Sen. John McCain, one-time (and recent) standard bearer of the Republican Party, has decided that this election year it's just better if he skips that whole convention thing.
McCain says he will be focusing instead on his own race against Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick. He also has to worry about a late primary, which is scheduled for Aug. 30.
“I have to campaign for reelection, and I have always done that when I’m up,” he said. “We have a late primary in Arizona.”
Recent polls show McCain and Kirkpatrick deadlocked, despite McCain’s nearly 30 years of service in the upper chamber and his close to 100-percent name identification.
Maybe that will help voters back home forget he's a Republican and give him another Senate term, instead of booting him in favor of the Democratic (and Daily Kos endorsed) candidate Ann Kirkpatrick. After all, the polling in this race is closing in on him.
Or maybe he thinks that's what a "maverick" would do just eight short years after being the Republican nominee—pretend like the presidential race just isn't happening this time around. And yet Arizona's senior senator "reiterated that he will support the party's eventual nominee, whomever it turns out to be." Such an iconoclast, such a stand-up, principled statesman, vowing to support either the guy who trashed his war record or the guy he calls a “wacko bird.”
Please give $3 to help Ann Kirkpatrick finally retire this guy.