(Rep. J.D.) Hayworth doesn’t want Bush campaign help (2006 elections)

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Hayworth doesn’t want Bush campaign help

Rep. J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz., doesn’t want President Bush to campaign for him during the 2006 election. During an appearance Wednesday with New York talk-show host Don Imus, the congressman from Scottsdale said he wants the president to deal with illegal immigration instead of traveling to Arizona for any joint public appearances.

“I would welcome President Bush to get tough on illegal immigration and understand that what happens on the border of the United States and Mexico is just as important as what’s happening on the border of Syria and Iraq,” said Hayworth, according to a transcript posted on MSNBC’s Web site. “So I would welcome President Bush to come and get serious with an enforcement first policy toward illegal immigration rather than a campaign. I think let’s govern first and then let the voters decide about a campaign.”

Hayworth has made repeated appearances in the past five years on national television and radio talk shows on behalf of the Republican Party and the Bush administration.

His remarks on the Imus show come the day after Republicans suffered defeats in state and local elections across the country. Some political analysts have said that Bush’s campaigning for some of those candidates didn’t help and may have hurt.

The performance of the liberal media and the Democratic presidential candidates the past few weeks is proof positive that Bush hating addles the mind and rots the senses. With their reckless charges and the wholesale rewriting of recent history, the Left has gone completely off the rails, and it is time to start setting the record straight.

Repeated ad nauseam is that charge that the Bush administration claimed the threat from Iraq was "imminent." Indeed, Gen. Wesley Clark has made that charge a major talking point. But it's rubbish. Here are the president's own words: "Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent...If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late." Acting before a threat becomes imminent is the essence of the Bush Doctrine. That's why it's called preemption.

Furthermore, there was never a single reason cited by the president to act against Saddam, but several, including human rights, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, regime change, and democratization. Still, the New York Times continues to distort the truth, and in the process contradicts itself.

The Bush haters are doing their best to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory simply because they want George W. Bush to fail, which coincidently won't happen unless America also fails.