A.P. offers GOP Wants Ads That Criticize Bush Pulled. It begins: “The Republican National Committee on Friday asked about 250 television stations to pull a liberal group’s ads critical of President Bush. The RNC sent the stations a letter Friday suggesting the outlets may be complicit in breaking campaign finance laws if they air the MoveOn.org Voter Fund ads. It asked them to decline to broadcast the ads.” Many praised Republican FEC Chair Brad Smith for sticking with principles by not reading the Supreme Court’s McConnell opinion to reach independent group expenditures. Will Senator McConnell take a similar stand?