Then you should probably hear what the people of Arizona are saying with their support for McCain. Out-of-staters can whine all they want, but Arizonans are very put out with JD for his infomercial. Throwing his support to a company that was later castigated by 26 Attorneys General as well as the revelation by McCain’s campaign of the very generous earmarks JD supported and voted for, have served to tank JD. And you can’t blame the people of Arizona, some of whom tried to take advantage of the government grants spoken of by JD, and the many who are ticked by the earmarks. Then added to all this is the disastrous campaign that JD has waged, in part because he has had very little money to work with because he jumped into the race without taking time to raise funds. Personally, I’m sorry that JD is without hope. His family and my family have attended the same church. JD is a great man. But the mistakes he’s made are unfortunate. It’s not the National Review or the NRA that are going to beat JD. It is he himself. And you guys’ bravado is not going to make one bit of difference.
” Then you should probably hear what the people of Arizona are saying with their support for McCain. Out-of-staters can whine all they want, but Arizonans are very put out with JD for his infomercial.”
You are so full of $hit, I’ll bet your eyes are brown. Nobody here has even brought it up. As for crooks, McCain loves them. He and his wife are friends with with a mafia-type gangster in Kosovo, and McCain pals around with local gangsters as well. Now get lost dude!
What a crock of dog poop......... you are speaking for people who live here from clear across country??????? sheesh... JD has my vote, infomercial or no infomercial.
Question: Would a Hayworth ad/commercial a)owning up to the aforementioned infomercial, b) apologizing, and c) admitting he’s not perfect and does, from time to time, make mistakes (i.e. being real) help?
I can’t believe AZ voters are falling for this crap: McCain has been single-handedly the WORST influence on the Republican party this decade, undercutting conservatives on issue after issue. See below.
And yet McCain throws bogus slime around and makes that the issue. Pathetic really. Pathetic that voters are falling for it.
You say: “ JD is a great man.”
Well, mcCain is a frickin’ train wreck for our party and the country, and we need to forgive JD’s smaller errors and NOT FORGIVE McCain’s repeated stabbing conservatives in the back on issue after issue.
McCain-Feingold — the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.
McCain-Kennedy — the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.
McCain-Lieberman — the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry — through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases — in American history.
McCain-Kennedy-Edwards — the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.
McCain-Reimportation of Drugs — a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety (hey Rudy, pay attention, see link).
And McCain’s stated opposition to the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts was largely based on socialist, class-warfare rhetoric — tax cuts for the rich, not for the middle class. The public record is full of these statements. Today, he recalls only his insistence on accompanying spending cuts.
As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, McCain was consistently hostile to American enterprise, from media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies.
McCain also led the Gang of 14, which prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use (actual and threatened) of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees.
And then there’s the McCain defense record.
His supporters point to essentially one policy strength, McCain’s early support for a surge and counterinsurgency. It has now evolved into McCain taking credit for forcing the president to adopt General David Petreaus’s strategy. Where’s the evidence to support such a claim?
Moreover, Iraq is an important battle in our war against the Islamo-fascist threat. But the war is a global war, and it most certainly includes the continental United States, which, after all, was struck on 9/11. How doesMcCain fare in that regard?
McCain-ACLU — the unprecedented granting of due-process rights to unlawful enemy combatants (terrorists).
McCain has repeatedly called for the immediate closing of Guantanamo Bay and the introduction of al-Qaeda terrorists into our own prisons — despite the legal rights they would immediately gain and the burdens of managing such a dangerous population.