The WORST senator money can buy!
[snip]Mr. McCain tapped into money left over from his failed presidential effort, spending more than $20 million (compared with about $3 million for Mr. Hayworth) making his visage and his harsh attacks on Mr. Hayworth omnipresent on Arizona’s airwaves. Mr. McCain’s spending was among the highest ever for a Senate primary in Arizona and, depending on turnout, could translate into******* more than $75 a vote,************ political analysts said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/us/politics/25arizona.html?_r=2&partner=TOPIXNEWS&ei=5099
Exactly. He’s using money people contributed to him as the lesser evil than an incompetent Marxist totalitarian to beat a conservative.
Not only did he have the $30 million, more helpful was having Fox News on his side. It wasn’t just the product placement tactics that Hannity and others gifted McCain with, it was the virtuall shutting down the story from day one.
Fox News didn’t ALLOW this race to become a story -unlike- the Rubio/Crist race. The Fox News manipulation of what SHOULD have been a GIGANTIC story (Conservatives ousting the previous GOP Presidential nominee from his Senate seat) is disgraceful. It was much like the way they campaigned for Mitt Romney and will do again next time around - to our detriment.