Posted on 02/19/2010 7:36:15 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Ex-Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R) is grateful his primary rival, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), is getting endorsements from prominent DC conservatives. It allows Hayworth to cast the race as Beltway power versus the grassroots, he said in an interview today.
"You can expect a steady stream of the Washington establishment to endorse John McCain. So here's the way the race breaks down: It's John McCain and the Washington establishment versus we the people," Hayworth said.
"We have profound policy differences that we solve through the political process, but with all due respect, I think it's indicative of John just having been there too long," he added.
Meanwhile, Hayworth said, McCain's efforts to cast himself as the fiscal conservative in the race are misplaced, given votes in favor of bailout legislation and his support for comprehensive immigration reform.
"John McCain of all people can't really claim the mantle of the fiscal conservative," Hayworth said. Instead, McCain's record "is Obama-like."
In DC to sit on a panel at CPAC, Hayworth is optimistic about his insurgent campaign against McCain. He lost his seat in '06 to Rep. Harry Mitchell (D), and McCain's team has argued a Hayworth candidacy would put McCain's seat in jeopardy.
But Hayworth says McCain's early assault on his candidacy has led to a backlash. McCain has already launched radio ads attacking Hayworth by name -- including ads that ran on KFYI, the Phoenix radio station on which Hayworth hosted a show until last month. Hayworth called the ads "fiction."
"I think really led to a backlash. People said, 'Hey, wait a minute, there's John McCain going after a conservative. Why, he never ran this way against Barack Obama,'" Hayworth said.
"For whatever reason, team McCain is bragging about running some sort of scorched earth campaign against me," he said. "Politically, the one-word term is threatened, and I can see why since I've been out of the trail."
On Friday, McCain's campaign launched another broadside, knocking Hayworth for failing to reach a publicly-stated goal of $100K during a "money bomb," and for having to defend himself for previous ties to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
"It is clear that Mr. Hayworth has failed to galvanize support for his campaign, just as he failed to hold his solidly Republican U.S. House seat in 2006," McCain spokesperson Brian Rogers said in a statement.
Hayworth said he is ready for attacks on his Abramoff ties, and that McCain has his own skeletons in the closet.
"I would appeal to John's deeply held sense of honor. He knows that's false, and it doesn't help him," Hayworth said. "If he insists on staying in the muck and mire, I can answer the 2 words he's been bandying about with two words of my own: Charlie Keating."
McCain was implicated in the scandal surrounding the AZ developer. He was one of 5 senators given a slap on the wrist.
After 8+ years of lord McCain playing the role of maverick, you have some nerve calling an 'newbie' on the political landscape a phony. Other than the 'what did he know and when did he know it' drama queen Hillary, and old lord McCain bedfellow no two individually or collectively poked conservatism in the eye more. I lived the world of observing if not daily certainly weekly the Jon Stewart media funding incalculable advertising for old lord McCain and he still lost, and 'big time'.
So you go ahead and vote your interest by keeping the two timing political harlot pushing his illegal immigrations remake of this nation, and his hoax of globull warming scam, and setting up the pristine vast wilderness as the altar of liberalism. You just go for it, but please don't try and tell me that JD is a bigger phony it will NOT pass even the worst of worst smell test....
Oh, do you have a financial interest in lord McCain's 'Cap-n-Trade' scam....? Just listen to Windy Graham and anybody with a couple of brain cells knows full well he speaks for his lord McCain, as big a deceiver as the king bamKennedy.
Oh and lord McCain is so well versed in economics and how the economy works he voted against the permanency of the Bush tax cuts claiming some cloak and dagger about spending cuts.... And given his abilities in getting legislation passed from across the aisle he had done squat this year in demanding for the good of you and this nation those tax cuts cannot be allowed to whither on their proverbial vine....
Lots of "kooks" on this website by your definition... including the site owner...maybe you should have done a little more reading before jumping in and trashing FReepers, ya think?
I still think you are a retread and/or a paid McCain operative. Possibly a mitten with a new employer. You haven't posted a single source to establish facts of you nasty attack on JD, either.
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See 83. A newbie McCainiac has ridden the lightning.
Get lost, troll!
FYI...good news today.
Gun Owners of America Endorses J.D. Hayworth - McCain Wrong for Arizona Wrong for America
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2455683/posts
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Thanks, Meghan, for letting us know what you think, but aren’t you late for the filming of The View, a cocktail party or the $5 foot-long special at Subway?
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I have been waiting for this one.
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