January 23, 2010

JD Hayworth is Unofficially In!

Former Arizona Congressman who served the fifth district of the fine and perpetually sunny state of Arizona from 1995-2007 has quit his radio show to presumably take the fight to John McCain for his long held senate seat. McCain has been feeding off Arizona senatorial oxygen for 30 years. As JD poignantly put it in his last radio broadcast, "It is time for John to come home".

JD is going to need the entirety of the tea party movement behind him to unseat McCain. Arizona has a strange "old boys club" dynamic that McCain is popular with. There is a contingent of the older generations who do support amnesty largely because of their positive relations with what I would call "old school" Mexican immigrants. Their lives are very intertwined, marriages, families and bloodlines have formed a sort of loyalty. Mostly, I can understand their perspective--to a point. The hybrid Mexican-American culture Arizona has is unique. It was largely peaceful and radical was a term I would never use to describe those "old school" immigrants, by and large. Somehow, it worked.

However, as with all things, times change. Mexican immigration has been radicalized. That once mostly harmonious union has now become balkanized and it is far more us vs them. La Raza has a presence, the schools spend an entire day on Cinco De mayo, free publications in Spanish are found in stores and libraries telling the newly planted migrants that they are oppressed victims of the white man and that this land is theirs to reclaim.

The John McCain old boys club does not know this reality. Or if they do they fail to face it. My point, is pro-amnesty stance is not a hinderance for him with this connected and, largely, wealthy demographic. Therefore, I have my concerns whether McCain is beatable. It will be tough to dislodge a candidate with so much money who is a favorite son of the state and was the party's nominee in the 2008 election. AZ is very unlikely to repudiate an incumbent who is the nominal leader of the party and face of the good old days of Arizona life.

JD lost his house seat to Harry Mitchell, a recycled Democrat, largely by redistricting and the fact that he was a target in the 2006 Arizona House races. A huge amount of Soros money (and other anti-American groups) saturated Arizona with anti-J.D. campaigning. JD was a vocal and dedicated opponent of amnesty and illegal immigration. His loss was painted as a repudiation of an anti-amnesty stance.

This is a race to watch and support. He will need every bit of help he can get. JD was a crappy drive hour radio host but he was an excellent US Represenative for his Arizona district, for conservatives everywhere. He was a vocal and fearless leader for conservative causes and would be lightyears of an improvement over John McCain.

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Go JD!
I am puzzled as to why John McCain still has a modicum of supporters within the GOP. He has been a pain in our backsides for decades, now. He has taken every opportunity to jam his thumb in the Republican eye, with the 'Gang of 14' shennanigans, the McCain-Feingold fiasco, and obviously his and Dubya's willingness to turn a blind eye to the human wave attack across our southern borders. And the list of GOP betrayals goes on. His willingness to not only walk across the aisle, but in fact use those extended Democrat hands to body surf that liberal crowd as if it were his own personal mosh pit. The guy has got to go.

JD Hayworth is a real Republican, not a RINO like McCain. I am unsure the dunderheads in AZ will wake up this time around, probably not. But we're behind JD all the way. Run, JD, run!
1 reply · active 792 weeks ago
I don't get it either. But, he wins every election by a wide margin. In fact, he usually never even campaigns that is how sure his seat is.

It is unfortunate that Palin endorsed him for sure.
McCain is really a Democrat; we need J.D. in that seat.
McCain is a bona fide american hero, but an out of touch representative of the american people. He may not be a Democrat but he is barely a Republican, and hardly a conservative. I would call him a populist, meaning he is whatever he thinks will work.

A surfer riding the wave of american sentiment so to speak
It is Appropriate that McCin served in the Navy because he goes wherever the political currents or tides take him.
This is interesting. We'll see just how conservative Arizona is...
1 reply · active 792 weeks ago
I neglected to say how much I liked this post. I think it is one of the best you have done. The problem is that the Hispanic immigrants will vote their pal MccaIn in the primary. The real question is are there enough anti-Mccain white folks to out vote them.

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