Intelligent Discontent

• Written by: Bob FunkApril 25th, 2008
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• Category:'08 Election, John McCain
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McCain has come out against this ad, but the North Carolina GOP, despite an already deafening outcry, has opted to ignore him and run the ad. Howard Dean has an excellent strategy on this:

Dean is framing McCain’s suggestion that the North Carolina Republicans do not air the ad as a test of his leadership, basically saying that if he can’t get party minions to take his advice, how can he run the country?

… This is a test of leadership for John McCain. If he can’t pick up the phone and make members of his own party stop airing a television ad he claims to oppose, how can he lead our country through an economic crisis or the war in Iraq? After shifting his positions on gun control, immigration and tax cuts throughout this campaign, McCain should not equivocate on this issue. Making a show of releasing your emails to the press is not leadership. If he is serious, he will get this ad pulled.’

Dean’s approach is smart and sincere. I’ve got to give him the props he deserves.

Hopefully this challenge to McCain will resonate.