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Posted on 11/07/2015 12:27:22 PM PST by conservativejoy
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I remember people talking about running a primary challenge against John McCain since at least his 2008 presidential run. That came to pass in 2010, but J.D. Hayworth wound up being beaten like a rug to the tune of more than a twenty point spread. Next year its time for McCain to face the voters again and he’s already drawn a challenger for his party’s nomination. State Senator Kelli Ward (R Lake Havasu City) has been building a team and getting ready for this fight since early this year and she was recently in D.C. talking up her bid and looking for conservative support. (Daily Caller)
The state legislator challenging Arizona Sen. Republican John McCain in the 2016 Republican primary is trying to gather support from conservative activists on Capitol Hill this week.
Arizona Republican state Sen. Kelli Ward spoke to weekly conservative gatherings on Wednesday and hosted a meet and greet breakfast fundraiser at the Capitol Hill Club.
Ward, a medical doctor by trade, works in private practice in emergency departments while serving as a state lawmaker.
Ward has some big time help from the consultant firm Axiom Strategies, which is owned by Ted Cruz campaign manager Jeff Rowe. (Cruz officials told CNN that the Texas senator does not involve himself in the firms other campaigns.)
Is this a threat McCain is (or should be) taking seriously? One of the first issues to look at is the money. Ward reports having raised a little over a half million dollars this year. McCain is sitting on a bit more than twice that much. Neither is a shockingly high amount for a Senate race these days. (One of the last estimates I saw in New York from some campaign strategists was telling aspiring candidates to not even bother if they couldn’t come up with five million, but that includes the general.) McCains been around this game for a long time and has a lot of friends. If he wanted to turn on the afterburners I have no doubt he could knock together five or six times as much as he has now in fairly short order.
Perhaps more disturbing for McCain than the money question is the dip hes seen in his poll numbers at home. A little more than two months ago a Gravis poll had McCain losing to Ward by nine points. (Five months earlier most of the state had no idea who she was.) Further, his favorability rating had sagged from being in the sixties in 2008 to 41% this summer. Thats not lethal territory for a long time incumbent but its got to be a troubling sign.
Perhaps the biggest question which comes to my mind is… why is McCain sticking around? By the time the primary vote takes place next August McCain will be turning 80 years old. Obviously theres no upper limit for serving, but at this point hasnt he had enough of performing in this circus? Its just puzzling to me what he thinks six more years is going to do and hes obviously put in his time serving the nation. Hes getting beaten up by the conservatives in his own party and its not like the Democrats are doing him any favors. And if hes got a serious challenger who will require him to go back into dialing for dollars mode to fend off a primary bid and his numbers are down, it seem like one would want to go out on top after a career such as his. Why risk it? Retiring would seem like a much preferable option to being booted out by a competitor from your own party.
One can only hope that Juan is changed out.
Amen to that. Long overdue.
Yes, but McCain practically had to become Hayworth to beat him. A wag said that Hayworth won the primary, but he did it in John McCain's body. (Of course, McCain promptly reverted the day after the primary.)
I sure hope so.
McLame needs to be offered a scholarship to a nursing home.
Amen!
The people who vote for McCain are literally dying.
These are midwesterners who retired to Arizona, voted Rat all their lives, but wandered away from the Rat party when it became a cultural sewer.
McCain is their kind of Democrat.
The white middle class in Arizona is a different story. His war hero status is almost irrelevant.
Can Kelli Ward get them out to vote for her?
Being from the river, have my doubts. It will be about name recognition in Maricopa county. Tucson will vote for McCain. And he will pretend - again - to be an immigration hardliner.
She has an uphill battle. And a hard time making herself known.
Something quite disturbing about his willingness to consort with the enemy, Obama, Hillary, Islamists....reaching across the aisle....etc.
The man saves his real venom for conservatives.
McCain’s trouble is the calendar.
His sell by date is past due..
bump
McCain is the most worthy of being Cantorized of all those up for re-election.
His constant advocacy for fraudulently doumented foreigners and their employers is treasonous to the citizens.
Did not help that John had an attack ad every 30 minutes on talk radio.....
That is what Cornyn did in Texas last time. One year ahead of the Primary you could not turn on an AM station in the state and not hear one. He spent millions
JD Hayworth was a very VERY flawed candidate. I look forward to seeing McCain dumped...then Burr and Graham.
well as one who lives in Phoenix, the start of the problem is KFYI AM 550..........our conservative radio station
problem is save the RUSH, HANNITY and LEVIN shows,the local on air hosts love McLettuce,
I intend to effect that
John McCain was not a "rock-ribbed" conservative, ever. Somewhere back there, he absorbed the Teddy Roosevelt Progressive mode, and it has colored his perceptions to this day.
Progressivism is a creeping and ever-changing way of looking at the world, always looking for the compromise that will create a new representation with the various evils of the world, in the hopes that the evil will then be somehow made harmless, or at least less formidable, resulting in an amalgamation that is less evil but acceptable. There is a problem with this, however, in that what would be the lesser of two evils is still evil.
McLettuce and Senator Levin interacted with Lois Lerner to attack the tea party here.......emails are in evidence
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