Posted on 04/24/2008 11:50:25 AM PDT by LJayne
Linda Daves, chairwoman of the N.C. Republican Party, says she will not bow to pressure from the Republican National Committee or John McCain to pull a new ad the state party has prepared linking Democratic gubernatorial candidates Beverly Perdue and Richard Moore to Barack Obama's controversial preacher.
"This is not about the RNC," Daves said, reports David Ingram. "It is about North Carolina, our values and two Democrat candidates who are out of synch with the values of North Carolina."
Caroline Valand, executive director of the N.C. Democratic Party, said the ad represents a return to the Republican Party's "Southern strategy" of using race to appeal to white voters.
"They don't have the money to put behind it," Valand said, "so they're using old, Southern, racial politics."
Daves said the ad is not race-baiting.
"The accusation of race-baiting is one of the oldest-used tools to try to drive a wedge between the people of North Carolina," she said.
Perdue's campaign issued a statement calling the ad "gutter politics that voters will see right through."
I don’t know enough about this particular situation to actually take sides — but I do like to see a Republican with a spine who doesn’t feel the need to apologize over every little perceived slight.
Linda Daves for Vice President!
Yet here comes McCain with a response trying to order her to stop with the ad.
I also heard his little blurb on the radio and it was very, very disheartening.
My opinion of him sinks lower all of the time, and even though I have tried to keep an open mind, it seems as if McCain's campaign slogan should be:
“no back without a knife in it.”
I think she and the other R’s in NC are just being “MAVERICK’s” in the GOP, something McCain and the Left-wing media should love!
Linda Daves should be the chairwoman of the RNC.
All of this bruhaha makes sure that everyone, in every state will listen to this ad.
Why is it the toughest people in the GOP are the women? What ever, you go girl!
My first reaction to this was to be annoyed with McCain, but what you say here makes me wonder if I should be....
McCain gets to stay above the fray and ask for a "respectful" campaign, and the ad gets much wider play than it would have if he'd just ignored it. Hmmm....
I’m not so sure. It will be interesting to see how her future career goes. I’m guessing she has a bright future should McCain be elected.
What will he do when it is he who needs to run these ads against Obama himself?
I already know. - you do, as well.
The man I would vote for would be the man making the points this lady is. It would not be the man who was too stupid to know she was right, or was willing to let her carry the water if he knew she was right.
John McCain gets littler every day.
Hang in there Linda.... good job.
She has too much nerve to be McCain's VP. Let's not waste a resource like that.
Linda Daves should remind NCDNC’s Valand that it is her (dem) party that has a former klansman in the Senate. It is her dem party that resisted civil rights, imposed poll taxes and to this day takes special note of folks’ color. North Carolina needs to be reminded about the true legacy of the Democrat party’s penchant for racism.
Thanks pointsal! I don’t see why the Democrats have a problem with this ad. Linda is, whether or not she knows it, putting the Democrat philosophy before the American people. The Democrats have damned America in so many ways. And they continue to do so. The Democrats want to shift the discussion and make it appear that Linda is engaging in racism. She is merely engaging in the truth, and that is something the Democrats abhor!
I think we have found our VP choice!
Nice to see a Republican with a backbone, who means what they say. Obuma must be exposed for what he truly is, a marxist racist of the BLT dogma.
Southern politics is about what is correct and exposing the frauds for who they are. The liberals never understand this has nothing to do with race, but the truth.
The liberal marxist dems always hate it when a man or woman of principle stands their ground.
I commend Linda Daves, for being a “True American Patriot,” who stands for letting the truth be known about B.O.
The Bottom Line,
NSNR
Oh yes, WRAL-TV can go to hell!!
She doesn’t understand the definition of “racism”
Racism: Any criticism directed at a member of a minority group
When did we stop honoring the truth teller? McCain trying to silence her has me concerned.
WOW, a state GOP Party with actual leadership, something the Northeast hasn’t seen in decades.
“It is about North Carolina, our values and two Democrat candidates who are out of synch with the values of North Carolina.” Linda Daves
Thanks LJayne.
NSNR
I commend here for telling the truth about B.O. and for not buckling to McCain and his friends on the left. If McCain gets elected, we will need a LOT of mavericks like her!
Wow, time to send the NC GOP some CASH!
I think that the demoncrats should expel Hussein and Clinton and take John McCain as their nominee. He fits them perfectly.
Then the Republican Party could nominate a real republican.
GO Linda, go Linda.
I am always astonished how linking antiAmerican racists to B.O. makes one a racist.
Seems kind of strange eh?????
Louis Farrakhan...for crying out loud. Give me a break.
LOL! I think you’re right on that observation.
Wow, time to send the NC GOP some CASH!
BINGO we have a winner, I’m looking for a link to donate to her right now!
Here’s link to the N.C. Republican Party
http://www.ncgop.org/chairmanscorner/corner.asp
Thanks, done! Every good deed should be rewarded, thanks Linda.
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Looks like they caved:
“North Carolina Republicans Pull Anti - Obama Ad”
Wow - a Republican with a spine! Who knew...
McCain can really be just too much to take at times. What a blazing hypocrite. Remember the blatant lie he told and told and wouldn’t back away from during a debate, the lie saying Romney had supported timetables for withdrawal,just before the Florida primary vote. And McCain’s blazing away with the curse words at senate colleagues (mostly Republicans) who disagreed with him.
This character taking the high road and calling for civility is really rich. I’ve been noticing McCain’s brand of civility since the POW/MIA hearings in 1993.
Assuming an RNC member is telling Charlie Black the truth, and Charlie Black is telling the truth to the NY Times. Which strikes me as two bets I wouldn’t take.
I cannot vote for mccain. He makes me sick.
A caller on Rush today was exactly right.... He treats the dems like pillars of society as compared to the dirt and slime he treated Romney with.
I think I loath mccain more than he does me.
that is a great idea.
I may have the luxury of not voting for McCain.
I live in Kansas, and Kansas hasn’t gone for a dhimmirat for president in my lifetime.
I voted L in 1996.
I have been very critical of the NCGOP in the past but I’ll say it now IM DAMN PROUD OF THEM! I do not know Linda daves personally but this gal has more backbone than anyone in the RNC! I’ll call the toe tappers at the RNC first thing in the morning and tell them to shove it!
McCain should just flat keep his mouth shut and he could STILL stay above the fray; but his incessant defense of anyone liberal makes me sick.
I would say so, yes.
GO LINDA!!!!!!! You’ve got BALSS!!
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