Meghan McCain: We Need More Gay Republicans!

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Meghan McCain: We Need More Gay Republicans! By David Knowles Apr 13th 2009 10:00AM

Here's a question: Can Meghan McCain, the blog-a-lot daughter of Senator John McCain, help bring the Republican Party into the twenty-first century? Well, with her column at The Daily Beast, and during her many television interviews, she sure is giving it a go. Today's screed, for instance, attempts to light a fire under the Republican posterior on the matter of including gay rights in the party platform:

If the Republican Party has any hope of gaining substantial support from a wider, younger base, we need to get past our anti-gay rhetoric. As you can image, the road for gay Republicans hasn't been an easy one. Most find the words "homosexual" and "conservative" inherent contradictions, much the same way so many people can't seem to reconcile fiscal conservatism and the bit-tent philosophy of freedom and justice for all.

Later in the piece, Ms. McCain goes on to point out that supporting gay marriage rights does not necessarily come at the expense of other conservative values, like an opposition to abortion:

Recently, a conservative congressman was quoted saying, "If we don't save marriage, we can't remain pro-life." That's absurd.

She also adds:

So if anyone is still confused, let me spell it out for you. I believe life begins at conception and I believe that people who fall in love should have the option to get married.

So, McCain's argument is two-fold. Supporting gay rights is both pragmatic (the overwhelming majority of younger people support gay marriage) and moral (gay rights are human rights). It's an interesting mix. Part Libertarian, part party activist. The pragmatic part runs aground, however, when we consider the nation's views on keeping abortion legal.

[Perdogg]

ping

[bamahead]

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[Don Corleone]

The rotten apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Will she please just GO AWAY??

[SJSAMPLE]

The only people giving “Chubs” any air time are lefties like Rachel Mad-Cow and CNN.

I don’t give political advice to The Left and I don’t expect to take any from them.

[Liberty1970]

Go ahead, finish off the destruction of the Republican party by completing its makeover into Democrats Lite. Then maybe people will finally turn to a 3rd party alternative that gives them a real choice.

[rabscuttle385]

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[EagleUSA]

We need more gay crap in our lives, like we need more criminal socialists in our White House and Congress. What the GOP needs is CONSERVATISM and the mature, patriotic people to put it back into play.

[Izzy Dunne]

many people can't seem to reconcile fiscal conservatism and the bit-tent philosophy of freedom and justice for all.

That's a tent a lot of us don't want to be in, thankyavurymuch.

[pgkdan]

Meghan McCain: We Need More Gay Republicans!

Pgkdan: We need fewer Meghan McCain Republicans

[MrB]

She must have fallen for the myth that

homos “are 10% of the population”.

[Blogger]

Setting herself up as a democrat I see.

[b4its2late]

She must be a democrat. This woman can't shut her trap.

[Dead Corpse]

Er why? Is she having trouble finding straight guys to date?

[LibertyRocks]

UGH! Why is anyone listening to Meghan McCain?

As far as needing more of “any” type of Republican... Well, I could care less if they are Gay, Straight, Black, Blue, Purple, in love with their bird, WHO CARES!?!?!

What we REALLY need in the GOP are more CONSERVATIVES!

Why doesn’t Miss McCain just go party with her liberal buddies, and leave the GOP alone... (Her Dad should do likewise...).

[Long Island Pete]

I guess the republican party also needs more blacks that will placate to the entitlement crowd.

[Holicheese]

Maybe if we drop pieces of fried chicken all the way to the oceans edge, she will just keep walking!

[Niteranger68]

We could also use a few more straight Democrats.

[Rudder]

people can't seem to reconcile fiscal conservatism and the bit-tent philosophy of freedom and justice for all.

Bad morning...everybody's writing gibberish. What's a bit-tent?