Meghan McCain: Don't look at us like 'dirty moderates' [Sen. McCain chimes in too]

CNN - Political Ticker ^ | 2009-05-02

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(CNN) — Meghan McCain, daughter of former Republican presidential candidate John McCain, said the GOP is going to have to become more inclusive if it wants to rebuild.

“I just wish that moderates like myself — more moderate Republicans and more socially liberal Republicans — weren’t looked at as, ‘Get rid of the dirty moderates. Get rid of them,’” the 24-year-old told CNN affiliate KTAR radio in a joint interview with her father.

“We need to be an inclusive party. We need to be an umbrella party. We need to inspire 20-somethings, which is something the Obama campaign did very well,” she said on the "Mac & Gaydos" show.

“And it’s not that I think that our message is neither good nor bad — I just think it’s that the Democrats package their message better, and I think if we could be able to communicate with my generation, the Republican Party can really rebuild itself,” she added.

Asked about the coverage she’s been getting for the GOP, McCain said she feels like she’s “speaking out for a lot of young people that don’t feel spoken for.”

[dfwgator]

Shortest book in the world - “Great Moderates in History”

[Son House]

the 24-year-old told CNN affiliate KTAR radio in a joint interview with her father.

“We need to be an inclusive party. We need to be an umbrella party. We need to inspire 20-somethings, which is something the Obama campaign did very well,”

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By lying and promising the world on a silver spoon like the Obama campaign did very well? Nope, she won’t be mature enough to understand till she’s over 30

[exist]

“We need to be an inclusive party. We need to be an umbrella party.

I don ‘t know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, “We must broaden the base of our party”—when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents.

It was a feeling that there was not a sufficient difference now between the parties that kept a majority of the voters away from the polls. When have we ever advocated a closed-door policy? Who has ever been barred from participating?

Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?

-- Reagan circa 1975.

[libertarian27]

‘Get rid of the dirty moderates. Get rid of them,’

[jla]

John McCain's daughter espouses those same principles as the radical, Leftist social/economic engineers now occupying our White House. We need a leader who espouses the principles of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
The good news is we have that very person among us now -

[libh8er]

I just think it’s that the Democrats package their message better,

And what is their message, Meghan ?

Abortion ? Infanticide ? Confiscation of private property ? Groveling on hands and knees in front of third world thugs and tyrants ? Promoting social depravity ? Self hatred and hatred of one's country ?

[lewisglad]

[Navy Patriot]

OK fatty, I'll look at you like you are a dirty liberal.

Your dud dad too. Happy?

[TommyDale]

Meghan, trust me -- no one really wants to look at you. But now that you mention it, we should

Get rid of the dirty moderates!

[NormsRevenge]

Do us all a favor. Be a Dem, Meghan.

It’s who you want to be and it’s cross-over dems that even gave your Dad a shot in the first place..

You should reward them and join them, not punish the rest of us becuz you don’t know who the heck you are.

[tanknetter]

Translation: “I want to get invited to all of the good parties.”

Bingo.

She's spent the last several months trashing Conservatives in the most vile ways possible, now runs to the press to play the poor little victim because the people she trashed are hitting back.

The girl is nothing more than the spoiled brat child of a US Senator and an heiress.

[tanknetter]

To add, she ONLY gets press because she’s a useful idiot who serves their needs by trashing Conservatives. And she’s become addicted to how they fawn all over her.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

She sounds exactly like the Rooty supporters last year....social conservatives were weighing down the party.

To me, she is a spoiled rich girl chiming in on a conversation that is way above her head...kind of like Paris Hilton talking about anything other than clothes or STD's.

[amihow]

Actually what the GOP needs to do is send the party’s moderates over to the Dems and lead this country back to its roots by articulating true conservative values which do not place economics over the middle class and the poor.

If we follow the ditz’s advice the GOP will be the same losing party as it was with her Dad.

And by the way, the GOP needs new, saavy,young blood to articulate the message. That would not be Palin, Jindal, Romney or Newt.

[joethedrummer]

Ohhh,... but it’s okay for you middle-of-the-roaders to constantly whine that the Republican party has been HIJACKED by the ‘extreme’ right and should be gotten rid of...

[kabar]

We need to inspire 20-somethings, which is something the Obama campaign did very well,” she said on the "Mac & Gaydos" show.

Do you think that the fact that the GOP nominated a 72 year old curmudgeon, the oldest man ever to run for President the first time, had something to do with not attracting the 20-somethings?

[mass55th]

She and her father spend more time tearing down Conservatives than they do Obama’s destruction of this country.

[jla]

Terrific!

[gigster]

How did you get a picture of my ex-wife?

[CommieCutter]

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