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McCain in Fierce Fight to Hold Onto Arizona Seat
ABC News ^ | Ariz. June 6, 2010 | LIZ SIDOTI

Posted on 06/06/2010 5:29:57 AM PDT by Bad~Rodeo

Former presidential candidate McCain battling for his political life against GOP conservative

A serious re-election fight wasn't what Republican John McCain expected when he returned to the Senate after losing the presidency.

But the four-term senator is battling for his political life in a race that embodies the volatility of an unpredictable election year. He's facing former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, a fellow Republican pushing him farther to the right as GOP voters demand conservative purity in their candidates and punish those with ties to the Washington establishment.

Two longtime Senate incumbents have fallen —

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; az2010; gojdgo; gop; jd; jd2010; jdhayworth; mccain; mccainiacsassemble; mccainiacsattack; mccainiacshere; rino; senate; teapartyrebellion
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To: pepsionice

I sure hope he falls.

I was going to say if his competitor is more conservative than he, but that’s a given, isn’t it, since it’s not Romney.

It happened in MA with Brown......


181 posted on 06/06/2010 1:32:24 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: sabe@q.com
The Charlie Brown Regime of the GOP which you are a part of is the PROBLEM.

Most of us ain't buyin' what you're shoveling.

182 posted on 06/06/2010 1:32:39 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: sabe@q.com

Sabe@Q, McCain was a Congressman for at least one term before becoming a Senator. He came to the United States government in 1982. He has been in Washington, D.C. for 28 years. He has had his chance at change.

I’m not sure if you know the names in that document I linked you to, but those are some of the worst people on the planet, not just our nation. George Soros is a global pariah. He has hated the United States for decades. John didn’t have a problem at all joining him in his efforts.

No, you’re not getting it Sabe@Q. This (John McCain) is a very bad man. He is acting like he gets it right now because he’s up for re-election. He does that every six years, and returns to being a very bad Senator as soon as he has been re-elected.

Later Sabe@q.


183 posted on 06/06/2010 1:34:33 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (J. D. Hayworth, the next Senator, the Great State of Arizona - Sen. Poopdeck, Panama is calling...)
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To: sabe@q.com
McCain even though severals terms in the US Senate needs to do some more growing. I believe he is and is realizing the mistakes he has made.

At best you are a naive RINO - at worst you are a traitor and extraordinarily stupid.

184 posted on 06/06/2010 1:36:25 PM PDT by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: DoughtyOne

Obama wasn’t a well known commodity then. I was really hoping he’d make an okay Pres because I knew this Country had a lot of serious issues in front of it.

I felt McCain would of handled them better.

Monday morning quarterbacking doesn’t help any.


185 posted on 06/06/2010 1:37:58 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: sabe@q.com

That nothing to fear quote is linked in the information I linked you to earlier. There are several good links in there, and you can watch him say it yourself.

It was about October of 2008.


186 posted on 06/06/2010 1:38:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (J. D. Hayworth, the next Senator, the Great State of Arizona - Sen. Poopdeck, Panama is calling...)
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To: newfreep

And yet Palin endorsed him. And you have Palin for Pres in your tagline.


187 posted on 06/06/2010 1:39:26 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: DoughtyOne

thanks I’ll take a look at it.

I guess it matters what “fear” really means. Apprehension? Fright?


188 posted on 06/06/2010 1:40:21 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: sabe@q.com
She was simply repaying Juan for the VP nomination - now try to keep up and pay attention to reality!

Sheeesh, what a marooon!

189 posted on 06/06/2010 1:44:20 PM PDT by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: sabe@q.com

Please don’t go to that list and find every excuse in the book, to think that none of it matters. It matters.


190 posted on 06/06/2010 1:49:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (J. D. Hayworth, the next Senator, the Great State of Arizona - Sen. Poopdeck, Panama is calling...)
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To: sabe@q.com; DoughtyOne; mkjessup; stephenjohnbanker; AuntB; bamahead; Bokababe; Jim Robinson; ...
please provide a link to this “nothing to fear” quote thanks.

"I have to tell you, [Obama] is a decent person, a person that you
do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States."

U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 10 OCT. 2008

Again they both were US Senators together and decorum is expected in their setting.

"Decorum"?! LOL. McCain endorsed Obama and you have the nerve to defend the RINO traitor McCain by dismissing his treasonous words as mere "decorum"?

191 posted on 06/06/2010 1:50:14 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: sabe@q.com; Sarabaracuda; DoughtyOne; mkjessup; stephenjohnbanker; AuntB; bamahead; Bokababe; ...
Hey, sabe, if you're going to apologize for treasonous RINOs like McCain, why don't you try defending this?!

"I think the Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have
no problems with it, in their views and their philosophy."

U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 02 APR. 2004

The same goes for you, sarabaracuda.

192 posted on 06/06/2010 1:53:13 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: Cyber Liberty

See 191 and 192 directly above.


193 posted on 06/06/2010 1:55:22 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: rabscuttle385

Those supporting RINO McCain knowing all he’s done are simply idiots. McCain is a treacherous liar who sides with the left on issues that are destructive to our liberty, ie, McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman, TARP, etc.

Freep him and the RINO he rode in on! And his little dog Lindseed too.


194 posted on 06/06/2010 1:56:34 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (JUST VOTE THEM OUT! teapartyexpress.org)
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To: Arizona Carolyn; Borax Queen; McGavin999
and right here is the problem we have in this race and what most of us were concerned about... and McCain used his AZ clout to keep us from having a closed election.....

He's pulled an end-around Arlen Spector. McCain can run as a Republican and still win the GOP primary with democrat votes!

That's wrong on all counts!

195 posted on 06/06/2010 1:57:20 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: onyx

Yes it is onyx, but the man has no principles at all so he sees nothing wrong with it. He is devoid of any sense of what is honorable and what is not. It’s always been win at any cost with him.


196 posted on 06/06/2010 2:06:12 PM PDT by McGavin999 (I'm sorry, your race card is overdrawn and no further charges can be accepted)
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To: DoughtyOne

You’re 1-percenter mentality is shining through. It will get you nowhere in the world of politics. And for the last time, McCain is not some flaming liberal but a moderate conservative.


197 posted on 06/06/2010 2:14:44 PM PDT by Sarabaracuda (McCain, Fiorina, Perry, Branstad, Haley 2010 = Sarah 2012)
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To: rabscuttle385

Did it ever occur to you that it may be Hayworth who is the real problem and that is why Sarah, and Fred, and Gov. Brewer are supporting McCain. Hayworth will lose because he is the lesser candidate. Period.


198 posted on 06/06/2010 2:14:50 PM PDT by Sarabaracuda (McCain, Fiorina, Perry, Branstad, Haley 2010 = Sarah 2012)
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To: McGavin999

I hope JD gets enough money to run ads linking Arlen and John together - they’re one in the same!

Two desperate incumbents with no party loyalty. Democrats gave Arlen the boot after voting against him as a Republican.

Will the stupid democrats in AZ do the same? I keep hearing that JD is the easier one to beat in the general, so MAYBE the open primary has a chance to backfire on McCain if JD can link Arlen with McCain in a show of desperation.


199 posted on 06/06/2010 2:18:51 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: Sarabaracuda

It occured to us, but we rejected it because we know McCain. We’ve heard him call his constituants names, we’ve been called racists by him for trying to defend ourselves, we’ve watched his underhanded dealings for years. I personally heard one woman ask him a questions and he unloaded on her with that vicious temper of his and tried to make her look like a food. Fortunately most of us knew her. So, no, Sarah, Fred and others are backing him because like McCain they are easily bought.


200 posted on 06/06/2010 2:22:26 PM PDT by McGavin999 (I'm sorry, your race card is overdrawn and no further charges can be accepted)
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