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McCain needs to go.

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Anonymous

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I truly hope McCain gets clobbered its time to sweep the house and senate clean and get a fresh start. these people are to arrogant on both sides of the isle!



McCain turns up heat on Hayworth
By: Alex Isenstadt
January 26, 2010 04:45 AM EST

One year after seeing his presidential ambitions extinguished in an overwhelming defeat, Arizona Sen. John McCain is launching a scorched-earth campaign aimed at incinerating a reelection challenge from J.D. Hayworth, the conservative former Arizona congressman and radio talk show host.

McCain is attempting, with a series of hardball tactics, to cut Hayworth down before his campaign even gets off the ground. He’s mounted a concerted effort during the past month to push Hayworth off the airwaves, run an ad targeting Hayworth on his own radio station and warned him through emissaries that going through with a bid to unseat McCain would be a serious mistake.

One source familiar with the McCain campaign said the offensive was only a preview of things to come, adding, “I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of this.”

The anti-Hayworth effort began in earnest Dec. 15, when Grant Woods, the former Arizona attorney general and onetime McCain chief of staff, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission. Woods argued that Hayworth, who has used his KFYI drive-time program to blast away at McCain as a soft-on-immigration moderate, was essentially getting free airtime to wage a campaign as a de facto candidate.

Then, last week, McCain campaign attorneys Paul Charlton and Joseph Abate also wrote the FEC to complain that Hayworth was effectively using his radio show as a campaign platform, arguing that Hayworth’s radio parent company Clear Channel “has an obligation not to allow one specific candidate — regardless of that candidate’s occupation — unfettered daily use of its facilities to promote his candidacy for federal office.”

Hayworth spokesman Jason Rose said Hayworth’s announcement Friday that he was canceling his show — which came just hours before he declared that he was launching a campaign — was owed in no small part to the pressure the McCain forces brought to bear on the station.

“John McCain is a powerful and influential figure and served on the Commerce Committee,” said Rose, who went on to argue that radio executives feared the Arizona senator’s “wrath.”

McCain is going so far as to hit back at Hayworth on his own turf, launching a critical radio spot on KFYI last week, days before Hayworth even announced he was in the race.. “He sounds conservative on the radio, but J.D. was one of the biggest spenders in Congress,” says the ad, which is also running statewide. “In 2005, they passed a bill with 6,500 pork-barrel earmarks worth more than $24 billion. J.D. voted for every one. He’d be the wrong direction for Arizona.”

One McCain source said the campaign to brand Hayworth as a consummate earmarker was only beginning.

“That effort has just started. They are going to highlight all the crap he voted for,” said the source. “[McCain is] going to turn this into a referendum on who is the best protector of your money.”

The McCain effort to shoot down Hayworth has also taken place behind the scenes, according to several sources, with McCain allies warning Hayworth against a campaign. “I know some party folks have come to J.D. and said, ‘This is not good for you,’” said one person familiar with the effort.

McCain aides first became aware that Hayworth was seriously considering a bid in early December, when Joe Arpaio, the Maricopa County sheriff known for his tough-on-immigration approach, hosted a Paradise Valley fundraiser for Hayworth to erase his outstanding legal debt from his tangential involvement in the Jack Abramoff affair. Later that month, Hayworth traveled to Washington to meet with prospective campaign supporters.

McCain has reconvened his team of seasoned operatives from his 2008 White House run to meet the Hayworth challenge. Heading up the effort are Rick Davis, McCain’s 2008 campaign manager; Charlie Black, a senior adviser on the campaign; Christian Ferry, McCain’s deputy campaign manager; and Fred Davis, the veteran longtime GOP media consultant who oversaw McCain’s ad effort.

To longtime McCain hands, the aggressive approach he has taken to the primary is not surprising.

“I guess you can call it aggressive. I just call it not taking anything for granted,” said Michael Dennehy, a GOP strategist in New Hampshire who has worked as a top McCain adviser. “It’s not anything different than he’s always done. He’s taking it seriously.”

“John’s been doing what he normally does in elections, which is work hard,” said Wes Gullett, a longtime McCain adviser in Arizona. “He’s been very active.”

"I take every race seriously," McCain told POLITICO Monday evening after exiting the Senate chamber. "Anybody who runs against me - I take it seriously. I always do."

In an interview with POLITICO over the weekend, Hayworth said McCain’s offensive had backfired — and, if anything, has enabled Hayworth to rally support for a primary challenge.

“When you stop and think about it, it’s pretty unprecedented,” said Hayworth. “There’s a real backlash to these spots.”

“I think we all know John McCain’s place in history is safe, but some of these attacks are a sign he’s been there too long,” added Hayworth, who said he is in the process of assembling a campaign team and will make a formal campaign announcement in the next several weeks. “This is a textbook example of what not to do in a campaign. All these actions did was to make me listen to the people who wanted me to run.”

“One might have thought with all the time spent away from Arizona over the years, Sen. McCain might have enhanced his diplomatic skills,” added Rose. “But when it came to Hayworth’s conservative voice, the 24-year senator reverted to the temperamental, old-school hardball that has proven counterproductive.”

One former McCain aide said the campaign had erred in responding so aggressively to Hayworth — a move, this person argued, that had only boosted Hayworth’s stature.

“J.D. Hayworth only talks to 35,000 people every day. Who cares?” said the former aide.

“There was no strategy,” the former aide said of the campaign’s approach to Hayworth. “They’re angry.”

A Rasmussen Reports survey this month showed McCain holding a 53 percent to 31 percent lead over Hayworth in a primary matchup. An internal McCain campaign poll shows McCain in the high 50s and Hayworth in the low 30s, according to a sourc
 

MsSage

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Thanks for posting this.
I have lost all respect for him the past year.
We NEED to clean HOUSE. I knwo some have said well who are you going to replace them with...seems like some very good people are stepping up and who want the BEST for OUR country.
 

TSR

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Well someone had better say something to Sarah, I read where she was going to campaign for McCain in the upcoming primary.
 

Liveoak

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TSR said:
Well someone had better say something to Sarah, I read where she was going to campaign for McCain in the upcoming primary.

Hope she does, then we be can done with both of them. Wasn't she going to take another modeling contract or was that just hearsay?
 

Larrry

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I thought thisa was about McCain...oh I forgot the libs want to change the subject.
McCain was only there because the leftwing media needed somone to sacrifice.
 

Liveoak

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Larrry said:
I thought thisa was about McCain...oh I forgot the libs want to change the subject.
McCain was only there because the leftwing media needed somone to sacrifice.

TSR's a liberal? :shock:
 

TSR

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Liveoak said:
Larrry said:
I thought thisa was about McCain...oh I forgot the libs want to change the subject.
McCain was only there because the leftwing media needed somone to sacrifice.

TSR's a liberal? :shock:

Heck, I thought he was talking about you Liveoak. :lol: :lol: My post mentioned McCain and Sarah.
 
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Liveoak said:
TSR said:
Well someone had better say something to Sarah, I read where she was going to campaign for McCain in the upcoming primary.

Hope she does, then we be can done with both of them. Wasn't she going to take another modeling contract or was that just hearsay?

I would agree Liveoak if she goes out and campaigns for McCain she is history. She will deserve what befalls her if she is ignorant enough to bite the bullet.

I don't think it should be an allegiance issue rather the right thing should be the issue of anyone wanting to be trusted in public office.. I think I READ RECENTLY ON HERE that she believes in term limits well if she does and endorses McCain nothing she says is credible from that point forward.
 
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