Posted on 08/29/2010 9:11:30 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
PHOENIX—An ebullient John McCain celebrated his resounding GOP Senate primary win with Gov. Jan Brewer, Sen. Jon Kyl and the state’s Republican congressional delegation at a unity fundraiser Friday night.
Conspicuously absent: former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, whom McCain soundly defeated Tuesday following a bitter and acrimonious campaign.
Organizers said he received an invitation to the event, just as others losing candidates did, but Hayworth claims the opposite.
“I never received an invitation – nothing ever crossed my desk,” the former six-term congressman told POLITICO Saturday.
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There's some parsing.
Somebody is not telling the truth.
"A Republican aide familiar with the planning for the event, however, insisted that Kyl invited Hayworth and Hayworth declined."
Sadly, I do believe it is possible Hayworth wasn’t invited. John McCain is the darling of the Republican party - which explains where the tea party originated. The Republicans need to clean house nearly as much as the Dems and, while John McCain kept carrying on about “reaching out to our friends across the isle,” when running against a Dem, he suddenly fought back hard and long against a Republican opponent who, from what I could tell, represented a better bet for our interests than McCain ever will. It won’t be long before McCain turns right back into the RINO he has been for a long, long time. We will get what we deserve by sending him back to Washington.
I wouldn’t want to go watch Arizona’s shame, McCain.
That would be Sarah Palin’s shame.
RETCH! BARF! RALF! HUCK! EARL!
How long before McCain swings wildly left again?
Why would he attend if it was a victory party for the frickin’ RINO a**hat McCain?
John McCain is the co-author of a hideous, anti-liberty bill, McCain-Feingold.
The idea that he is considered a conservative is preposterous. Hats off to his military service, during which his mind may have been damaged. Neither his military career, nor his father’s, gives him a driver’s license to steer the Republic, or a platform from which to misdirect constitutional conservatives.
Out with him and his.
Hang in there JD... perhaps another time will be more favorable to you. If McLame stays true right you have accomplished much and if he turns left then shame on his Arizona voters.
He also was a co-author of McCain-LIEberman. Gorbull warming bill.
Yeah, she forced Arizonians at gunpoint to vote for McCain and cause Hayworth to lose by 30 points.
You win the kewpie doll for the first brain-dead "Palin's fault!" post.
Politico celebrates the primary victory of its favorite back-stabbing RINO!!!
What’s Sarah Palin’s definitive answer to why she endorsed John McCain over J.D. Hayworth, and I wonder how often she’s asked this question? Also, what are her comments and opinions about J.D. Hayworth, if she has any?
Unity with J. McCain? McCain can GFH.
Yeah JD was stabbed in the back by “conservative” Republicans to save DEMOCRAT John McCain. Great phony conservatives like Kyl, Myth Romney, Palin, Pawlenty, Newt (what a slime), Jan Brewer (sad cause I like her) and other scum.
Maverick the Moderate gets rewarded for playing both sides of the aisle as if a magnificent feat of bold statesmanship!
BAAAAAARF!
Are you serious? Are you really going to keep posting about this race every day? Tell me, after the Jim Demint-backed Lindsey Grahamnesty won his Senate primary, did they invite the loser to a “unity” party?
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