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Rethinking Wright?
Ben Smith's Blog — Rick Davis telegraphs a Wright attack: Look, John McCain has told us a long time ago before this campaign ever got started, back in May, I think, that from his perspective, he was not going to have his campaign actively involved in using Jeremiah Wright as a wedge in this campaign..Now since then, I must say, when Congressman Lewis calls John McCain and Sarah Palin and his entire group of supporters, fifty million people strong around this country, that we're all racists and we should be compared to George Wallace and the kind of horrible segregation and evil and ...

“They Made Us Do It!!!!!11oneeleven!!”
Balloon Juice — These guys really do think we are stupid: John McCain’s campaign manager says he is reconsidering using Barack Obama’s relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright as a campaign issue during the election’s closing weeks. In an appearance on conservative Hugh Hewitt’s radio program, Davis said that circumstances had changed since John McCain initially and unilaterally took Obama’s former pastor off the table. The Arizona Republican, Davis argued, had been jilted by the remarks of Rep. John Lewis, who compared recent ...

The rationalization express
The Reaction — ... John McCain, stop looking for excuses to justify your slime. First, you go negative and blame it on Obama because he did not agree to your town-hall ruse. Now, you are contemplating putting Reverend Wright back on the table because Congressman Lewis' dared to call you out on your incendiary campaign. This rationalizing is ridiculous. Just admit that you're running a negative campaign because you must, because it's the Republican way, not because your hand was forced or your feelings were hurt. It's really unbecoming. ...

Huckabee, Giuliani cite Obama’s drug use in attacking media double standards
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... she may be in the public eye, she is not public property nor the property of the press to abuse and defame. It is worth noting that you have not employed your investigative assets looking into Michelle Obama. You have not tried to find Barack Obama’s drug dealer that he wrote about in his book, Dreams of My Father. Nor have you interviewed his poor relatives in Kenya and determined why Barack Obama has not rescued them. Thus, there is a terrific lack of balance here. The left’s chattering today about something Rick Davis said ...

About Those Principles
Comments from Left Field — ... Now McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, is suggesting that the McCain campaign very well may be considering trying to use Reverand Wright as a campaign issue in the closing days of this election.  The irony here being that McCain had previously declared Wright as off limits inside of his campaign because of the racial implications such a gambit could have. ...

We May See Jeremiah Wright Yet
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — ... I've long assumed that this campaign would get really ugly in its final weeks. Today, HuffPost finds evidence that my premonition will come to pass. ...

Stupidity Will Suffice
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... Today, Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager, is publicly reconsidering using the Wright issue.  This is after publicly ruminating over using it before, then graduallly and publicly determining that they probably wouldn’t.  The reason that the McCain campaign seems so sleazy is that every time they’re about to embark on another attack on Obama, they launch a media pondering tour about whether or not they should do it.  Because every anti-Obama smear they toss out lingers for days and days at a time, their crazy base picks each of them up and ...

Wright redux?
Political Animal — ... . That is, that was what McCain said last week. Now, all of a sudden, Wright might be on the table again. John McCain's campaign manager says he is reconsidering using Barack Obama's relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright as a campaign issue during the election's closing weeks. In an appearance on conservative Hugh Hewitt's radio program, Davis said that circumstances had changed since John McCain initially and unilaterally took Obama's former pastor off the table. The Arizona Republican, Davis argued, had been jilted by the remarks of Rep. John Lewis, who compared ...

Wright off?
Swampland — Remember when John McCain said that Rev. Wright was off limits? Apparently, that was a pledge with caveats.

Shoot Me
Whiskey Fire — ... The typical Hugh Hewitt "scoop": John McCain's campaign manager says he is reconsidering using Barack Obama's relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright as a campaign issue during the election's closing weeks. In an appearance on conservative Hugh Hewitt's radio program, Davis said that circumstances had changed since John McCain initially and unilaterally took Obama's former pastor off the table. The Arizona Republican, Davis argued, had been jilted by the remarks of Rep. John Lewis, who compared recent GOP crowds to segregationist George Wallace's ...

Full Frontal Strategizing
Interesting Times — Look past the whole Rev. Wright thing in this article and you'll see one of the reasons the McCain campaign is floundering: they keep talking about strategy in public. Being a Democrat, and having experienced years of Democrats doing exactly the same thing, I can see what a losing proposition it is to talk about this stuff in public. No one but other strategists find it fascinating and the general public is more likely to react with disdain (if not horror) at the true nature of campaign planning. When will McCain's people learn that it doesn't pay to talk with the press about ...

DAY'S END ROUNDUP
News — ... McCain isn't getting much help from his old friend, the press, notes a McCain aide. And some voters have faced heckling for already casting ballots for Obama, according to the Democrat's blogging backers. McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, said on a radio show Monday that Rep. John Lewis's (D-Ga.) remarks comparing McCain to segregationist George Wallace have caused the McCain camp to rethink its reluctance to use Wright, the controversial pastor, notes The Huffington Post's Sam Stein . Attacking Obama for Wright this late in the campaign would backfire against McCain ...

All Signs Point to Ugly
The Anonymous Liberal — ... Pennsylvania at +15.2 for Obama compared to a +6.7 Obama advantage in Colorado (and +7.5 in New Mexico). So if John King is right, the McCain campaign thinks it has a better shot at pulling off an upset in Pennsylvania (a blue state) than in holding Colorado (a red state), despite much more favorable current polling numbers in Colorado. What could they possibly be thinking?  Unfortunately, I suspect the answer can be found in another headline from today: Rick Davis: Rethinking Playing the Rev. Wright Card. I'm certain that the McCain campaign ...

CNN: McCain Starts Crossing Off States
Taylor Marsh — BY TAYLOR MARSH via MyDD This may be why we’re hearing more about McCain resurrecting Rev. Wright. ...

Wright around the corner
The Reaction — By Michael J.W. Stickings As HuffPo is reporting, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis -- he of Fannie and Freddie lobbying infamy -- told Hugh Hewitt yesterday, in what was surely a meeting of minds for the ages, that "he is reconsidering using Barack Obama's relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright as a campaign issue during the election's closing weeks." It is apparently McCain himself, taking the high road (or so goes the spin), who has rejected attacking Obama over ...

Wright Around the Corner
The Moderate Voice — As HuffPo is reporting, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis — he of Fannie and Freddie lobbying infamy — told Hugh Hewitt yesterday, in what was surely a meeting of minds for the ages, that “he is reconsidering using Barack Obama’s relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright as a campaign issue during the election’s closing weeks.” It is apparently McCain himself, taking the high road (or so goes the spin), who has rejected attacking Obama over Wright, given both the religious and racial implications, but you just knew ...

Goldfarb reflects
Political Animal — ... issue. There are obvious mistakes that were made throughout the campaign. The Rev. Wright issue is of some concern. It was frustrating, because if McCain never mentioned it, the media was going to act like it didn't exist. That's not how I remember it. First, plenty of far-right voices who supported McCain/Palin used the attack throughout the campaign season. Second, the media not only kept talking about Wright , news outlets ran plenty of stories about McCain's strategy regarding Jeremiah Wright , in the process, talking about Jeremiah Wright. "If ...