Posted on 02/19/2010 7:36:15 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Ex-Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R) is grateful his primary rival, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), is getting endorsements from prominent DC conservatives. It allows Hayworth to cast the race as Beltway power versus the grassroots, he said in an interview today.
"You can expect a steady stream of the Washington establishment to endorse John McCain. So here's the way the race breaks down: It's John McCain and the Washington establishment versus we the people," Hayworth said.
"We have profound policy differences that we solve through the political process, but with all due respect, I think it's indicative of John just having been there too long," he added.
Meanwhile, Hayworth said, McCain's efforts to cast himself as the fiscal conservative in the race are misplaced, given votes in favor of bailout legislation and his support for comprehensive immigration reform.
"John McCain of all people can't really claim the mantle of the fiscal conservative," Hayworth said. Instead, McCain's record "is Obama-like."
In DC to sit on a panel at CPAC, Hayworth is optimistic about his insurgent campaign against McCain. He lost his seat in '06 to Rep. Harry Mitchell (D), and McCain's team has argued a Hayworth candidacy would put McCain's seat in jeopardy.
But Hayworth says McCain's early assault on his candidacy has led to a backlash. McCain has already launched radio ads attacking Hayworth by name -- including ads that ran on KFYI, the Phoenix radio station on which Hayworth hosted a show until last month. Hayworth called the ads "fiction."
"I think really led to a backlash. People said, 'Hey, wait a minute, there's John McCain going after a conservative. Why, he never ran this way against Barack Obama,'" Hayworth said.
"For whatever reason, team McCain is bragging about running some sort of scorched earth campaign against me," he said. "Politically, the one-word term is threatened, and I can see why since I've been out of the trail."
On Friday, McCain's campaign launched another broadside, knocking Hayworth for failing to reach a publicly-stated goal of $100K during a "money bomb," and for having to defend himself for previous ties to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
"It is clear that Mr. Hayworth has failed to galvanize support for his campaign, just as he failed to hold his solidly Republican U.S. House seat in 2006," McCain spokesperson Brian Rogers said in a statement.
Hayworth said he is ready for attacks on his Abramoff ties, and that McCain has his own skeletons in the closet.
"I would appeal to John's deeply held sense of honor. He knows that's false, and it doesn't help him," Hayworth said. "If he insists on staying in the muck and mire, I can answer the 2 words he's been bandying about with two words of my own: Charlie Keating."
McCain was implicated in the scandal surrounding the AZ developer. He was one of 5 senators given a slap on the wrist.
JD at $101,190 at last check.
It's amazing that the system requires a person falsely accused to spent 1/2 a million $’s to prove it.
You would think they would have covered that for him as he helped the Dept of Justice with the case against the real bad guy
And McCain is a fool to excoriate (I like that word and hope this is a good place for it) JD for the above.
He got busted for what he did, but because of his political clout he only got his wrist slapped.
I thought we were covered with CFR.
McCain is no friend to us.
Welcome to FR, Megan. (Your mom is a homewrecker)
http://sonoranweeklyreview.com/?p=2468
Indians, Lobbyists and Arizona Politics…OH MY!
The scene is the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut . The year 2000.
The congressman has $100 chips stacked high, having a grand time at the crap table.
He likes to gamble and isn’t afraid to show some temper when he loses.
Along for the ride are his campaign manager and one of the two biggest lobbyists handing out campaign money from various Indian tribes who was also a 20 year friend of the legislator.
By now we’ve all heard about the money J.D. Hayworth received from an Indian tribe by way of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who was one of the two big boys in Indian tribe money lobbying.
Pot, meet Kettle….
However, it was not J.D. Hayworth, nor Jack Abramoff at the crap table.
It was Senator John McCain, campaign manager and Indian lobbyist in his own right, Rick Davis, along with Scott Reed, now the one remaining big time lobbyist handling the tribes and their money.
McCain wants to knock JD out early. The RNC better be careful how they handle this.
I’m “in”, Hildy: Check is in the mail! Iworked for McCain in the last election. What a mistake. Tell JD good luck!
You need to get some of your facts straight.
I would love to see john “I can reach across the aisle” mcLame run out of town.
McCain is no friend to no conservative. Graham is carrying McCain’s liberal water while he is running in this election so McCain can “sound” like conservative....like mac did for him when we thought Graham should have been a goner.
It’s a sheer ruse.
Good call!
McCain....believes global warming is man made and requires legislative action to solve....gang of 14....ran a losing presidential campaign and gave us Obama....bailout....amnesty...worse still-campaign finance reform....what else?
Good things....Palin....war on terror....what else?
I am afraid when McCain and Graham get active and/or start talking. I just think, oh man, please get them out of office and out of the Republican party PLEASE! Looking at my quickly written comparisons I wonder why I donated to him. I remember, Palin!
Hell, I left out the part where he lost a republican district to Harry Mitchell.
Hayworth still beats the alternative.
I will be sending a modest donation tomorrow to Mr. Hayworth from my increasingly small stash of money.
It is worth it after all to relieve this country of Juan McCainiac.
What silly logic.
Why would any right minded person that votes want ANYTHING to do with voting for ANY democrat regardless of how the republicans campaign against one another?
I got a note from the RNC today that I hadn’t paid my membership...I wanted to tell them personally why so I called the phone number..it rang and rang...no answering machine..NOTHING. I waited an hour, called again...NOTHING. Figures...they can’t even run an office.
Closed the book on Vietnam MIAs and POWs
Voted against the Bush tax cuts
Opposed Bush on enhanced interrogations of scuzlim terrorists.
kissed bill clinton
kissed hillary clinton
“Which part, JD accepting money from Abramov, putting his wife in a sham job, or him being 21 points behind.
Hell, I left out the part where he lost a republican district to Harry Mitchell.”
If all that were true, which it isn’t as you well know, J. D. would STILL be 10 times better and 10 times more conservative than McCain.
Indians, Lobbyists and Arizona Politics...OH MY!
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/
Medved is part of the squatter support squad and favors amnesty. That element is the only opposition we’re finding against Hayworth. And don’t think for a minute that the GOP establishment run by McCain did anything to help J.D. in his congressional election. And the same people that elect democrats, like they did in Arizona, elect McCain.
This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2008 election cycle.
McCain
Merrill Lynch $373,595
Citigroup Inc $322,051
Morgan Stanley $273,452
Goldman Sachs $230,095
JPMorgan Chase & Co $228,107
US Government $208,379
AT&T Inc $201,438
Wachovia Corp $195,063
UBS AG $192,493
Credit Suisse Group $183,353
PricewaterhouseCoopers $167,900
US Army $167,820
Bank of America $166,026
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $159,596
Blank Rome LLP $154,226
Greenberg Traurig LLP $146,437
US Dept of Defense $144,105
FedEx Corp $131,974
Bear Stearns $117,498
Lehman Brothers $114,357
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=n00006424
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