McCain says N.C. Republicans out of touch over ad

Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain (R-AZ) accused North Carolina's Republican Party of being "out of touch with reality" over its refusal to pull an advertisement criticizing Sen Barack Obama (D-IL). In an NBC interview aired on Friday, Sen McCain said he has done all he can to persuade the state party to cancel the television ad that criticizes Sen Obama as "too extreme" because of controversial remarks made by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. "They're not listening to me because they're out of touch with reality and the Republican Party. We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan and this kind of campaigning is unacceptable," Sen McCain told NBC's "Today" Show. "I've done everything that I can to repudiate and to see that this kind of campaigning does not continue," he added.
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