Just finished watching J.D. Hayworth on Rachel Maddow's program. J.D. looked marvelous, slightly overmadeup, a little to unrumpled, but okay. His toothyness was impressive.
J.D. got off to a bombastic start on her opening salvo to his Jack Abramoff connection. On and on went J.D., his thrust was to discredit RM. He busted her researchers and he busted her producers. He was quite proud of himself in that smiling, slimey way only J.D. can bluster to. He treats it as an art form, he believes himself to be totally incapable of error of either judgment, reasoning or ass coverage for that matter (My staff failed me - here in the Abramoff answer).
Then came a review of a quote relating to his appearance on a Florida radio station. J.D. thumped his way through intimacy, agreeing to disagree. RM took his breath away when she began citing the court, complete with a pair of "sophisticated" readings. RM never recovered, she had gone to the second level with him and he was clearly outclassed. See ole J.D. can give you the line with the best of them, it is an art. He tried to save it, but RM had punctured his "talking pointiness" and he started to stare. You know, the thousand yard stare.
RM then moved to earmarks. J.D. campaigns that his opponent voted for over a billion in earmarks in the recovery legislation; no substantive discussion of merit just a dollar amount. J.D. rallied, weakly but gamely. RM then looked to the record. Lo and behold J.D. voted for substantial earmarks in 2006. The thousand yards receded as J.D. passed the mile marker.
By the end I was left to remember a severely lame, but game J.D. Hayworth staring into a camera lens unable to surmount not only facts, but gravitas. He'll do well with the voters of Arizona as long as he sticks to talk radio where he knows he'll get softballs.
Link to Maddow.