The campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has a new Web video making fun of former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ), who is challenging McCain in the Republican primary, over Hayworth’s mistaken insistence last week that the United States never formally declared war on Nazi Germany during World War II.
The YouTube video is fashioned in the style of a stereotypical 1940s newsreel, with a melodramatic announcer and archived news footage and audio from the process of that very declaration of war with Germany. The footage is cut in with Hayworth’s statement that the war was not declared.
“J.D. Hayworth,” the announcer says. “Is it any wonder he was voted among the dumbest members of Congress?”
The TPM Poll Average gives McCain a lead in this primary of 51.2%-37.1%.
