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AZ-Sen. 2010: McCain fights for Arizona Senate seat (McCain only fights conservatives)
Financial Times ^ | 2010-03-18 | Edward Luce

Posted on 03/17/2010 8:07:55 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

John McCain is not normally good at concealing contempt for those he believes are deserving of it. But when it comes to J.D. Hayworth – his rightwing challenger for the Arizona Republican nomination for this November’s Senate race – the former presidential nominee does not even try.

Earlier this week, Mr Hayworth, a former talk radio conservative, made the latest in a series of gaffes when he said that allowing gay marriage would enable people to marry their horses.

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“I mean, Caligula [the debauched Roman emperor] only made his horse a consul – nobody talked about marrying his horse,” says Mr McCain in an interview with the Financial Times. “You can’t make this stuff up.” And yet, Mr McCain is also proof of the dictum that you either run scared or you run unopposed.

In spite of having a 20-point lead in the polls, Mr McCain is taking Mr Hayworth’s challenge very seriously.

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“There is a strong anti-incumbency mood in the country – you have to take every race seriously,” says Mr McCain. “Approval ratings for Congress are down to 12 per cent. You have to expect the unexpected.”

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They point to Mr McCain’s reluctance to champion immigration reform, an issue that he once pushed hard, and on which he strenuously denies he has diluted his position. They also point to his retreat from support for legislation to bring in a cap and trade regime for carbon emissions. Again, Mr McCain says that he has not changed his views and is awaiting a genuine conversion by Mr Obama in favour of nuclear power – a requisite, he says, for the “all of the above” approach to energy.

(Excerpt) Read more at ft.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: az2010; mccain; rino
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To: SmokingJoe
The last poll does look positive. Worried about the Palin fund raisers. It is disheartening to see the lack of the women's vote for JD.
41 posted on 03/20/2010 1:43:03 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Truth101A; WesternPacific

Don’t worry about it WesternPacific....

Truth101A is a McCain lover who signed up two months ago and has the audacity to call people who’ve been here years trolls...LOL...go back to McCain headquarters, “Truth”.


42 posted on 03/28/2010 3:26:53 PM PDT by teg_76
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