The unaired Rev. Wright ad from the McCain campaign

[TeamJordan23]

The unaired Wright ad

Brian Ross gets a copy of the Jeremiah Wright ad McCain never aired, which aimed for a biographical contrast between McCain's heroism and Obama's staying at Trinity.

I've always been skeptical that this was such a silver bullet, and the fact that the National Republican Trust PAC's similar spot -- which aired heavily, nationally, in the closing days of the race -- had no impact appears to bear that out.

Though you can imagine a very different campaign in which McCain started building this case much earlier.

Video at: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6393778

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1208/The_unaired_Wright_ad.html?showall

[GarbagemanLB]

1. Say what you will about McCain, but he didn't go low enough to race-bait with the Wright bullshit.

I know at the end there were the RNC ads, but McCain could have gone that route much earlier, and he didn't.