AZ Tea Parties won’t endorse Hayworth or McCain

by David Safier

Tea partiers, those outspoken folks who refuse to be silenced, have gone silent on the Hayworth-McCain battle.

The organizers of the four largest Arizona Tea Party organizations – including the Tucson Tea Party, Greater Phoenix Tea Party, Flagstaff Tea Party, and Mohave County Tea Party – issued a joint press release regarding their unified decision to decline endorsing a candidate in the Arizona Senate primary race between John McCain, J.D. Hayworth, and Jim Deakin.

A supreme act of cowardice from a group of people who say they don't stand for politics as usual. I guess it's OK to call for armed insurrection, but to state a preference for one R candidate over another? That would be too bold.

Fine. Let's ask Tea Party leaders about their individual preferences. Each of these forthright, outspoken people must have picked a pony in this race.

Trent Humphries (Tucson), Robert Mayer (Tucson), Kelly Townsend (Phoenix), Patrick Beck (Mohave County) and Roger Boone (Flagstaff): take one of those strong, passionate stands you're so fond of. One by one, who do you, personally, endorse for U.S. Senator, J.D. Hayworth or John McCain?

(Hat tip to Marlene Phillips for being on top of the story.)