AZ GOP - "McCain is mentally unstable and out of control and vindictive,"

McCain Mutiny

by Max Blumenthal

Just as the presidential nomination process begins in earnest, Senator John McCain has suffered a stinging defeat in his home state. For the Republican media darling declared recently by Chris Matthews to be the one candidate who "deserves the presidency," it was an unlikely loss, and so far it has gone unheralded by the national press corps that McCain once half-jokingly called "my base." This defeat was the handiwork of his presumed actual political base--a ragtag band of local conservative activists led by a 65-year-old retired IBM middle manager named Rob Haney.

Who is Rob Haney? He is the Republican state committeeman in Arizona's District 11, McCain's home district. In the past, Haney and his fellow committee members would meet from time to time to review their annual budget, vote on bylaws and pass resolutions. If anyone represents Arizona's Republican Party, advancing the causes of faith, family and freedom, it is the folks from District 11. Yet their importance, let alone their existence, seemed to matter little to their state's famous and ambitious senior senator.

All that changed when Haney organized a revolt that hardly needed encouragement. "People would be calling in to headquarters every week, absolutely enraged, threatening to leave the party because of some comments McCain made," Haney told me. "The guy has no core, his only principle is winning the presidency. He likes to call his campaign the 'straight talk express.' Well, down here we call it the 'forked tongue express.'"

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McCain's botched revenge has solidified his reputation in Arizona's Republican circles as a divisive, untrustworthy and even dangerous figure. Haney hopes the general public meets this side of McCain before his penchant for angry reprisals is invested with the powers of the presidency. "This just shows that McCain is mentally unstable and out of control and vindictive," Haney told me. "If he is determined to go through that much trouble to attack a district committee chairman, what does that say about his ability to handle real political problems?"

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Yes, indeed.

"Just win, dammit" :puke:

Come this April his file will be pretty thick.

by pandering to the 29 Percenters he's alienated the independents and the old school conservatives.

Jeebus.

:spray:

but with or without significant Arizona GOP support, McCain's climb is getting steeper.

For one thing, he just doesn't sound good. His recent interviews on the air suggest somebody who's dancing a 4/4 piece while the band's playing in 6/8.

He may survive and become their nominee, for all I know. Fortunately for McCain, the GOP field is incredibly wobbly for 08. Giuliani's a monster and Romney's a nitwit.

I hope they all beat each other to death in a desperate struggle for the nomination.

... and end up with about 2% of the national vote on election day.

Romney, Rudy, McCain, Brownback, Huckabee, Hunter -- the whole lot them lining up in a driving rain trying to put the smooch on Dobson's hindend.

I'd buy the accompanying video!

His uncontrollable temper puts them all off.

They both fly off the handle and go way overboard in their vindictiveness and end up screwing up; McCain wrt the district committee and Cheney wrt Joe Wilson's op-ed.

remember the 2000 primaries?

remember who was pushing this story then?

I can't stand McCain, but let's see who's really behind this story.

I sure hope it's somebody with provable connections to St. Rudy

and have you seen how he's TROUNCING McCain in the polls already?

and have you seen Rudy's approval ratings?

be afraid...be very afraid

because he's in danger of being blown out of the water, and Giuliani might have a cakewalk to the nomination

you just watch all the socalled fundamentalists fall into line behind him, just as they did for Bush.

remember....free r******* HATED Bush in 1999, JRob in particular.

hope I'm wrong, but if the 2000 campaign serves as any indication, I don't think so