Watch closely as John McCain staffer, Matt Ligouri, holds a video camera and tapes US Senate candidate, JD Hayworth, as he speaks to fellow Republicans in Legislative District 17.

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Once the video taping has occurred, it will be handed off to and reviewed by a high level McCain staffer who determines if there is any usable content or expressions that can be used in an attack ad against JD Hayworth. The video is then handed off to Richard Sales who will transform it into something completely unrelated to the discussion that occurred at the meeting. Through the process of speeding up the tape, accentuating facial expressions, or enhancing color tones, McCain’s ad team hopes to produce something embarrassing to JD Hayworth that they can use to manipulate voters.

My purpose in presenting this is to educate the voters to the behind-the-scene actions of Team McCain and how they create attack ads. With the exception of Grant Woods, you will likely never see a high level McCain staffer (there are around 60 paid staffers) at one of these events taping JD Hayworth. Voters must realize that Team McCain follows JD Hayworth around to almost every public event attempting to embarrass JD Hayworth by either donning a pig costume, or by capturing some video clip that can be manipulated to make JD Hayworth look bad.

Campaign tactics such as this denote sophomoric and behavior unbecoming of a senior United States Senator. It is also a clear violation of Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment. One would think that a US Senator striving to finalize his political career as a statesman would avoid such tactics at all cost but as Time Magazine recently stated, John McCain has “A fierce desire for self-preservation.”