Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) announced Tuesday that he will indeed seek a sixth term in the Senate in 2016, causing the extremists for whom McCain isn't extreme enough to
foam at the mouth and declare war.
The Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF) has launched an effort to defeat Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), bashing him for failing to uphold the principles of a "true conservative" just hours after he announced his intention to run for reelection.
"There are few Republicans who have betrayed our conservative principles more than John McCain," SCF President Ken Cuccinelli said in an email to supporters Tuesday of the party's 2008 nominee for president.
"John McCain lost his way a long time ago and it's time to replace him with a strong conservative leader who will support and defend the Constitution."
Join the crowd, Cooch. The Club for Growth is also, still, calling for McCain's head as is
FreedomWorks, the
on-again, off-again Koch-affiliated tea party money laundering front. The big problem for all these groups is finding a candidate who is both extreme enough and yet not too nutty. For example, State Sen. Kelli Ward (R-AZ), who has only managed a 76 percent rating from the Koch's Americans for Prosperity and who also decided to hold an
actual public hearing on chemtrails (what the not-crazy world calls contrails). And not in a "this conspiracy theory really should be debunked in a public hearing" kind of way.
So, good luck with that, guys. Meanwhile, the increasingly kooky McCain will veer erratically between belligerent "mavericky" moments in which he denounces the crazy far right and belligerent extremism in which he tries to court them.