On the day of the funeral, Hayworth pounded McCain in a press release once again for being soft on the border.
In mid-March, conservative Rasmussen Reports pollsters said Hayworth trailed McCain by seven points.
In the second place, the Hayworth campaign is exploiting the Krentz death to “score points and raise money.”
Hayworth is attacking McCain for being a border-enforcement wimp who is partly to blame for the Krentz killing.
Internal polling by the McCain campaign in January had the incumbent leading Hayworth by 20 points.
By contrast, she does not know Hayworth, and owes him nothing (especially with all his political buffoonery).
Hayworth, who considers himself the more conservative choice to McCain, is hoping to lure Tea Party enthusiasts to his campaign.
Hayworth has Rush Limbaugh—not as an endorser of his candidacy, at least not yet, but as a longtime McCain detractor.
And yet McCain and his operatives are taking Hayworth seriously—very seriously.
“We all respect John and thank him for his service,” Hayworth says.
