Posted on 01/28/2015 6:03:34 AM PST by cotton1706
A couple of Tea Party lawmakers are strongly considering challenging Sen. John McCain in 2016, but they won’t both get in the race.
Arizona GOP Reps. Matt Salmon and David Schweikert, who are “best friends” on Capitol Hill, have spent recent weeks mulling over the possibility with family members, analyzing polling and keeping tabs on McCain, as he makes moves toward running for a sixth Senate term.
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But if one decides to take a shot against the state’s entrenched senior senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee, the other won’t. “If Matt came to me and said he wants to pull the trigger, it would mean we would probably offer to chair his committee,” Schweikert told The Hill in an interview. “Nothing even close to that [has happened]. Seriously, not even that first step.”
Salmon has a larger war chest than Schweikert. As of Nov. 24, 2014, Salmon had $545,000 cash on hand, while Schweikert only had $66,000. McCain, meanwhile, had $1.54 million in his campaign coffers as of Sept. 30, 2014.
Salmon and Schweikert would be among the best positioned and best known of the slew of possible primary challengers expected to run against McCain — a top target of conservative activists who view him as too moderate on issues such as immigration and taxes.
McCain was met with a mix of boos, curses and cheers, when he took the stage last weekend at the Arizona Republican Party’s annual meeting, and a dozen activists turned their back on the senator. But that was nicer treatment than what McCain experienced at the same meeting a year earlier, when local activists and precinct committeemen voted to censure the 78-year-old Arizona senator.
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In the case of McLame throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...
Matt Salmon
Early life, education, and business career[edit]
Salmon was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1991, he decided to run for elected office. He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Salmon
Sounds like ANOTHER HUNTSMAN to me I WILL NOT VOTE FOR ANOTHER MORMAN EVER!
Taking on McCain is close to impossible, both because his beer heiress wife has very deep pockets, almost unlimited funding, and McCain is known for his temper and angry rages at those *Republicans* who oppose him.
The last primary follower he faced was a popular former congressman, J.D. Hayworth, and McCain saw to it that he was not just politically ruined, but his reputation destroyed, and no one in the state dares to hire him to this day, lest they get the wrath of McCain, who will still try to hurt them. Someone suggested at the time that if he could, McCain would beat Hayworth to death with a baseball bat.
So this is what these other congressmen face if they challenge him. I fear Arizona is stuck with the “renegade Virginian” until they scrape his decomposing remains out of that senate seat.
JMHO
JD Hayworth has plenty of baggage.....very few respected conservatives waanted to be anywhere near this guy...Ive met this guy.....he is like John Edwards...shake hands with these two and ya feel like taking an acid shower!
That’s a problem, because McCain does his attacks by proxy. He doesn’t even bother to debate, just sicks his attack dogs on whoever challenges him.
If a Mormon is running against a Marxist, you will let a Marxist win? Really? Sorry, nothing is wrong with Mormons.
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