Posted on 08/29/2010 9:11:30 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
PHOENIX—An ebullient John McCain celebrated his resounding GOP Senate primary win with Gov. Jan Brewer, Sen. Jon Kyl and the state’s Republican congressional delegation at a unity fundraiser Friday night.
Conspicuously absent: former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, whom McCain soundly defeated Tuesday following a bitter and acrimonious campaign.
Organizers said he received an invitation to the event, just as others losing candidates did, but Hayworth claims the opposite.
“I never received an invitation – nothing ever crossed my desk,” the former six-term congressman told POLITICO Saturday.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
There's some parsing.
Somebody is not telling the truth.
"A Republican aide familiar with the planning for the event, however, insisted that Kyl invited Hayworth and Hayworth declined."
Sadly, I do believe it is possible Hayworth wasn’t invited. John McCain is the darling of the Republican party - which explains where the tea party originated. The Republicans need to clean house nearly as much as the Dems and, while John McCain kept carrying on about “reaching out to our friends across the isle,” when running against a Dem, he suddenly fought back hard and long against a Republican opponent who, from what I could tell, represented a better bet for our interests than McCain ever will. It won’t be long before McCain turns right back into the RINO he has been for a long, long time. We will get what we deserve by sending him back to Washington.
I wouldn’t want to go watch Arizona’s shame, McCain.
That would be Sarah Palin’s shame.
RETCH! BARF! RALF! HUCK! EARL!
How long before McCain swings wildly left again?
Why would he attend if it was a victory party for the frickin’ RINO a**hat McCain?
John McCain is the co-author of a hideous, anti-liberty bill, McCain-Feingold.
The idea that he is considered a conservative is preposterous. Hats off to his military service, during which his mind may have been damaged. Neither his military career, nor his father’s, gives him a driver’s license to steer the Republic, or a platform from which to misdirect constitutional conservatives.
Out with him and his.
Hang in there JD... perhaps another time will be more favorable to you. If McLame stays true right you have accomplished much and if he turns left then shame on his Arizona voters.
He also was a co-author of McCain-LIEberman. Gorbull warming bill.
Yeah, she forced Arizonians at gunpoint to vote for McCain and cause Hayworth to lose by 30 points.
You win the kewpie doll for the first brain-dead "Palin's fault!" post.
Politico celebrates the primary victory of its favorite back-stabbing RINO!!!
What’s Sarah Palin’s definitive answer to why she endorsed John McCain over J.D. Hayworth, and I wonder how often she’s asked this question? Also, what are her comments and opinions about J.D. Hayworth, if she has any?
Unity with J. McCain? McCain can GFH.
Yeah JD was stabbed in the back by “conservative” Republicans to save DEMOCRAT John McCain. Great phony conservatives like Kyl, Myth Romney, Palin, Pawlenty, Newt (what a slime), Jan Brewer (sad cause I like her) and other scum.
Maverick the Moderate gets rewarded for playing both sides of the aisle as if a magnificent feat of bold statesmanship!
BAAAAAARF!
Are you serious? Are you really going to keep posting about this race every day? Tell me, after the Jim Demint-backed Lindsey Grahamnesty won his Senate primary, did they invite the loser to a “unity” party?
We lost our country due to McCain-Feingold. It will never be as good as pre-2007 in large prat thanks to McCain.
I’m not the least bit impressed with Arizona Republicans. Not sure any of them can be trusted, including Kyl and Brewer. And we don’t even have to mention McCain.
Does anyone even know where Brewer stands on pathways to citizenship for illegals?
And we know Kyl opposed that in 2006, and ran against it in 2006 for reelection, then was a big amnesty pusher in 2007 after winning another term.
Not a group to be trusted. JD is by far the best of those Republicans, and they all turned against him, even though he’d always actively supported the policies they claim to support far more than any of them.
Notice the reaction (or lack thereof) from the crowd when she mentioned McCain at the Beck event yesterday?
I missed all your subsequent posts about that. What did they say?
He probably didn’t receive one.
In ‘10 and beyond, if enough of Congress becomes truly conservative, then John McCain will have to choose between, either, “going along” with conservatives on all of the issues, or going at it alone and looking foolish while doing so. Truly decreasing the total numbers of leftists from both major political parties is key to the long-term and, hopefully, healthy future of conservatism.
Is Sarah's opinion relevant? In the end, JD still has to run a race against McCain. It wouldn't matter if Goldwater himself endorsed him from the grave. He still ran a crappy campaign and got his behind handed to him.
He lost fair and square, and he needs to honor his pledge of supporting McCain in the general election to secure as many Republicans seats as possible.
I didn't have to.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2569827/posts [par. 6]
I missed all your subsequent posts about that.
Perhaps you should read more.
Last time the GOP held the senate we had that ‘gang of 14’ crapola — courtesy of McLame-Goober RINO’s influences. Fact is the country club Senate is a thug gang when Dems own it and GOP plays footsies when its in control. McLame is not the new breed of conservative youngbloods we need in DC. That goes for his underling pansy Lindsey Goober as well.
Sarah’s opinions on anything and everything are very relevant, because she’s considered one of the major contenders for ‘12 POTUS. Only Sarah’s official end to any run for ‘12 POTUS will, also, end her being under the microscope.
How did McQueeg win? Are all the geriatrics in Arizona drinking the kool aid? Or is Arizona ceding to Mexico?
Republicans didn’t win the Arizona GOP’s senate primary - the democrats crossing over did.
McCain is a lizard, cold, scaly and slithery... but just watch, he will succumb to old age and begin making folks wonder at his senility. The sad thing is, he’s been showing signs of senility for several years now, and supporters look on with glazed over brains.
You're confused.
George Lindsey was Goober. Lindsey Graham has far more in common with Jim Nabors. Therefore, Lindsey would be more accurately lampooned as Gomer Graham.
You're welcome.
I’ve lost all respect for Arizona’s RINO Republicans. If the voters of Arizona cannot see the damage that John McCain has inflicted on the entire country - then they are part of the problem too. I know there were a lot of good conservatives that voted for Hayworth, but it wasn’t enough to overcome McCain’s huge money chest and dispicable negative advertising (which he refused to use on Obama).
I really think John McCain is one of the most evil politicians in office right now. Listening to him makes me physically ill.
Someone should start a venture of people betting on how long it will take Juan to stab Republicans and conservatives in the back again. I give him one month after winning the primary in November - if that long.
Anyone that believes this sorry little man has changed - should be committed.
I'm talking about in terms of endorsements. She can't run a race for anyone she endorses. It's up to the candidate.
You'll also notice that many of Sarah's supporters spoke out against her decision to endorse McCain, which destroys the narrative that her supporters are sheep.
Except he implies that he WANTED to attend, but wasn't invited. Either he is lying, or he is an idiot.
My guess is he told exactly the truth, that he didn't receive a written invitation in the mail that made it to his desk.
Maybe he was miffed because he got an oral invitation, and that McCain didn't call him personally or something. I don't know -- but I can't imagine the republicans would have NOT invited him to the event, since winners are always looking to make sure the losers are mollified so their supporters don't get the impression they are not wanted.
Which I presume is what Hayworth is trying to do here, get credit for not being at the rally, while also pretending he wasn't invited, to stir up his supporters.
He ran against a loud mouth, late night TV huckster buffoon
Yep, I noticed. She's still pushing McCain which tells me all I need to know.
He won't be going it alone, he has the Bobsie twins and Ms Lindsey to go with him to sink any and all chances of conservative causes being passed.
Sarah didn’t just “endorse” McCain, she campaigned for him, did robo calls for him, and did fund raisers for him. She made it very clear to the republicans in Arizona that she fully backed McCain because he was the most conservative person running.
Which is pretty much my opinion of McCain's biggest supporter.... Sarah Palin
I missed all your subsequent posts about that. What did they say?
Thank you so much for asking for an update on that! I was waiting on it myself and thought I might have missed the answer.
Seriously? Kyl's 96.75% ACU rating means that he's in the top 5 LIFETIME (top 4 if you include only those with more than one term under their belt) in terms of conservative ratings. Less than 2 points (96.75 to 98.67) separate the top 5. ALL are extremely conservative: Barrasso, DeMint, Coburn, Inhofe, and Kyl.
IMHO, JD's taken a page from Clint Didier's book, up here in Washington State. Big ego, crushing loss against another, and then pouting and stamping of feet and temper tantrum when the media attention goes away.
JD's shown he's more interested in JD than conservatism. Throwing temper tantrums and lying and acting like a spoiled brat is no way to get anyone to listen to you (same goes for Didier).
Suck up the loss, learn from it, support the best candidate in the race, work to make the party more conservative as you can, and go forward.
That would be on November 03, 2010
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