By Scott Wong | The Hill
Rep. Matt Salmon has never felt so loved.
Outside conservative groups have been calling, texting and emailing the Arizona Republican on a weekly basis, trying to lure him into a primary against the state’s senior senator, John McCain. Fellow conservative House colleagues are also privately nudging Salmon to run.
For Tea Party groups, he is seen as perhaps the last, best hope to launch a serious challenge against the party’s 2008 presidential nominee, powerful Armed Services Committee chairman and embodiment of the GOP establishment.
