{"id":7126,"date":"2012-05-18T15:25:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T22:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7126"},"modified":"2012-05-30T02:38:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T09:38:47","slug":"romney-backers-say-do-the-wright-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7126","title":{"rendered":"Romney Backers Say: Do The Wright Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pro-Romney SuperPAC that had proposed a $10 million campaign<\/a> reprising the battle over President Obama’s association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright is now distancing itself from the plan. Mitt Romney personally made a statement on the proposal saying “I want to make it very clear: I repudiate that effort. I think it’s the wrong course for a PAC or a campaign.”<\/em> But that hasn’t stopped the extremist regulars of the GOP from continuing to advocate for hammering on Obama with the four year old Wright story.<\/p>\n

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Fox Anchor Chris Wallace:<\/strong> As far as Rev. Wright is concerned, I think it had a lot of relevance, and I think McCain was crazy not to bring it up.<\/p>\n

Radio Talker Mark Levin:<\/strong> Why would you take any issue off the table, particularly issues that give us a look into this man’s character?<\/p>\n

Fox Anchor Sean Hannity:<\/strong> I believe that the president’s relationship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a man that influenced him for over 20 years, inspired him, is a very important campaign issue.<\/p>\n

Fox Host Kimberly Guilfoyle:<\/strong> I don’t think [rejecting the Wright issue]<\/em> is the right thing to do. I think he should try to get after it.<\/p>\n

Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft:<\/strong> [Rejecting the Wright issue]<\/em> is certainly disappointing.<\/p>\n

Powerline’s Paul Mirengoff:<\/strong> I think there may be value in talking about the Obama-Wright connection.<\/p>\n

National Review’s Michael Walsh:<\/strong> Even by Stupid Party standards, [tabling Wright]<\/em> was an impressive display of preemptive surrender.<\/p>\n

Fox Contributor Charles Krauthammer:<\/strong> [I]n principle, if you want to [bring up Wright]<\/em>, it would be completely legitimate.<\/p>\n

Herman Cain:<\/strong> I think it is fair if someone wants to highlight the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and his relationship with Barack Obama because, quite frankly, it wasn’t highlighted enough in 2008 when he was running for president the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure where Cain was in 2008, but he obviously wasn’t paying any attention to the presidential race. According to the PEW Research Center<\/a>, the controversy generated by Wright “made more news than both Hillary Clinton and John McCain”<\/em> in the spring of 2008 at the height of the presidential primaries. By summer PEW’s analysis showed<\/a> that…<\/p>\n

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“The story-line or event that has received the most coverage so far is Obama’s relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, which accounted for 6% of all stories and dwarfed all of the other episodes or storyline of the campaign<\/strong> that didn’t have to do with the horse race itself.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From Fox News anchors to former GOP presidential candidates, the far-right is drooling at the prospect of reigniting the Wright controversy. Many are infuriated that Romney will not “stand up”<\/em> and take a more aggressive stance. They are reminded of what they regard as the impotent strategy of John McCain in 2008. And many have a point when they note that Romney was brutally negative in his campaign for the GOP nomination against his fellow Republicans, but now presents himself as a more sensitive candidate who eschews negative attacks when it comes to Obama.<\/p>\n

Romney is currently enjoying the benefit of this debate and the renewed focus on Wright, while getting to wash his hands of any of it by virtue of his statement of repudiation. But in the end in will scare off the moderate voters that he needs to win, so I can’t help but get excited about seeing the ads these yokels will produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The pro-Romney SuperPAC that had proposed a $10 million campaign reprising the battle over President Obama’s association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright is now distancing itself from the plan. Mitt Romney personally made a statement on the proposal saying “I want to make it very clear: I repudiate that effort. I think it’s the wrong course […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[183,612,279,260],"class_list":["post-7126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-barack-obama","tag-birther","tag-jeremiah-wright","tag-mitt-romney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1QW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7116,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7116","url_meta":{"origin":7126,"position":0},"title":"Pro-Romney SuperPAC Calls Obama A Metrosexual Black Abe Lincoln","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/17\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I can hardly wait for this ad to hit the air. 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