(RINO) McCain to stump for GOP hopeful (and RINO) Norton at weekend event in Grand Junction

The Daily Sentinel, Grand Junction, Colo. ^ | 2010-08-03 | Gary Harmon

[rabscuttle385]

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will campaign for Jane Norton in Grand Junction on Sunday as her race for the U.S. Senate nears the finish line.

Norton, a Grand Junction native, was the state chairwoman for McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. McCain last visited Grand Junction on Election Day 2008, speaking at Grand Junction Regional Airport.

This time, he’ll campaign for Norton at 2:30 p.m. on the Mesa State College campus.

McCain’s heft with Mesa County voters is significant, Norton campaign spokeswoman Cinamon Watson said, noting that he was the highest Republican vote getter in Mesa County in the past three presidential cycles.

Norton, a former lieutenant governor, is battling with Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck for the Republican nomination.

Buck on Monday took a swipe at McCain, saying the onetime presidential candidate was “greasing the power brokers” to pay for attacks on him. In a statement, Buck asked Republicans instead to send him money for eight more days of television ads.

[AuH2ORepublican]

I’m not going to waste my time playing the “endorsement game” or pointing out how many bona fide conservatives (i) are often supported by moderates or (ii) often support moderates. What matters is how a Senator will vote, and Jane Norton has given every indication, through her words and deeds throughout her public life, and by the clearly conservative issue positions she has taken in the Senate race, that she is a conservative. If you prefer Ken Buck, so be it, but don’t defame Jane Norton by calling her something that she isn’t.

[Mojave]

Jane Norton in Full Meltdown. Takes a Page From Tim Bridgewater’s Playbook

[Clintonfatigued]

I was for Ken Buck in the beginning, but he recently called many members of the TEA Party “dumbasses.” He’s lost credibility in my book.