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PHOENIX (AP) — Defeated just two years ago as the Republican presidential candidate and with his bonafides as a true conservative again being challenged, John McCain finds himself in a struggle to get even his party’s nomination for another term in the Senate.
Conservatives, independents and Tea Party activists are lining up behind Republican challenger and former talk radio host J.D. Hayworth, reflecting a rising tide of voter frustration with incumbent politicians. Only 40 percent of Arizonans have a favorable view of McCain’s job performance.
Faced with his toughest re-election battle ever, McCain has moved to the right on several hot-button issues, like gays in the military and climate change, and has built a campaign war chest of more than $5 million. Former running mate Sarah Palin and newly elected Republican Sen. Scott Brown, both popular with conservatives, are pitching in.
Hayworth, who will officially launch his campaign Monday, began using his talk show on conservative radio station KFYI to drum up opposition to McCain.
“You have a consistent conservative challenger and an incumbent who calls himself a maverick but in fact is a moderate,” Hayworth said, outlining what he views as the central choice for conservative GOP primary voters in August.
Well, we certainly can't have any of those crazy moderates in Congress.
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I think he could win it with a good campaign, but if I was him I would simply say "screw it" abnd retire. He has done enough with his life.
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| Quote: | | “You have a consistent conservative challenger and an incumbent who calls himself a maverick but in fact is a moderate,” |
Since when did being a "maverick" mean being a teabagging neocon? I thought the "mavericky" part of McCain was the fact that he is a moderate...
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I want McCain to run just to steal votes from J Douchebag Hayworth.
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| SSSS wrote: | | I think he could win it with a good campaign, but if I was him I would simply say "screw it" abnd retire. He has done enough with his life. |
The "Tea Party" has their guns pointed at more then Mac, going after Florida Gov. Crist. These people may be a force to reckon with if things get any worse then they are now.
If they remain like a pack of hyena's and just concentrate on one kill at a time and not take on the whole herd; just might get their share of the herd.
Some people are think it could be Mass. again in some states. |
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I like that new party, "Douchebagers"....
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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I think you might be the party chairman.
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| Brant wrote: | | I think you might be the party chairman. |
Aw, that's not nice, Mr. Bossman Brant.....
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| Brant wrote: | | I think you might be the party chairman. |
I agree! 
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| OndinitaAKALibchit wrote: | | Brant wrote: | | I think you might be the party chairman. |
I agree! |
And, Ana, that's not nice, either.
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I think the only ones taking the teabaggers seriously is the media.
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| phonyfeminazi wrote: | | OndinitaAKALibchit wrote: | | Brant wrote: | | I think you might be the party chairman. |
I agree! |
And, Ana, that's not nice, either. |
But it's funny!
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| SSSS wrote: | | I think the only ones taking the teabaggers seriously is the media. |
Thank god someone on the "right" sees this... seriously... 21% of the population is still registered "republican"--- which means that teabaggers can win primaries by appealing to the hard-core conservatives... but they are going to get rick-rolled in the general election... mathematically, it's suicide for the GOP to a) embrace the movement or b) play to 51% of the remaining 21%... you can't split the republicans and win... and you can't consolidate behind teabaggers and win. You have to run more moderate, level-headed candidates that aren't endorsed by talk-show jackatards
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| SSSS wrote: | | I think the only ones taking the teabaggers seriously is the media. |
i agree. i read a comment the other day that just about sums up my perspective: | Quote: | | More than 100,000 gay people can march on Washington demanding equal civil rights and it barely gets a mention in some major newspapers, yet 600 people plunk down money to spend a couple of days in Tennessee and hear Sarah Palin say the same thing she's been saying for more than a year and the cable news networks talk about it around the clock for a week. So much for the 'liberal' media. |
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| Amphikalein wrote: | | SSSS wrote: | | I think the only ones taking the teabaggers seriously is the media. |
i agree. i read a comment the other day that just about sums up my perspective: | Quote: | | More than 100,000 gay people can march on Washington demanding equal civil rights and it barely gets a mention in some major newspapers, yet 600 people plunk down money to spend a couple of days in Tennessee and hear Sarah Palin say the same thing she's been saying for more than a year and the cable news networks talk about it around the clock for a week. So much for the 'liberal' media. |
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What media??? I've seen very little on this "teabagging" chit.....what media are you talking about?
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