I’m with Mac on the NCGOP Ad

April 25th, 2008 by Justin Thibault · 8 Comments

Note: The Friday Fives return after the Primaries

Here’s the new NCGOP ad - if you haven’t already seen it. John McCain saw it and told them to pull it. The National Party told them to pull it. But, in their infinite wisdom, the NCGOP will run this on TV channels throughout the state.

The one that I’ll leave my comments at this: in other states, I’d be a proud Republican. In North Carolina, I often fantasize about being Unaffiliated.

I’d go into why the ad is bad on many levels; but I have a rule against blogging while seething with anger and I promised a friend I wouldn’t make a big, fat, hairy deal about it.

Others have done a great job. Check this out.

The one and only GOP North Carolina gubernatorial candidate with the backbone to point out all of what’s wrong with this
ad - Bob Orr. That’s leadership. Can the supporters of the dilettantes on the GOP ballot explain to me how if they can’t bother to deal with this situation how can we trust them with a real crisis?

Jeff Taylor of the Meck Deck - who I’ve criticized in the past - did a great job of keeping up with this story throughout the day (here and here)

Sister Toldjah was not as critical of the ad; but did point out that it isn’t as much about race as the Dems would hope for. If Obama becomes the nominee, I’m going to predict that - regardless of the outcome in November - the one good thing that’ll come from his candidacy is that sanctimony regarding race would have been so worn out that a “that’s racist” charge won’t get as much mileage as it does right now.

And the best post came from this blogger that linked to Jeff Taylor, and it pretty much sums up the net effect of the efforts of the NCGOP.

In a state that has voted for the Republican candidate for President in every election since 1976, where senators (with exceptions like John Edwards) tend to have an (R) by their names, where the national party could even boost a carpetbagger like Elizabeth Dole who has virtually no connection to the state into office, these people couldn’t win a statewide election for Sewer Commissioner. At the national level, it’s Republicans all the way. But with all of these advantages, statewide, Democrats control the major offices despite years of being painted as God-hating, affirmative-action endorsing Mondale liberals.

Perhaps the problem lies in the mirror.

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I can’t help but think if my previous efforts had been more successful, the news this week would be different.

See y’all Monday.

Category: Beyond Cabarrus · Cabarrus Politics Tags: Cabarrus GOP

8 responses so far ↓

1 cmitchz // Apr 25, 2008 at 5:34 am

I disagree with you. I believe Democrats get elected in North Carolina for primarily two reasons:

1.) The NC GOP is inept.

2.) NC Democrats successfully pretend to have little or nothing to do with the national Democratic Party; Obama, Kerry, etc, likely would have a very hard time getting a state-wide office (and many of the state and federal legislative seats that Dems hold). There’s a reason for that; they’re too liberal for most people here.

Pointing out the sham in #2 is vital GOP strategy. It won’t make up for #1, but it might bring a lot of moderate voters to the point of questioning the relationship of local Dems to their “higher-ups.”

I do however wonder why this ad came out now and not in the fall, but that doesn’t bother me too much.

cmitchz
2 Caleb Seamone // Apr 25, 2008 at 12:27 pm

One of the top headlines on drudgereport today is “McCain says NC GOP out of touch with reality”. Great. I’m going to go ahead and announce my grassroots campaign for state chair today. We should follow the same logic that doctors do, “First, do no harm”. Someone needs to wake these guys up.
3 Justin Thibault // Apr 25, 2008 at 12:37 pm

Caleb - Believe me - you could win.
4 Thierry Wernaers // Apr 25, 2008 at 2:02 pm

The only reason I, and from what I read a lot “specialists”, can come up with on why the NCGOP decided to run this asinine ad is money.
They’re strapped for cash and they want to get into the pockets of easily misled white folks who are scared of a black man running for office.
It’s no coincidence that the ad starts and ends with a plea for donations.
5 Justin Thibault // Apr 27, 2008 at 1:30 am

Thierry - In the grand scheme of things - raising mad money isn’t always asinine. I’m sure that Richard Moore scored a few bucks for his KKK ad.
6 Thierry Wernaers // Apr 29, 2008 at 12:15 am

I didn’t say raising money was asinine. I’m saying the way they’re trying to raise it is asinine. Same goes for Richard Moore’s ad.
7 Justin Thibault // Apr 29, 2008 at 12:51 am

Thierry - At the risk of the integrity of the space-time continuum - I agree with you.
8 Steve Smith // Apr 29, 2008 at 2:40 pm

WHAT IS THIS?????

Thierry and Justin in agreement. High fives, everyone!!!!! or maybe a big group hug????