Posted on 04/21/2009 9:57:34 AM PDT by lewisglad
“I love you. Now, please change.”
That is the message Meghan McCain has for the Republican Party. Ms. McCain said she fell in love with the GOP while campaigning for two years with her father, John McCain. However, in spite of her newly minted affection for the Republican Party, she believes that in order for the party she loves to attract more young people like her, the party needs to be reshaped to reflect the views held by the hip generation of which she imagines that she is a part.
What changes does she think the GOP needs to make? It needs to be hip and edgier. She laments the perception that there are no Republican politicians who are exciting enough that anyone would want to wear his or her likeness on a piece of clothing. What a short memory she has. Her father’s vice presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, inspired the creation of numerous t-shirts, sweatshirts, and pins with her face on them. She also attracted crowds of tens of thousands at campaign appearances. However, that must be of little consequence to Ms. McCain, since those tens of thousands were the regular folks from the heartland of America who make this country work. They were not the Hollywood types or MTV crowd who wore Barack Obama adorned dresses at mutual admiration societies masquerading as video music award shows.
Ms. McCain also has a dim view of ideological conservatives. She thinks the Republican Party gives too much attention to Ann Coulter, whom she described as “offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing.” Rush Limbaugh is also unacceptable to Meghan, because he is the “extreme right-wing” and “dangerous” for the party — perhaps an unsurprising description in view of Rush’s hesitant and belated endorsement of her father in 2008. So whom does Ms. McCain think Republicans should turn to for political and cultural advice? None other than Russell Brand. A British “comedian,” Brand took time out of his MTV Music Awards hosting duties in September of last year to beg Americans to vote for Barack Obama. He also decided to insult and malign not just Sarah Palin, but her entire family.
Meghan McCain thinks Rush Limbaugh is dangerous and Ann Coulter is offensive but she thinks Russell Brand is “freaking hilarious” and recommends that “everyone” listen to him. Really? Republicans should embrace the unfunny rants of a man who ridicules and degrades them?
Ms. McCain’s most recent complaint is that the Republican Party is not progressive, particularly when it comes to gay rights. In an April 13 article she said that the GOP uses “anti-gay rhetoric” to “whip up the base” and she used as an example a quote from an unnamed conservative congressman: “If we don’t save marriage, we can’t remain pro-life.” I agree with Ms. McCain that there is an illogical connection between the issues of life and marriage. However, to maintain that marriage should be limited to a man and a woman is a far cry from anti-gay rhetoric. If that were the case, then Barack Obama must also be “whipping up” anti-gay sentiment, since his position on the question is virtually identical.
Though Ms. McCain’s efforts may be well meaning, she displays a weak grasp of the foundation and philosophy that is conservatism and the Republican Party. Perhaps she needs to reread a quote from one of her gay friends. His view embodies the conservative and, therefore, Republican philosophy well: “Where I stand politically doesn’t begin and end with my sexuality.” Conservatism, which must remain the core of the Republican Party, does not begin and end with anyone’s sexuality, race, creed, or religion. It is a philosophy that values an individual because of his unalienable rights.
Ms. McCain is like an ideological carpetbagger. A moderate, she floats into the political culture on the wings of her father’s name in order to set Republicans straight and push them into what she defines as the mainstream, a mission eerily similar to the one her father engaged in for many years. It is unfortunate, for the sake of our Republic, that John McCain was defeated in November, despite his moderate leanings. However, if the Republican Party were to follow the advice of another McCain, the result would be more electoral defeats, further shrinking of the Republican base, and more blurring of the differences between the two parties.
She is a useful idiot to the left.
Let me be the first to puke.
Who cares what MM says? She is long past her “use by” date.
Oh goodie.
Another Meaghan McCain thread.
I live for these.
Meghan McCain is not a conservative and she is not a Republican. She has no place in our party. She needs to go join her friends in the socialist camp.
Is this McCain like her father, sans an off switch?
Why is it women who say they love you always want to change you? If you loved the GOP you would accept it’s small foibles and look at its GOOD qualities.
Send her off into the sunset with Ronald Reagan Jr.
Meghan McCain sounds like a casual Republican not some savvy political insider. Obviously most of her friends are probably Obama worshippers along with all the other Hollyweird celebrities. Their motto: it’s better to be hip than right.
It is the very good qualities of the Republican Party she wishes to change, which makes her basically a liberal Democrat in Republican's clothing. Deceit knows no bounds.
I am sure it was very amusing.
Meg is a smeghead
Same message baraq had for America.
Why meghan is wrong? Her words mean no more to me than those of the dime-a-dozen high school dropouts I see and hear out in the community every day. Her stupid words are foisted upon us for one reason only: the MSM finds all mouthy RINOs useful.
IOW become what the Democrat party was before they became the Communist/Socialist party.
“Why is it women who say they love you always want to change you?
“When did you meet my ex-girlfriend?”
You dated her too?
Who the he** wants to attrack more idiots like this twit, not I.
Little Ms. McCain is ideologically a liberal Democrat. She feels she has to claim to be a Republican because of her father, but would like nothing more for the Republican party to adopt the “hip” “cool” and “edgy” and “way radical” platform of the Democrat party, so she could admit to being a Republican and still be admired by the beautiful people.
She has the mentality of a second hander.Why not try to be right instead of being popular.For the true survival of man,limited government and low taxes will never be obsolete.
Your father was not going to win a beauty contest. And since he fails to grasp even the most basic fundamental values of conservatism he could not win an ideological contest either. You and so many like you see politics as a silly sporting event where you pick a team and root for them based on their uniform colors or how cute the quarterback is. You can't change the philosophy of a team to sell more hats and t-shirts.
This is not a game. There is good and evil in the world and a war being fought for the freedom of billions of people. The opposition is allied with brutal enslavers around the globe and will lead our people into chains as well. You can not win against these people by trying to look like them and act like them. Conservatism is the anvil and hammer that can shatter despots and theocracies alike. But you have to be true to it.
If you want to sit on the fence and let others fight and die for the freedom of generations yet unborn then please find a fence on the sidelines. Don't get in the way of the dedicated adults who understand that this contest has deadly consequences. We will not shake hands and go out for a drink with the enemy after the battle is over. Your father never understood this either. He thinks that we are all fighting for the same cause, just have different ways of doing it. He believes that his friends on the hill love their country and revere the constitution. They do not.
If you are not going to take the time to learn what the fighting is really about then please exit the field. We do not need advice on how to get appearances on MTV or the View.
Go.
Sit quietly and let others decide the fate of America. Your father got his turn. He pleaded for to fight with him. Then he didn't show up.
Pan_Yan
I didn’t like your old man.
I don’t like you.
Now Get Gone
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