It really couldn’t be more clear.

August 24th, 2010.  Voting day for Arizona’s Republican Senate nomination race is the first and best of two chances to get rid of McCain this year.  You’ll have six more years of regret if you don’t.  To connect that span of time to a more visceral understanding, it will be roughly 5 years and nine months prior to August 24th, 2010 that Bush beat Kerry for his second term. It’s a very long time, and plenty enough for “maverick” John McCain to do more damage.

Therefore, if any of you in Arizona are succumbing to the tsunami of advertising about “Character Counts” or believing the fact he’s not done anything mavericky lately means he’s changed, think again.  He’s behaving as he always does when he’s trying to get re-elected.  Conservative long enough to trick you, then back to his maverick self once he does.

You know what you’re going to get.  So do the rest of us, because he’s trying to spread the maverick nationwide.  Fiorina is one of his picks.  Shortly after Scott Brown was elected, he proceeded to introduce McCain as the one who supported his run, and has been RINO ever since.  Crist was a McCain pick in Florida, and he went indie when he didn’t win his primary.

Do I even have to mention Lindsey Graham?

So here’s the bottom line.  You can’t do worse than McCain, Arizona.  Not only would anyone be an improvement, or at least less able to do damage and neuter opposition to the Democrat agenda, but he’s trying to maverick the entire country now.  Imagine McCain with allies who like to help him form Gangs of Fail or help Democrats drive destructive legislation through Congress like McCain-Feingold.  It’s a very real possibility.

Fortunately, you with two choices in this race:  A new direction, or maverick malaise.

You say J.D. Hayworth’s been in Congress before?  Yes.  So what?  Is he an improvement?  Yes.  Is he perfect?  No, but still an improvement.  And while Jim Deakin may well be nice enough a guy, he’s not gaining any traction on McCain.  That means the only one with the chance to stop Ye Olde Maverick is Hayworth.  Those are your choices, unless you’d like to wait to the general election where the Democrat will only qualify as a lesser evil.

You can do it, Arizona.  You could play a key part in helping turn this country around by removing a undermining mole from the Republican Party.  He’s going to hamper our efforts to reverse the damage otherwise.