Big Government Huckster John McCain’s bitter, clingy $21 million primary fight; Update: Election night results; Meghan McCain taunts Hayworth
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I have watched and listened to many establishment Republicans and TV talking heads deride GOP Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth as a “clown,” “charlatan,” and a “huckster.”
I have watched and listened to many purported “Tea Party” spokespeople and limited-government lobbyists defend entrenched GOP Senate incumbent John McCain as a “conservative” “hero” who will shrink government and defend our borders.
Hayworth was far from a perfect candidate. But there is no bigger clown, charlatan, and huckster Republican serving on Capitol Hill than four-term, 24-year Big Government fixture John McCain.
After burning through a whopping $21 million in campaign funds to hold on to his seat, McCain is poised to claim a primary election victory over Hayworth tonight.
Some victory.
To stave off Hayworth, the reborn conservative McCain not only had to throw $21 million down the drain. He had to thrown his own old “maverick” self off the bus, start talking like Tom Tancredo, appear on cable news non-stop, disavow all his good friends in the “Eastern press” whose approbation he thrives on in off-election years, and pander shamelessly to the grass-roots conservative base that he has despised, undermined, and spurned for more than two decades.
McLame stubbornly refused to admit his own individual responsibility for supporting the pre-socialization of the economy started under George W. Bush and continued under Obama. Fellow Republicans whitewashed McCain’s fiscal irresponsibility record, including his support for:
*The $700 billion all-purpose, earmark-stuffed TARP bailout;
*The $25 billion auto bailout;
*The $300 billion mortgage entitlement bailout; and
*The $85 billion AIG bailout; and
*The costly, intrusive, junk science-fueled Climate Change agenda.
McNasty attacked Hayworth with more verve and vitriol than he ever could muster up for that “decent man” that “you don’t have to be scared of” — Barack Obama.
The most notorious Johnny-come-lately on border security in Washington, McAmnesty couldn’t get enough of the very same fences he openly cursed in front of open-borders crowds.
His cynical embrace of Arizona’s SB1070 enforcement law fooled no one who is fully informed about his radical, sovereignty-sabotaging ties.
Flashback January 2008: Remember?
Shamnesty peddler John McCain taps former Mexican government official/shamnesty advocate Juan Hernandez as his presidential campaign Hispanic Outreach Director.
Hernandez is a fellow at McCain’s “Reform Institute.” What has he been working on there for the past year?
“Dr. Juan Hernandez serves as a Senior Fellow of the Institute’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform Initiative.”
That is: Shamnesty.
Among the immigration projects at McCain’s Reform Institute: An art contest in which students depicted their protests against a southern border fence.
The winner on the American side of the border?
Here:
The grand prize winner incorporated the specious open-borders propaganda comparing our fence to keep trespassers out to the Berlin Wall designed to wall people in:
Is this what McCain believes in his heart, too? No wonder he cursed the “goddamned fence.”
The Reform Institute is a tax-exempt, supposedly independent 501(c)(3) group, as Ed Morrissey noted two years ago, “that employs Rick Davis, who also works on McCain’s staff as his chief political advisor, and they pay him $110,000 per year. The Reform Institute has often supported McCain, paid for events highlighting him and his agenda, presumably including campaign finance reform.” The Reform Institute received $200,000 in donations from Cablevision…and McCain basically tried to intervene on Cablevision’s behalf by writing a letter to the FCC supporting its regulatory agenda. Morrissey noted at the time: “[T]he Reform Institute helps keep McCain’s staff gainfully employed between campaigns, allowing McCain to do less fundraising while retaining the best of the available talent. For instance, Carl Hulse and Ann Kornblut note that Rick Davis managed McCain’s presidential campaign in 2000 before founding Reform Institute. Now its president, he gets over $100,000 a year from RI for “consulting services”. That money allows Davis to remain available for McCain’s future campaigns, and the funding he raises for RI gives him inroads for building support.”
Yep. Which is exactly how it worked out. Davis is now McCain’s campaign manager.
Here’s the 990 form for the Reform Institute, filed in 2003, listing Davis and his “consulting fees:”
Who funded the Reform Institute, which boasts Juan “Think Mexico First” Hernandez as its resident amnesty fellow? The donor list is a who’s who of ultra left-wing, open borders elites. Again, via Ed Morrissey’s research:
* The Tides Foundation, which heavily promotes “reproductive justice”, giving over $500,000 to pro-abortion efforts. They also actively oppose the death penalty (so do I, FYI). John McCain opposes abortion and supports the death penalty, so why is his chief political advisor getting so much support from those who ostensibly oppose him?
* Educational Foundation Of America, which also supports abortion. EFA also opposes drilling in ANWR, an issue on which McCain has an ambivalent record. It also supports euthanasia and assisted suicide through the Death With Dignity National Center, a group which it gave $45,000. It gave $100,000 to the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, which opposed the Yucca Mountain nuclear depository (McCain supported it), and opposes development of low-yield nuclear “bunker buster” bombs, which McCain supports.
In fact, EFA appears to contribute to just about every left-wing cause imaginable, as well as a number of noncontriversial charities and outreach efforts.
* The Proteus Fund, which also opposed the Yucca Mountain repository, spending $75K to stop it. That pales in comparison to the $935K they spent on supporting gay marriage initiatives, which McCain strongly opposes. They have also spent over $800,000 funding nuclear-disarmament and antiwar causes in each of the last two years. Their Security Policy Working Group contains nothing but left-of-center groups like Project on Defense Alternatives, which calls the Iraqi elections “faulty” and predicted disaster for the Bush administration’s “program of coercive transformation throughout the region.”
* OSI (Open Society Institute), founded and funded by George Soros. Among a litany of left-wing causes supported by OSI are People For The American Way, to support their Supreme Court Project. (Hint: It isn’t intended on assisting Bush get his nominees confirmed.) They also gave $150,000 to the Campaign Legal Center, which will be important shortly.
* David Geffen Foundation also shows up on the list, although not in the top tier. David Geffen is an entertainment-industry mogul who supports Democrats and left-wing causes. They do not have a website I could find, but Activistcash.com notes that in 2002, most of the grants Geffen gave went to environmental activists and the Tides Foundation and Tides Center.
Via Discover the Networks, you’ll see that Soros’s OSI is a key open borders funder–providing support to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; the Immigrant Legal Resource Center; the National Immigration Law Center; the National Immigration Forum; the National Council of La Raza; and the American Immigration Law Foundation.
Remind me again which party’s presidential nomination John McCain is running for?
Alas, after years of McCain’s progressive Left dalliances, the Republican Party is still in the throes of McCain Regression Syndrome.
If there is any silver lining at all, it is that somewhere out there in Arizona are dissatisfied non-politicians — business owners, school board moms, taxpayer activists — who will jump into the public arena at the local and state level for the first time to fill the limited government leadership vacuum that has produced the GOP’s McCain Muddle.
Hurry, please.
***
Update: Big turnout in Florida. Hot Air has election night results.
Update: Turnout in Arizona is light. Voters are depressed by bad choices and political posturing.
Sigh. Indeed.
Update: Rick Scott wins GOP gubernatorial nomination. Rep. Kendrick Meek wins Democrat senate nomination. Marco Rubio clinches GOP senate nomination. More:
Nominating contests in five states — Vermont also was voting, and Oklahoma held GOP runoffs — highlighted dominant themes of this unpredictable election year, including anti-establishment anger and tea party challenges from the right. But the early results indicated that if there was a single pattern to the night, it was the lack of one.
…In big-name races elsewhere, Sens. John McCain and Lisa Murkowski counted on voters to reward political experience as they faced spirited Republican primary challenges in Arizona and Alaska 10 weeks before the general election.
Nominating contests in five states — Vermont also was voting, and Oklahoma held GOP runoffs — highlighted dominant themes of this unpredictable election year, including anti-establishment anger and tea party challenges from the right.
As the first polls of the night closed, Meek toppled Greene, a big-spending real estate tycoon whose links to boxer Mike Tyson and former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss drew headlines, in the Democratic Senate nomination fight. The four-term congressman will compete against Republican Marco Rubio, who easily secured the GOP nod, and Gov. Charlie Crist, a former Republican who is running as an independent, in November.
Update 11:24pm Eastern McCain declared winner by AP, CNN — 30 point lead over Hayworth and Deakin. Won’t be long now before he starts trashing the Right again. 3, 2, 1…
Lovely: Meghan McCain taunts Hayworth…
Blogger Cubachi has the perfect comeback: “Meghan taunting JD. Funny how her dad lost to a community organizer in 2008. How ’bout them apples?”
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It is discouraging because it seems that the conservative voting public in Zona has still not learned a lesson from the past 10 years. I pray that this is not the case with conservatives throughout the country. If you follow politics to any good degree, flip flopping and pandering are easy to spot. McCain’s turnaround has been so obvious, that I am embarrassed for him, to see him so easily abandon his real (non-conservative) convictions to stay in office. At least go down with dignity. But again, proving the adage that a little knowledge is dangerous, Ariz is ready to reinstall this RINO into public office, leaving a real conservative in the wings. Isnt this what the Tea Party revolution was supposed to be about, getting rid of the faux conservatives??? Incredible.
Now, I am just a simple old gal. If any person is running for election or re- election, why in the name of good common since do YOU spend so much money to get re-elected? I did have a sorta eduaken and it seems, you gonna get lots of money from taxpayers who put you back in dc. You scum running will tell us what you think we want to hear and ‘walla’ it is ME again. Dear john and all like him will be elected and we taypayers are soooo getting the shaft!
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Michelle, bitterness does not become you. So Heyworth is going to lose in the primary, so what? It’s not like that outcome couldn’t be seen from over the horizon without the assistance of radar.
Taking out your frustration on the entire Republican Party because the voters in one state choose a man you despise to represent them is an intellectual vault that resembles Evel Knieval on a bad day.
He probably got a loan from Obrainless for the 21 million bux and will have to pay it back with votes and our future as a viable country.
John “Single business day” McCain is a traitor – a traitor to the precious gift of American citizenship, which he tried to give away TWICE in 2007 with the Z visa.
He changed the generous 90 calendar day waiting period for a Z visa to only a single business day in 2007.
One business day to process 12 to 20 million illegal alien applicants for criminal and health checks, before they got automatic immediate residency and a path to citizenship??
Traitorous to American citizenship.
Regardless of what we say, he was still able to fool a majority of Arizona citizens into voting for him.
*Exasperated Sigh*
He might be a turnaround worthless piece of crap, but he is one of a hundred… Not like in the other house where a worthless piece of crap leaves a smaller carbon footprint.
There has never been a “perfect” candidate. I would classify most either flawed or deeply flawed. JD is the former, Juan McCain is the latter.
Another reason for term limits
PLEASE Az voters, Anybody but McCain!
I was at the precinct to vote this morning. 12th to vote and, I proudly voted against McCain in the primary. Heck, he was running ads against Hayworth before JD even decided to run. It was weird hearing McCain slamming him on the same station JDs radio show was on. So, $21 million flushed. What a proud half-senile old coot. Another reason to hate McCain? His wife keeps the price of beer awful high here. through her distributorship.
I just got back from voting for Hayworth. I wasn’t thrilled about Hayworth, and I’m thinking he’ll still lose the primary, but I can say I did my part, FWIW.
It’s important to bear in mind the Tea Party won’t rid us of all RINOS (think Brown in Massachusetts). And it won’t be done in one election cycle or primary season, either. It must be a relentless way of life for activist conservatism, not only at the polls but by holding all politicians accountable for their decisions.
These people value their own seat in the politburo more than life itself. They need to be removed from government.
Repeal the 17th Amendment.
$21,000,000. The illusion of his “principled independence” fading due to his waffling. A naked display of how much more viciously he’ll go after a conservative than a Democrat. Not pleasant, but fortunately there’s an upside.
He may win the primary, but he hasn’t crossed the finish line yet. November is still two months and change away.
the question is when will Juan go back to his normal aisle reaching, after fooling once again the people of Az. one of those open primary states. Will it be during the lame duck session or the 1st day of the new congress in January 2011. You can bet it will happen.
Face and name recognition, pandering, short attention span, and willful ignorance likely to win once again.
Conservatives can rail all they want. McCain is going to win, because the people of AZ were given a less than clear alternative to McCain and read their own press clippings.
McCain is an entrenched incumbent with a war chest that enables him to well defend his seat. That is exactly what he did.
You may not like him, but you had better repsect him. He survived what he survived. You scoff at his fighter image. Sorry but he is. He is a man who if you chopped off both his arms would try and kick you to death.
Those who wanted him unseated totally underestimated the effort and totally failed to vet JD Hayworth.
The next time we spend our time making snarky comments about ice cream choices, we’d better understand that these men got to the top by being cold-blooded and ruthless in their quest for office. They are the Great Whites and we’d better have a big enough boat.
McLame. McNasty. McAmnesty. All good labels.
I prefer mine. McCan’t.
McCan’t be counted on to do the right, conservative thing.
McCain : Conservative :: Oprah : Centerfold
JD ran a crappy campaign. He needed to run a great campaign to have a shot. His campaign frankly just sucked.
If it matters voter turn out is low here in AZ.
Reason 1 to dump the RHINO…he wants to “regularize” illegals…another stupid term for shamnesty!!!
For the love of GOD! RETIRE ALREADY, McCain!
If JD loses he better endorse McCain. We are living the nightmare here in WA state. The tea party candidate is playing hard ball in a state where we must win against an entrenched liberal.
Let’s smarten up people!
It took me all morning to come up with “tarballs ‘n mint sorbet.” I’m sorry.
This is why voting republican is not the answer. I would encourage true conservatives in Arizona to not vote for McCain in the general election. If the democrat wins so what. It’s not like McCain would be better on immigration, bailouts, border security or judicial nominees. Sending this clown to the Senate is actually worse than having a democrat who would vote the same way. To make matters worse, if the republicans take back control of the Senate, McCain will be one of the leaders, if not the leader. This will cause way more problems than having a democrat in that seat who would vote like McCain anyway. At least that democrat won’t be our self-appointed leader that we must follow.
“Look, you stupid Bastard. You’ve got no arms left.”
So, you’re either a liberal astro turfing or a disappointed Tea Partier Congratulations!
Another thing, just because McCain was a POW does not give him a blank check to destroy our nation. Even Benedict Arnold, who did more for the USA than anyone alive today, was not too big to be held to account for selling out his nation.
No, just a disappointed conservative who can’t believe people like you keep sending us guys like McCain, Graham, and Specter, while eschewing Tancredo, DeMint and other conservatives.
Listen up.
Democrat-BAD
REPUBLICAN-GOOD. Got it?
Had….
I’m ok with this in general:
Democrat BAD.
Republican less bad.
Wrong. Democrat bad – Republican sometimes not as bad.
Yeah, what you said. I need to refresh more.
*There’s credibility, there’s zero credibility, there’s negative credibility, and then there’s John McCain; The Lord broke the mold on supreme RINO rat bastards with this one; Spector and Hagel nippin’ at his heels.
*If the GOP had any smarts, and that is debatable, they would marginalize him as they did Spector; Letting him control the agenda in the Senate will have the Tea Party folks in a fever pitch; They won’t take shiite from this traitor any more than they would the Democrats!
I am disappointed in your reactions to John McCain. I admit he isn’t the best conservative candidate out there, but he deserves more than this rant. You lost me on this one.
My variation is:
Democrats = lying, collectivist traitors
Republicans = ordinary ignorant humans, with feet of clay
Whoah John! $21,000,000? You could’ve bought one hell of an ice floe, totally ensconsed in velvet, to walk out on for that kind of dough. Please, please, please, do the march of the penguins already!
Oh yeah how? He deserves my gratitude for his military service, which he has. His Senatorial service blows chunks, and I will not apologize for disparaging it!
The kool-aid is strong in this one.
The fact that McCain is a shoo-in to win, in Arizona no less, pretty much tells you all you need to know about the mental state of the American electorate. While I expect the Republicans in 2010 to do better than average for off-year elections, the trumpet blast of victory to roll back Obamaism and send the democrats fleeing into the hinterland ain’t about to happen. Things are going to have to get a lot worse, and unfortunately at that point it will be too late. We had a republic, too bad we didn’t keep it.
Good republicans, all.
Well, ‘cept for Arlen, He turned to the dark side. (biggest roll eyes thingy ever.)
If there is anyone who doesn’t understand why we just can’t seem to get a government that represents us, just read the RINO comments on this thread.
The most important thing we could have accomplished leading up to the November elections was to give McCain his walking papers. All that was necessary was that when AZ Republicans (not to be confused with conservatives) voters see McCain’s name on the ballot, they vote for the other guy! Too complicated for these Assistant Democrats.
That $21 million McCain spent got these RINO defectives thinking and suddenly, Hayworth was the “lesser of two evils” and they “had no other choice” but to vote for McCain.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Every time you RINOs think, you weaken the nation.
That is why I vote 3rd party. If most of us who hate one-party government did that, we would have a new party to vote for by 2012. More than ever, I plan to vote 3rd party as my default choice because I never vote for liberals or Democrats, especially when they run as Republican!
Good job you AZ RINOs!
good post. If there is one person I loathe in congress it is McCain.
This is a guy who has gamed the system on his everlasting quest to make sure he’s always the representer and not the representee.
This guy loves representative government. . . so long as he’s representing others. he could never support a government that had someone representing him.
When he got out of the military, he scouted out the easiest districts to win a house seat. Then he waited for the best time for him to run for senate. He gamed the R primary to get the nomination to run for President, and he’s gamed Arizona politics to get himself another term.
He’s not very smart. He doesn’t have any good ideas. His only idea is that he is more important than any position he might hold.
dude has multiple government pensions, married money, and has lived a privileged life. . . but he claims to speak for the people of this country.
He doesn’t KNOW the people of this country. His only skill is gaming the system. There’s nothing wrong with that. My career is based on gaming the system too. The difference is that I know I’m not important because of it. McCain derives his importance from his ability to game the system.
He should have stepped down a long time ago. He doesn’t have that much honor though. Frankly, though he was military, he doesn’t understand what honor means. To him truth is relative.
Democrats = lying, collectivist traitors
Republicans =
ordinary ignorant humans, with feet of claythe other Democratic party.That is your opinion. Mine is that the American Public will vote in its own destruction piece-by-piece unless God himself chooses to save them.
Pray tell, what did he promise those that contributed to his reelection campaign? It certainly had to garner more than a little patriotism. Favors? Votes?
McCain, please remember… Porch dogs almost always carry fleas, and it’s not hard to find them hiding if you look.
When do the cries for recall start?
Thank you. Someone who gets it. Democrats running as Republicans are worse than Democrats running as Democrats.
Why is it that McCain would not go after Obama with a strong attack, but will viciously go after a fellow GOP’er like Hayworth? Sometimes I think the whole system is rigged. 21 million bucks for 6 years at $174k annum salary? I know it was not all his own money but still.
Phil,
There are a lot of folks on this site that get it. You’re not alone, though I (and others) may disagree with you at times.
Yup. Enemies behind the lines are always more dangerous.
Brevard County Florida, heavily GOP, this is the breakdown between Crist’s man and former AG, McCollum (who didn’t want an immigration law like Arizona’s and then he changed his mind)and Rick Scott:
Bill McCollum REP
22,699 (38.88%)
Rick Scott REP
27,194 (46.58%)
I am feeling better every day about our next US Senator, Marco Rubio. We are going to do this.
If I were a betting man, I’d say by March 2011…
It is, by the likes of McCompromise.
Don’t blame me for McNasty. I voted for the other guy. McCain used 10 million from his failed presidential campaign. His wife is worth over 100 million, perhaps why he dumped his first wife. There is more to the story,
I don’t recognize your name but I don’t remember ever having a disagreement with you. Except for a couple of my personal trolls who always attack me personally rather than address my comments and arguments, it’s not personal. I don’t come here to win arguments but (hopefully) engage in intelligent discussion. There are people here who post very good comments. Such people can persuade me to change my mind or at least, re-think my opinion.
Not to mention all of his faithful enablers in the GOP, including the ones who just love to wrap themselves in the Tea Party flag.
Here’s a bit of campaign reform for you.
No one takes any money from someone out of the immediate district.
Many, many shot down BRAVE pilots died in the Hanoi Hilton. This clown, came back alive.
Las vegas is not sin city. Washington D.C. take that title.
I just hope some Arizona voters with some brains keep him from being elected to office again in November.
Who needs enemies when you have this clown from AZ.
Rio
Semper Fi!
On the one hand, it is a valid point that it is worse having Republican politicians voting Democrat, instead of Democrats voting Democrat.
However, every seat in the Senate matters. I do not want any Democrat as the Senate majority leader.
Yeah, they’ve managed to infiltrate that as well, Blackstone.
That is what I meant by likes.
The trouble is McCain will be in the leadership in a GOP controlled Senate, and therefore will set the agenda, e.g. comprehensive immigration reform. It wouldn’t be so bad if McCain were a low ranking Senator who could just disappoint you with his vote. Being in the leadership means others will defer to him and he will push his agenda.
It shouldn’t be.
My guess is most of us are like minded.
Some more than others.
I can’t disagree with you on that one at all. Sometimes God’s mercy seems to be all we have.
Thanks for reminding me.
NOT GOOD>>>>
McShame just announced he is the winner
It is too bad that Megan McCain lacks class and integrity. The apple doesn’t fall far.
Meanwhile, there is dancing in Florida over a Tea Party win against the establishment of Jeb Bush, Huckabee, Rudy, and others who stumped for flip-flopper McCollum. It did not matter as half of Florida did not fall for the charges against Scott. We need a successful businessman, no a man cowed by special interests and political correctness. Yep, a snoopy dance is in order tonight in our section of Florida. Good night all. Get ready to fight in November.
Juan McAmnesty won, people in Az. must have short memories, can’t remember his push for amnesty 2 years ago, his comprehensive immigration crapola…not to mention his employment of Juan Hernandez. It’s suppose to be a conservative state being overrun with illegals and they re-elect this traitor to American sovereignty again? Was it due to an open primary?
I was praying Az. would have booted him.
It seems the good Republicans of AZ have chosen the better candidate by a significant margin. Say goodbye to tea party extremist JD.
Now, let’s move on to the general.
who is ‘lets’?
McCain will spend twice as much for each bullet in Afghanistan just to prove what a great war leader he is.
McCain is the problem. His solution to everything is to spend more money (other people’s money). He doesn’t have ideas that stand up on their own. He has to spend money for anything he does to make sense.
Tea Party Extremist? What is that? You don’t want the support of people who go to the tea parties?
Create jobs? Hey McCain just spent 21 million to save his job. That’s a pretty good track record. Maybe he can take that skill to job creation around the country.
McCain is what is wrong with congress. he has never cut any spending. . . ever. . . and he won’t. Nor will he ever recommend a spending cut.
His re-election is worse than a democrat winning that seat. At least you know where a Democrat stands on something. McCain doesn’t stand for anything.
Captain McCain, winning an election and being a winner are two completely different things.
I respect you as a Navy Captain, but still have difficulty addressing you as Senator.
Actually, I think all 100 of you should have to wear togas, tunics, and sandals.
J.D. Hayworth made the unforgivable mistake of suggesting Obama actually prove he is eligible to be president, something he will not and cannot do.
There is a price to pay for asking for the truth from Obama, anyone can use Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, even a worn out flip-flopper like McCain.
McCain is damaged goods. He is not a man of principle- the push for amnesty and then a reversal for re-election showed his true colors. Hard to believe he was elected by the same people that elected Jan Brewer. She is more of a “man” than McCain. Nice going Arizona. Do you even stop to question why your state economy is so bad? Idiots.
Oh, and Meghan, your 15 minutes are up. Any more time has to be earned by actually doing something other than being someone’s daughter. You are about as useless as Paris Hilton and almost as bright.
People of Aizona:
Thank you.
I have been supporting control of our borders, a position contrary to my own interests. You see, I own rental property in a California county that has severe growth controls. So rapid, massive increase of population sends my rents up sharply (rising demand with limited supply), thereby raising the value of my property and making my retirement 10 years from now that much more comfortable.
I’ll be able to pay for that offshore medical treatment the average America will need (but not be able to afford) under Obamacare.
I wouldn’t have voted for my best interests, but you wonderful Arizonans have taken it out of my hands.
If the people of a conservative border state like Arizona will not even punish John McCain the author of McCain-Kennedy, then our elites can now rest easy opening the borders wide.
Thank you, Arizona. You clueless dumbasses.
Sometimes in personal political decisions as well as financial decisions, rational people commit the irrational in spite of the facts…time to move on.
The McCain progressive influence on the GOP must end.
Condolences to the informed class of Arizona and America who again will suffer another term of the lead RINO.
I have spent a lot of time in Arizona this year. It was as if Hayworth did not campaign at all. Billboards everywhere saying John McCain for a secure border (made me laugh outloud), commercials attacking Hayworth for being a late night infomercial huckster, etc. Slamming McCain is so easy, and Hayworth did nothing. It was as if in this election McCain was Obama and Hayworth was McCain. Like I want to ask McCain, I think Hayworth is cashing his McCain check right now, like I believe McCain cashed the Obama check. McCain, just to let you know, you suck the big one. You are a liar and a loser and we deserve much better representation here in the west than your sorry a$$.
That is always the way it looks when one side is massively outspent by the other.
But that is no excuse for Arizona. Adults are supposed to realize one side is outspending the other, and then look for the other guy’s ads while ignoring the onslaught of garbage from the big spender.
This election was key. It would show whether the People were serious about this backlash against the elites.
They aren’t. The elites can breathe easy.
You can forget about controlling the border. You can forget about repealing Obamacare.
It was all just smoke.
We’re done. The elites are right. Large urban societies are incompatible with liberty. People are too stupid.
At least Meghan has nicer pom poms. Paris always looks like she is channeling a sub-saharan refugee.
Still no fan of CAPT McCain. His vanity and sense of self worth seem to have become all consuming.
KP
This is exhibit A of a symptom to the greater problem.
This why November will not matter a hill of beans.
I love my dad. He’s 74 years old and has hands stronger than most men’s half his age. He only just retired last year. But seriously, at what age are you too old to perform your work?
Hey, John. Retire alredy.
Look for a continued push to “regularize” illegal aliens and keep the cheap labor and balkinization of our nation going. I am frankly ashamed of AZ…You’ve done the country a great disservice…McShamnesty will revert to his old ways faster than a speeding bullet…
Is this the same Arizona who polled 70% for their illegal alien law? After all of the sell-outs on Michelle’s list, the people of Arizona send McLame back to Washington for six more years to caucus with liberals?
I’m guessing that old people re-elected the faux maverick. Some people are slooooooooooow learners. The next thing you know, sheriff Joe will lose an election to Juan Hernandez.
We have the government we deserve.
Yes, John McCain is a prima donna and yes he dallied far too long with likes of John Kerry and the editorial writers of the NY Times. Yes, he allowed himself to be manipulated by fools like David Letterman.
But as someone who lose an uncle to a Soviet antiaircraft battery in 1969 over the skies of N. VietNam, I know how brave and heroic the naval pilots were. They flew their planes (primitive by todays standards) into the teeth of Soviet missiles, knowing that if they got shot down, a hell on earth awaited them. McCain was practically lynched when he was caught by a howling mob. He was tortured mercilessly in a communist hellhole of a prison. With the men who went through this, you have to balance the good with the bad.
Those of us who lost loved ones in that war (and I lost a beloved uncle in 1969 there when I was a mere lad of ten) we know the mettle of these men. Heros one and all. It doesn’t mean that they are entitled to Senate seats. It doesn’t mean you can’t criticize them. But please remember the tremendous sacrifice that these men made. Many like my uncle made the supreme sacrifice. Others like McCain gave up years of their lives. They need to be treated respectfully.
How does his service in Vietnam compensate for or excuse his treachery now, Marc?
I honor his service this, I deplore his service now.
It is too bad McCain won, as I doubt he has learned the lessons of the Florida RINO’s who are drinking their coffee in shock this morning. Arizona does have a great governor in Brewer, so all is not lost, folks. The McCain brand is fading fast…look to Alaska and Florida this morning.
Here is the best quote of the morning from the Sunshine State’s GOP nominee, Rick Scott:
“It’s sobering news for the special interests,” he said. “They know I don’t owe them anything.“
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-gop-gubernatorial-primary-results-20100824,0,4708344.story
In addition to special interests, the establishment was defeated: Newt, Jeb,
Crist, Rudy, Huckabee and whoever else campaigned for McCollum.
What was obvious from the first was that McCollum had no fresh ideas and stood for nothing while his only weapon was the HCA deal and the point and blame that Scott is a criminal—for which he was never questioned by the feds. McCollum’s campaign almost worked.
It is time for a businessman to run Florida, not more of the same old blather and career politics.
Today McCollum, in his concession speech,did not have the backbone to even congratulate Scott nor encourage party unity. So McCollum scores a big one for poor sportsmanship and lack of class. Sore loser.
On to November and support for our next senator: Rubio.
Sorry – NO I don’t “got it”.
McCain doesn’t honor God or country. Where is the “good”?
“That is always the way it looks when one side is massively outspent by the other.”
Sorry there is more to it than that. There are all kinds of ways a person can campaign and not spend money. Hit the malls, rally volunteers who will go door to door, etc. JD could have easily rallied folks with the “David against Goliath” kind of framing. He did very little.
This is why when folks were saying anyone but McCain so therefore IF you are really a conservative you will vote for JD were simply ignorant.
Phil’s rant against AZ RINO’s as an example.
There was way more to the McCain JD race than “anyone but McCain”. JD was no savior.
Seems to me he was running to be able to get back on talk radio……
“We’re done. The elites are right. Large urban societies are incompatible with liberty. People are too stupid.”
So are you a people too Roland?
We’re not done. You can’t predict the future. We’re moving to the right every day. The sky is not falling chicken little.
“Today McCollum, in his concession speech,did not have the backbone to even congratulate Scott nor encourage party unity.”
And that is a big problem. And part of why folks like Phil who think he is the judge of all things conservative and some like him in the Tea Party are a big problem. Their immature spoiled brat mindsets destroy a unified front against the left and Democrats AND they pat themselves on the back as if they are somehow better than everyone else cause as they see it, they are “purist”.
When they are full of themselves 2 years olds.
Huh? Where is the evidence to support that statement?
Dissatisfaction with the president does not equal a move to the right. Seems to me more Americans than ever are looking for the government to be their source of “well being” instead of God and themselves.
So right, JS. I never thought we would get 100% conservatives in this short a time. Heck, the dems have been working to get to this point for decades!!
Stand firm and hang in there all.
Rus, without doing any research I would say that Scott Brown is evidence of a movement to the right. Also, Missouri’s vote on Prop.C Obamacare is a move against democrat policy.
Also, NJ governor,
also Rubio in Florida giving Charlie the orange all kinds of fits,
also Sharon Angle
also Arizona governor fighting illegal immigration….
If I spent more time on this (gotta head out) I could come up with lots more. Have faith…and patience…but keep up the pressure. thx…gladz out…
Seems to me you were lying when you said you were voting for JD. Typical McCain voter. Just like a Democrat. You think it’s clever to fool people by lying to them on a blog.
And when I was speaking of the People being too stupid, you were the clueless voter I had in mind, JD.
I don’t pay much attention to Valley Girl morons. Megan McCain is a stupid little twit with nothing whatsoever to contribute to this country. A real chip off the old block.
“Huh? Where is the evidence to support that statement?”
How many folks want to repeal Obamacare? How many folks are in favor of AZ’s SB1070? How many states are passing similar laws as AZ SB1070?
I could go on…..
You chicken little types can keep being chicken littles if you want…..
“Seems to me you were lying when you said you were voting for JD.”
So now Roland you are not only a prophet you can determine how I voted and that I am lying?
Best shot we had is to use JD as a wake up call to McCain.
J.D. Hayworth 160,858 32%
JD got 160,858 votes from somewhere….
Your calling me a liar speaks volumes in support of my criticism of you chicken little types.
Brown and Christie are both NE ‘conservatives.’ They aren’t really conservative, the just aren’t ready to spend us into oblivion. They aren’t completely nuts.
Angle and Rubio haven’t won, and the border is as porous as ever.
There is always a rebound against the party that wins big in a Presidential year. At this point there’s no reason to think this time anything is really different
We couldn’t even defeat the author of McCain-Feingold and McCain-Kennedy.
Believe it or not, clueless JD, people really can read between the lines.