Pat Buchanan: Voting for a batshit crazy opponent to McCain is better than re-electing McCain

[Amerigo Vespucci]

VIDEO A the URL below.

'J.D. Man' Buchanan on Hayworth's Birther Problems: 'So What!'
By Heather Monday Mar 29, 2010 8:00am

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/jd-man-buchanan-hayworths-birther-problems

It looks like John McCain is in some serious trouble with his reelection battle in Arizona which was pretty much the theme that ran through a good deal of MSNBC's coverage of Sarah Palin out stumping for him in Arizona. Apparently Pat Buchanan doesn't think his opponent J.D. Hayworth's birther problem are going to be an issue for him if he wins. When asked why he liked Hayworth even though he's in the middle of this whole birther controversy, Buchanan's response was "So what!".

Well Pat, that might be much of a problem for him in the primary but I would hope that issue and his Jack Abramoff problems will come back to haunt him in the general election if he gets past McCain. This was about as pitiful as watching Buchanan fawn all over his girlfriend Sarah Palin for the morning.

So how bad was the press coverage for McCain today? Norah O'Donnell was interviewing the crowd there and a great deal of them were not there because they support McCain, but to see Palin instead. They felt McCain is going to have to bring her back in several more times before the primary race is over. And Norah O'Donnell mentioned something about him not even having enough signatures to get on the ballot yet and that he needs Palin stumping for him to help with that.

Rasmussen Reports shows Hayworth closing in on McCain. Election 2010: Arizona Republican Primary for Senate:

Longtime incumbent John McCain now leads conservative challenger J.D. Hayworth by just seven points in Arizona’s hotly contested Republican Senate Primary race.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely Arizona GOP Primary voters shows McCain ahead 48% to 41%. Three percent (3%) favor another candidate, and eight percent (8%) are undecided.

Following the announcement that Sarah Palin would campaign for his reelection, McCain opened up a 53% to 31% lead over Hayworth in January. The two men were in a near tie in November. Read on...

I don't see how Palin stumping for McCain is going to help him with the tea baggers. They hate McCain and I don't see how her appearances with him are going to change that. It's not bringing him any support from the likes of Buchanan either who apparently thinks a candidate in a Republican primary being seen as bat-shit crazy is not an issue. Given the fact that there's nothing left of them but the extreme right wing of the party, I'd say he's probably right.

[mucifer]

1. yeah I care what the guy who said some nice things about hitler has to say on this issue.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. The money shot on this one is that he makes Hayworth look even crazier

The old Groucho Marx line about "I wouldn;t belong to a club that would have me as a member"...

...having Buchanan endorse you, for any reason, is a thumbs-up from a nutjob.

:rofl:

:toast:

[SargeUNN]

3. This is Arizona

We have more than our share of nuts here in Arizona. The sad thing is we have a good candidate running in Rodney Glassman http://rodneyglassman.com and nobody is talking about him, including our so called "progressive radio station" here in Phoenix. Hayworth just has to say Obama isn't a citizen and he converts a large crowd since Arizona's state legislature is 75% birthers (according to Maddow, and from what I see she is right).

Remember Arizona not only has McCain, but Kyl, Trent Franks, Jeff Flake, Joe Arpaio, Gov. Jan Brewer who refused funds for Kid's Care, our version of SCHIPS.

[jzola]

4. Rodney hasn't announced yet.

He'll announce after the first week in April. He'll be a good candidate.

[lonestarnot]

6. Yeah we're in great shape over here.

NOT :puke:

[Ozymanithrax]

5. McCain holds a Palin Booty Call and his constituents listen...

I am not surprised.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. Daily Beast editor and owner just came out against McCain

Shame on John McCain

For the embattled Arizona legend, Sarah Palin's campaign rally for him was a new low.
I am not sure who must have felt worse—John or Cindy McCain—when Sarah Palin bounded onstage in Tucson last Friday, wearing that fetching black leather dominatrix jacket to deliver a hair-swinging, wink-winking pep talk, and revving up the Tea-baggers who came to see her not him. It was a sweet moment for Sarah. McCain’s 2008 election team—those “old school” losers, as she doubtless thinks of them—have trashed her ever since they lost.

Cindy McCain was glacially self-contained in a trim, chic suit, at her husband’s side. When will high-def pick up the grinding of teeth? She introduced Palin as “a breath of fresh air” when in fact, as far as the McCains are concerned, Palin was a tornado wreaking havoc on the senator’s campaign for president with a personal reality show that enthralled the public but appalled the voters. She has since used the celebrity he bestowed on her to become the La Pasionaria of the No Spin Zone crowd, who now want only to unseat him and install his cocky challenger J.D Hayworth.
It's like the Hanoi Hilton in reverse: He held out under physical torture, but under political torture it seems he’ll say and do just about anything.
No doubt for Cindy McCain the thought of having her husband back in town and hanging around the house if he loses his Senate seat is worth the indignity of once again appearing next to him to pretend that the current pin-up of violent populism stands for the same things as a principled war hero.

But for John McCain himself, and the people who have so long admired him, surely this moment in Tucson was a killer moment of moral degradation. McCain’s whole deal has been that he’s his own man, a maverick, a courageous loner. He defied the Bushies by speaking vehemently against torture. He stuck his neck out for the Iraq surge. He denounced the corrupting influence of money in politics. He was the scourge of pork. Whatever he really thought about Palin as his campaign went down in flames and his team threw her under the bus, he gallantly kept his counsel.



• J.D. Hayworth on running against McCainThat bit, at least, paid off, I guess. It meant he could call on Palin to get him out of a hole in his fight against a meretricious former talk-show host riding anti-incumbent fervor to within seven points of upending him. By using Palin to pander to the Tea Party, however, McCain showed his willingness to repudiate everything that made him special, just so he can hold on to a Senate seat. It’s like the Hanoi Hilton in reverse: He held out under physical torture, but under political torture it seems he’ll say and do just about anything. That character change seems to date from the strange reversal of magic that occurred when he succumbed to political opportunism in 2004 in Pensacola and embraced George W. Bush, the man who allowed the disgraceful smear campaign against him in South Carolina four years earlier.

As for Palin, her political heart, if she had one, would of course be with McCain’s challenger, who purportedly stands for everything she does. But being consistent politically is no longer as important to Sarah Palin as being a star. The McCain gig in Tucson was a big booking; images of being embraced anew by a legend provided resonant media far more valuable than backing the other guy in the race, who merely furthered the Tea Party cause. When she’s out at their fervid rallies, Palin pretends to be talking to True Believers in a political movement. But she’s really only talking to consumers. Buy my book. Watch my show. Hype my brand. She has chosen celebrity over politics, and who can blame her, given what hell it is to try and serve your country in Washington these days.

If McCain wins this last race he knows it will be because of her. It’s not impossible that Palin will turn out to be his most enduring legacy. Disinterested public service has become, just so… what’s the phrase, “old school.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-29/shame-on-john-mccain/?cid=hp:mainpromo3


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