View Full Version : Ouch: McCain To Be Primaried Out Of The Party
frerottenextelway
11-20-2009, 06:40 PM
The 2008 GOP presidential nominee is in a deadheat for his 2010 Senate seat in the primary!
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/arizona/election_2010_arizona_senate_gop_primary
Senator John McCain’s future in the U.S. Senate may be a little less assured than previously thought.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely 2010 Republican Primary voters in Arizona finds the longtime incumbent in a virtual tie with potential (primary) challenger J.D. Hayworth. McCain earns 45% of the vote, while Hayworth picks up 43%.
The question is, who will Palin endorse?
frerottenextelway
11-20-2009, 07:17 PM
I'm glad they got this figured out! This is an implosion waiting to happen.
http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2009/11/20/a-sure-path-to-self-destruction/
Were [Palin] to side openly with McCain in a primary against Hayworth, whose views match up a lot more closely with her supporters’ views, she would be seen as imitating McCain’s worst habits. She would be considered a worse sell-out than McCain. She would be doing exactly the opposite of what she did in NY-23. Her intervention may have failed to elect Hoffman, but rank-and-file conservatives generally loved her for it anyway. She would fritter all that away if she backed McCain.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/11/how_palin_will_help_mccain.asp
I predict that Palin will come to Arizona next summer to campaign for McCain, will make an impassioned case for him, and will help him win. She will thereby repay McCain for his confidence in picking her last year, help keep McCain as a crucial voice in the Senate for a strong foreign policy, and get credit for being a different kind of populist conservative—a Reaganite, not a Buchananite, populist—than the immigration-obsessed, voter-alienating (he was ousted in 2006 in a Republican district) Hayworth.
watermock
11-20-2009, 07:45 PM
In your wildest dreams.
Bronco Yoda
11-20-2009, 07:49 PM
The 2008 GOP presidential nominee is in a deadheat for his 2010 Senate seat in the primary!
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/arizona/election_2010_arizona_senate_gop_primary
The question is, who will Palin endorse?
Isn't she backing the KKK?
frerottenextelway
11-20-2009, 07:59 PM
In your wildest dreams.
What is?
Just speaking from a process POV here....
Hayworth hasn't declared, but if he does I'd consider him the odds on favorite to win (around 70/30). The top numbers on the incumbent in a Congressional race are typically their peak at this point, barring something major from the challenger.
The 2008 GOP presidential nominee is in a deadheat for his 2010 Senate seat in the primary!
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/arizona/election_2010_arizona_senate_gop_primary
The question is, who will Palin endorse?
Actually an interesting question -- she repects him -- I dont, and hope he gets the door, cant trust anyone who will not standup and be more like Jefferson, and less like Teddy R.
spdirty
11-21-2009, 08:58 PM
The 2008 GOP presidential nominee is in a deadheat for his 2010 Senate seat in the primary!
good.
epicSocialism4tw
11-21-2009, 10:49 PM
See ya, McCain. Dont let the door hit you on the butt on the way out.