It's no joke. It's true.
It was a small-time election, but it exposed a widening rift inside the Arizona Republican Party that has bitterly divided moderates and social conservatives and threatens to embarrass U.S. Sen. John McCain in his expected run for president.
In his first-ever political defeat, former Gov. Fife Symington lost his bid Tuesday to become Republican chairman of McCain's home legislative district in north-central Phoenix. Symington was not considered conservative enough to defeat District 11 incumbent Rob Haney, a retired IBM manager who took over the organization two years ago and has been outspoken in his criticism of McCain.
Where did John McCain stand in his battle between an opponent of him and a man who was convicted in federal court of banking fraud and extortion?
Well, let's just say that if John McCain could praise people he once denounced, he's definately willing to back felons for party office.
In other words, John McCain will do anything to get elected.
Shout it loud and proud. John McCain will do anything to get elected President. John McCain will say anything, trample on his old principles, support policies which he once considered wrong.
And his previous attempts to look good towards the people not in the GOP Base are one reason that they're biting back.
Granted, Symington also barely living in that district also factors into matters. It sounds like the action of someone like McCain, to put a buddy of his into the district and to try and make people forget his past.
But in the scheme of things. John McCain will say or do anything to get elected in 2008 and it's best not to take a slice of McCain's Cake.
(Yes, I know that Symington had his conviction overturned. Which is why he's an ex-felon, and why he was convicted. Unfortunately, Bill Clinton mistakingly pardoned Symington in 2001)