The Wall Street Journal reports on John McCain’s increasing disconnect with Arizona’s GOP voters.
The issues that divide him from the Republican base are numerous, but McCain’s 2008 vote for the $700 billion bank bailout and his opposition to President George W. Bush’s tax cuts never played well with conservatives. Nor did his opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), his sponsorship of the restrictive (now declared unconstitutional) McCain-Feingold “campaign finance reform.”
McCain’s Mavericky teaming up with the Senate’s most liberal members and pushing for amnesty for the millions of foreign nationals who have entered the U.S. illegally has alienated many grassroots Republicans. His proposal to close Guantanamo Naval Base and try terrorists in U. S. Courts won him no fans – a position he is now veering away from.
A Rasmussen Reports statewide poll found that 61% of Arizona Republicans think McCain has lost touch with those in his own party. That’s the good news. The bad new for him is that’s up eleven points from 50% four months earlier.
Arizonan’s now have a conservative option. Former Congressman J.D. Hayworth, who has filed to run for the U.S. Senate is sending shock waves through the McCain camp. While Hayworth’s campaign event to make a formal announcement will not occur until February 15, he is already in full stride — much to the chagrin of John McCain.
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