J.D. Hayworth won't get rid of that shit-eating grin. And he won't concede Arizona's Fifth Congressional District to Harry Mitchell, who still leads Hayworth by five percentage points.
Before the Valley of the Sun's beautiful people elected Hayworth to Congress, he was an obtuse sportscaster on the Phoenix CBS (nox Fox) affiliate. I remember he came to my school once to talk about the Great Rubber Duck Race - an annual non-event in Phoenix in which thousands of rubber ducks are dropped into the canal system of the Salt River, presumably to celebrate the miracle of bringing water to the desert for all those golf courses. I remember that Hayworth was very, very fat. And he had the personality of a lamppost. Of course these attributes made him a natural for Congress.
And now, having lost his bid for re-election, he's like the rest of us. What will he do, with no bully pulpit to espouse his anti-Semitic and anti-Mexican diatribes? How will he launder dirty Abramoff money into the pockets of his wife? Will Hannity and the other wingnuts really want a loser on their shows now?
He doesn't even have the class to bow out. Step aside, fat man. Your time has come.