Posted on 04/24/2010 11:30:43 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
The real John McCain has been kidnapped and an impostor is running against J. D. Hayworth in the Arizona U.S. Senate primary.
It does sound far-fetched, but stranger things have happened in American politics. It's actually quite clever when you think about it.
John McCain realized quite early that he could not win re-election to the Senate if he campaigned on his actual record – that is, if he campaigned as who he is. So, he arranged to be kidnapped and secluded in a five-star resort in Fiji while a well-groomed look-alike, McCain 2.0, campaigns in his place.
McCain 2.0 is campaigning as a strong, unapologetic Reagan conservative.
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The mainstream media are not blind; they realize this is not the real John McCain. But they are playing along with the charade. It's the least they can do to help their favorite "maverick" deal with his "lunatic right-wing base."
Yet a funny thing happened on the way to the scripted victory dance. Despite a fawning press and a huge money advantage, the most recent Rasmussen Poll shows former Rep. J. D. Hayworth is now only 5 points behind McCain 2.0. Conservative activists in Arizona are not following the script.
I confess, I have my doubts that the impostor McCain 2.0 can keep up the real McCain hidden for 14 more weeks.
(snip)
But 2010 is no ordinary election year. The natives are restless, and conservatives in Arizona are asking hard questions and demanding McCain debate Hayworth face-to-face. Can the McCain impostor stay on message and win over skeptical conservatives in debates and town-hall meetings?
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Thanks for your response. I sincerely hope the people of Arizona do for us all the major good deed of electing J.D. as McPain slipped over to the dark side long ago. It’s his time to go.
Go J.D.
As I recall, McPain insulted Tancredo in the early 2008 “debates”, but Tancredo was unable to reply well.
What you are forgetting is the large number of retirees in AZ. Many of these are unwilling to rock the boat, thinking it could affect their “benefits.” They will stick with McPain, but many may be “back home” elsewhere in late August.
Most of them cannot admit they were deceived; so they dig in even deeper for the successful candidate and the failed policies.
I don’t believe that McPain thinks he is a fraud any more than Gerald R. Ford, Jr., thought he was a fraud for appointing John Paul Stevens.
Good cartoon, but many conservatives wouldn’t understand it.
You are so right, but the Republican primary voters of AZ will be too blind to see.
I never claimed that McCain was “stable”. I’m quite certain that he isn’t.
I don’t believe that McPain...
I’m befginning to refer to him as MexiCain. In his recent Townhall, did anyone mention that in all his years in the Senate, he always advocated for amnesty and never pushed for finishing the fence, deportation or troops on the border? Why the sudden about face. Oh, yeah...now he’s got a conservative running against him.
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