Flaccid Flyboy

by digby

The North Carolina GOP is saying that their ads against Obama are North Carolina business and that their presidential nominee has no power to make them do anything. Fine. Firedoglake has set up a petition, which local North Carolina bloggers will present to Elizabeth Dole, asking her to take charge of the situation since John McCain is apparently so disrespected and impotent that he has no influence in his own party. (That bodes well for his presidency, don’t you think?)

Jane Hamsher writes:

Who’s the most senior member of the NC GOP? Well that would be Liddy Dole. NC Democratic Party Chair Jerry Meek has sent a letter to Dole saying “without a doubt, you could halt this ad with a simple telephone call.” Dole is up for re-election this year (and will be running against either Kay Hagen or Blue America candidate Jim Neal). But where is she? She’s never in the state, she lives at the Watergate in DC, she rarely makes public appearances in NC. It seems she’s gone Washington — because once again, she’s nowhere to be found when it comes to a North Carolina issue. She can stop the racist attack ads against Obama, and we’re asking her to send this letter:

Dear Chairwoman Linda Daves, I disapprove of the content of the North Carolina Republican Party’s recent advertisement “Extreme”. I feel that it resorts to a type of negative politicking that betrays the best interest of North Carolinians. I call on you, as Chairwoman of the North Carolina Republican Party, to immediately stop airing this advertisement. Failure to do so will reflect negatively on all North Carolina Republicans, and would necessitate that I return the Party’s contributions to my campaign to disassociate myself from the vitriol which you appear to embrace.

We’ll be working with NC bloggers (including Pam Spaulding) to deliver the petition to Dole’s office. You can cosign here.

Go to it. This is actually more than just a fun little action. McCain is going to continue to benefit from his bogus “honorable man” reputation while allowing surrogates to destroy the Democratic candidate unless we make the media judge him for being unable to “control” his people. He’s supposed to be the tough guy, right, with the bad temper? And he can’t make the North Carolina party take those ads down? Please.

We need to embarrass him every time this happens with a continuing campaign of ritual humiliation. This is just the beginning.

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