Meghan McCain: “I am a progressive Republican”
posted at 3:30 pm on March 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
Full transcript here. Yeah, granted, she’s the RINO to end all RINOs, but come on: She’s totally charming. How can my atheist heart not soar at back-handed digs like this?
I was raised a Christian, but I was raised open-minded Christian — one to accept people, love people, not pass judgment.
You keep talking like that, missy, and you’re going to elbow KP aside as my designated left-wing crush. Skip ahead to 1:50 for her take on Rush’s “I want him to fail” comment or to 4:30 for her position on abortion and gay marriage. Am I mistaken or does she blank on what King means when he asks her about “choice”? Exit admonition: I told the Twitterites a little while ago that I have utmost confidence in HA’s readers taking the high road and not resorting to fat jokes in the comments. Don’t let me down!
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Amen. With that laundry list, he might have better luck asking the Democrats to develop actual foreign policy beyond ‘Yeah we know. We think America sucks too.’, rather than try to make the GOP embrace all that leftist pap.
Honestly, listening to Meghan try to claim she’s a Republican while sounding like a Democrat makes me imagine she is the kind of woman who would love to be married and have a husband support her, as long she is able to have sex with whoever she wants. In or out, Meghan. You can’t have it both ways.
Your father p*ssed on his party and his base for 8 years, to the gleeful adulation of the Democrats. Then, suddenly, he needs them to vote for him. Needless to say, that didn’t work out well. Pick a party, and stick with it. Or just shut up already.
austinnelly on March 24, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Totally. And, in the end, that’s all that really matters.
lorien1973 on March 24, 2009 at 3:54 PM
So open-minded, her brain leaked out?
jgapinoy on March 24, 2009 at 3:55 PM
totook placeMB4 on March 24, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Why does she talk that way?
Red Bennet on March 24, 2009 at 3:55 PM
She’s a RINO.
msipes on March 24, 2009 at 3:55 PM
I believe she thinks she is making a stand for her views but the harsh reality is these talk shows would bump her so fast if Bristol Palin agreed to an interview. Maybe then she would realize what the media is trying to accomplish here.
sherry on March 24, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Please, we leave attacks on someone based on appearance to the trolls.
Golly! Cum-bah-ya. Soooo much nicer than we hate filled Christians. I believe adultery is a sin. “(For those of you in Rio Linda, a “sin” is a bad thing.) I believe the slaughter of children in the womb is a sin. I believe stealing is a sin. I’ve asked quite a few “non-judgmental christians”, (lower case “C” intentional) just how much sin do I need to abide before I’m “not pass[ing] judgement.”?
One adulterous affair? Two? Three? 25? What theft must I accept? Stealing someones Benz is acceptable, but stealing their Prius isn’t? Or is it the other way round?
I love people. But that doesn’t mean I stand by and watch idly as someone steps off a precipice. I am COMPELLED by my faith to warn them. My experience is that a “non-judgmental” christian is one with such limp convictions as to be indistinguishable any other “open minded liberal”.
Daddy’s Little RINO.
Indeed.
oldleprechaun on March 24, 2009 at 3:56 PM
As long as I’m first.
Suh-weet.
lorien1973 on March 24, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Curse my father for being a factory worker in a GM plant instead of a politician! It’d be awesome if people like Larry King cared about my opinion on issues of great import simply because my dad was ‘Someone’.
I fear that Ms. McCain will be with us for a long, long time just as our good friend Ron Reagan Jr. I imagine that she’ll be a ‘progressive Republican’ for one or two more years (probably until her father retires). At that point, she’ll become a Democrat and she’ll be the media’s go-to person every time they need to trot out someone to say how “the Republican party has changed” and “lost it’s purpose”. Of course, from Ms. McCain’s perspective, the Republicans are falling short in that they aren’t being more like the Democrats.
If you like everything that the Democrats stand for (or at least most everything), why wouldn’t you join them instead? It doesn’t make any sense to be a member of the party you agree with less and attempt to make it like the other party.
JadeNYU on March 24, 2009 at 3:56 PM
As I said in the headlines, the more we fall for Allah’s trap and keep posting comments on Meghan, the more attention she gets.
For the love of pete, JUST IGNORE HER AND SHE’LL GO AWAY!!!
Although the more I think about it, I’ve been saying that about her father for years and he hasn’t gone away either.
I dare her to go on any show and that will actually ask her a real policy or civics question. My guess is she’ll fumble around as much as our TOTUS.
davek70 on March 24, 2009 at 3:57 PM
It’s good that you have wisely constrained the high road to exclude fat jokes only. Otherwise you’d have been disappointed with the very first comment.
radiofreevillage on March 24, 2009 at 3:57 PM
And can we vote her out of the tent?
Metalhead on March 24, 2009 at 3:57 PM
she takes a good picture
notagool on March 24, 2009 at 3:58 PM
If she keeps opening her mouth, then she’s going to be a target.
And there are plenty of people ready and willing to take a shot or two.
madmonkphotog on March 24, 2009 at 3:58 PM
So she’s a Socialist Republican.. there’s another name for that.. Democrat.
TexasJew on March 24, 2009 at 3:58 PM
barfalounger, we already have a party with those platforms. They are called to democrat party.
We tried that in ’08, got us socialism.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Oh let’s just put this thread’s story to bed. She is a fat pampered rich girl with a famous last name and she is an air head. That’s about it. End of story.
Attempt at hijack:
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MB4 on March 24, 2009 at 3:59 PM
capitalist piglet on March 24, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Amen to that!
youngO on March 24, 2009 at 3:59 PM
There was never any transmutation. The progressive movement has never been “progressive” in a literal sense. Ayn Rand was a progressive. She thought she could “define” the world. The idea that you can “define” everything is Marx’s idea of science.
The earliest example of a “progressive” scientist I know of is Pierre Curie.
gh on March 24, 2009 at 3:59 PM
It’s a sure sign that the Republican Party is in total disarray, when a pretty face can get on CNN and tout themselves as the “new voice” of that Party, by spouting all the stuff that caused them to lose their support in the first place.
Does anyone know where Michael Steele is when you need him? Does Michael Steele know where Michael Steele is when you need him?
Nah, didn’t think so. We’re f***ed.
manwithblackhat on March 24, 2009 at 3:59 PM
As another progressive Republican said, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
mchristian on March 24, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Say it ain’t so.
Meghan McCain is a smart, independent, recent Columbia graduate that has sold herself out to paternalistic political party preferences and a Jane Addams fashion statement?
Zombie Tolstoy. Where are thou?
gabriel sutherland on March 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Completely agree with this sentence. I will be partying when she changes, however!! I wish she changed now.
deidre on March 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM
How could anyone be so clueless?
Under no circumstance is she Republican.
Going on The View; Larry King?
Everything she has was given to her.
A Republican is not progressive.
She fails to see how bad she comes across.
Something is not right with this girl.
carbon_footprint on March 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM
I wish Meghan McCain would explain what Republican ideals or principles she avows. From what she has offered thus far, I can only deduce that she fancies being called a Republican because the word’s final vowel sound is closest to rhyming with her last name’s. And even that does not work unless you pronounce it re•pub•li•cane.
Also, I wish she would explain what that thing is on the side of her head.
Threshing Flora on March 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Caught astrourfing? Dream on.
Huh? You must have me confused with another of your straw men. I have never claimed to be military in order to bolster my anonymous opinion. Have you?
barkolounger on March 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Your dad was a progressive Republican as well, Meghan.
His presidential run turned out well…
SCOOPTHIScarlos on March 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Either she doesn’t know what it means to be a progressive, or she is being honest about being an uber socialist…either way she is an idiot.
Conservative Voice on March 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM
I’ve said this before. If she cares about the future of the Republican Party she should show it more by talking to other people that care about the same thing.
Talking to corpses like Larry King don’t count. I know she was on with Harry Smith(lib even if he lies about it), Rachel Maddow (moron), and the View (all morons except Hasselbeck).
I guess since she got this column with Daily Beast(whatever the hell that is) she thinks it must mean anyone cares about her opinion so at least use in a constructive way even if it’s true that people don’t care to hear it.
gsherin on March 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Enough with this waste of space. Aside from her last name, there is no reason she should be getting any air time. I dare her to go on a talkshow with a real conservative and have a conversation about actual issues. She wouldn’t last 10 seconds.
Doughboy on March 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM
I’m sorry, you’ll have to wait. We’re saving her for lorien…and AP. She’s a progressive, ya know.
Patrick S on March 24, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Just my luck….A day late and a dollar short.
Hey wait a minute! I’m a Disabled Vet, I should get extra points and be moved to the front of the line!
I hope my old lady doesn’t read this…I’ll be dead meat. LOL
Old Hippie Vet on March 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Steve Taylor… circa 1984. Well done.
;)
mankai on March 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Go ahead and switch to the Democrat party, Meghan where you belong. We’re trying to purge so-called “progressive” RINOs like you from the Republican party. Now, get out.
Livefreeordie on March 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Be like me and thank god your wife doesn’t read this blog!
lorien1973 on March 24, 2009 at 4:04 PM
Meghan please wake up . . . when Larry King like you, you’re not a Republican.
rplat on March 24, 2009 at 4:04 PM
Anyone seen Alexandra and Vanessa Kerry lately?
gabriel sutherland on March 24, 2009 at 4:04 PM
Crass nepotism
Christien on March 24, 2009 at 4:05 PM
is “progressive conservative” not just a wee bit oxymoronic.
patriette on March 24, 2009 at 4:05 PM
You can put lipstick on a McCain… but its still a McCain.
faraway on March 24, 2009 at 4:05 PM
Then your parents did a damned poor job of explaining what it means to be a Christian, sweetie. There is a big difference between being “judgemental” and the secular humanism practiced by people like your daddy.
Seriously though, who the f**k decided that you were a spokeswhore for the GOP? You aren’t even smart or accomplished.
highhopes on March 24, 2009 at 4:06 PM
seriously? you deleted my post. it wasn’t racist or anything. In fact, it’s not really even vulgar. She can talk all she wants to about how awful and hateful Christians are, but I can’t call her a dumb B because of it?
Great! I get to be offended. . . but dare not offend. I love the first amendment. We have freedom of speech. . . unless we offend someone. Just what the founders had in mind.
In that case, every time someone refers to me as a ‘bigot’ I want the post deleted. As it is derogatory. If someone calls me racist. . . it must be deleted as it hurts my feelings and is derogatory.
Seriously. . . after that thread full of fat jokes (hundreds of them) to draw the line at my comment was absurd.
ThackerAgency on March 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Is that good?
blatantblue on March 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Well Said!
highhopes on March 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM
one more time in case you missed it.
ThackerAgency on March 24, 2009 at 4:08 PM
I deleted your post?!! Who do you think I am?
radiofreevillage on March 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM
I still think she is a fathead with a fat mouth. Did I disappoint you Allah?
cjs1943 on March 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Oh I don’t think that she’s fat at all.
Dumb as a stump yes, fat no.
Handel on March 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Sounds like she’s been brain washed by the liberal college professors she palled around with in college…but in her case only a light rinse was necessary.
Alden Pyle on March 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM
What do you pay a political whore with?
portlandon on March 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM
YOU didn’t delete it. I pointed out your post as a complaint. Checked and low and behold my post is gone. NO, I don’t give you that much power. I used your post to point out that there was a post there that is no longer there for some reason. The reason I’m so confused is the litany of fat jokes that passed the test on the other thread.
ThackerAgency on March 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Except, of course, passing judgment on Christians who hold to biblical definitions of sin.
That kind of judgment never counts.
INC on March 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM
She is so vapid. Talking about the tattoos that she is going to get to commemerate her “time on the campaign trail”….a tattoo that says “McCain” ON HER WRIST!!! And then another one. Why doesnt she get a tattoo on her neck that says “jakass”.
Then again, a lot of fat ugly women get tattoos.
And this bit about how her mom are OK with this?? And her mom was mad at Ingraham for calling her fat even though she didnt.
And she keeps talking about how you dont have to ann coulter or laura ingraham to be a republican??? Wow!! No Shit??? WHAT A SHOCKING REVELATION!!!
Why is this sad air-head still getting air-time.
This is charming to Allah????
You dissappoint me, sir.
The Wall on March 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM
You don’t know.
paul006 on March 24, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Does she have anyone around her who will tell her just how incredibly stupid she sounds? And, by the by, from which Disney movie set was she plucked? And, what is that thing on the side of her head?
pcpower1 on March 24, 2009 at 4:13 PM
You gotta have principles to sell ‘em, Doc.
Fletch54 on March 24, 2009 at 4:14 PM
From the album “Meltdown at Madame Tussaud’s”?
Matticus Finch on March 24, 2009 at 4:14 PM
She’s being used as the useful idiot RINO by the media. They’ve passed the maverick mantle from dad to daughter. Only this time she gets to be a “progressive” Republican.
INC on March 24, 2009 at 4:15 PM
We’re trying to purge so-called “progressive” RINOs like you from the Republican party. Now, get out.
Livefreeordie on March 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Well I’m here to make sure extremists like you fail.
How many Dems have the kos extremists successfully primaried?
ZERO.
How loud did those moonbats scream when Nancy took impeachment off the table?
How many house seats in congress have the Dems won since she said that and followed through?
Wake up moron. We need as many ‘rinos’ as we can get.
The electorate will never trust us to govern if people like you are to become our spokesmen.
barkolounger on March 24, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Isn’t she just following the family tradition of trading off her surname?
Christien on March 24, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Yes, I still have that
CDtapeLP record. Great stuff.jgapinoy on March 24, 2009 at 4:15 PM
She’s daddy’s little girl, she’s cutesy, and she’s taking her 15 minutes. Ignore her and she’ll fade away into the Arizona sunset.
oldvannes on March 24, 2009 at 4:16 PM
Nope. I Want To Be A Clone.
jgapinoy on March 24, 2009 at 4:16 PM
I’m trying to think….Are there any Democrats who are really closeted conservatives?
I mean, other than KP….
Nessuno on March 24, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Meghan McCain is the airhead daughter of a centrist Republican who got clobbered in the last election. She has no idea what a Republican or a Conservative is. She is a publicity hound and an idiot.
Why she is constantly given a platform on a supposedly Conservative site like this I have no idea. Oh, I forgot, this site employs a weak kneed centrist pansy called Allahpundit who agrees with this nonsense.
echosyst on March 24, 2009 at 4:18 PM
“I’m like, totally progressive and stuff. I’m a cool Christian. I just like to rock! I’m talking ’bout love. I’m not, like, all up in people’s faces or shoving God down their throats. No way!”
Best … Line … Ever: “You’re not making Christianity better, you’re only making Rock ‘n Roll worse.” – Hank Hill to some Christian rocker.
mankai on March 24, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Once in a while, in abortion threads, I’ll use
from the same album.
jgapinoy on March 24, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Megan (AKA spoiled little rich girl),
Perhaps the reason Ann has a ‘social life’ and you don’t is because AC is a ‘real’ conservative and you are a phony poor imitator of Paris Hilton (AKA attention whore). You can’t hope to compete with her because Paris has you beat in the IQ, dress size and honesty departments.
LCL4 on March 24, 2009 at 4:18 PM
A RINO raised by wolves. She’s a wolf in pig’s clothing. Having said that, I must admit, she’s a nice-looking, high-calorie dish.
EMD on March 24, 2009 at 4:19 PM
If Fox were really a “right wing” channel they would find conservative Dems to blast Obama.
faraway on March 24, 2009 at 4:19 PM
This is why she will only answer questions from liberals. Your question would officially end her 15 minutes. Have they even asked her to give an example of an issue where she disagrees with Democrats?
Buddahpundit on March 24, 2009 at 4:19 PM
I am Meghan “Fats” McCain. I was raised a privileged, spoiled brat. I love myself. I have never passed judgment on Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh or Allahpundit.
My idea of HotAir is passing gas, but Allahpundit doesn’t need to know that
BigD on March 24, 2009 at 4:19 PM
What a mosquito you are. Just never go away.
If you really cannot stomach AP and the material on this website, I ask:
Why don’t you just leave and never come back?
blatantblue on March 24, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Let’s see now. . . she’s progressive, a nominal small “c” christian, graduated Columbia as a Art History major, speaks “valley girl” fluently, enjoys the nice folks at CNN and MSNBC, approves of homosexual marriage, abortion is okie dokie with her and she had never heard of Laura Ingraham.
My friends, this is the type of Republican we must guard against.
scullymj on March 24, 2009 at 4:20 PM
You wish, CNN!
jgapinoy on March 24, 2009 at 4:20 PM
She is a beautiful girl. I have never thought otherwise…and i think it was in poor taste for Ingraham to say what she did…when there is SO SO SO much more to be said of substance.
I do wish we could get back to people with merit getting the mic, though. Good gracious…what has she done but be a daughter?
Mommypundit on March 24, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Your three, no two accusations (one was redundant) against AP are baseless.
jgapinoy on March 24, 2009 at 4:22 PM
well played. Add to that pro-lifers (of which she claims to personally be), Americans for preserving the family unit (ie no gay marriage).
She says that they judge while she judges them. Oh well. . . Larry King is a fading star as well.
ThackerAgency on March 24, 2009 at 4:22 PM
I’ve got both LPs (and more)… bought ‘em years before I was even a Christian… it was the only “Right Wing Rock” I had heard. “Meat the Press”, “Whatever Happened to Sin?”, “It’s a Personal Thing”, “Over My Dead Body”, “Jenny”, “Hero”, “Baby Doe”… good stuff.
mankai on March 24, 2009 at 4:23 PM
She diminishes the GOP every time she’s on TV…which is why they put her on TV a lot.
jgapinoy on March 24, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Meghan McCain might have been useful during the 2008 campaign, trying to put a young face on an old candidate.
But while her father has earned respect among Republicans for his military service, foreign-policy expertise, fiscal conservatism, and pro-life stance (although his positions on other issues are more centrist), Meghan McCain hasn’t really defined herself or taken any tough stands on issues, and is basking in the glow of her father’s name. She doesn’t realize that she’s being used by the leftist media to smear her father with her own “liberal” positions, and the media would drop her like a hot potato if she took a strong conservative position.
She needs to get her face off the TV and have a long heart-to-heart chat with her dad about what being a Republican really means.
Unfortunately, in this case, the apple (or peaches) fell a long way from the tree.
Steve Z on March 24, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Isn’t it time for someone to say STFU …
tarpon on March 24, 2009 at 4:24 PM
I’m anti-murder myself, but I won’t judge anyone anyone who decides that murder is right for them.
Tacitus_SGL on March 24, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Why does she continue to think she is a Republican – oh, yeah, a Republican, not a conservative. Would love to know if she actually holds any conservative views.
Queen0fCups on March 24, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Barkolounger, just click here and start scrolling. You got called out by several veterans, but you crawled away silently. Care to answer today, you mendacious & misanthropic moron?
I’m betting on your previous response: evade, evade, evade.
Jackass.
OhioCoastie on March 24, 2009 at 4:25 PM
I used to be in a band that covered a few of his songs. He’s a genius.
BTW, as an early producer of theirs, he made the Newsboys into what they are today.
jgapinoy on March 24, 2009 at 4:26 PM
I still think she’s far more conservative than most people her age. The fact that she still refers to herself as a Republican is plus in my book. At the very least it might help attract more younger voters to our core beliefs of personal responsibility, limited government and individual liberty, which will become more popular every minute Obama is in office.
Besides, once she gets married, has kids and sees the challenges parents faces in our “progressive” society, I see her gradually embracing more traditional ideals.
Either that or she joins a cult.
The Ugly American on March 24, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Your father lost the election because he’s a middle of the road hack. The media loved him until he ran for president, so do you really not see what will happen when they have no more use for you?
She’s an idiot. Not only for what she’s saying, but for not realizing the game plan that sunk her father.
John_Locke on March 24, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Larry King should be interviewing Obama’s relatives. I’d like to know their political leanings.
faraway on March 24, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Give us an effin’ break! If the above were true, she wouldn’t be such a nasty bitch.
Blake on March 24, 2009 at 4:27 PM
“I hold a position, but if the utterly and completely opposite position holds sway, I won’t do anything about it… but I still that position near an dear to my heart!”
“Honey, I love you… it’s only sex… she means nothing to me.”
mankai on March 24, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Is she running for office?
Why is she on national face time so often?
Sir Napsalot on March 24, 2009 at 4:28 PM
This girl is as vapid and ill-informed as they come. And what does she DO for a living? Besides, like (tilts head), bashing conservatism, you know (tilts head again)?
Babino on March 24, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Beauty and the Deceased.
Jim Treacher on March 24, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Oh, the family members in utter poverty, who BHO has never helped?
Since they probably all hate Churchill, I’ll bet they’re libs.
jgapinoy on March 24, 2009 at 4:30 PM
She sounds like a Valley Girl.
Hideous.
Jed1899 on March 24, 2009 at 4:30 PM
The media and Allah are going to use her and other RINOs to bash and say how out of touch republicans are any chance they get and McCain doesn’t get that she is being used.
KBird on March 24, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Also, I appreciated the kind things she had to say about Jindal.
The fact that she didn’t dismiss him outright was very encouraging.
The Ugly American on March 24, 2009 at 4:31 PM
She gave Allahpundit a hard on.
Blake on March 24, 2009 at 4:31 PM
You know, who the F cares?
Marcus on March 24, 2009 at 4:32 PM
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