RNC Calls on Networks to Halt Anti-McCain ‘100 Years’ Ad
MIAMI — The Republican National Committee demanded Monday that television networks stop running a television ad by the Democratic Party that falsely suggests John McCain wants a 100-year war in Iraq.
The ad says President Bush has talked about staying in Iraq for 50 years, then plays a clip of McCain saying, “Maybe 100. That’d be fine with me.”
The announcer then says: “If all he offers is more of the same, is John McCain the right choice for America’s future?”
Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan said the ad deliberately distorts what McCain, the likely GOP presidential nominee, said.
The committee’s chief counsel, Sean Cairncross, said he sent letters Monday to NBC, CNN and MSNBC insisting that they stop airing the commercial.
At issue is McCain’s answer, in January, to a question about Bush’s theory that troops could be in Iraq for 50 years.
McCain said: “Maybe 100. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, that’d be fine with me, and I hope it would be fine with you, if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaida is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.”
Democratic Party chief Howard Dean said “there’s nothing false” about the ad.
“We deliberately used John McCain’s words. This isn’t some ominous consultant’s voice from Washington. This is John McCain’s own words. And we’ve been very upfront about everything that he’s said.”
That’s all the democrats are able to do is distort. Pathetic. A lesson in character of what the democrats are really all about!
I would agree with the anti-McCain ad (re 100 years in Irag) being pulled from the networks involved IF the RNC would stop DISTORTING Democratic policies. The RNC invented dirty political campaigning. Remember the swiftboating?
And they accuse Republican’s of taking things out of context. This is akin the taking a word or two out of every recording made of McCain’s voice and putting them together to say something. This should make it OK to play Obama’s words belittling small town Americans in front of his elitist contributors in San Francisco. I guess the gloves are off.
I am so tired of the entire process. We have a hate america canidate on the ticket for the left and he has offered NO soluctions to aything except “change” and he is winning. Ads that are false can be run and it’s ok on the left but true ads on the right can not be run (IE NC RNC ad).
The DNC used McCain’s words, but completely twisted his meaning to their own purposes. Typical and dishonest as expected from the DNC.
Can the RNC not take what they dish out? It is time that they man up as they would say. If you spoke out against the war you were unamerican. If you said anything about Bush you were giving comfort to the enemy. Stand up and defend yourself as a party. Lies didn’t stop the RNC from distorting the record of John Kerry. If you can not defend yourself maybe you don’t need to be president.
The RNC is going to cry foul on this after running that shameless Dr. Wright ad in NC? What a bunch of hypocrites!
And the Dumocrats are the first to whine about their words being taken out of context!
I am not sure what the problem is. I watched the exchange between McCain and the man that asked the question live that day. It is fair, plus that is why I want a different kind of person in the White House. I am sick and tired of all this back and fourth on what others say and not what comes out of the mouth of the ones running for the highest office in the land. When I have friends complain about the high gas or whats going on in the housing market or how much they lost in the stock market all I can say is you voted for Bush enjoy! Just be thankful Bush did not get his way and put your Social Securtiy retirement into the stock market or you would be living like the people you don’t want to help. So McCain will win in November, Why, because we like how the past 71/2 years have gone and want more.
Maybe this will make Senator McCain realize that the DNC does not care about, nor will abide by his efforts to run a clean campaign.