The *REAL* J.D. Hayworth

"Free Money" Hayworth!

Wearing a noticeable red, white and blue tie and lapel ribbon, J.D. Hayworth appeared in a bizarre infomercial making its way around the internet. We like the take of E.D. Kain of the right-of-center Washington Examiner:

So while I got a good chuckle over the whole “Free money! You never have to pay it back!” bit, I wasn’t exactly shocked.

Hayworth is a big spender with a big mouth. He voted for everything from No Child Left Behind to the bank-breaking Medicare Part D – a Bush-era expansion of Medicare likely to cost more than Obamacare that can be described as little more than blood money for the votes of senior citizens.

If you want a better understanding of Hayworth’s political philosophy, look no further than this infomercial: small government for thee, free money for me.

It doesn’t really matter if Hayworth is a conservative or not to me – I’m not that interested in purity tests and dogmatism. If you have good ideas about how to increase prosperity in America, or how to fix our political institutions, then I’m all ears. But Hayworth is selling himself as some sort of leader or mascot of the Tea Party movement, and his track record – just like his infomercial – proves that he’s just the opposite.

If Hayworth gets elected to the Senate you can expect more of the same. I’m not a fan of John McCain, but I’ll take him any day over this pork barrel salesman.

The ACR Blog admits that it is no fan of Mr. Hayworth. But the nation's best comedy writers couldn't parody the guy like this video does. This, my friends, is the "REAL" J.D. Hayworth.

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