A few months ago, John McCain rebuked North Carolina Republicans for using controversial statements by Barack Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright in an attack ad against the Democrat. Some conservatives believe McCain’s high-mindedness deprived his campaign of a useful weapon against Obama, who has renounced Wright after a relationship lasting 20 years.

Now, Pennsylvania’s Republican Party has revived Wright as an election issue in this ad, which is airing in the state in the closing hours of the campaign: