Posted on 03/17/2009 8:39:15 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Today, a certain Freeper asked a good FRiend of mine if she was "tired yet of hating# on the McCain family." [1]
As the keeper of the McCain Truth File ping list, I can say with complete certainty that I am not.
And here's why.
It should be publicly known by now that I throughly detest Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and that's putting it nicely. From his amnesty for illegal aliens (McCain-Kennedy) to carbon cap-and-trade (McCain-Lieberman), campaign finance "reform" (McCain-Feingold), and his grandstanding with regard to a certain recent massive Socialist bailout for the financial services industry, McCain has a long, well-documented, and indisputable record of spitting in the faces of the Republican Party's conservative majority as he "crosses the aisle" to prostitute himself to the leftist Democrat Party. And, while he is certainly not the most egregious example of a Republican In Name Only, or RINO, McCain is notorious for his lust for attention, evidenced in his frequent desire to whore himself out to the drive-by media as a supposed representative of the Republican Party and the conservative movement on the whole.
To cut to the chase: McCain is a RINO, a Vichy Republican, a modern day Benedict Arnold, and a sellout of the highest order, and no amount of pointing to his dubious record as a Prisoner of War in Vietnam is sufficient to absolve him of his subsequent treachery as a post-War civilian legislator.
Now, as for his daughter, Meghan, she is a spoiled, ditzy little brat, born with a silver spoon in her mouth. The spawn of the American political elite, pampered from day one by her rich and politically-powerful family, she earned a degree in a wholly useless major, Art History, at a prominent University that she attended probably, and in my own opinion, due to her family's money and political status. [By her own admission, even, she has never taken a single course in economics [2], and, despite reading and reading about economics, just can't "understand it" [3].] Meghan lives in a "loft" that her parents bought for her [4] when many Americans are struggling just to pay their taxes, so that her father can take home a six-digit salary. And, what sort of real job has she ever held? Writing for a leftist rag like The Daily Beast does not count!
Less than one year after formally joining the Republican Party, and on the record as voting for John Kerry, Meghan McCain has the gall to publicly lecture the same folks whom she voted against in 2004 and quite possibly 2006 and 2008. And, what's even worse: at the same time, she presumes the capacity and credibility to berate and slam conservatives everywhere, regardless of political affiliation, as "extreme." [5] In other words, she's a presstitute, just like her father.
Laura Ingraham was right and proper to call her out as a "plus-sized" valley girl [6] and a "useful idiot" for the leftists [7], because that's exactly what Meghan McCain is: a younger, female version of her pathetic, treacherous RINO father.
[I'm not even going to touch the topic of how the McCain family treated the Palin family during the campaign, though I am certain that there are Freepers who have quite a bit to say on the topic.]
So, to return to the question: I'm not "tired of hating on the McCain family," and I believe that the folks on my ping list, as well as many Freepers, hold similar sentiments to varying degrees. Frankly, the McCain family, for the most part, continues to spit on Republicans and conservatives (note that the two groups are not always equivalent) and appears wholly unrepentant, with respect to the awful campaign they ran in last year's election, all the way down to Sen. McCain's open admission that Obama was a good man. [8] [The exceptions here are Cindy McCain and Bridget McCain, who seem to be the only members of the McCain family with any semblance of class and any legitimate claim to my respect.]
I believe that I, and the majority of Freepers, as well as conservatives not represented here, have good reason to detest John McCain and his daughter Meghan. With "conservative Republicans" like them, who needs Democrats? Those two, along with the rest of their Vichy RINO tag team, including but not limited to Sen. Graham of South Carolina, Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Sen. Specter of Pennsylvania, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, and Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida, will, if they have not already done so, be largely at fault for the destruction of the Republican Party as a mainstream vehicle for the conservative movement.
As a final note, that same Freeper, almost fifteen months ago, publicly claimed that McCain "could handily beat Hillary! if he gets the nomination" [9]. Well, here we are, and I ask that same Freeper, as well as the rest of the RINOs, Party Firsters, GOP shills, and any McCainiacs still left un-zotted on FR, if McCain couldn't even beat a lightweight empty suit novice Marxist, then how exactly did you expect him to beat a real Marxist like Hillary? And, with folks like him and his daughter presuming themselves the leaders of the Republican Party today, how exactly do you expect conservatism within the Party to survive and go on to defeat the Democrats and other leftists this fall, next year, and in 2012?
References
[1] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2208476/posts?page=139#139
[2] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2205506/posts
[3] Ibid.
[4] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987744/posts
[5] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2205506/posts
[6] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206074/posts
[7] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208255/posts
[8] http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/10/mccain_gets_a_l.html
[9] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944791/posts
Notes
# As an aside, I most frequently observe the verb "hate" (and its derivative forms) espoused by leftists, certainly not conservatives who frequent Free Republic. Why some Freepers and self-described conservatives choose to make use of the word is beyond me.
P.S. You forgot one that classy silver-spoon family:
McCain brother quits, apologizing for cursing at 911 dispatcher
Excellent!
Bump!
McCain’s positions on global warming and illegal immigration put him at the bottom of my list from day one. His record of crossing the aisle didn’t help much, either. His support for the bailout clinched his defeat, IMO.
If Republicans want to win, I suggest the RNC quit propping up candidates like McCain, Schwarzenegger, and Rudy (all of whom they tried to push ever since the 2004 convention) whose beliefs more closely aligh with the Dem platform. If I wanted to vote for a liberal, I’d be a Democrat.
McCain lost. He is done. Never to return again.
Obama won.
Try a few posts of criticizing a Democrat.
McCain is a Democrat.
Agreed.
But he is powerless.
Let’s see you criticize DNC members a few times.
You have nailed the criticize Republicans better than Daily Kos, Huff Po and DU combined.
Bet you can’t.
Only one thing worse than a democrat. A democrat claiming to be a Republican and posing as such. Purge the RINOs!
I’ll go on the record: John McCain UNDID, many, many times over, anything patriotic he did in the Hanoi Hilton, by THROWING the election of 2008.
For throwing the election of 2008, John McCain will go to his grave a TRAITOR.
They can pile ten thousand flags on his coffin and fire off ten thousand 21-gun salutes, and he will still be, for all time, one of American history’s greatest TRAITORS.
I would call his attack on the 1st Amendment through McCain/Feingold his biggest betrayal of America. Unfortunately it isn’t an isolated flaw in his career.
C’mon Rab, tell us how you really feel, LOL
Seriously, GREAT post and you’re calling it not just the way you see it, but the way it IS.
McCain and his motley crew have done as much to destroy the Republican Party as that other RINO we just waved goodbye to, the one and only George W. Bush.
But as I do with GWB, I do also for McInsane, I cannot bring myself to hate them personally, I try to “hate the sin, love the sinner” because if we allow ourselves to hate these people the way the left hates us, we descend into the sewer. Hell, I despise everything that Bill Clinton stands for but I offered up prayers for his quick recovery when his heart finally rebelled against all those cheeseburger delights and poontang by the Oval Office light (sorry for that visual this early in the morning, lol).
Conservatism needs a new home, and that means we as conservatives have to wave goodbye to the GOP because just as Reagan said of the Democrat Party “we didn’t leave them, they left us”. Some have suggested the Falcon Party (*ping* to Pissant) but I submit that there is already an amazing party structure that just needs to be built upon, and that is noneother than Free Republic itself.
‘The Free Republic Party’ has the potential to not only do what the GOP has failed to do, but to surpass them and re-establish the true Party of Reagan.
Again, great post although I will agree with another Freeper about Meghan McCain, her size doesn’t bother me, if she just had a mind to match her rack, she’d be ok in my book, LOL
Wow. That's some three examples. Actually the worst Schwarzenegger really is a democrat on all his positions and a huge disaster but is not a national candidate. He is apparently what luny CA wants.
Rush had a good idea. Change the republican primaries so democrats cant vote in them. Not only do you have the media telling voters these other two are most electable, but you have liberal republicans in states like Maryland and New York that vote for them, and you have democrats and independents voting in the R primary too. That means we get the Bob Dole type candidate = McCain. I know Republicans here in Maryland liked McCain and I told them he would lose.
I believe he took a dive and was only in the race to satisfy his own ego -and the in a twist only the mentally ill can understand blame it all on the voter since they are too stupid to vote for him.
As for Porkette, she is a typical vapid rich Columbia grad. With no real ability to think or arrive at a logical conclusion. Good thing her siblings have some brains of the beer distribution business will fail - hard to do with Budweiser!!
The one party system is a failure.
I think Cinnamon Girl has a thing for Meghan McCain. Checkout : 104
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2208476/posts?page=104#104
She likes McCain, Bush, Cheney, Steele and she lives in LA in Maxine Waters district(from a comment she made) . So she is a Schwarzenegger type republican (I bet) that thinks opposing Waters is conservative. Maxine is always fun to watch, and Pelosi too.
LOL
Good positions
rab, my guess is both of these posters are:
Radical ultra left-wing repubulicans, aka RINO’s.
Calcowgirl is one of us.
Oh sorry but you posted at her.
Sorry calcowgirl, my bad!
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