Posted on 02/17/2009 7:26:09 PM PST by Big_Monkey
John McCain's daughter, Meghan McCain, 24, has agreed to headline the annual convention of the Log Cabin Republicans, a GOP group which advocates on behalf of gays and lesbians.
"Her willingness to reach out to organizations like ours shows her commitment to growing the Republican Party," Log Cabin convention manager Christian Berle told ABC News. "The title of Meghan McCain's speech is 'Winning the Next Generation -- How can the Republican Party attract more young voters.'"
Joining Meghan McCain at the conference will be Steve Schmidt, her father's top 2008 strategist. The topic of Schmidt's address is "Moving Forward."
The Log Cabin Republicans are scheduled to meet in Washington, D.C., on April 17th at a time when the GOP is seeking to rebound from an election which left the party out of power on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
In addition to Meghan McCain and Schmidt, the Log Cabin Republicans will also hear from former New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman (R), who will discuss her work with the moderate Republican Leadership Council, and former Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., who will share his perspective as a former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Michael Steele, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, has also been invited to address the Log Cabin Republicans.
He has not yet, however, committed to speak.
The Log Cabin convention is being held in conjunction with the Liberty Education Forum National Symposium.
The registration fee for the conference is $395 per person.
Do I always agree with the his public statements about that issue? NO! However, I very much agree with what he DID regarding that issue as governor. It isn't what a politician says...it's what he does, as we have pointed out ad nauseum since the beginning of his campaign. My last post to you highlights the actions Governor Romney took regarding gay marriage while holding that office, and I applaud his efforts.
I’ll be generous and chalk your post up to naivete.
I’ll be generous and say your a sincere fringe conservative and not an undercover democratic operative. : )
Well, you’ve advanced in the course of this thread, then.
;-)
Looks like the horse-apple fell close to the fruit-basket.
Just another McWeevil groveling for the rainbow swing vote in 2012.
BTW, fruit-basket is a slang term that's synonymous with another word beginning with the letter “P”; and that's what I think John McWeevil behaved as.
When Obama focused on “8 years of [economic] policy” The fruit-basket shoulda hammered Penny Pritzker.
Woosey
If Republicans want to win young voters, try telling the truth! Explain why conservatism is the way to live, hands down! Explain what Freedom means, and to everyone, not any specific group. Separating people into voting blocks is divisive and stupid. We all have the same Freedoms and the same desire for it.
AND get them interested in the Constitution, so they know what the heck they are voting for.
“Like all politicians, Mitt Romney is conscious that unless he wins, he has no real power and thus there are issues about which he may be reluctant to speak out about, lest the MSM make an issue of them resulting in loss of votes.”
Well, this isn’t one of them. He may be as slippery and dishonest and unknowable as you say, but even he is evidently capable of making something very clear if it means enough to him.
Mitt Romney: “One issue I want to clarify concerns President Clinton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue” military policy. I believe that the Clinton compromise was a step in the right direction. I am also convinced that it is the first of a number of steps that will ultimately lead to gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honestly in our nation’s military. That goal will only be reached when preventing discrimination against gays and lesbians is a mainstream concern, which is a goal we share.”
Well, it certainly has been a struggle, but the liberal/neo-con wing has been in solid control for the last 20 years, much to the detriment of the party as a whole. (two bushes and a mccain - ugh!)
Some people seem to confuse fringe right with conservative.
Yet in the 2007 CNN debate when he wasn’t talking to National Review, he waffled repeatedly as Anderson cooper tried to pin him down, and he even did the old Mitt lie as he described a phony history for himself on the issue.
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