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Hayworth charged that in 2005 Salter tried to "blackmail" him into stopping his public criticism of McCain's comprehensive immigration-reform bill. Hayworth said his chief of staff got an e-mail from Salter indicating that McCain might retaliate by commenting in the media about Hayworth's links to the then-unfolding Jack Abramoff lobbyist corruption scandal.Hayworth further suggested that Salter was responsible for planting false information in the Washington Times that said Hayworth was the "target" of an Abramoff-related Justice Department investigation. The Abramoff scandal helped Democrat Harry Mitchell upset Hayworth in 2006.
On the radio, Hayworth pre-empted critics who might suggest that "spite" would fuel his possible bid against McCain.
"No, I would never run for office, quote, out of spite, but I do have a profound disagreement with Senator John McCain over the concept of amnesty, whether he wants to call it comprehensive immigration reform or a pathway for guest workers to remain," he said. "It is amnesty, and I remain against it."
As I have said before, I will contribute to Hayworth's campaign, and I will do so generously.
McCain is used by the media to bolster Obama's policies. Every time Obama says or does something, the media goes to an essentially agreeable McCain as the voice of the GOP. Notice they go to McCain early, not asking more conservative members of the GOP for their opinion, as they know that McCain's opinion will likely favor Obama's position. For this reason alone (not that there aren't many other reasons), McCain should be defeated. It will cut the media's depiction of the preferred “voice of dissent” as open to Obama's positions.
