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."
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I find your haughtiness laughable. I am a conservative. But I choose to live in the real world. And what I see is a country that is no longer a predominantly right wing country. The demographics have changed. You can sit and fulminate in your self-righteousness, or you can work towards a better country. I don't believe that sitting back and bitching and whining is an option. But that's just me...
We have the candidate we have. And if you truly, honestly, believe there is no difference between McCain and Obama, then there's nothing anyone can say to you. But if you do, then you have no credibility...
Haughtiness?!! Really? Friend; I'm not threatening people and taking down names.
(please note it is 'laotzu' with a small 'l')
I am a conservative
A conservative that is ignorant of what conservatives do, rolls on the floor laughing at them, and believes that intimidation is a viable vehicle to use against them.
Well, O.K. then.
I find your haughtiness laughable..fulminate in your self-righteousness..bitching and whining..you have no credibility...
You seem a pleasant sort.
He's about as conservative as Dubya, who I'm not all that thrilled with, but I would not even dream of taking back my votes for him, and I thank God he won over Gore/Kerry, and I'm going to be just as grateful when McCain beats "Babies-Are-Punishment" Obama.
LOL! Meghan McCain '08!
I wish I lived in Texas. Texas gals are hot.
Well look at my profile page - I didn’t add the caveat, and that’s my wonderful wife!!
I was speaking in generalities!
Yeah, that one is a real stretch and a real stench. LOL!
There are a few people around here that could be added to a list or two of various types.
No, dear. Hildy was not banned. I assume you’re referring to the Rudy exodus.
Hildy knows I am not, dearie. Perhaps you need a private pow wow.
Well, whatever.
Ben Franklin once said, “The sting of criticism is the truth of it.”
I don’t know what your beef is, but I do appreciate Hildy and her perspective.
I have no problem with that. That is your choice.
Conservatives don't change values and beliefs with the times or the political winds. We were able to exist peaceably within the republican party when the party actually had a basis for which it stood. RINOs and the liberal wing of the party have moved things so far to the left that now conservatives are viewed as 'picky', 'unappeasable', 'stubborn', 'selfish', and prone to 'temper tantrums' (I think I covered most of the names we've been called here) because we don't totally compromise away our principles.
The moderate and liberal wings of the republican party don't seem to understand that yes, compromise is required in politics, but you can only compromise to a certain extent before you are chewing away at the edges of the very fiber that a conservative is made from. If a conservative starts compromising on the very core of their values, they are, by definition, no longer conservative.
Sorry for the rant, but this crap from the McCainiacs is starting to wear very thin on my nerves. I usually have two questions for them, which are: (1) do you believe that John McCain, as POTUS, will be good for America?; and (2) when you leave your polling place will you be proud of the vote that you have cast for McCain? I have never received a direct answer to either. The only answer I ever get is that McCain would be better than Obama. That is not necessarily good enough, IMHO.
However, if they can answer affirmatively to both questions, they are doing what is right for them. That is what this country is all about. I can't answer those questions in the affirmative, therefore I will not cast a vote for John McCain. There will be no regret.
Good post. I do agree with you. I am sick of the nastiness too. Its almost like we are all supposed to be clones, fall in line and do it right now. Or else, we are told to get out of here.
oh, you forgot “belly button gazer’ and “Obamamoron”.
LOL
Oh... oops.
/blushes
(And it’s probably right now that I think about it, out of seven girls I lived with this summer, 3 were for sure democrats and the others were in the middle (or I had no idea), and I was right)
Absolutely. Although, many of us remain morons even with age...
The only way that can conceivably happen is if one does not even vote. That is "throwing a vote away", in other words, discarding it.
To actually use it to vote for a slate of Electors representative a qualified party, is not "throwing" anything away.
It is just a legitmate vote that will be counted as one for the Democrats (D) this year as for the Republicans (D) this year.
Men who died on Mt. Surabachi did so just as much to secure my American right to vote for the IAP, or AIP, or Libertarians as GOP and Democrat.
I think you should be very carefuly when you talk about "throwing a vote away", because this is a subjective value judgement.
If we care too, we could actually rationalize that, considering the government one is going to get, voting for Obama or McCain is likewise "throwing one's vote away".
But I will not go there.
I do know I will be voting FOR somebody and FOR principles, not voting in fear against anyone.
Have you read the endless posts here advising one and all that the poster will not vote? Not for McCain, not for Obama, nor for Barr, not for Nader and not for McKinney.
Voting for other than the R or D can be termed a “protest vote” as it will count for naught. That’s fine, it’s your right. Not much different than voting R in California or D in Alabama, I suppose.
Still, after the 2000 election, one should think long and hard about not voting or casting a protest vote.
Sometimes life is tough and we have to choose between the lesser of two evils.
Until you or I run for POTUS, there just won’t be a perfect canddiate.
I am old enough to have been down this road MANY TIMES.
There were cases I went with the "lesser if two evils" (situation ethics-based morals) and cases I went for whom I truly wanted which was neither the (D) nor the (R-RINO) (moral absolutism).
I cannot be worried about what the guy with the puncher or lever in the next poll station booth is doing with his ballot, nor 100 people on down from him, nor 1000, nor 100,000 nor even a million. In that little booth that I myself am in, I am only responsible at the end of the day to cast an honest vote that does not LIE but most clearly represents ME.
I can tell you from life experience I was much more satisfied with my vote and my choice in those cases I went on principle and answered the call to a deeper voice within my soul, than when I rationalized and ended up with evil anyways (for example 10 million more illegal alien invaders and illegal alien crime and welfarism spinning out of control).
So I for one know--if given the choice guaranteed by our fighting men and women overseas for years--I will be voting CONSERVATIVE this year, neither for Socialist Democratism nor Reach-Over-The-Aisle Appeasing RINOism).
Like I said, your mileage may very.
The fact the Conservative movement may not get off the ground in its challenge to Socialists and RINOs this year is because of the thinking of too many Conservatives who will compromise and vote for a RINO rather than actually join us and build a counter-alternative. So you see, in not joining the Conservative side it is only a self-fulfilling prophecy, that then sets up the defeatist baseball pitch of "well, HE CANNOT WIN!".
Why not go meet some of the Electors on your ballot, such as those pledged to McCain and those pledged to one or more conservatives on your ballot, and see which group of these fellow Americans you personally are more in line with?
If it is more with the McCain supporters, your political position may not necessary have been that of Conservative in the first place. But that is fine.
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