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Simcox is unlikely to beat McCain in the primary, but McCain REALLY does need to take the hint and retire. In any other country, he would have announced he was "stepping down" from the government the moment his party failed to win with him on top of the ticket -- EVEN if they had gained seats on his coat tails (which the Republican certainly didn't do in 2008 -- but notice how the leader of the British conservatives and NZ conservatives retired from parliment when they 'came up short', even though they did far better than McCain) Bob Dole set the example in 1996 when he announced he was resigning from the Senate due to the party nominating him for President. It's a shame no Senator since then has followed his lead. We desperately need term limits in this country because politicians don't know how to ride off into the sunset gracefully. McCain will be 80 if he serves out another six year term, and almost certainly be a past-his-prime former "leader" of the party in a Senate controlled by Dems, and therefore won't chair any committees. Now... given those circumstances... Honestly, WHAT does he hope to accomplish in the next six years that he hasn't done in the first 28?? We need to write McCain and ask him that question. He needs to be encouraged to "rethink" his retirement plans.

J.D. Hayworth is not going to challenge McCain in the primary. In fact, Hayworth endorsed McCain for President in both the 2000 and 2008 primaries. It seems sometimes that I'm the only freeper who noticed that, since his name is continually floated as a potential McCain challenger. Ain't gonna happen.

Endorse Simcox? If I had to choose between the two of them, I'd probably vote for him over McCain, but not until I know where he stands on other issues besides immigration. Any candidate I support will have to be at least as good or superior to McCain on key issues like right to life, traditional families, cutting government waste (one of the few areas where McCain is pretty solid, IMO), lower taxes, gun rights, and of coruse, the WOT -- I certainly won't back any surrender monkey's like the alleged "true conservative" from SC who wanted to sing kumbaya with terrorists. My guess is that Simcox is pretty solid on these issues, but my rule is thumb is always verify first. In any case, the drive-by media will villify Simcox as a hate-filled nut and portray him as a single issue candidate, so it's unlikely he's the one who can take out McCain.

I do think it's somewhat hypocritical of freepers to blast the MoveOn.org crowd in 2006 for "turning on their own party's presidential ticket nominee" and ousting LIEberman in the RAT primary, if we're willing to do the same to McCain in 2010 (though I admit there's a big difference as McCain has never been liked/trusted by conservatives, whereas liberals were happy with LIEberman for years, until he didn't do their bidding on the war issue)