AZ-Sen. 2010: McCain fights for Arizona Senate seat (McCain only fights conservatives)

Financial Times ^ | 2010-03-18 | Edward Luce

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John McCain is not normally good at concealing contempt for those he believes are deserving of it. But when it comes to J.D. Hayworth – his rightwing challenger for the Arizona Republican nomination for this November’s Senate race – the former presidential nominee does not even try.

Earlier this week, Mr Hayworth, a former talk radio conservative, made the latest in a series of gaffes when he said that allowing gay marriage would enable people to marry their horses.

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“I mean, Caligula [the debauched Roman emperor] only made his horse a consul – nobody talked about marrying his horse,” says Mr McCain in an interview with the Financial Times. “You can’t make this stuff up.” And yet, Mr McCain is also proof of the dictum that you either run scared or you run unopposed.

In spite of having a 20-point lead in the polls, Mr McCain is taking Mr Hayworth’s challenge very seriously.

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“There is a strong anti-incumbency mood in the country – you have to take every race seriously,” says Mr McCain. “Approval ratings for Congress are down to 12 per cent. You have to expect the unexpected.”

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They point to Mr McCain’s reluctance to champion immigration reform, an issue that he once pushed hard, and on which he strenuously denies he has diluted his position. They also point to his retreat from support for legislation to bring in a cap and trade regime for carbon emissions. Again, Mr McCain says that he has not changed his views and is awaiting a genuine conversion by Mr Obama in favour of nuclear power – a requisite, he says, for the “all of the above” approach to energy.

[rabscuttle385]

John McCain is not normally good at concealing contempt for those he believes are deserving of it. But when it comes to J.D. Hayworth – his rightwing challenger for the Arizona Republican nomination for this November’s Senate race – the former presidential nominee does not even try.

McCain only fights conservatives!

"[Conservatives are] going to destroy the f*cking [Republican] party...
Why would I want to be the leader of a party of such a**holes?"
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, UNKNOWN

"I think the Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have
no problems with it, in their views and their philosophy."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 02 APR. 2004

McCain Keynote Speaker @ ACORN Feb, 2006

"I have to tell you, [Obama] is a decent person, a person that you
do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 10 OCT. 2008

[McCain] would be "...comfortable with a homosexual
as president of the United States."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 21 DEC. 1999

"I would rather have a clean government
than one whose — quote — First Amendment rights
are being respected that has become corrupt.
If I had my choice, I’d rather have a clean government."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 24 APR. 2006

"I think that gay marriage should be allowed,
if there’s a ceremony kind of thing,
if you want to call it that."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, FEB. 2007

"But certainly in the short term, or even the long term,
I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade,
which would then force women in America
to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations.”
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 24 AUG. 1999

On senior citizens: a group "that makes demands without contributing."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 20 JUN. 1986

"I'm not a socialist."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 18 FEB. 2010

"I believe climate change is real."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 23 FEB. 2010

"I have great respect for Al Gore."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 02 OCT. 2008

"In the long term, if you alienate the Hispanics,
you’ll pay a heavy price. By the way,
I think the fence is least effective.
But I’ll build the G****mned fence if they want it!"
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, FEB. 2007

"We need to sit down as Americans
and recognize these are God’s children as well.
And they need some protection under the law;
they need some of our love and compassion
I want to assure you that I’ll enforce the borders first.
We’ll solve this immigration problem."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 28 NOV. 2007

"There are jobs that Americans will not do,
so we have to make it possible for someone to come
to this country to do a job that an American won’t do
and then go back to the country from where they came."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 16 OCT. 2004

John McCain, you treasonous bastard, I challenge you or any of your traitorous cohorts...

Just say no to Senator McCain

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*Ping!*

[SmokingJoe]

Earlier this week, Mr Hayworth, a former talk radio conservative, made the latest in a series of gaffes when he said that allowing gay marriage would enable people to marry their horses.

The Britishers put their foot into it yet again. Talk about deliberate distortion. JD said nothing of the kind. Moreover, JD has’t made a ‘series” of gaffs. In addition McCain is ahead by 20% in only one Rasmussen poll, whuch includd Cgris Simcox, who has since withdrwan deom the campiagn and thrown his weight behind JD. The Rasmussen poll before that one, had JD oly 2 points behind at 43% to Mccain’s 45%:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/arizona/2010_arizona_gop_primary_mccain_45_hayworth_43

[presently no screen name]

If I lived in AZ - I'd go to his rally's with a sign that read:
McCain only fights conservatives.

It's perfect!

[Parley Baer]

It is quite obvious that the msm will prefer the RINO McCain over a real conservative in JD Hayworth.

[presently no screen name]

had JD oly 2 points behind at 43% to Mccain’s 45%:

Now that's a good piece of info. No wonder there hasn't been an updated poll.

Go JD! Do it for our country - crush the liberal rat!

[presently no screen name]

the msm will prefer the RINO McCain

Why he's the media's little darling, their useful idiot!

[Frantzie]

Fiancial Times is a liberal bag of sh*t newspaper shilling for McCain. McCain does not have a 20 point lead.

Hopefully the people of AZ will view McCain like the people in FL view fruity Charlie Crist. McCain sucks.

If McCain is under 50% then he is in BIG BIG trouble. 45% is very bad.

[SmokingJoe]

Next poll from Rasmussen could be on Feb 20. I think it going to be closer than the 22% point gap in the last poll, which was taken before JD had even declared his intention to run, and after McCain had been running attack ads against JD for weeks, with no reply from JD.

[presently no screen name]

You mean March 20?

[SmokingJoe]

Fiancial Times is a liberal bag of sh*t newspaper shilling for McCain. McCain does not have a 20 point lead.

The last poll did have McCain ahead by 22 points, but then the one before that had McCain ahead by only 2 points. So it's a very fluid dynamic situation. The next poll which should come this week, will be very interesting.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/arizona/election_2010_arizona_republican_primary_for_senate

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/arizona/2010_arizona_gop_primary_mccain_45_hayworth_43

[SmokingJoe]

Yes. Apologies.

[MtnClimber]

Here is hoping JD wins against the Manchurian Candidate. When the RNC calls asking for donations I just list off McCain, Snowe, Collins and ask why I cannot make my own decisions better than theirs.

[Cheetahcat]

Why couldn’t he just have been a Democrat and saved the masquerade.

[Irish Eyes]

Looking forward to that poll ( 3-20 ). Have not seen any recent polling.

[MtnClimber]

I forgot that I throw Lindsey Lohan Grahmnesty and Twinkletoes Crist in their faces. I usually just get stammering or apologies, no valid arguments because there are none.

[presently no screen name]

All is forgiven as long as you ping me when the poll comes out. ;)

Not sure how to handle the next five months before the primary. If there was ever a candidate I wanted to see go down, it’s him.

[WesternPacific]

I’m not sure what it will take for this country to wake up and realize there is no difference between the Republican party and the Democrat party. Both parties are so compromised and corrupt their members need to be color coded so we can tell the difference.

[Truth101A]

Knock it off with McCain! Right now McCain is fighting with us and we need ever fighter will can get until November rolls around so we can vote to stop Obama and his thugs.

[WesternPacific]

Knock it off with McCain! Right now McCain is fighting with us and we need ever fighter will can get until November rolls around so we can vote to stop Obama and his thugs.

This is either sarcasm or you're a writer from Onion. McCain is not a Conservative, sorry.