Oct 22 2008
Hayes Backpedals on “Liberals Hate America” Comment
Republican Rep. Robin Hayes said yesterday that he was wrong to tell voters at a John McCain rally that “liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God.”
Hayes, a five-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives, made the comment Saturday in Concord before McCain’s appearance. He is being challenged for re-election in the 8th District in south-central North Carolina by Democrat Larry Kissell, who almost beat him in 2006. “I genuinely did not recall making the statement and, after reading it, there is no doubt that it came out completely the wrong way,” Hayes said in a prepared statement.
It doesn’t matter what Hayes says at this point. The damage was done and Hayes is going to be retired from Congress in two weeks. This has become Kissell’s race to lose.
