Thread: McCain faces Senate threat

McCain faces Senate threat
Ex-congressman J.D. Hayworth seeks Arizona seat
By SHELDON ALBERTS, Canwest News Service February 10, 2010

First John McCain lost to Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential race, humbling enough for a politician who had spent a decade pursuing his White House ambitions.

Now the Arizona senator is in jeopardy of losing his U.S. Senate seat amid a challenge from within his own party ahead of this fall's midterm elections.

McCain, a self-styled maverick who has never been a darling of the American right, is preparing for an unexpected primary election battle against a former GOP congressman who has the backing of members of the anti-establishment Tea Party movement.

J.D. Hayworth, who served from 1995 to 2007 in the House of Representatives, will formally announce next week that he'll seek to wrest the GOP nomination from McCain.

"This is perhaps the most serious threat that McCain has faced in his entire congressional career," says Rodolfo Espino, a political scientist at Arizona State University. "He has never been seriously challenged before - either in primary challenges or general election challenges."

Hayworth was once a McCain ally, campaigning for the Arizona senator in 2000 when he ran against George W. Bush for the Republican presidential nomination.

But Hayworth has earned statewide recognition over the past two years in Arizona as a right-wing radio talk show host, frequently criticizing McCain for his past support of immigration reform, highlighting his votes against Bush-era tax cuts and casting him as weak on terror by opposing controversial interrogation techniques against terror suspects.

"The John McCain I supported for president in 2000 is not the same John McCain I've watched frustrate conservatives time and again as our senator," Hayworth wrote last week on a conservative website.

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The sooner we get rid of McCain the better.

I can't WAIT to get RID of McQuack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now we need to get rid of Lindsey Graham>

McCain and Graham, please go away. They both have done everything they can to make life easy for illegal aliens, and uncomfortable for Americans against their progressive attempts at amnesty.

Psalm 91

GOP rid your self of the progressives or lose.

I am sure they are sweating it till election. And they should be.

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http://www.alipac.us/article-4918--0-0.html

Perhaps McCain was a better public servant back in the old days, when he first started out in Congress. In 1986, he actually voted against the 1986 IRCA Amnesty! So did Liberal Democrat Barbara Boxer. This was when both were in the House of Reputables, before they became Senators.

JD Hayworth supported McCain for President back in 2000, before illegal immigration was recognized as a serious problem, and before George W. Bush's secret talks with Mexican President Vicente Fox, to sneak illegal aliens into the US, as an indirect way of accomplishing Bush's "Guest-Worker" program.

But I was wondering - isn't Sarah Palin supporting McCain's re-election? Not sure what effect this might have. Perhaps she feels obligated to return the favor, as McCain supported her as his Veep.