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 Convention—a group that promotes gay issues within the GOP—on 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 I’m 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 father’s 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 campaign’s 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 you’re 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 doesn’t 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Since Meghan attacked Ann Coulter, surely, the fair-minded person that she is, she will also be attacking Janene Garofalo. Who wants to place bets on that?
Meg is the Left’s useful idiot.
Republican in Name Only? Try the future of the GOP.
We need to wrest the GOP away from this empty-headed girl, her father, and the leftist media who support their bid to have all-Rino all the time.
WHO???
Again, why are we trying to promote her on FR?
Golly, Gee, Wow, Vacuous, Vapidity, Batman!
Am I the only one who thinks that she is trying to position herself to take over her dad's seat when he retires?
Who is trying to promote her?
Like father like daughter. I wonder how soon John McCain found out that he wasn't the press's favorite Republican in 2008?
Perhaps.... errr.... because he's old?
Would all people with the last name McCain, please leave the Republican party—if not the U.S. altogether.
Some very interesting comments on that page.
If we stopped paying any attention to this ditzy tub, maybe her fade into obscurity would accelerate.
I think of it as "situational awareness." She's in the media enough that her comments could have impact. We need to be aware of the situation in order to counter any negative effects.
Plus folks here have been coming up with some funny comments about her.
I opened the thread to ask the same thing. Every time this ditz opens her piehole, we get a thread about it linking to the tenth-rate website that hired her.
Enough. She's a non-entity. And a distraction.
“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 you’re all thinking: Why would anyone think that?”
Um... looking at him and listening for him for more than 4.5 seconds?
John McCain is WAAAAAYYYY past his 15 minutes of fame in our party (which he never deserved to begin with). I don’t see any reason why the blather coming out of his off-spring should given any attention AT ALL.
She's 100% right. Anyone who still thinks that the GOP is the party of small government and conservatism is deluded.
The future is yet to be determined. But, yes, she is a fair representation of the republican party of today. The one that got trounced by a political novice and thrown out on their asses.
This idiot acts like it was someone other than her RINO father who got crushed in November.
Is any mover or shaker in the GOP even paying attention to her? I would think that the old guard just laughs.
Oh, and I’d just dare her to go face to face with Sarah Palin. Meghan would have the horn on her nose handed to her on a silver platter.
She may be what YOU think the Republican party represents, but to 2/3rds of the voters out there, Christian Conservatives are representative of the Republican Party.
And they're hated.
I don't think it's fair, but it's the truth.
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Breaking free from obsolete positions and providing real solutions that don’t divide our nation further will. That’s why some in our party are scared. They sense the world around them is changing and they are unable to take the risk to jump free of what’s keeping our party down. Sure, Meghan, the Constitution is obsolete. After all, it was written by a bunch of dead white men, some of whom owned slaves. Why not redefine it? |
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So we can connect with happy hands and sing cooombyaa?
Your response makes you a somebody in my book. The Republicans have become like a line of sideshows at the carnival. Step right up get your pro choice Republican right hear. If you dont like that show you can walk down the line to the next tent. Step right up and get your pro gay marriage right here. Pay your nickle and come inside.
IIRC, Meghan posted on her Twitter feed recently that she has no time for "haters." In other words, we can all connect with happy hands and sing kum-ba-yah, so long as we agree with her.
By following Obama into the collectivist abyss, by redefining, Meghan (and her father, as he has given his explicit blessing to her "efforts") are poised to lead the Republican Party straight into the dustbin of history. If conservatives do not act quickly to defeat both of them, then the Republican Party will soon join the Whigs, and if we are not careful, the conservative movement will get dragged under too. Shall we "progress" into the thousand years of darkness, or shall we take a stand, here and now, and even if we fail, at least it will be said that conservatives made a stand for America, for freedom, and for the Constitution?
Nam Vet
Time to pick a new Conservative Party name and logo...fast!!!
The Juan McCain Truth File.*******
John McCain will be too old to run in 2012 and is now politically irrelevant.
Meghan McCain is a twenty-something year old and is as politically irrelevant as any other twenty-something year old.
By concentrating all your energies on bashing the now irrelevant McCains instead of focusing your energies on the Barack Obama that you helped to elect last November, you have gone from being a force destructive to conservative interests in October, 2008 to a force irrelevant to conservative interests in April, 2009.
Congratulations. You are improving.
Be that as it may, you really need to get a life outside of John McCain. You seem to be obsessed with man.
John McCain is no spring chicken and he may wake up dead someday thereby leaving you with no reason to live unless you want to spend the rest of your life bashing his ghost.
Well, it does give rabscuttle385 a reason to live.
Without McCain to bash, he has very little to say about anything, even Obama.
Sorry to say I used to belong to the Young Republicans. I got a letter from the McCain group wanting money. I wrote on the letter in a Magic Marker that since his debacle of a campaign I’ve re-registered as an Independent. Sent it back in their pre-paid envelope ....
What's the truth? That nearly 70% of the country hates the republican party because they think it's too conservative and/or Christian? Is this from a Newsweek poll?
The BLATHER is useful to the Left, so its non-stop news coverage. Where, oh, where, is what's his name... you know, the new guy? Michael something...
If this petulent airhead is the future of the Republican Party, then I will cease to be a Republican. I pledge no more support for any Republican candidate who will not denounce her “vision” to her pudgy brainless face. They better speak out, or I’m checking out.
MDS (McCain Derangement Syndrome)?
Poor Meghan. She went and forgot that she was only pretty face and now thinks her bland of toothless Republicanism is something special. I don’t have a tattoo (as if that proves anything at all), I do like to wear dark colors including black, I have gay friends but that does not mean I wish to have society lift them and their peculiar sexual behavior up as something to aspire to or be proud of. I can be proud of them and respect them without celebrating their peculiar bedroom or restroom practices which is something I care little about except that gay activists will not let the issue drop and continue to use intimidation, threaten lawsuits, push the indoctrination of children, and the corruption of the definition of marriage. As long as they continue doing that I will stand against them. There is nothing particularly backward looking about that. No more than celebrating a group of people who only stand out because they make an issue of their sexual practices is forward looking. They should move forward and move beyond their egos and realize that in the real world you do not have a right to force people to agree with you.
I don’t believe the government should be just efficient because one can be very efficient and doing the wrong thing and if the passing of the bailouts is not example of this then I do not know what is. Our government was originally designed to stay out of the way. The idea that it is to take money as a thief in the night from the citizenry to provide money to serve politician’s every benevolent whim and curry favor with an unproductive infantile underclass is the problem and the government is very efficient at doing that. Republicans that do not understand the value of limited government which is a citizen oriented government are just as big a problem as the Democrats because they spread the disease of having your cake and eating it too.
The arrogate ignorance displayed by Ms. McCain is what we are up against because people like her don’t know the enemy because they don’t bother to find out what the left is doing or has planned and really they don’t have a reason to because if they bothered then they could not enjoy the praise of the left. They don’t know Ann Coulter because they read her books. They know her because of what liberals say about her or the edited clips of her sometimes bombastic and color exchanges with liberals. They reveal their ignorance about issues as they speak to single issue crowds like the log cabin republicans. We conservatives are not single issue oriented. The difference is that our vote is not for sale and we don’t need to be bought off with tax payer loot from the pirates in Washington D.C.
I agree Meaghan, now tell that to your dad.
And I think half of this site needs to hear that advice. I see as many McCain threads here as Obama threads. I see a lot more McCain threads here than I do about other high or should be high profile republicans. Barbour, Huntsman, Coburn, DeMint, Sanford, Daniels, Pence, Hensarling.
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.
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