 24, 2008...7:37 pm
If you can’t handle some random interview or debate, you can’t handle the terrorists?
Well then. If you can’t face the North Carolina GOP, how are you going the terrorists, John McCain?
Michelle Malkin qualifies Howard Dean’s call like this:
Dean is now pressing McCain further on the issue–and claiming that if McCain doesn’t succeed in forcing the state party to withdraw its ad, it’s a failure of his “leadership” (read: bullying) skills.
I partially agree with Dean here. He his calling McCain on his bluff. I think, like Rachel Maddow, that McCain is paying lip service to the high road here. He says he doesn’t want that kind of ad yet will happily reap the rewards of such negative campaigning. I think the call by Howard Dean is more to call McCain on that bluff rather than see him succeed or fail at bullying.
Note: Just in case it wasn’t clear, I think all these ‘if you can’t stand up to X then how will you face the terrorists’ are a pure joke. Including the one at the top of this article.
4 Comments
April 24, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Lolz. As soon as the “McCain is old as dirt” “McCain is delusional about the economy” “McCain is Bush” and the “McCain wants 100 years of war” ads are pulled, then Deanie can put some pressure on McCain to pull an ad. Not before.
April 24, 2008 at 8:17 pm
My guess is that the ad will ‘eventually’ be pulled. The damage will be done and McCain will show how he is the boss.
April 24, 2008 at 9:15 pm
McCain has already denounced the ad, but the NC GOP is gonna run it anyways. My point was the candidates can only do so much to force a third party from cancelling an ad they want to run.
April 24, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Then I think you will be surprised when McCain succeeds in a day or two! I’m 100% convinced McCain could succeed if he really wanted to, especially in this case where it’s the Republican party.
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