He is obsessed with McCain and Palin for endorsing McCain. I doubt Palin’s endorsement was worth 20 points (although the “free money” informercial may have been).
Rabs, time for you to start working on your next losing effort - Ron Paul 2012.
Hayworth had NO BUSINESS running against McCain knowing that lurked in the background. He must have hid that or thought he could have kept it hidden. No one in their right mind would support his run knowing such a time bomb was waiting to be set off.
Shadegg is a clean-nosed conservative Congressman who would have been a good option, or they could have had a solid anti-shamnesty businessman run - it is an asset, not a liability, in this political cycle, to be a newcomer to the process, especially if you have created jobs.
But Hayworth jumped in and sucked the oxygen out of the anti-incumbent movement.