Posted on 08/26/2010 4:32:31 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Two days after being trounced in the Arizona GOP Senate primary, former Rep. J.D. Hayworth still hasn’t called Sen. John McCain to congratulate him.
And it’s not as if Tuesday night’s outcome was in doubt for very long. McCain eviscerated Hayworth by 24 percentage points and The Associated Press called the race not even a full two hours after the polls closed.
The four-term senator quickly took the stage at the downtown Phoenix Convention Center to declare victory and make it an early night. But the McCain campaign is still a bit surprised it never heard from Hayworth, a former six-term congressman who lost his Scottsdale congressional seat in 2006.
“The Hayworth campaign actually had reached out to us this past weekend to get the appropriate number for him to call for concession,” one McCain aide told POLITICO.
The aide said Hayworth’s spokesman Mark Sanders even tested it on Monday morning to make sure the traditional post-election ritual went smoothly. But the call never came.
Sanders told POLITICO Hayworth had no plans of calling McCain. A message seeking an explanation on why was not immediately returned.
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I don't but then again I do to a certain point. When you figure it out let me know.
Yup....JD made a great concession speech..no need to call and congratulate McCain. It was a very dirty race on McCain's side.
You are right.
We must maintain our dignity and do what is proper.
I don’t live in AZ but I am so sick and tired of McPain.
I don’t understand your resoning. Because I wouldn’t vote for a guy who has sold his integrity to a company that touts free government money, I’m not a capitalist?
I know I’m going to get flamed, but this is what I expected from JD. He always struck me as kind of a used-car salesman. When you get beat that badly, it’s not simply a case of more money - it’s the voters just being not that into him.
Me too. As Michael Palin (Monty Python) once said, "I'm so sick and tired of being sick and tired, I'm sick and tired".
Well said. I agree.
Where is the reasoning that he sold his integrity by taking a job as a pitch man? Did he vote for any of that "free government money?" What does that have to do with his politics or his political record?
Quite a few FReepers feel the same about Fred Thompson doing ads for reverse mortgages but I don't see that either. Just honest work that pays bills.
I always thought that politicians call the winner even if you don’t agree with them on anything. I mean even Gore called Bush (before he took it back).
And, some just like to take the high road. We don’t need to wallow in the mud just because the DEMS do.
JD needs to be gracious and extend his congratulations. He doesn’t need to support him or his candidacy, just be a gracious loser.
I’m sorry you are so wrong in your thinking. JD needs to show some class in this situation.
After reading some of these posts and the reaction from some on here, I’m kind of glad JD didn’t win. He hasn’t shown that he has a sportsmanlike attitude. People will remember this, should he ever decide to run for office again. Just because McCain is a jerk, doesn’t mean JD has to act like one as well.
Some of you may need to take a chill pill away from politics for a while. Taking our country back is very important, but, acting and being just as hateful as the DEMS isn’t very becoming.
If it were Benedict Arnold that had won the Arizona primary, would you think that a gracious message conceding would be required?
SCREW McCain, and kudos to J.D. for NOT legitimizing the win of that treasonous bastard.
John McCain will never receive a vote from me. EVER
This is not a person who belongs in the U.S. Senate.
http://www.hotr.us/mccain/mccainagain.html
Couldn’t agree more...
Do you really think people care today about out politicians being good sportsman with the heat our country is facing? As I said before OBama “changed” the whole course of ediquette and proticol when he bowed to foreign ME nations...and now his recent action in delivering Arizona to the UN. McCain is on the wrong side of the American people....he gets not one iotta of respect from me...period....ever! He gave us Obama and that will always be my point of referance...traitor to us all.
Excellant link DoughtyOne....too bad Arizona didn’t consider this....and we’ll all suffer for it when he once again heads to Washington to play American Senator. The Democrates are happy campers their choir boy will return.
“JD has won enough elections to know the protocol. I am sure he expected and received a call in every one of the elections he won. For him not to call McCain is a form of poor sportsmanship and doesn’t make sense from what I’ve known of Hayworth.”
McCain ran the dirtiest campaign I’ve ever seen. Talk about breaking ettiquete. Sheesh.
Thank you. I agree with your additional comments too.
McCain didn’t give us zero. The MSM’s hatred and daily bashing of GWB gave us obama. And, I’d like to add that the Republican party gave us obama. They ran a candidate who couldn’t win, much as they did when Bob Dole won the nomination.
It was a no win from the git go. The country thought they were getting a middle of the road Clinton, who would put this country back on track. Instead,they got Jimmy Carter II.
I’ll just disagree .....MCCain handed over the Pres. Office, he never called Bo out let alone put up a fight to win. There were of course other elements in the fray....like when all the other potential candidates dropped out and suddenly McCain got his “second wind”....there were some underhanded ploys taking place then. But McCain co-operated fully in sacrificing our country to Bo and still does.
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