JD Hayworth: Why I Will Challenge John McCain

[RED SOUTH]

Let me begin by detailing where I think John McCain has gone wrong. For starters, John:

•Voted against the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 (which I helped write), echoing liberal Democratic arguments that they were tax cuts for the rich;

•Voted for an $850 billion bailout for banks and car companies, which was loaded with special interest earmarks totaling $150 billion;

•Proposed spending $300 billion to buy up every bad mortgage in America, which National Review called a “full bailout for lenders” (McCain said he got the idea from Hillary Clinton!);

•Supports a cap and trade scheme that the Wall Street Journal called “an expensive, invasive government bureaucracy” - indeed, McCain once proclaimed, “I don’t know how any conservative cannot support cap and trade;”

•Wrote the campaign finance law just struck down by the Supreme Court that denied free speech rights to groups like the National Rifle Association while carving out an exception for media corporations like the New York Times;

•Opposes drilling in ANWR;

•Opposes the use of the enhanced interrogation techniques that we know prevented at least 4 major terrorist attacks; and

•Helped write an amnesty plan that would let illegal aliens qualify for Social Security and Medicare, and which the Heritage Foundation estimates would cost taxpayers “at least $2.6 trillion.” This is not the record of a true conservative, much less a fiscal conservative

[Question Liberal Authority]

McCain is running hard right lately. If you listened to his radio ads, you’d think he founded the Tea Party movement. If not for JD, he probably would have reached across the aisle on climate change and immigration reform by now. Hayworth keeps McCain at bay at least through August.

[rushmom]

God Speed JD.

[Antoninus]

Ping. Bump. And all that.

[pallis]

McCain thinks of the media as his base, but the media thinks of McCain as their stooge.

[petercooper]

Screw John McCain. Damn RINO pos!

[McGruff]

JD is taking the high road. I don't have to.

Get lost McCain. You frickin RINO!

[alloysteel]

Good for JD Hayworth if he proceeds with his primary campaign. He is the sort of REAL conservative the other conservatives could rally around.

John McCain has become such a mixed bag, and with the loss of the Presidential race, something like damaged goods. This last election, I voted for Sarah Palin, John was just along for the ride.

[ZULU]

“..the John McCain I supported for president in 2000 is not the same John McCain I’ve watched frustrate conservatives time and again as our senator.”

Actually, he probably IS. McCain was ALWAYS a nasty maverick and it was always about McCain. Its just a lot more evident now that he is such a self-centered, nasty old man.

I hope Hayworth clean McCain’s clock and I am bitterly disappointed in Palin for supporting the ratweasel who stabbed her in the back and helped put Brarrack Hussein Obama in the Oval Office.

[jla]

b-b-b-but he’s “honorable”

[NavyCanDo]

Not living in Arizona all I can say is let the Primary process work as its supposed to, and whoever comes out on top, I hope all Conservatives, Moderates, and Independents alike, get behind him and don’t give that seat up to a Democrat. I would hate to see sour grapes erase the gain we made with the Scott Brown win.

[meandog]

Sorry, but a J.D. Hayworth primary win means a guaranteed Dim RAT for Arizona...there is NOT one Hispanic or moderate who’ll vote for him in the general. It will be another “Massachusetts” in reverse order.

[AuntB]

"But the media doesn’t need another senator – Arizona does. "

NICE!!! Go J.D.

[OregonTide]

YEs he is....has come out lately sounding like a true conservative....Time to retire McCain!!!!

[GrannyAnn]

I will vote for JD in the primary. I will vote for the Republican in the general, whether that’s JD or McCain.

I always support the Republican but the primary is where we can get rid of the RINOS.

[AuntB]

“Sorry, but a J.D. Hayworth primary win means a guaranteed Dim RAT for Arizona...there is NOT one Hispanic or moderate who’ll vote for him in the general. It will be another “Massachusetts” in reverse order.”

Well, there we have it!!! By all means, let’s just roll over and let McCain keep screwing the country!

I’d rather see the democrat in there than the entrenched McCain.

And you’re wrong...with YOUR help, J.D. can win.

[bassmaner]

I hope Hayworth clean McCain’s clock

So do I.

and I am bitterly disappointed in Palin for supporting the ratweasel who stabbed her in the back and helped put Brarrack Hussein Obama in the Oval Office.

I'm disappointed, too, but I don't think she had much choice in supporting McCain: the SRM would no doubt slam her as 'disloyal' if she didn't. I just hope she doesn't participate in any negative ads against Hayworth: if she does, she can kiss 2012 goodbye.

[Soul Seeker]

Not one? Uh-huh. Blacks vote overwhelming for Democrats but Republicans still manage at least one or two in their column. I realize you are generalizing but since you are a strong proponent of McCain and I am not, I’m going to take issue with it.

I’m not sure what his chances would be but I do know Rubio came from 30 points behind in his primary race so we’ll wait a few months and then see how this goes with the polls and who would vote for him and who would not. Even if he won the primary and lost the general I’d still consider it a triumph if it scared people like Lindsey Graham back on the plantation. People like him and McCain have no excuse to be jumping ship as often as they do on important issues considering the sensibilities of the states they represent.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"It will be another “Massachusetts” in reverse order."

I assume you accurately prophesied Scott Brown's win in Massachusetts?