Posted on 04/26/2009 9:02:12 PM PDT by Darvin Dowdy
Most movement conservatives consider their cause will project far into the future. Not necessarily so. Many are working feverishly to bring about the demise of conservatism within the GOP...
Meghan McCain is, no doubt, emerging as the unabashed leader of this Movement of Radical Moderates and she doesn’t try to hide or mask her objectives: 1) separate the Republican Party from the Conservative Movement, 2) push the conservatives out and/or diminish their influence. And she is succeeding to date. For that she deserves credit and respect. Respect for her intellect that is. Not her views.
For instance, in her recent address to the Log Cabin Republicans, she does correctly point out that the GOP and Conservatives are sitting around, “waiting for the other side to be perceived as worse than us”. And that is absolutely true. The Movement Conservatives have become completely distracted. Refusing to consider getting their own dysfunctional house in order but instead continuously harping and pointing their finger at the flawed, Constitution-hating democrats. They keep telling us what we already know rather than making an effort to fix our own problems. Of which they are in deep denial about. And many problems they do have, but honestly they are not insurmountable. However, their stubborn arrogance won’t allow them to even recognize that they have a problem. So they’ve become as a dog chasing its tail.
And Meghan, like most everyone else, can see this joke of a “GOP three ring circus”. It doesn’t take some political genius. She sees it! Many of us see it. And to her credit she at least has the courage to try to offer up, with an element of passion, some Progressive solutions. She’s a progressive what else do you expect her to do?? Just so happens that her solutions (and those of others in her camp) would finish the GOP for good. These “youthful” moderates may dominate the right Blogeshpere. They may be able to set up a Facebook page. They certainly know how to Twitter deep into the wee hours of the night. But, if left unchecked, they’ll finish the demolition job that John McCain started in 2008. If Conservatives don’t “gently & lovingly” smack them down, these misguided progressives will drive away millions more of the 59.9 million that voted GOP on 11/4/08 and ruin any chance we might have of taking back one of the legislative houses on 11/2/10. Of which, for the sake of our Nation, we desperately need to do.
So, who are these “Old School Republicans” that Meghan proclaimed as “Scared S**tless”? They used to be called Reagan Democrats. Now they are the 59.9 million Civic Conservatives who held their nose and pulled the GOP lever on 11/4/08. Surely not voting “for” her progressive Dad but rather voting “against” the socialist Barrack Obama. And lets not forget about the 10-20 million who opted to “Stay at Home” rather than compromise their principles. Meghan is correct about one thing, however. They are scared. But not for themselves because, you see, they’ve made their pot of gold! They are scared for the future of Meghan and her fellow Gen Y’ers because of the destructive course these youngsters have set our Nation upon. Installing at the highest level of our government one who will punish achievers/producers, take the wealth they’ve earned and give it to the non-producers of not only our society but throughout the world. And one who will incrementally push our Constitution aside and replace it with the charter of some world governing body.
Meghan says we Old School’ers want to, “cling to past successes”. Here’s where she show’s her serious lack of maturity. Certainly it makes perfect sense to “cling” to traditions and values that have worked for millennia. Truth transcends the generations but these Gen Y’ers, in their arrogance, believe that they have evolved to some higher plane of consciousness and have gained some unique higher knowledge. Hence, they’ve concluded, that these traditions/values that have served mankind well over the centuries, no longer apply to them. They, of course, are tragically wrong and will pay a heavy and painful high price.
If this mentality begins to control the Republican Party, to put it simply, Old School Republicans will flee the party by the millions. And they will not be replaced by some hyped-up, puffed-up, overrated youth vote.
These radical moderates are loose cannons on a rolling deck, encouraged and coached by an exultant MSM. Certainly they have moderate views but what makes them extreme is this; they are absolutely enthralled with what comes out of their own mouth. “Hooked” and enticed by the attention they receive from the media. They’re in awe of their opinions and see themselves as messianic. Viewing themselves as some great leader holding the torch and pointing the way for the huddled masses. And they’re dangerous because, in essence, they are so very wrong-headed. Next to the road they’re telling us we should travel upon there’s a tattered sign that reads “Bridge Out Ahead”. Yet they continue pointing the way and, as a result, many mindless followers within the lazy GOP Hierarchy convince themselves that this is the correct path-of-least-resistance to take. Hence the momentum builds for this Movement, in its infancy, of Radical Moderates.
I have feared for a long time that the vacuum caused by the total void of leadership within the GOP would eventually suck in something impure. Meghan’s Moderates seem to be that void filling contamination. Those on the right, such as Laura Ingraham, who believe the best way to deal with a force like Meghan McCain is to make fun of her dress size….well they have blundered seriously. Meghan has brilliantly turned it around on them resulting in Ingraham and other conservative talkers drawing back a bloody stump, in shock. They’ve been made to look small as Meghan swings her substantial mallet and drives the divisive wedge still deeper between Conservatives and the Republican Party. Those who oppose Meghan McCain had best learn do so strictly on an intellectual level and cease with the childish name calling. Darvin Dowdy
Meghan McCain type “republicans” are why the GOP is where it is now. She is a symbol of the problem, not the solution.
Aside from a gravitational force, no.
lol!
If she detests the policies of conservatives so much, why doesn’t she just go ahead and join the dems? Is she just sticking around to make us all miserable? If so, it’s working.
She took it to a whole new level last week when she decided to go after Karl Rove and Cheney. She’s really pathetic.
She is used by leftists to make us look bad and then she will be spit out like her father was by the media when they do not need her. She is a useful idiot.
The fat end of the wedge no doubt.
Meghan McCain is a lifelong liberal democrat who registered R just to vote for her Dad. She will do as much damage to the party as she can before she returns to her liberal sewer. She reminds me a great deal of Ariana Huffington.
Movement of Radical Moderates? Or Movement of Moderate Moonbats?
One thing they are for certain, though: juvenile.
yup, only she’s too stupid to realize it.
Meghan McCain has become bizarrely incoherent and so has this blogger.
Just think about the 'bag of hammers' intelligence in that label.
Nam Vet
Meghan McCain is a liberal Democrat and said so about a year ago. Then her dad won the Republican nomination and all the sudden she’s a “Moderate Republican.”
Meghan will hold no credibility with me, at least until she debates with Laura Ingram or Ann Coulter instead of sniping at them from the Rachel Maddow show.
Oh, good grief. Shades of Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin.
“Meghan McCain is a lifelong liberal democrat who registered R just to vote for her Dad. She will do as much damage to the party as she can before she returns to her liberal sewer. She reminds me a great deal of Ariana Huffington.”
Perfectly stated.
Maybe we should start calling her "Darvin Dowdy".
This is very troubling and it should be Steele's job to quell this absolute lunacy but he is a component of the problem Himself so I do not see that happening.
Ms. McCain does not generate this type of publicity here at home in AZ. Never. She is a legend in her own mind.
There is only one problem. The web site is no joke!
Meghan McCain Swings Her Mallet & Drives the Wedge Deeper...
I'd bet that those are deep fried potato wedges, slathered in mayonnaise.
The response to Meghan McCain should be the same response her father should be getting:
"Go away now before we unceremoniously kick you out of the party"
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