Wednesday, February 24, 2010

McCain and Hayworth: Who’s the Conservative?

Posted by Cubachi in Politics on Feb 24th, 2010
The Arizona US Senate race is building up to be the most important battle for the heart and soul of the GOP.
Senator John McCain represents the old guard of the GOP. A moderate/liberal who at every turn will stick his finger at the eye of conservatives, and JD Hayworth a stalwart conservative who side with our conservative cause almost all the time.
Recently, Sen. McCain released a new ad called “Identity.” The ad starts off with a sentence about the “serious economic times” we’re in. Just a sentence. Afterwards, it becomes a vicious campaign attack ad against J.D. Hayworth calling him a “birther” on the scale of Orly Taitz and Philip Berg.

But I’m not going to whitewash Hayworth’s flirtation with the birther movement. He did equate identity theft with the need to prove birth credentials. Which is pretty outrageous.
However yesterday, news came in that 40 state legislators in Arizona want Obama to produce a birth certificate. I guess the birther thing is pretty big in Arizona. Nevertheless, it is a silly thing to link your name to, and it will only marginalize you to that fringe element.
Luckily, he came off the gravy train quick and said:
“Barack Obama is the president of the United States. He is our 44th president,” Hayworth told Brown. “I have no qualms about who he is, or who he says he is.”
He even called Erick Erickson of RedState to definitively put that false rumor perpetuated by the McCain campaign to rest. His explanation was enough for Erick Erickson to believe Hayworth.
But let’s get back to the McCain ad. The narrator claims “John McCain: Reducing the size of government, cutting spending, growing jobs.”
In fact, in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning American several weeks ago, McCain said:
“If you cut people’s taxes, I think, then it stimulates the economy. We certainly found that out during President Reagan.”
How disingenuous. In 1994 McCain said this about Reagan’s tax cuts after the GOP got control of Congress with the promise of tax cuts:
“I think we would be making a terrible mistake to go back to the ’80s, where we cut all of those taxes and all of a sudden now we’ve got a debt that we’ve got to pay on an annual basis that is bigger than the amount that we spend on defense.”
McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 and said this:
“Most of the economists view this as primarily benefiting wealthier Americans,” McCain said on CNBC at the time. “There’s a theory, I think, that’s prevalent — it was true in the 2001 tax cuts — that if you give it to the wealthy people, then they will then, you know, create jobs, et cetera. The interesting thing to me is that most economists will tell you that it’s the middle-income Americans that have been keeping the economy afloat.”
And let us not forget McCain’s vote for TARP which expanded government, earmark spending, and increased government. And proposed $300 billion to buy up every bad mortgage in America. There is also McCain-Feingold bill that infringed upon our constitutional right to free speech, the gang of 14, amnesty, auto bailouts, etc.
J.D. Hayworth helped write the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 and was McCain’s fiercest opponent against the Kennedy-McCain amnesty bill.
Here are McCain’s ratings with conservative groups on election years and non-election years. The non-election years is when McCain becomes “mavericky.”
Here is J.D. Hayworth’s record with conservative groups such as the ACU: 98%.
Notice the difference?
Here is an interview with J.D. Hayworth this morning on a local NBC network in Arizona answering McCain’s attacks and his own legislative record. I’ll let you decide if you want a proven adversary or an ally in the US Senate.

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