Posted on 08/26/2010 5:36:21 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Edited on 08/26/2010 6:52:20 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sen. John McCain acknowledged his primary rivals during his victory speech after winning Tuesday's Arizona Republican primary, but not warmly.
It took until the sixth paragraph of his acceptance speech, and his remarks notably mentioned his closest rival, J.D. Hayworth, last.
"This was a tough, hard-fought primary, and my opponents, Jim Deakin and Congressman Hayworth, and their families and supporters, deserve credit for having the courage to enter the arena, and give so much of themselves to the candidate they believed in," McCain said. "I wish them well in the future."
Deakin was taking a wild stab at public office, whereas Hayworth was a six-term congressman before losing to Rep. Harry Mitchell (D-Ariz.) in 2006.
Hayworth finished Tuesday with more than 30 percent of the vote — a bloc unlikely to warm to McCain. Hayworth was just as cold toward the senator in his concession speech.
"Elections are clarifying moments," he said after conceding to McCain.
Hayworth said voters determined McCain was a "better custodian of their goals and desires."
Jeers broke out among the crowd. "Let's understand we have to move forward," he said. "[O]ur campaign comes to an end." He added, "The cause endures. It is a fight worth having."
Hayworth has said he'll support the Arizona Republican ticket but not McCain personally.
I just saw McShame on Greta sneering about JD not calling to congratulate him. Normally I would call that bad form but I think I’ll withold judgement this time. JD may be a little shady but he would be a good solid conservative vote in the Senate. At least you would never hear the following quote coming out of Hayworth. “You have nothing to fear from an Obama Presidency”
McCain is a very large part of the problem that exists in our current government.
You can continue to hold your own nose and vote for the bastard(s) untill you sufficate. Frankly, I hope you do.
The rest of us are sick to death of this “game” that affects every aspect of our lives.
Because they represent the most people.
You don’t live in Arizona, so I don’t really care much what you have to say about Arizona. Go make sure Rubio gets in, ok?
I am sick to death of naive people like you, who continue to support “the lessor of two evils” RINO candidates, as if you are cheering on a local High School sports “team” to victory.
You don't like the POS, but you voted for him anyway?
Frankly, I doubt you even bothered to vote for anyone.
Did you even vote in this primary?
McCain hopes his tombstone will someday read, “He was almost as good as Ted Kennedy”!
No, I won’t vote for McCain, but I will be volunteering for our other candidates.
News flash: the U.S. was already in deep trouble long before Obama showed up on the scene.
Debts were mounting, Social Security and other entitlements were already long gone before Obama showed up.
Obama is merely the straw that is breaking the camel's back, so to speak. But that's not to say that McCain couldn't have played the exact same role as Obama, that conservatives would have subsequently taken the brunt of the blame, and that an evil Marxist like Obama would have been elected after McCain anyways.
Funny thing, forcing the RINOs to out themselves really works!
Arizona should try that.
Did you even vote in this primary?
I didn't, because I am not domiciled in Arizona.
Sadly, it seems too many FReepers have jumped, you are correct.
I didn’t want to believe it, but now I do
Adios
You don't know McCain very well. Even in his campaign of trashing and spreadling lies about JD he still wouldn't say anything bad about Obama. McCain was at a town hall and was asked what he thought about the job Obama is doing and McCains answered by saying "I will not say anything bad about the man who is the President"
And that was just last month!!! He is a liberal through and through.
He's not stupid? What does him being stupid have anything to do with it? The only time McCain goes to the right is when he has to win elections. Did you see him on Greta tonight? He said close the borders first here in Arizona and then work on comprehensive immigration reform. In other words AMNESTY. McCain is a disaster for the conservative movement and is a huge part of the reason why we are in this mess.
These RINOS are deal makers, they are not even motivated by genuine beliefs. McCain has been making deals with the Dems for all of these years so that they will give him payback when he wants it. They horse trade. McCain votes with the Dems to act as a “beard” to give them cover on controversial bills so that the Dems can clain that it was “bipartisan”. In exchange they will throw some pork to McCain who will hand the pork over to his crony supporters. The crony supporters will thank him by continuing to give money to McCain’s campaign chest. The law allows politicians to keep any money that is left over in their campaign chest when they retire. It is all a merry-go-round of cronyism with the taxpayers money.
I wonder what Snow, Graham and the other RINOS are going to do now that the Democrats are so fallen in disfavor? The Dems aren’t the A list anymore.
I suspect they will hang on.
The foreign money and the dream of being players in international politics will keep them on the liberal plantation.
I believe they were moles from their inception.
You’ll have to ask Putin to know for sure.
You totally misunderstood my post. No, I’d rather not have any RINO,s, but, I prefer them to DEMS. I’ve grown to loathe what they stand for. We are NEVER going to have 100% pure conservatism,especially from some of the deep blue states. So, we have to take a part-timer (RINO) over a DEM.
And, I’d rather NOT have any DEMS in office. NONE! They’re all marxists and socialists and dragging this country down a road we don’t want to go. I have no use for that party.
I guess it’s futile to try to explain to some that a RINO is better than a DEM. Some like to point fingers at how intolerant the left is - well, some on the right are the same way.
Just for your information, my dear, I have voted in my state of residence in every primary and every election since I was eighteen years old and.....that is mucho election and primaries. And....also foryou info, I have also been a Barry Goldwater/Ronald Reagan conservative my entire life!!! And....believe me, your ranting is not going to stop me. I want the Democrat Party destroyed and with it POTUS Barack Hussein Obama and all who support this America destroyer. Yes....I would rather have McCain then a John Kerry, a Harry Reid, an Al Franken!!! Kindly get real, we are in a war to save our country!!! Have a great day, closed mind!!!!
LOL, you obviously haven't checked my posting history - usually, I'm the guy who is slapping around the holier-than-thou types who want to dump somebody because he only scored a 95% on the ACU lifetime voting record survey.
However, I understand that the GOP has to draw a line somewhere. It's one thing to support imperfect candidates who are still, nevertheless, reasonably conservative - especially when these less than ideal candidates hail from states like in the northeast or the northwest where we cannot reasonably expect a real red-meat conservative candidate to do any good at all. It's quite another thing, however, to simply support the Party's candidate because he has an "R" after his name.
And in the case of McCain, that's what we'd be doing. Let's face it - McCain is terrible, from just about any point of view you want to look at it. He is pro-amnesty, pro-illegal, questionable on social issues, his fiscal conservatism has a definite country-clubbish ring of expediency to it, and he seems to make it his business to fight harder against his own Party than he does against the other guys. We don't need McCain in the Party.
And what's worse - Arizona could do a lot better. It's not like AZ is some left-wing New Englander state or anything, after all.
Frankly, McCain can't exit from the political scene fast enough for my taste. He really needs to just retire, take up golf, and enjoy the rest of his silver days out at Sun City West or somewhere. In the meantime, he won't get a lick of support from me.
Don’t you think they will be less enthusiatic about their smooching with the Dems —at least for a while?
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