From the Mouth of Babes
“I feel too many Republicans want to cling to past successes. There are those who think we can win the White House and Congress back by being ‘more’ conservative. Worse, there are those who think we can win by changing nothing at all about what our party has become. They just want to wait for the other side to be perceived as worse than us. I think we’re seeing a war brewing in the Republican Party. But it is not between us and Democrats. It is not between us and liberals. It is between the future and the past.”
No doubt these words only further to strengthen the perception of the ultra-right that Meghan is simply a RINO (Republican in name only), as is demonstrated by recent attacks against her by Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter. Such posturing toward the young conservative only adds credibility to McCain’s central thesis that “old school Republicans” are “scared shitless” and party shills such as Coulter, Limbaugh and Malkin represent the failed GOP past.
I find it fascinating how conservatives can dismiss the views of someone like McCain simply because she dares to speak the truth. Like many young people, her take on social issues is more tolerant than those of just her father’s generation. She courageously called on conservatives to re-examine their position on gay marriage not because she’s a closet liberal but because she’s knows that social equality always trumps bigotry.
McCain also knows the right will need to make fundamental changes in the way they conduct politics if they have any hope of courting new voters and growing the party. By striking the right balance between conservative and liberal ideals like a true Independant, Meghan may one day be able to achieve that which eluded her father. If she keeps speaking truth to power like she did on Saturday night, one day I just might vote for her.
I have doubts that even someone like Meghan McCain could change a population of conservatives, which by definition, embrace tradition.
Ged,
I think I prefer the other McCain ( Robert Stacy McCain )
Here he pulls back the curtain on the liberal media bias.
http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/04/worlds-worst-tv-reporter.html
” I am one of a very few people in the news business who thinks that a journalist can do both — reporting and commentary — without impairing his precious ‘objectivity,’ because I agree with the late Hunter S. Thompson that a lot of what passes for ‘objective journalism’ is bullshit. The key to Thompson’s ‘gonzo journalism’ was that he was honest with himself, and with his readers, about what he was doing.”
“The reason so many Americans hate the news media is because so many supposedly ‘objective’ journalists are transparently dishonest in what they’re doing. Media bias is therefore not about a lack of objectivity (no one is strictly objective) but rather about a lack of honesty.”