{"id":29164,"date":"2008-05-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:55:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:55:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:55:18","slug":"mccain_does_180_on_gop_ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/05\/01\/mccain_does_180_on_gop_ads\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain Does 180 on GOP Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Fox &amp;amp; Friends this morning, Senator McCain was on. The co-host was Gretchen Carlson. &#8216;Will you use it, Senator? It\u2019s a very valid political issue. I think it\u2019s called legitimate, a legitimate political issue. Will you use it in the fall, the Reverend Wright issue, if Barack Obama is the nominee?\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125116.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignright\"\/>MCCAIN: No, I &#8212; the American people will make that &#8212; make that decision and he\u2019ll have that discussion with them.<\/p>\n<p>DOOCY: Right.<\/p>\n<p>MCCAIN: I\u2019ve said I don\u2019t think that he shares Reverend Wright\u2019s views, uh, but, uh, you know &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CARLSON: Right.<\/p>\n<p>MCCAIN: Like most Americans, I think Reverend Wright\u2019s views are really incredibly outrageous.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (chuckling) Thank you, Senator. Thanks. You\u2019re fired up. (yawn) Okay. The next question is from Steve Doocy. &#8216;Last week you asked the war on terror down in North Carolina to take down their ad. Now Obama says it\u2019s a legitimate political issue. Do you think they should run the ad?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>MCCAIN: I wish they wouldn\u2019t, but I\u2019m not going to referee. I\u2019m just going to run my own campaign. <\/p>\n<p>DOOCY: Right.<\/p>\n<p>MCCAIN: I\u2019m not going to referee on what\u2019s valid and what isn\u2019t. <\/p>\n<p>I notice that ads are being run against me which you\u2019ve totally mischaracterized the statement &#8212; <\/p>\n<p>CARLSON: Right!<\/p>\n<p>MCCAIN: &#8212; about how long we\u2019re going to be in Iraq. Uh, so, uh, I\u2019ve made my views known. <\/p>\n<p>DOOCY: Right.<\/p>\n<p>MCCAIN: We\u2019re just going to run my own campaign.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So he\u2019s going to stop being the referee. I don\u2019t need to translate that for you. He got reamed by his own staff for trying to play referee on that (interruption) and me, but I guarantee you everybody that was&#8230; I love to hear this story. This is from the Lafayette, Indiana. &#8216;Pumped up and focused, Senator Hillary Clinton putting in 16-hour days in Indiana,\u2019 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. &#8216;In another sign of trouble for Mr. Obama&#8230;\u2019 The New York Times here. &#8216;In another sign of trouble for Mr. Obama, he and Mr. Wright also became central figures in a television commercial in a Mississippi Congressional race. On Wednesday, Greg Davis, a Republican candidate for the First Congressional District seat in North Mississippi, broadcast an advertisement trying to link his Democratic rival, Travis Childers, to Mr. Obama and [the] pastor. &#8216;Travis Childers &#8212; he took Obama\u2019s endorsement over our conservative values,\u2019 the advertisement says. &#8230; The commercial prompted the Democratic candidate to distance himself from Mr. Obama. The race, Mr. Childers said, &#8216;is not about a senator from Illinois or a pastor from Chicago.&#8221; Meanwhile, exactly what I predicted is happening. Republican state parties all over the country saw what happened in North Carolina and are replicating it now &#8212; and Senator McCain also saw what happened, and he\u2019s not going to play referee anymore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Fox &amp;amp; Friends this morning, Senator McCain was on. The co-host was Gretchen Carlson. &#8216;Will you use it, Senator? It\u2019s a very valid political issue. I think it\u2019s called legitimate, a legitimate political issue. 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