Somewhere J.D. Hayworth is quietly thinking, “I told you so”. The Arizona voters were stupid to believe anything McCain had to say.
Nobody could hear anything J.D. said underneath the din of McCain’s multi-million dollar professional grade libel campaign. He was buying up maybe one in four ads on TV and radio, all to tear down Hayworth. No effort at all to tout whatever it was McCain stood for, other than in the most general of terms.
I like to remind people that McCain isn’t even an Arizonan. His beer heiress wife is, and she buys him the seat, though neither of them spend any appreciable time at all in Arizona, when they don’t have to.
McCain is closest to being a Virginian, but they certainly don’t want him back. And his temper is such that he is probably still trying to destroy Hayworth from afar, in any way he can.
In many ways, he is the Republican version of John Kerry, but less squishy liberal, more mean and angry.