The McCain campaign has been brutally attacking JD Hayworth for appearing in an informercial on how to apply for government grants. Hypocritically, McCain's own Senate website prominently features a lengthy list of government grants to apply for. It is disturbing that due to the $5 million war chest the McCain campaign already had when it came into the Senate race, plus threatening people away who dare to support Hayworth, that the McCain campaign has been able to divert attention in the race to the 1% difference Hayworth shares with Senator Jim DeMint, the most conservative member in all of Congress. JD Hayworth has a 98% lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union over his 12 years in Congress. Whereas the real story is that McCain has an 81% rating which sank to an alltime low of 63% in 2008. JD Hayworth has a higher lifetime rating than around 97% of all members of Congress – yet McCain has been able to divert attention to the 1% part of Hayworth that is not as conservative as DeMint, deflecting attention from the real story – McCain's terrible record. McCain is no conservative, and as Mark Levin pointed out in this article in National Review, he isn't even good on earmarks or spending. Not only did McCain vote for several of the billion dollar bailouts and co-sponsor Cap and Trade legislation, but he regularly earmarks defense jobs for Arizona. Unfortunately, McCain has been able to get several conservative publications to buttress his attacks on Hayworth over the government grant infomercial. Let's hope they apply some fairness and cover McCain's own promotion of free grant money too. Especially if it magically disappears off his site within the next few days. In that case, we've saved copies here. 

UPDATE: One day later, after this article appeared, McCain has hidden the link to government grant information from his website by hiding it behind a YouTube video (which you can see in only some browsers). What a hypocrite.