Posted on 01/26/2010 6:46:09 AM PST by Cheap_Hessian
One year after seeing his presidential ambitions extinguished in an overwhelming defeat, Arizona Sen. John McCain is launching a scorched-earth campaign aimed at incinerating a reelection challenge from J.D. Hayworth, the conservative former Arizona congressman and radio talk show host.
McCain is attempting, with a series of hardball tactics, to cut Hayworth down before his campaign even gets off the ground. He’s mounted a concerted effort during the past month to push Hayworth off the airwaves, run an ad targeting Hayworth on his own radio station and warned him through emissaries that going through with a bid to unseat McCain would be a serious mistake.
One source familiar with the McCain campaign said the offensive was only a preview of things to come, adding, “I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of this.”
The anti-Hayworth effort began in earnest Dec. 15, when Grant Woods, the former Arizona attorney general and onetime McCain chief of staff, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission. Woods argued that Hayworth, who has used his KFYI drive-time program to blast away at McCain as a soft-on-immigration moderate, was essentially getting free airtime to wage a campaign as a de facto candidate.
Then, last week, McCain campaign attorneys Paul Charlton and Joseph Abate also wrote the FEC to complain that Hayworth was effectively using his radio show as a campaign platform, arguing that Hayworth’s radio parent company Clear Channel “has an obligation not to allow one specific candidate — regardless of that candidate’s occupation — unfettered daily use of its facilities to promote his candidacy for federal office.”
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Our #1 priority needs to be getting McCain defeated.
Remember how he wouldn’t go negative on Obama?
He will against a Republican though.
What makes me doubly mad about this is that some of the money I donated to McLame and Palin is going toward this effort against J.D.
J.D. may not be a perfect choice, but he sure is a heck of a lot better choice than McLame.
Where were the “hardball tactics” during the 2008 election?
Go Hayworth!
If this stuff gets out it will enrage Republicans in my state.
Yep, the old man discovers a little fight in him and aims it at the good guys.
We can do better.
Yes we can.
This is going to backfire. McCain got a bit of breathing room when Palin agreed to appear with him(Probably in Gratitude for the VP spot which brought her to national prominance.) That will wear off and we will be left with old McNasty.
And why wasn’t he this aggressive during his presidential run?
Remember how he wouldn’t go negative on Obama?
He will against a Republican though.
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My thoughts exactly. He is rotten with Stockholm Syndrome and needs to be retired.
I will never mind taking the heat here for saying I have a lot of deep respect for McCain in a lot of ways. However, that being said, where can I write a check for Hayworth? Does anyone know out there?
This is the same McCain who refused to use “scorched earth” or even simple smart tactics against Obama.
McNuts has out lived his usefulness as a RINO.
Oh, it's different when he is running against a Democrat - he's got to be nice then. Have you noticed that he is only nasty to conservatives? And I don't care what anyone says, he is using Sarah Palin - she needs to wake up & realize that. This man is dispicable.
That’s what I was thinking too. He knows who his real enemies are, Conservatives.
re: Remember how he wouldn’t go negative on Obama?He will against a Republican though.
Good point!
McCain threw the election to a commie..that is all I need to know about McCain. I feel no sense of loyalty whatsoever to Palin’s running mate. He needs to go bye bye.
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