J.D. Hayworth says he'll run against John McCain

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Former Arizona Congressman J.D. Hayworth says he is planning to run against John McCain for his U.S. Senate seat.

Hayworth, a Republican, told The Associated Press late Friday he stepped down as host of his radio program on KFYI-AM, a conservative radio talk show in Phoenix. Legally, he would not have been able to remain host of the program and be an active candidate.

Hayworth was ousted from his Congressional seat in 2006 after 12 years in office by Democrat Harry Mitchell, and has hosted the radio show for the past few years.

"We will formally announce at a later time, but we're moving forward to challenge John McCain," he said. "I think we all respect John. I think his place in history is secure. But after close to a quarter-century in Washington, it's time for him to come home."

He said he wasn't serious about running against McCain until a recent "outpouring of support" from Arizonans asking him to run changed his mind.

"Arizonans have a clear choice _ a clear, commonsense, consistent conservative, or they can remain with a moderate who calls himself a maverick," Hayworth said.

http://www.azstarnet.com/news/state-and-regional/article_b78cd3ee-cbd2-5909-9fd5-42486d49dd16.html

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1. I wonder if this will even get....

1/16th of the attention and "OMG HOW COULD SOMEONE DO THIS!!!!!!!!!" reaction from the stupid media that someone daring to primary Joe Lieberman did. Normally I'd say no (they didn't with Lincoln Chaffee), but on the other hand this is John McCain, the only man beloved MORE by the beltway insider media than Joe Lieberman. So maybe.

[LeftishBrit]

4. Just par for the Republican course

The Republican far-RW-ers helped to usher in one of America's worst peacetime crises by dumping Robert LaFollette Jr in the Senate primary in favour of Joe McCarthy in 1946. And they've just been continuing that habit of pushing the party so far right that you'd expect them to fall off a cliff, but they haven't yet. I call it the First Law of Republican Politics: there is no one so right-wing that they can't be replaced by someone further to the right.


I'm surprised they're not trying to deselect McCain in favour of *Sarah Palin*, but I suspect that this isn't any better.

[karynnj]

8. They didn't with John kerry either, though his challenger got only about

30% of the vote even though the primary is open to the 50% of the voters in MA who were unenrolled with either party.

I assume here, like Lieberman, they will speak of that if he becomes a serious threat or wins.

[leveymg]

2. The Slime vs the Ghoul

"It's your money, I'll just take a nice piece of it for myself."

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Two losers in a fight to the bottom.

How appropriate is that?

[Catshrink]

9. Yeah, but given the neoLibertarian State of Arizona

one of them will "still" be senator. There's a reason AZ is at the bottom of everything and until the people start voting for their interests and not fall for the "no taxes" illusion/lie spewed by these neoLibertarians, it will remain at the bottom. Belive me, the legislature is completely dysfunctional and incompetent, pledging allegiance to the Goldwater Institute and not the people who elected them. (The Goldwater Institute is an extremist RW "thinktank" that extracted promises from the RW legislators not to raise taxes.)

[jeanmarc]

5. I wonder how much Corporate money J.D. will wallow in?

This will be a nice test of the new Supreme Court decision. I bet Pig Hayworth will get a ton of money to oust McCain.

After all, McCain was one half of the McCain/Feingold bill that was deballed and it's now time to pay for that.

[boppers]

6. ...and Arizona gets hit by storms and flooding.

Coincidence?

[K8-EEE]

7. It's fun to watch the Freepers squirm cuz St. Sarah

Is shilling for McLame over the conned-servative guy, LOL!

[santamargarita]

10. Scumbag v Scumbag

[Aramchek]

11. nice, maybe McCain will be forced to run as an 'Independent Repuke' and we'll divide and conquer