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‘Maverick’ McCain? Not Likely

Can John McCain withstand J.D. Hayworth and anti-incumbency today?

John McCain knows how to endure, either in Vietnam or on the political battlefield. And that’s why he’s wearing his Mr. Conservative suit in his re-election race.

With J.D. Hayworth after McCain’s job, McCain has to show his voters in Arizona that he’s just as much as a conservative as his opponent, who is a former U.S. congressman and former conservative talk radio host. Hayworth dropped the talk radio host job back in January so he can run in the Republican U.S. senator primary race against Maverick.

And with a few of the Tea Party supporting Hayworth and the wave of anti-incumbency that has cost many long-in-the-tooth politicians from both sides of the aisle their jobs, McCain had a lot of work to do as he’s time’s up: Today is Arizona’s primary election.

That’s why during the campaign McCain has come out in support of Arizona’s controversial illegal immigration law, even though he has worked on legislation in the past with the late Ted Kennedy to grant immigrants amnesty.

And McCain’s methods seem to be working, as an Associated Press article
Associated Press article says that he has a big lead over Hayworth in the polls.

Of course, it doesn’t help when commenting on Massachusetts ruling on gay marriage that Hayworth famously said that soon Massachusetts will make a law where a man can marry his horse, which is asinine.

You marry the cow so you don’t have to go out late at night for milk. You save the horse for an affair. That way, after a night of hot-barnyard loving with the horse, the horse can give you a ride home.

But getting back to McCain, it seems as if he knows how to be a full-on conservative when it might cost him his job. Too bad he didn’t do that in the 2008 presidential election, but to be fair, even if he did, he still would have lost to Barack Obama.

The country was tired of George W. Bush and as Obama-Maniacs loved calling him John “McSame,” the Arizona senator didn’t stand a chance. Maybe he’ll stand a good chance today.