Posted on 08/23/2010 5:40:22 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Sen. John McCain may have a comfortable lead over J.D. Hayworth going into Tuesday's Arizona Republican Senate primary, but he didn't get there without a fight. McCain spent $21 million in an effort to bury Hayworth in the primary and shifted to the right on immigration and other issues, even shedding the "Maverick" label he once embraced.
Hayworth joined CBS News' John Dickerson on "Washington Unplugged" Monday in this week's installment of "Behind the Ballot." The host brought up McCain's latest anti-Hayworth campaign ad tying the former congressman to convicted ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
The ad claims "Hayworth received $150,000 from Abramoff and his clients" and kept the money even after Abramoff's conviction.
After listening to the ad, Hayworth responded, "Character matters, especially when [McCain] displays no character. He knows that ad is completely false and there are so many untruths it's tough to begin."
"John McCain chaired hearings in 2006 concerning Mr. Abramoff and his relationship with members of the Senate and members of the House of Representatives," Hayworth continued. "My name never came up. My name was never part of any sort of report. John McCain knows that and to run an ad that is blatantly false; I'm sorry to say this, its part and parcel of a 'lie and buy' strategy."
He ended with strong words for his opponent.
"What we are seeing is that John McCain sadly has lost whatever character he had. Instead of being a senior statesman, who should be revered and, quite frankly, should be voluntarily retiring... is a cynical, political shape-shifter," Hayworth added.
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Say prayers that AZ voters are not fooled by the daily and even hourly Ads being run by Juan here in AZ.
Free Republic Opinion Poll:
Would you be for or against McCain?
Member Opinion
against 92.4% 2,989
for 7.6% 247
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McCain and Stem Cell Research Round-up
Tom Delay On Faux "McCain Has Done More To Hurt The Party" VIDEO
John McCain: "My Conservative Record" YouTube VIDEO
John McCain, Jack Kemp and Hugo Chavez.
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Gun Owners of America on McCain's Record.
GUNS AND SCHOOLS: THE POLITICS (McCain tries to grab guns, 1999)
CITIZENS COMMITTEE URGES JOHN McCAIN TO RETIRE FROM UNITED STATES SENATE
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA)
John McCain Losing His Cool YouTube video
Vietnam Veterans Against McCain YouTube video
McCain Argues for U.S. Troop Withdrawl from Somalia Mr. Blackhawk Down (YouTube VIDEO)
McCain Group Got Big Cable Donation Breath taking corruption, Senator!
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McCain gives nod to Kerry campaign (MAJOR RINO ALERT!) June 2003
MAFIA, EMPRISE, DELAWARE NORTH, DON BOLLES, BRUCE BABBITT, BILL CLINTON...AND JOHN McCAIN?
McCain married into the mob.
Former P.O.W.: "Why I Cannot Support Senator John McCain for President" http://blog.barofintegrity.us/2008/04/21/former-pow-why-i-cannot-support-senator-john-mccain-for-president.aspx
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SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO"
SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO" Part II
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The War Secrets Sen. John McCain Hides
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McCain Seeks to Change California Primary
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McCain/Soros by Rabbi Areyh Spero
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Soros' "Reform" (an article about Soros‘ instrumental hand in McCain/Feingold)
John McCain: George Soros' Useful Idiot?
Through The Weeds; John McCain, George Soros and the Reform Institute
McCain’s Reform Institute donor list:
Reform Institute greatfully acknowleges Sen. McCain as past Chairman:
McCain planning climate change tour
McCain's Letter (McCain aligns with Global Enviro activists)
The Turning Point on Global Warming (McCain and Lieberman Op-Ed Alert)
Climate bill sets stage for debate (Sens. McCain, Obama, and Lieberman join forces)
McCain: Global warming is fact, must be addressed [hurl alert]
McCain Sides With Leading Dems on Global Warming (NH voter reminder ALERT
EIA's Analysis of the Lieberman-McCain Climate Change Bill Human Events
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Kyoto Through the Back Door? A Debate on the Lieberman –McCain Climate Stewardship Act - Heritage Foundation
Promising Vote on Global Warming - "But Mr. McCain, as we know, does not give up easily. ... He promises to be just as tenacious on this issue."
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Captains of Industry Could Populate McCain Cabinet ( Lieberman Potential Cabinet Member)
McCain Still Disliked by Fiscal Conservatives (Club For Growth)
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McCain Antics Weary Arizonans in G.O.P. FR June '01
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Billboard owner bars ad targeting McCain Viacom refuses anti-Amnesty billboard because it bashes McCain.
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McCain Looked into Caucusing with Democrats
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McCain, Obama Make Deal on Financing
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John Kerry: McCain Approached Me About Joining Dem Ticket in 2004
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McCain denies he was close to quitting GOP
Double Talk Express. McCain in his own words. VIDEO
John McCain's Newt Problem (Infidelity to first wife.)
How Cindy McCain was outed for drug addiction(stole drugs from the American Voluntary Medical Team) (McCain used his influence to cover it up.)
McCain and his Chicom Connections: Posts #17 and #18 by Calpernia
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McCain Blames Bush For Osama's Escape
McCain Rides to Kerry's Rescue: "John Kerry is Not Weak on Defense" (Today Show alert)
The Real McCain Record Obstacles in the way of conservative support.
McCain Is the Amnesty Candidate
John McCain SCREAMS AT 9/11 FSA MEMBERS FOR OPPOSING HIS BILL TO GIVE AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS
It depends on the meaning of “never” (McCain's Convenient Memory)
UN Double Talk from Straight Talker McCain (Law of the Sea Treaty)
The Conservative Case Against John McCain In 2008
John McCain: Hypocrite by Mark R. Levin
This Man is Not a Republican (re: McCain) (FR thread - Jan. 2000)
Freeper Alert: Sen. KERRY / Communist Vietnamese Killing Off Christains in Central Highlands... (...with Senator McCAIN (R) in complete agreement with him, is because "Engagement" with Communist Vietnam is better for the people of Vietnam in the long run.)
John McCain armed Kosovo Islamic terrorists
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McCain says:
"Why don't you shut your political pie hole?"
Stifling the www? Online Freedom of Speech Act (H.R. 1606)
"1606 is needed because federal courts have ordered the Federal Election Commission to regulate "electioneering communications" on the Internet because of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act (McCain-Feingold). If H.R. 1606 fails to become law, your Web site or blog could be shut down for the 30 days prior to a primary election and the 60 days prior to a general election should you express "electioneering communications."
John McCain, enemy of free speech
(Pissant) "Yeah, but Precious will save him EEE!"
John McCain Is Not the One
No conservative should ever support John McCain. Besides his problems of granting amnesty to illegal aliens and restricting freedom of speech, he is severely deficient in the areas of national security and integrity.
John McCain lacks leadership for the War on Terror. His leadership codified the Army interrogation manual making terrorists legal combatants. His leadership granted terrorists American citizenship rights under Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. He thereby ensures information vital to defeat terrorists remains sacred and unobtainable. Terrorists are unresponsive to direct questioning and psychological gambits. Therefore, interrogators need all stress and coercion techniques our military encounters in survival schools. McCain embraces liberal orthodoxy considering those methods torture, but his searing experiences call forth contrary insights he must suppress.
McCain understands the impossibility of fabricating an association of terrorists with Common Article Three of the Geneva Conventions, when they participate in international armed conflict, lack pacific character in regard to hostilities, and do not meet any definition of legitimate armed forces. Instead he understands that Article 13 of the First and Second Geneva Conventions and Article Three of the Fourth Convention must be consulted. McCain knows terrorists are not insurgents or freedom fighters; when captured, certainly not prisoners of war. They are not armed forces, militias, or volunteer corps of any country or authority. These killers are not members of organized resistance movements carrying arms openly. They have no distinctive identifier. Terrorists cannot even qualify as spies or saboteurs destroying infrastructure required to support military operations.
McCain understands Geneva Conventions intended to isolate such forces, provide them few protections, and allow destruction with any overwhelming furies needed to crush their abominations. Knowing these factors he promised to close Guantanamo Bay, inviting terrorists into our legal system. He decided to accommodate their extraordinarily savage behavior within our country, and thereby checkmate national laws intended to manage simple murder and kidnapping, and render Posse Comitatus a crumbling deception.
McCain especially appreciates from our Constitution that laws guaranteeing civil liberties presuppose operation within an invincible society. He understands Alexander Hamilton’s words that the reality of devastating, unforeseeable perils must lead deliberations about national security. The primary responsibility of the Federal government’s three branches is to pursue Hamilton’s admonition that powers exist without limitation; providing capabilities thwarting looming dangers as well as responding to attacks. McCain understands powerful warfare capabilities require potent intelligence acquisition and exploitation before and throughout military campaigns.
The framers of our Constitution and the Geneva Conventions held powerful positions throughout the darkest times of our country and the world. They were our Founding Fathers, and parents and grandparents of the Greatest Generation. Their words expressed durable morality earned in our fight for freedom, and against the ultimate bloody deluges of the 20th century. These first generations expressed principles derived from confronting shattering tragedies, and earning peace through victory.
John McCain’s actions are particularly reprehensible because he turns a blind eye to the council of these people. McCain continually seeks popular advancement on national security issues by placating those coveting luxurious, asymmetrical morality requiring shelter from perilous choices and awareness of danger. His crime is repudiating military and intelligence professionals facing hard choices when confronting shrewd, ruthless enemies obscured behind frightening uncertainties.
McCain displays a boundless absence of integrity as he follows the success of Bill Clinton, who cemented in politics for both parties the idea that character did not matter. There are no principles, but only ideas that secure possession of an office. John McCain is the most prominent Republican example of this new direction towards possession of political power through careful exploitation of perceived expediency.
Politics is the art of compromise and leadership is the art of principle. Abraham Lincoln used superb political skills to implement some of the most cogent and insightful principles to guide this nation. John McCain has used political skills to implement compromises consistent with increasing his personal acclaim among liberal media and politicians. Lincoln is now dead and McCain is alive, but dead to principles unrelated to his immediate personal advancement. He is now using this aspect of his character to proclaim profound revelations concerning the value of conservative principles. The current effort to deceive Arizona voters that he opposes amnesty, while his political history emphasizes the contrary is just a recent example of his habitual, reprehensible behavior.
John McCain succumbed to the terrible addiction of political power. The same addiction expressed itself differently in fellow Navy officer Randy Cunningham, who was the Navy’s first Vietnam ace. Over the decades the honor and moral authority of both were gradually traded away for influence in the political arena. There is a vast, immeasurable gulf separating John McCain from the genuine people who dealt with the issues sponsoring the Geneva Conventions and our Constitution. He much more equates with the parasites now feeding upon the prosperity and security so painfully forged for their benefit. We now suffer impostors like him with such extraordinary mental athletic prowess as to scale unheard of heights of arrogance and studied ignorance and achieve unparalleled duplicity.
To me McCain is like a cadaver prepared for viewing. The removal of blood and organs equates to the trading away of honor and moral authority. The reputation that remains is like the cosmetics applied for viewing a corpse at the funeral. It is easy for anyone to get onto the same sort of gently downward sloping path. The final result is tragic, but we should not suffer such pathetic and contemptible modern day Macbeths or Hamlets as Republicans in the Senate or any other public office.
Unless something weird happens McCain will slaughter JD. Id vote for JD against McCain but he isnt all that he pretends to be. I wouldnt vote for him as dog catcher unless he was running agains Juan.
AZ is full of retired liberals as senile as Mc’Lame.
WOW!
Thanks for the in-depth analysis of Juan. I find all points 100% valid, and totally admire the knowledge and judgement that you bring to this important assessment of Juan.
I just wish it had gotten traction, but I have never had any indication it did.
When McCain was elected to the Senate in 2004 he received 1,505,372 votes.
Maybe this time he should just hand out twenty dollar bills.
If McCain wins, I hope that Hayworth runs as an independent. Even if Hayworth loses it will send a strong message to McCain and the powers that be. Who the heck is still voting for McCain anyway?
Another question - are Democrats and independents allowed to vote in the Republican primaries in Arizona?
If McCain were not a war hero he would not still be on the ballot.
Thanks for taking the time to write a great summary of “why not to vote for McCain”. How anyone could vote for McCain after reading it is beyond me. His record is public.
JD is not great or ideal. But McCain needs to go. He is a conservatives biggest nightmare. Come on AZ! Dump the fossil.
The only difference between John McCain and Arlen Specter is that McCain hasn’t officially switched political parties.
And McCain still has a job, but I hope we can fix that come November!
AFAIK, the Arizona primaries are open to all registered voters, and yes, the Democrats are McCain's strongest support base.
AZ voters will today truly show their colors, and they won’t be bold but pastel.
That must be the problem — retired liberals, but liberals never retire from their political philosophy.
Looks like Capt. Queeg is going to win again, damn it
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