Posted on 08/23/2010 5:43:11 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Sen. John McCain has raised and spent better than $21 million in advance of tomorrow's primary fight against former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, a massive amount of money that has helped to ensure that the Arizona Republican will win easily.
McCain's eye-popping spending -- putting aside self-funders he has spent the most money of any Senate candidate this cycle --is the most obvious evidence of the threat that the 2008 Republican presidential nominee perceived in Hayworth -- a six term Congressman who lost a re-election bid in 2006.
McCain spent millions (and millions) on television ads aimed at blocking Hayworth from becoming a national symbol of the conservative cleansing that many within the party believed to be necessary.
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I can understand why people don’t like McCain...but can’t really figure out why they would support J.D. Hayworth as an alternative. Among other things, Hayworth recently said he was glad Obama won the presidential election - that’s hardly conservative.
Definitely hope Kelly wins. Have you seen any polls on that race?
No, what he actually said was that a McCain presidency would have been worse than an Obama presidency.
And he was dead on right about that.
McCain in charge would be a Democrat wet dream.
....all that money he didn’t use against Obama. :(:(:(
I haven’t really seen any polls for AZ-8, although I was called for one wanting to know if “scandals” would make me think less of Kelly or Paton. I asked, “So where is the question about Giffords??”
Anywhoo... got talking to the pollster and asked how things were looking and he said that it’s not looking good at all for the Dems. Said that he polls all over the country and even Dem strongholds are really weak. Said that people are really upset.
So... we shall see. From the emails I get from both sides, Paton seems to be the more desperate of the two. And I am sure that the McCain robocall won’t help.
Hayworth was taken out of context. He’s saying essentially the same thing that others are saying, that McCain would have taken us down a similar road, but more slowly and there would not be the awakening that we have had today. People are on fire now. That may have never happened with McCain. People could still be asleep and we would not be looking at the November tsunami ahead. Better off with Obama and the reawakening.
Perhaps...although those two Supreme Court seats that Obama got to pick were pretty significant bad things that can’t be corrected. I doubt McCain would have appointed Scalia types, but even if they were in the O’Connor or Kennedy molds that would have significantly shifted the Court to the right given the justices that were replaced.
I don’t know. I’m not convinced his picks would be much better. And then there would be Congress, merrily doing their thing, while the country is asleep. So then, which is the least of the two evils?
It’s one of those things...we can never know what “could” have happened...but what will happen is another matter.
There is absolutely no doubt about that, and either Arizona is ignorant or Arizona doesn't care.
It is amazing to me the voters believe his shtick! Either that or they don’t like JD for some reason.
Amen. Must be vigilant.
McCain kept McShifting and McShafting conservatives for most of his career. His legislative record is less of a McHero and more of a McCaca.
It's very unlikely those two particular justices would have retired if McCain had won. We saw how Souter, the stealth appointment of GHWB, waited out eight years of W to retire during the first half-year of Obama's administration.
With Souter probably so...but maybe not John Paul Stevens...he’s 90, isn’t he?
I don't know, Stevens stayed for a year and a-half of Obama, if McCain had won he might have decided to stay four more years, or as long as he was able.
ASSHOLE MCCAIN (And don’t Bleep out the cuss words on this one)!
He really is the way he didn’t fight Obama, but Has J.D! ASSHOLE; that’s what he is, and that is what anyone who supported him in this race IS!
A poll released today by the Chamber of Commerce has Kelly up by 11 percent. Go Jesse!
I agree, Itis abysmal, he fights ONLY against conservatives ... he NEVER fought this hard against Obama and was in effect a key reason Obama got the big win he did, a better candidate could have beaten him.
WHY DIDNT MCCAIN GO ALL OUT AGAINST OBAMA LIKE HE IS AGAINST JD?
Simple reason - he hates conservatives more than he hates leftists.
And one more thing - NEVER nominate someone who wont quit their current post. LAZY campaigners do that.
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