John McCain has decided not to run any campaign ads about Jeremiah Wright but The Republican Federal committee of Pennsylvania is up with one of their own. It just went up in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania this weekend. It could make a difference with those dreaded undecided voters.
Watch it here and read more here. The script is below:
Narrator: If you think you could ever vote for Barack Obama, consider this: Obama chose as his spiritual leader, this man:
Jeremiah Wright: Not God bless America, God damn America!
Narrator: He also picked Wright to baptize his children.
Jeremiah Wright: …The US of KKKA!\
Narrator: Barack Obama: he chose as his pastor a man who blamed the US for the 9/11 attacks. Does that sound like someone who should be president?
Jeremiah Wright: “God damn America!”
Jeremiah Wright has been Obama’s biggest hurdle in this entire Election. Why the McCain campaign didn’t bring him up early and pound it day after day is beyond me. I know some wanted to do this but it never happened. In essence, they let him off the hook and they could pay dearly. The campaign had an opportunity to roll Wright, Ayers, Rezko and any other past Obama associations into a character and judgment issue. They didn’t.
John McCain talks about running an honorable campaign but he’s already been saddled with the reputation that he’s run a very negative campaign. If he thinks he’s going to get brownie points for not running ads against Wright, I think history will judge it differently. It may have been a big campaign blunder.