Posted on 04/18/2009 8:24:10 PM PDT by Aglooka
Republican in Name Only? Try the future of the GOP. The following is Meghan McCain's address to the Log Cabin Republicans Conventiona group that promotes gay issues within the GOPon April 18, 2009.
Thank you all for having me here tonight. I am thrilled to be able to speak to you this evening to share some of my experiences from the campaign and observations on where our party is today. And Im proud to tell you there is a special role for the Log Cabin Republicans to play in our future.
The last two years of my life have been an amazing series of moments. Some sad, some thrilling and others mesmerizing. I want to tell you about some of those moments as well as the ones that are yet to come.
I have been humbled by the outpouring of support that I received during the campaign. The tumultuous ride of my fathers quest for the Presidency has been well chronicled. In October, 2007 I launched the site McCainBogette.com. I chose to do my part in telling the campaigns story from my perspective for a variety of reasons.
First and foremost, I realized my Dad would always have to deal with people perceiving him as too old to be President. I know what youre all thinking: Why would anyone think that? As with many things, reality is sometimes so different from what people perceive.
I know my father better than anyone. And if he could have a 23 year old wiseass like me as a daughter, then that certainly doesnt make him too old. Someone had to tell the nation that, and I was up to the challenge.
Second, I have been a child of politics since the day I was born.
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I agree with that.
Despite the protestations of certain RINO sacks of crap* who desperately grovels for the Perverts and the Abortionists and the Greenfece types, my vote and my principles are like gold.
*Yes, that includes a few Freepers.
(Dumb stays dumb, pills won't help you there.)
Do you have a better translation, JeffHead? ; )
“Second, I have been a child of politics since the day I was born.”
I think that’s one of them trivial truths. Like saying she’s been a child of John McCain since the day she was born. So what?
She’s like her father. Totally out of touch.
"Dumb stays dumb, Dumb...there's no pill to help it.
I’m sick of her and her dad.
yea I just read those comments and seems she is not been taken in by anyone.
she is a complete idiot who hasn’t been a republican for 6 months and now she thinks she can tell us what our views should be wit queers, no way
She is not a republican and this isn’t the future of the party. She is an idiot, plain and simple.
I give you an A.
Through the RINOs the demrats have coopted the GOP. Conservatives will never be given meaningful relevance, let alone power, in the GOP. Demrats will not allow it.
However, they will be perfectly happy to take in naieve conservatives who persost in thinking reforming the GOP is still possible.
I keeping asking this question: What do you know that leads you to believe the GOP will ever offer up anything but RINOs for major offices?
Some folks say third parties cannot win. Excuse me, I wasn’t aware there any longer exists a viable second opposition party to the demrats in America. But, but you say, vote for a GOP candidate to keep a demrat out. I wasn’t aware of any difference between a RINO and a demrat. If I’m gonna do that I might as well become a demrat.
She may end up “chairing” President Obama’s 2012 campaign. Maybe Julie Nixon Eisenhower or Ronald Prescott Reagan, or Christopher Buckley could help.
Lucas McCain was a real conservative - the late Chuck Connors!
It seems that Meghan has been influenced by her perception of her father’s prowess, and that she thinks she is now some sort of ombudsman for the Republican party, leading it out of the darkness. Sorry Meghan, you’ve merely caught foot in mouth disease from daddy dearest.
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