J.D. Hayworth, who’s challenging Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in the state’s Aug. 24 primary, is hitting back today over a McCain web video that knocks Hayworth for, as TPM’s Rachel Slajda put it yesterday, being a “birth-certificate-searching, horse-marriage-fearing, Dracula-believing whackadoo.”
Here’s Hayworth’s statement on the video:
If it were an entry in a high school video competition, the latest effort from the McCain creative team might merit an honorable mention in the ‘Sophomore Snarkiness’ division.
As a diversion by the Senator and his staff to avoid serious debate on his record of higher taxes and amnesty, it won’t stick. Arizona voters deserve a serious discussion of the issues, and John McCain needs to join me in a series of debates. Otherwise, Arizona conservatives will conclude that all of the tactics of distortion and diversion from the McCain camp simply amount to ‘Much Ado About Nothing.’
Watch it here.
The TPM Poll Average shows McCain leading Hayworth 48.3% to 40.3%.
