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Meghan McCain: "I Almost Registered as a Democrat"
usmagazine.com ^ | July 31, 2008

Posted on 07/31/2008 6:02:47 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Republican presidential candidate John McCain's daughter Meghan is just 23-years-old, but she's had her own political evolution.

"I almost registered as a Democrat to be rebellious, but I registered as an Independent instead," she tells Glamour in its September issue. "Then my dad bragged about it, so it backfired."

Meghan, a self-described "total daddy's girl," registered as a Republican as a Father's Day gift last month.

Though she's been crossing the country by bus to help the campaign, she takes issue with parts of the GOP platform.

"I don't relate to the hard right," she admits. "I think it's time to reinvent the Republican Party. And I think my dad can do it."

(Excerpt) Read more at usmagazine.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; gop; justlikeherfather; mccain; mccainfamily; mccainlist; mccaintruthfile; meghanmccain; nomanwilllayher; rebranding; youthvote
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To: af_vet_1981

You just described who you are voting for to a tee.

So, what’s your point?


121 posted on 08/01/2008 5:21:50 AM PDT by exit82 (People get the government they deserve--and they are about to get it --in spades.)
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To: RockinRight
There’s something about being a young adult female that just doesn’t seem compatible with being any sort of Republican. You just haven't met the right ones (me, my room mate, my friend who interned at The Heritage Foundation [where I hope too]). We may not know all the history of the party (at least how ya'll know it, we didn't live it) but that doesn't preclude us from realizing that being a liberal rubs against every belief we have (especially abortion). We aren't just republicans though. We're conservative. :D
122 posted on 08/01/2008 5:48:42 AM PDT by Toki
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To: Free ThinkerNY; AmericanInTokyo

I think I’ll write in Meghan for POTUS. Just for the hell of it.


123 posted on 08/01/2008 6:07:27 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Cure CINOism- Write in proven conservatives at all levels on the ballot)
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To: Canedawg

I guess the Kool-aide drinkers do not understand. As bad as Obama is, McCain is himself bad enough that I cannot vote for him. Who would be more damaging to the country? Probably Obama, but it is not a lock. Who would be more damaging to the ideals of the country? Probably McCain, but again it is not quite a lock.


124 posted on 08/01/2008 6:28:48 AM PDT by Ingtar (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery. - ejonesie22)
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To: Hildy
I swear to God you’d better not come on this site and start bitching...I mean that

Conservatives do not bow to intimidation.

Now....why would you not know that?

125 posted on 08/01/2008 7:03:47 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: laotzu
It only served to give evidence that we touched a raw nerve there for a brief moment with the McCainbots, and in and of itself, I found that quite instructive, very entertaining and I got a good LOL out of it, to boot! ;-)

All in a day's work....

126 posted on 08/01/2008 7:07:53 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (If you couldn't stand to be in a packed room of RINOs & LIBERALS for 3+hours DO NOT VOTE for McObama)
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To: laotzu
ROFLMAO! Conservatives do not bow to intimidation

...what exactly DO Conservatives do? They don't work very hard for the candidates they support, they don't fight for what they believe in (unless it's anonymously on a website), so praytell..WHAT DO CONSERVATIVES DO?

127 posted on 08/01/2008 7:10:51 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: AmericanInTokyo
When they are all RINOs, the term ceases to have any meaning.

They are just Republicans.

128 posted on 08/01/2008 7:13:47 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: b9
"The FR management values her very much."

Bwahaahahhahhahh! Who on Earth told you such nonsense? Are you the official spokesperson for management now? LOL!

129 posted on 08/01/2008 7:24:31 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde ("When the government fears the people there is liberty ... " Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Hildy
ROFLMAO! WHAT DO CONSERVATIVES DO?

A fair question.

Conservatives value tradition, family, religion, Texas, sovereignty and small government. Conservatives despise bullies, tyrants, government intrusion, enslavement, and intimidation.

Conservatives built this nation, raised my children, made a success of my company, and freed millions of people of other nations.

It is ironic that although you confess to not knowing what conservatives do, you do find us laughable.

130 posted on 08/01/2008 7:28:28 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: Ingtar

I don’t relate to the HARD right either. I don’t relate to the HARD left either. Extremes left and right ..are just that extreme. On some level we are all close to the middle than we know. Extremes Pull ..ying yang.. until we find a happy middle ground of comprimise we can only live with.


131 posted on 08/01/2008 7:29:51 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: TheWasteLand
TheWasteLand wrote: Young people are morons. Fortunately they don’t vote.

If Young people are morons, then we can all claim to have been Morons once..right? Although as a young person, I always voted.

132 posted on 08/01/2008 7:34:18 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: Hildy
Hildy wrote: I’m making a list here of all who must tell us, ad nauseum, that they will not vote for McCain. If and when the day comes our military is forced to salute a President Obama, I swear to God you’d better not come on this site and start bitching...I mean that.

Could I have the copy of the list too? I want to kick their butt, if Obama wins.

133 posted on 08/01/2008 7:36:03 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: jveritas
, jveritas wrote: I will tell you this: I am 100% confident that McCain is going to be the next President. You believe otherwise then that is fine. We shall see on Elections Night who is right.

I believe that McCain will be the Next President also. "The Obamamania 2008" which is media created reminds me of "the Dukasis Miracle 1988 " which was also media created, and we all know how that turned out.

134 posted on 08/01/2008 7:40:51 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: rabscuttle385

You really are quite entertaining. I look foreward to each little gem of yours, makes my day. Please do not stop.


135 posted on 08/01/2008 7:41:00 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: Hildy
I’m making a list here of all who must tell us, ad nauseum, that they will not vote for McCain. If and when the day comes our military is forced to salute a President Obama, I swear to God you’d better not come on this site and start bitching...I mean that.

Politics is the art of the possible. Frankly stated, the seriously conservative GOP candidates such as Duncan Hunter would have had no chance of winning the general election. This is a bad Republican election in terms of popularity with the general public.

Is John McCain a perfect candidate? Of course not. But he is one of our best hopes to beat Obama.

Republicans who would sit home on election night are bringing this country just a bit closer to the disastrous result of a Democratic President, House and (almost worst of all) a potentially filibuster proof Senate.

Who in their right mind would want the above to happen?

136 posted on 08/01/2008 7:48:15 AM PDT by Citizen Blade ("Please... I go through everyone's trash." The Question)
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To: rabscuttle385

“And what happens if the Republican is a liberal?”

We then redefine the meaning of the word “conservative” until it is so watered down that it means (just like “Republican”) NOTHING.

Did I win? Do I get a cookie? Another cup of kool aide maybe?


137 posted on 08/01/2008 7:49:29 AM PDT by Grunthor (In 2006, McCain voted against defining marriage between one man and one woman)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Absolutely....


138 posted on 08/01/2008 7:50:11 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Meghan McCain: “I Almost Registered as a Democrat”

Wow, just like Daddy!


139 posted on 08/01/2008 7:51:15 AM PDT by Grunthor (In 2006, McCain voted against defining marriage between one man and one woman)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

No matter what, come noon next January 20, a new President of the United States will be sworn in. Given the choice between the only two viable candidates to win the highest office in the land, I will be a lot more comfortable if it’s McCain. Thrilled and ecstatic, no.

This election isn’t about electing a Prom or Homecoming King. It’s deadly serious, life or death, election. McCain was not my first choice for the GOP nomination, but he’s it. I can choose to vote for him or not to vote, or vote for someone like Barr. If I were to choose to throw away my vote, just for kicks, I’d probably vote for Cynthia McKinny. However, I will never squander my vote. It’s a sacred honor and privilege accorded to me because I was just lucky enough to have been born in the USA, through no sacrifice of my own but by the blood of hundreds of thousands who preceded me and who serve today.

Just like President Bush, if we get President McCain, we can all find lots to grumble about. But if that is the outcome, we had best remind ourselves, as we have for 8 years, that it beats all hell out of a President Gore or a President Kerry or a President Obama.

We should all be damned glad that George W. Bush and not Al Gore was POTUS on 9/11/01. And, as the inevitable next strike on our soil occurs, I pray to God we have someone with courage like President Bush, who puts the USA and not a peacenik ideology first and foremost.

No pompoms waving here for McCain, just a practical view of what my choices are.


140 posted on 08/01/2008 7:54:08 AM PDT by EDINVA
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