printIn addition to their creedal Keynesianism, another measure of the movement conservatives is the manner in which they betrayed J. D. Hayworth, who ought to have beat Senator John McCain in the Arizona GOP primary. Hayworth had a strong record as an immigration patriot—his was not a “desperate lurch to the right,” for electoral expediency as was McCain’s successful bid.
Read VDARE’s Washington Watcher’s analysis of the one-two punch Hayworth sustained from Palin, Brewer, and the gang at Fox:
“… no Beltway groups endorsed [Hayworth]. Mark Levin and Michelle Malkin supported J.D., but few other prominent conservative personalities supported him. This is despite Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, etc. repeatedly stating how important it is for us to support ‘true’ conservatives over liberal Republicans.
Without any major conservative help, the fact that Hayworth raised 3 million dollars was an accomplishment. But that cannot fight McCain’s $20+ million.
“Not only did most conservatives fail support Hayworth, many went to bat for John McCain.
The NRA, Arizona Right to Life and, (in an unusual but all-too-typical move), National Review, all endorsed him.
Most effectively for McCain, the two most significant people for the Arizona Republican base, Sarah Palin and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (benefiting, arguably undeservedly, from signing SB 1070) actively campaigned for him.”
UPDATE (Aug. 29): John McCain wanted everyone to believe that he has only just stumbled into the fleshpots of Washington. And Arizonans did, despite the fact that McMussolini was right by Bush’s side as the latter presided over the greatest expansion of government since Lyndon B. Johnson.
McCain had informed Hannity (who didn’t seem to mind) that he’d resume his work for amnesty as soon as the border was secure, which is, by my calculations, round about NOW—the time of the senior senator’s GOP renomination.
Greg is right. Arizonans have chosen their political poison. Alas, it will percolate into our drinking water as well.
Now comes confirmation, via CNSNews.com, that the Obama administration has resolved “not to build the border fence and to follow a catch-and-release policy with illegal aliens.” It goes without saying that “Recent steps the administration has taken regarding the border, including the deployment of 520 National Guard troops in Arizona,” have been “insufficient and amounted to ineffective pre-election posturing.”
The next defining date for Mr. McCain: the Tuesday following the first Monday, in November, when both houses will probably be stormed by Repbulicans. Then, it’ll be time for talk amnesty again. You do know that the economy will have turned around on that day too.
And Dana and SE Cupp will have grown a brain (not to mention a facility with economics and rational thought). If you believe all that … here I’ll leave it up to you the reader to fill in with one of those underwater property-sale jokes (let’s have some southern ones, please, to lift sagging spirits).
Which is why the Republican Party “lost.”
Then again, the Republican platform re-spawned within the White House in January of 2009, so what true is there to the cliche, “elections have consequences?”
None.
I wonder how many illegals voted in this election.
Today, our “hero” McCain turns 74 and no doubt he will continue to fight perpetually for term limits, balanced budgets, finance reform, fence repairs, or any gimmicky panaceas to keep him in power until he pushes up daisies with Thurmond, Kennedy, Byrd, and the rest of the “Giants of the Senate”.
In physics, the electromagnetic spectrum ranges from acoustic to gamma rays but the visible part is a narrow band. In politics, the spectrum ranges from anarcho-libertarians to authoritarian statists to totalitarians (Nazis, Commies) but the viable part of the political band is a narrow strip of authoritarian statists ranging from Barbara Boxer to Sarah Palin. Outside that box are “extremists” (as Gerson would say) who believe in “constitutionalism” like Ron Paul.
With GOVERNMENT controlling the majority of the economy, a class of people, the MOOCHER-HIDEEN of banksters, auto executives, universities, media outlets, unions, lobbyists, lawyers, consultants,civil rights “activists”, defense contractors, agribusiness, etc. use their money to bamboozle the booboisie into backing their favorite troubadours. At best, things like the Tea Party Movement can influence the booboisie in the direction of liberty. At worst, they will be completely corrupted and co-opted. President Lindsey Graham anyone??!!
Sarah Palin is a political whore who is desperately hoping she will have a shot at the brass ring in two years.
Remember this? http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/003368.html
No surprises here. The people of Arizona are just as pathetic as the people of South Carolina. They deserve to have their state taken over by illegals now. I have no more sympathy for them. They could have made a very loud and clear statement at the ballot box, but they decided to vote for the status quo. For the people in Arizona, you had better brush up on your Spanish. I am so fed up with the stupidity of the American people. We don’t need Jihadists or any other people from outside our country to destroy us. We are doing it to ourselves. I’m not sure who is dumber Democrats or Republicans.
The Houston Chronicle carried a column on 08/28/2010 quoting Senator John Cornyn saying he will back off his support of Congress taking up birthright citizenship. The quote “It is a symptom rather than the cause of the problem in the first place.” Thanks John. You are just another typical Republicrat. I didn’t vote for you the last time you ran and I won’t be voting for you next time either. Great piece Ilana about theses politicians and how corrupt they are.
Given that global warming is coming whether it it truly is or not… I have some property just south of Birmingham, Alabama that I believe will make great beachfront property someday! Any takers!! Heh, heh, heh…
The danger of McCain’s re-election is still to come. Last election the MSM guided him to the Republican nomination, and then summarily trounced him.
It could happen again.
“Not only did most conservatives fail support Hayworth, many went to bat for John McCain.” The people were loyal to long time in office- McCain, so there wasn’t a betrayal in that sense. I only wish they had betrayed McCain. Newt once made the statement that other countries voted out bad politicians; but, the US kept them forever. There is no such thing as a ‘Conservative’ there are Liberals and Independents. We independent voters are the ones not getting recognized, but as you stated before, there is no difference between tweetledem and tweetlerep. However, to my knowledge, Arizona is still appealing (to an Obama Supreme Court) over SB1070 and eleven other states are considering similar laws. The fight ain’t over yet. In regard to Global Warming, I’m waiting for Guam to go six feet under like my nephew’s partner said it would.
There are surely Independents, Robert, but in AZ, they cannot vote in the primaries. If they wished to vote for a party nominee, they would have to register for his/her party (and cease being “Independent.”) McCain trounced Hayworth by a very large margin, which to my thinking does not add up to the absence of independent voters who might have voted for Hayworth if given a chance. As you correctly state, AZ voters were “loyal” to McCain…I don’t know exactly why, but I suspect it has something to do with Jan Brewer’s endorsement, primarily.
I meant, we Independents nationwide vs Conservatives. There aren’t any Conservatives, only Liberals (light) who call themselves Conservatives. The only people that really represent conservatives are independent of either party. I would not be surprised if they found that Republicans have abandoned Jan Brewer. I would say what the Republicans I know represent; but, Ilana wouldn’t let me use that kind of language.
I wish JD would run as a third party guy like Hoffman did in NY-23 last year. JD might catch grief from fellow republicans, but after the way they treated him, why should he care?
I’d rather have an open democrat win that seat than a closeted one.
I would contribute to a 3rd party challenge. It’s the only trump card we have, and it’s a potent one.