J.D. Hayworth to Challenge Senator McCain
President George W. Bush is joined by Arizona legislators as he delivers his remarks at the signing ceremony for H.R. 5441, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2007, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006, in Scottsdale. From left are: Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, Rep. J.D. Hayworth, Rep. Rick Renzi, Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz., and Rep. Trent Franks. (Photo credit: Eric Draper)
J.D. Hayworth has announced he will run against Senator John McCain in 2010.
From Fox News:
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.
This is great news. 2010 is the year when patriotic, Constitution-respecting Americans need to clean house in that den of thieves known as Congress, and while most of the Democrats definitely must go, there are more than a few Republicans who need their walking papers, too.
We can thank John McCain and the Republican establishment for having Barack Obama as president. John McCain, while he used to be a good, conservative senator until the late 1990s, has been a RINO for over a decade now. He has sought media love–and you can’t get media love without acting like a liberal. When the GOP establishment pushed McCain on the Republican base in 2008, that virtually guaranteed a Democrat win; real Republicans cannot stomach a liberal compromiser like McCain. The only way the McCain campaign had a snowball’s chance was when he brought Sarah Palin on board as his running mate; finally, there was a real Republican on the ticket.
Speaking of Sarah Palin, she has announced she will be appearing for McCain in his re-election campaign. I understand the sense of loyalty Palin has to McCain for putting her on the 2008 ticket, and that loyalty is admirable, but she is making a mistake in attaching her name to a RINO’s re-election bid when there is a better alternative (and Hayworth’s announcement means there is). My hope is that she will do enough for McCain to fulfill her sense of honor, and no more.
Our republic is on the verge of being too far gone to salvage. If we don’t clean house and make profound change in the makeup of our national representation, there will not be sufficient force to change the direction of the ship of America from the rocks.
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