Sen. John McCain slid to an easy victory over former congressman J.D. Hayworth in Arizona’s Republican Senate primary election, overcoming early predictions that Hayworth represented the biggest threat to his reelection in years.
McCain, who has served in the Senate since 1987 and who was the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, seemed vulnerable early on as a handful of longtime incumbents, including Utah Republican Sen. Robert Bennett, were tossed out of office. Hayworth, a former conservative radio host and six-term congressman, tried to tap into that anti-incumbent angst and questioned McCain’s conservative credentials.
But McCain fought back – hard. The one-time “maverick” moved to the right on political touchy subjects such as immigration and gays in the military. He spent more than $21 million on the race and launched a particularly damaging series of ads that showed Hayworth hawking “free” federal grants in a 2007 infomercial.
(Source: USA Today)
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If this is a sign of things to come and hoping it is Obama will not be able toi push his agenda down the throats of Amwricans B”H as he will not have a majority but rather have aan oversight comm consisting of a Republician Congress and we will B”H have “checks & balances again.”
Congratulations, Juan McCain. Now that you’ve won reelection you can drop your “Build the dang fence” shtick and revive the amnesty scheme you and Chappaquiddick Teddy “The Drunk” Kennedy cooked up a few years ago. Si Se Puedo, Juan!