Hayworth Fundraising Ad Depicts 'Conservative Actor' McCain In Avatar-Like Warpaint

Thr Republican Party doesn't like it when one of their own is ridiculed with unflatering renditions of their persona but hardly murmer when Obama is rendered as "the Joker," "Hitler," or as a "target." McCain's camp would be believable if they howled at all depictions that ridicule or demean other politicians.

I can't stand McCain, but this is a major fail on the part of the Hayworth campaign. Arizona has one of the largest Native American populations in the country. Hayworth was the representative of AZ-06 in the 1990s, which had a Native American population of close to 25% due to its inclusion of the Navajo and Apache nations. To put McCain in what could effectively be considered blackface in two representations of the same ad alienates not only Hayworth's former constituents and the 300,000 Native Americans in Arizona, but anyone who grew up in Arizona respecting the native culture.

Then again Hayworth's base is made up of transplants from out of state who want the warm climate but not the culture that has been there for hundreds of years, so I shouldn't be as surprised.

I find it a somewhat subtle tweak that I wouldn't have thought possible for a teabagger: most conservatives find Avatar to be blatent liberal propaganda that analogously decries the rape of the land and the genocide of the natives by white male invaders. Slapping the blue Navi paint on McCain has a certain irony that I didn't think Hayworth or his people have in them.

I saw the blue paint and thought of Braveheart personally. Imagine the dialogue from Wallace McCain (MacCain?): ...but they'll never take away our free perks!" Now THAT is Oscar material.

The bit didn't need the face paint really. But trying to tie it to degrading Native American heritage is desperate. It's obvious that they were going for the Avatar look.

You can put facepaint on a pig, but...

I just have to laugh everytime they roll out that "He Who Cannot be Mocked" bullshit. McCain gave up any rights to his 'honorable' service after 2008 when he was exposed as the virulent pandering and erratic dipshit of elections. He forfieted his integrity or whatever he had left after being punked by Bush and has no claim on any parcel of highground. Let him and that saurian looking cavedweller Hayworth beat the shit out of each other.

War-paint? That's total bullshit. It's obviously an Avatar thing, which is on topic with the actor reference & current. Whomsoever gets native American insult out of this is pretty damn touchy & primed & prone to find hidden messages that don't exist.
The message is, that Mccain is an actor that will play any role he has to at any moment without the slightest thought of integrity or regard for any position he supposedly stood for in his entire career. In other words; Zero Credibility!

Perfect payback for the Paris Hilton ad. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving codger.

Perhaps I'm being insensitive, but the McCain camp's response sort of reads like an outrage mad-lib.

We are OUTRAGED and think the ad should be taken down... because.... well, because.... Patriotism! Native Americans! Smurf fans!

This is a complete outrage. Everybody knows, McCain is more SHREK like!

Why the heck does McCain think Native Americans should be insulted by the depiction of him as a Na'vi? Are Native Americans supposed to feel some special connection to a make-believe, computer-generated indigenous people?

The GOP/Teaparty presidential primary is going to be a real doozy.