Letter to RNC and McCain Campaigns

I'd like to share a letter I recently sent to the RNC and John McCain Campaign Chairman with a copy to the North Carolina Republican Party. I encourage others to take similar actions to try to get their attention before it's too late:

"I am very disappointed, to say the least, that Senator McCain has chosen to criticize the North Carolina Republican Party for running an ad that associates the state’s Democratic candidates with Senator Obama and the views of his pastor, Reverend Wright. Apparently, the Republican National Committee agrees with the senator because I have not heard anything to the contrary. It appears that Senator McCain is trying to distance himself from what he discerns as personal attacks when in fact they merely point out that Senator Obama, and those supporting him, closely associate themselves with those advocating radical views. This is a very legitimate argument, and to dictate that a political arm of the Republican party cannot advertise this argument is not only harmful, but downright insulting and, in fact, dictatorial. Senator McCain appears to take more comfort being critical of his own party than the Democrats, and the press eats it up. The close personal associations of a candidate for public office are fair game because they may reveal a person’s worldview. This is a very important element in any campaign.

The mainly liberal media loves it when the Senator is critical of his own party because in their eyes he is a maverick among the conservative political culture. Well, if Senator McCain can be a maverick within his own party, I guess I can be one also. Therefore, I have decided for now not to donate any more money to the RNC or to the campaign of Senator John McCain until Senator McCain and the RNC “grow up” and stop being afraid to criticize because it may be too offensive. The stakes in this election are much to high to risk the takeover of this country by radical elements bent on destroying the culture and infrastructure that made this country great. It is bad enough that I was reluctantly supporting Senator McCain in spite of his more liberal views on immigration and global warming, as well as his negative attitudes toward the oil and drug industry and the like, but this issue has taken it to a new level.

Additionally, Senator McCain is on record as opposing the so called “527” organizations on all sides of the political spectrum. He is basically trying to stifle political discourse in taking this point of view. Ironically, he helped create these groups with his campaign finance reform. How else does he think people should debate political issues? Gone are the days when individuals have enough political impact to make a difference so they resort to other methods.

I applaud the actions of the NC Republican Party in airing the ad in question and I hope more state committees and conservative 527 organizations take similar actions. In fact my future donations will be going to the 527 groups that support truly conservative causes. They will probably have more impact by taking the issues head on than Senator McCain or the RNC can even hope, or have the courage, to do".

OneConservative