{"id":14368,"date":"2008-01-26T11:15:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T16:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14368.html"},"modified":"2008-01-26T11:15:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T16:15:06","slug":"the-romney-ad-ive-been-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-romney-ad-ive-been-waiting-for\/","title":{"rendered":"The Romney ad I’ve been waiting for"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just 11 days ago, I offered the Romney campaign a little advice<\/a> about how best to go after John McCain: “In 2001 — in discussions initiated by McCain, not Dems — the Arizona senator was in talks to leave the Republican Party altogether<\/a>. Three years later, he reportedly reached out to John Kerry<\/a> to join the Democratic presidential ticket, and told a national television audience that he would consider an invitation from Kerry, if it were offered…. Want to beat McCain in the primaries? Start advertising this quote. But, do me a favor. Hurry.”<\/p>\n

I’m absolutely delighted Romney is following through.<\/p>\n

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For those of you who can’t watch videos online, the clip highlights a) some of the reasons conservatives are uncomfortable with McCain; b) some of the major issues on which McCain is on the same page as Obama and Clinton; c) McCain’s willingness to serve as John Kerry’s running mate on the 2004 Democratic ticket; and d) McCain’s well-publicized consideration of leaving the Republican Party in 2001.<\/p>\n

It seems to me to be the kind of message that should raise Republican eyebrows.<\/p>\n

But the Romney camp has apparently issued this as an online-only web video. C’mon, Romney, get this ad on television screens, asap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just 11 days ago, I offered the Romney campaign a little advice about how best to go after John McCain: “In 2001 — in discussions initiated by McCain, not Dems — the Arizona senator was in talks to leave the Republican Party altogether. Three years later, he reportedly reached out to John Kerry to join […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}