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NICE little speech from J.D. yesterday.

Running against GOP establishment, Rubio, Hayworth find allies among conservative activists

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“If you want to see how politicians undergo campaign-year conversions, you’ve got my friend,” Hayworth said before pausing. “I hate using that term, because he uses it all the time — you have my senior senator, John McCain.”

Hayworth is more brash than Rubio, but he also believes there is a national movement against party establishment candidates.

“What we’re seeing across the country is not anger as much as it is frustration and the feeling that there’s a disconnection among the current crop of elected leaders,” Hayworth said. “In much the same way that Governor Crist embraced Barack Obama, so, too, my opponent, our senior senator, has enabled President Obama to make some very unwise decisions.”

Hayworth cited McCain’s support for closing the prison for terrorist suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and his opposition to harsh interrogation techniques that are widely considered torture.

And Hayworth questions why McCain brags about launching a “scorched earth” campaign against him.

“Arizona voters are coming up to me and saying ‘Where was this against Obama in the presidential race?’” Hayworth said. “John is saving his scorn and his vitriol for a conservative. I don’t think that helps him.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-us-conservatives-senate,0,5813641.story