Meghan McCain: We need a GOP that supports gay marriage
posted at 9:25 pm on April 13, 2009 by Allahpundit
I thought we already had one. Remember this?
Granted, it was skewed by Politico’s link, but not by that much. Meggie Mac, er, weighs in:
I am a woman who despises labels and boxes and stereotypes. Recently, I seemed to have rocked a few individuals within my party by saying that I am a pro-life, pro-gay-marriage Republican. So if anyone is still confused, let me spell it out for you. I believe life begins at conception and I believe that people who fall in love should have the option to get married. Lest we forget, our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, grants the same rights to everyone in this country—“All men are created equal.” If you think certain rights should not apply to certain people, then you are saying those people are not equal. People may always have a difference of opinion on certain lifestyles, but championing a position that wants to treat people unequally isn’t just un-Republican. At its fundamental core, it’s un-American.
At the end of the day, speaking at the Log Cabin Republicans’ convention isn’t just about reaching out to the gay community—although I believe doing so is vital to the future success of the party. It’s also about reaching a wider base and redefining what it means to be Republican, and leaving labels, stereotypes, and negativity by the wayside.
Whiter “negativity”?
Blowback
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Please stop, I am begging you.
Cindy Munford on April 13, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Didn’t you already post this article this morning Allah?
Sigh.
Sarjex on April 13, 2009 at 9:28 PM
theres already a republican party that isn’t the party of total squares. its the libertarian party. sign-ups over there. go on now.
ernesto on April 13, 2009 at 9:29 PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why do you keep posting the vacuous rantings of this cow? Why, why, why?!
ExcessivelyDiverted on April 13, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Uh, no we don’t.
John on April 13, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Flag this for future reference.
Repurblican on April 13, 2009 at 9:29 PM
I am a woman who despises labels and boxes and stereotypes.
……
Um, hello?
Red that again.
artist on April 13, 2009 at 9:30 PM
What we really need is a GOP without Megan Mccain
thecollegepolitico on April 13, 2009 at 9:30 PM
How many people can marry each other, fudgeball?
Wethal on April 13, 2009 at 9:30 PM
I think it’s cute that by embracing gay marriage the media caricature of republicans as evil or buffoons will end…
The dems control everything, and have scandal after scandal and yet Comedy Central and MSNBC and CNN rail for hours at Eric Cantor for going to a Britney Spears concert.
But yeah, let’s accept gay marraige to “improve our image”.
Next step: arresting ministers for “gay hate speech!”
battleoflepanto1571 on April 13, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Great idea. Take a widely popular plank and reject it.
AbaddonsReign on April 13, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Ummm…. no…
RON PAUL!!!
Nelsen on April 13, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Please just ignore Meghan and she’ll go away.
jediwebdude on April 13, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Can you import comments so we don’t have to repeat ourselves?
Spirit of 1776 on April 13, 2009 at 9:30 PM
o_O
Oh, AP…
JetBoy on April 13, 2009 at 9:31 PM
I guess she will never be able to stay in the party and marry Rosie o’ Donnell
The_Lid on April 13, 2009 at 9:31 PM
That’s an idiotic argument at heart. Obviously I’m not comparing them to gay Americans, but sex offenders don’t have the right to hang out on playgrounds or just disappear off the radar. And I wasn’t aware that marriage was a right.
amerpundit on April 13, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Yes please! A GOP that supports Gay Marriage and … well, hell – while we’re at it – let’s just jump on the tax and spend bandwagon too! And stem cell research? Heck – let’s order up and barbeque a few million more embryo’s – it’s for science you know!
Hanna Montana rules! yay!
HondaV65 on April 13, 2009 at 9:31 PM
o_O
Oh, AP…
JetBoy on April 13, 2009 at 9:31 PM
I believe that people who fall in love should have the option to get married.
…..
Meghan supports incestuous and polygamist marriages.
artist on April 13, 2009 at 9:31 PM
LOL
thats what she said
blatantblue on April 13, 2009 at 9:31 PM
She needs to shut up. I am tired of reading what she thinks.
HawaiiLwyr on April 13, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Like, I am so pro life…. It’s like so freaking awesome.. As long as the women has control of her body then she can abort that evil thing living inside her. DID I menz DAz i m so SO PRO LIFE
Oh, wait…
TimeTraveler on April 13, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Can you import comments so we don’t have to repeat ourselves?
Spirit of 1776 on April 13, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Whenever Meghan McCain talks about doing things to make the GOP successful, the things she mentions always seem to be stuff that conforms with Meghan McCain’s views.
I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.
Proud Rino on April 13, 2009 at 9:32 PM
That’s an idiotic argument at heart. Obviously I’m not comparing them to gay Americans, but sex offenders don’t have the right to hang out on playgrounds or just disappear off the radar. And I wasn’t aware that marriage was a right.
Oh, and spoiler alert: Embracing gay marriage won’t win the GOP the gay vote. Just like Bush and McCain pushing amnesty didn’t win the latino vote.
amerpundit on April 13, 2009 at 9:32 PM
GO THE F%$K AWAY
I BEG OF YOU
PLEASE
Tim Zank on April 13, 2009 at 9:32 PM
I believe that people who fall in love should have the option to get married.
…..
Meghan supports incestuous and polygamist marriages.
artist on April 13, 2009 at 9:32 PM
I guess she will never be able to stay in the party and marry Rosie o’ Donnell
The_Lid on April 13, 2009 at 9:32 PM
She needs to shut up. I am tired of reading what she thinks.
HawaiiLwyr on April 13, 2009 at 9:32 PM
GO THE F%$K AWAY
I BEG OF YOU
PLEASE
Tim Zank on April 13, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Meghan McCain is going to mold the GOP in her image using all the good will and the movement she has fostered over the years crawling on broken glass for the GOP.
eerrrr wait nevermind.
Win Win Win on April 13, 2009 at 9:33 PM
The only reason Meghan McCain is speaking to the Log Cabin Republicans, besides the fact that she is a democrat, is because she has an excuse of why none of the men want to hit on her.
HornetSting on April 13, 2009 at 9:33 PM
I see the value of the green room now.
Thanks.
Saltysam on April 13, 2009 at 9:34 PM
New Headline….
Megs Mac: GOP to become “fabulous”
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 13, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Recently, I seemed to have rocked a few individuals within my party
….
Get
over
yourself.
artist on April 13, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Yeah, wider base.
So wide that California and other blue states even reject gay marriage.
amerpundit on April 13, 2009 at 9:34 PM
M and M girl is a GOPer how??
Jamson64 on April 13, 2009 at 9:34 PM
enough with this girl aleady! why does she keep getting so much media exposure. who really cares what the non-accomplished groupie daughter of the least popular (and that includes Dole!) Republican nominee of the last 20 years thinks?
pecan pie on April 13, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Jeez, that woman is tiresome and boring.
Also:
Fine with me. But the less conservative the Republican party gets to be, the less likely I’ll be to support it.
jaime on April 13, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Simply a false arguement. Marriage is heterosexual. Let the gays make up their own coupling thingy that’s similar if they want but you can’t just change the definition of MARRIAGE on the whim of today’s trendy lifestyles.
Our civilization is dying because too few stand up for what is really right and pretend that civilization is advancing–instead of tailspinning into a blazing crash.
All this proves is that MeghAn McCain is poorly trained in history or religion. Our founding documents don’t say everything everyone wants to do is equally good for our society.
petunia on April 13, 2009 at 9:35 PM
AUINSC on April 13, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Dear Meghan
Your not a republican
You don’t speak for me
Shut the heck up!
Defector01 on April 13, 2009 at 9:36 PM
If Sully was into chicks Meghan McCain would be his girlfriend.
Hey Meghan, just because you’re cute doesn’t mean people will automatically agree with you.
BTW, those of you calling her “fat” or a cow, you are starting to sound like a bunch of stuck-up libs. Let libs be the ones that think that anyone with a little meat on their bones is an eeeevvviiillll faaaaaat person. Libs hate “fat” people because “fat” is American.
DethMetalCookieMonst on April 13, 2009 at 9:36 PM
YOU NEED TO SHUT YER BLOW-HOLE!!!!
But loves labels on boxes of Krispy Cremes.
GO AWAY ALREADY!!!!
BigWyo on April 13, 2009 at 9:36 PM
I’m seeing double!
Blake on April 13, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Not to mention people who love their dogs too much.
petunia on April 13, 2009 at 9:36 PM
I won’t belong to a GOP that supports same sex marriage. If that happens, I’ll become an Independent, and then Meghan and David Frum can start worrying about how to bring me in.
Kensington on April 13, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Roman Polanski & Jerry Lee Lewis: Our 13 year old brides agree!!!!
(we’re halfway down the slope….)
battleoflepanto1571 on April 13, 2009 at 9:37 PM
What is with young people their obsession over gay marriage?
terryannonline on April 13, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Miss McCain has about as good of an understanding of our founding documents as her father.
Sorry about the double post AP, my browser locked.
Spirit of 1776 on April 13, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Here we go,round 286 on Meghan McCain’s Conservative Mutiny!
canopfor on April 13, 2009 at 9:37 PM
one mccain trying to ruin the party just wasnt enough.
chasdal on April 13, 2009 at 9:38 PM
So how long before Hefner or Larry Flint offers her a contract?
- The Cat
P.S. Embarrassing Republicans is the only reason why Reagan’s daughter got a deal.
MirCat on April 13, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Yup. Meghan better hope she can bring in two for every one like me who leaves.
Kensington on April 13, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Meg McCain is not accomplished in anything, has achieved nothing and is truly irrelevant. She needs to get off her media trollop business and get a real job.
old trooper2 on April 13, 2009 at 9:38 PM
And like, lest we forget. Who writes her texts?
radiofreevillage on April 13, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Meghan should go tell Obama and Bill Clinton.
Didn’t they come out against it?
Btw -this is HA’s Meghan McCain post #23, I compute.
Allah must really be a “Chubby Chaser”.
TexasJew on April 13, 2009 at 9:38 PM
No one is forcing you to read it.
SnarkVader on April 13, 2009 at 9:38 PM
A “whim” of “today’s lifestyles”? C’mon now…
I’ll be more than happy (hey, I’ll be gay!) to call gay marriage whatever you want to call it…as long as it affords the exact same rights and privileges as your traditional marriage does.
And no…civil unions do not at present do that.
Here I am, in 2009, and discrimination is still defended…by my own party yet…based on something that I cannot change. And that, my friends, is sad.
Very, very sad.
JetBoy on April 13, 2009 at 9:39 PM
AP, why don’t you save everyone alot of time and just let McCain take your spot so she could just post her stuff directly to this site. It will be a more efficient way of driving it into the ground. With you here, it is slow and painful because people keep hoping you are going to come out of your stupor. Personally I think you sucked from the start.
As for Meghan’s GOP, it is not even the GOP. She is a liberal Democrat who just wants the GOP to become liberal thereby eliminating the 2 party system. Why you give voice to this moron constantly I have no idea. Michelle needs to take you to the woodshed and leave you there. If I want to read shit from liberal sites I will go to Huffpo and DailyKos directly.
echosyst on April 13, 2009 at 9:39 PM
OK, someone is going overboard with Meghan McCain. Is she on friggin tour or what? Or is someone on HotAir staff obsessed with the broad? Seriously, I want to know. Why does anyone care what she has to say? Do I need to list the moron sell-out “GOP” names that actually matter?
Her 15 minutes should have never kicked in in the first place, and here you guys are reporting every single utterance of this idiot.
Sorry to vent, but she stopped being funny (because she was such a joke, not because of her jokes) the 3rd or 4th time you posted something about her – and now it’s just pathetic and beyond boring.
JeffinOrlando on April 13, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Hey Meghan, I hear Rosie O’donnel is available! Mom and dad must be so proud.
dmann on April 13, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Help me here. Why, oh why do we care what Meghan McCain thinks? Generally we know she’s a bit of a dingbat, and not a conservative at all.
4shoes on April 13, 2009 at 9:39 PM
I hear Kos is open.
HornetSting on April 13, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Anyone with a brain can see that this is the true end game. It has nothing to do with marriage and everything to do with not liking what God has to say on the subject.
petunia on April 13, 2009 at 9:41 PM
I get this strangely, satisfying, gutteral feeling in my loins that are nastily fun. I am so happy that this ding-bat and her twitter/facebook friends are inheriting the mountains of bills that they deserve from their guide to Nirvana.
PaCadle on April 13, 2009 at 9:41 PM
I love my son. Is it OK with the government if I leave him my estate tax-free? Is it OK with the government if he gets survivor benefits from my social security?
This whole issue is about society paying financial benefits to a lifestyle.
jaime on April 13, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Heh, JeffinOrlando, you said it better than I did.
4shoes on April 13, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Yeah, I know…but I was being sarcastic, so they wouldn’t appreciate me as much there.
AUINSC on April 13, 2009 at 9:42 PM
So if people agree with this, why is that defending discrimination, Jetboy?
Spirit of 1776 on April 13, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Where the F has Bishop been?
blatantblue on April 13, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Bubblegum popping twit(terer) lecturing us. How enlightening. And, has anyone ever seen her with a man? Ever? And Allah doesn’t count.
pcpower1 on April 13, 2009 at 9:42 PM
That’s ok; give Meggie a couple years, and she’ll end up having a “heartbreaking” moment where she is “forced” to reject the GOP…right around the time that Daddy retires from politics.
Just like Excitable Andy.
Anyone wanna take me up on this bet?
Wanderlust on April 13, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Someone needs to tell Meghan the election is over, so she can re-register again and go back to the DNC now.
JeffinSac on April 13, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Is it just me, or is Hot Air kind of like “Ground Hog Day” at times?
cs89 on April 13, 2009 at 9:42 PM
As a semi-young person, it’s been framed as “civil rights”, and because most young people don’t have a sense of history, and don’t know about the horrors of fire hoses and police dogs and back of the bus and emmitt till and bull connor, they assume “yes, yes, being fabulous, more educated, and wealthier than the average american but only being allowed a state ‘civil union’ is just like ‘colored’ water fountatins!”
It’s ‘uncool’ to be intolerant about anything, and so far there hasn’t been a set of reasons in the media about why to be anti-gay marriage other than ‘religion’. I have 1,000,000 reasons why gay marriage is bad, I’m just saying, the average 19 year old hasn’t heard those.
My honest prediction: this is like the ERA. it will gain steam until the slippery slope fear is publicized. when some roman polanski or jerry lee lewis type demands a high profile cousin marriage or child bride or polygamy, there will be a “whoa! omg! if we legally say gays can marry then there’s no way we can prohibit incest/pedo/polygamy, etc….”
now all we need is a phyllis schafly
battleoflepanto1571 on April 13, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Young people are often full of passion and short on perspective. It’s hard to blame them, though: most of them are filled with Leftist indoctrination for at least twelve-sixteen of their formative years.
It’s very easy to see this as a civil rights matter and take it no further. That’s a foolish, short-sighted mistake, in my opinion, but I understand the visceral appeal.
I’m just amazed that it’s not 100% yet.
Kensington on April 13, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Allah loves fat chicks. Allah loves fat chicks.
Percy_Peabody on April 13, 2009 at 9:43 PM
That strapped for conten, AP? I’ve been trying to get you to post the best video of the day, and you’re posting Meghan McCain essentially repeating something she’s already said a number of times?
As for anyone who’s evolved their “tolerance” with the times, quit fooling yourselves. The whole idea of being gay is illogical and stupid. I know you people hate this comparison, but it truly fits. A couple of generations ago, the very idea of being born gay, and “gay rights”, etc. was outrageous and laughable… Why are we so sure we’re not going to see the same with with pedophiles a few generations from now?
(This is where you flip out because gays are “two consenting adults”, etc. and I stop you in your tracks by saying “what defines ‘adult’?” The law? Well the law used to ban sodomy, and still doesn’t allow gay marriage in most places… so perhaps there will be a push for “equal rights” for children who claim attraction to adults and adults who claim attraction to children. Also, another response to the “gays are 2 consulting adults” argument is, “why the number ’2′?” Who are we to deny rights to polygamists. What is so special about the number 2?
Oh, and here’s my favorite new one… The reason incest is not permitted is because of risk to children born to incestuous couples. So, does that mean gay brothers should be allowed to be together, and lesbian sisters? What’s the risk? Which goes back to the obvious point I made earlier, being “gay” is illogical on it’s face. The fact that we have 2 genders with unique reproductive organs that are specifically designed (or “evolved” if you must) to work together, isn’t a coincidence my friends.
I just wish people who stop being so emotional about this, just because they have an uncle or a lifelong friend who now claims to be gay. Let’s have a little common sense, shall we? I know you have it in you.
RightWinged on April 13, 2009 at 9:43 PM
I think it’s pretty evident that she sees herself as the new voice of the Republican Party, the anti-Palin, and is likely to run for some political office within the next 5 – 10 years.
Mister Ghost on April 13, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Intellectually, she reminds me of Paris Hilton. Where are the tapes?
Feedie on April 13, 2009 at 9:43 PM
We need a GOP that supports gay marriage.
No, what we need is to reach out to those with conservative principles who want a strong military, fiscal responsibility, less taxes, more freedom and smaller government. We don’t get anywhere by pandering or being liberal with our principles. Stick to our basic tenets and sell ourselves better to those who share our values. Not saying that we don’t need to adapt with the times, but only in very small steps.
I refuse to take advice from a woman who only changed to a republican for her dad’s birthday.
No principles, no conservative.
Know principles, know conservative.
carbon_footprint on April 13, 2009 at 9:43 PM
IMPEACH MEGHAN MCCAIN……
doriangrey on April 13, 2009 at 9:44 PM
I disagree with Meghan McCain quite a bit, but naturally I agree with her here. Granted, I’m more of a “civil unions” kind of gay (I don’t get the vapors over the “marriage” moniker either way), but I wish the GOP would get over the same-sex union heebeejeebies, just so it wouldn’t become such a “single issue” for both proponents and critics that make or break Party ID when it comes to voting.
The less focus on social wedge issues, the more time Americans — especially their politicians — can focus on economic and policy issues that are far more salient than same-sex unions. Che sera sera.
lansing quaker on April 13, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Won’t someone pleeeeeeeze tell me that we’re not going to be subjected to this girl’s political “advice and expertise” for the next 4 years? She is nothing. She knows nothing. She’s nothing more than tabloid fluff. I sincerely hope that we don’t see her smiling face on HA on a regular basis. If we do, I think my head will explode.
uncivilized on April 13, 2009 at 9:45 PM
She, of all people, should know better. Her dad himself said education was the civil rights issue of our time (I don’t disagree).
Spirit of 1776 on April 13, 2009 at 9:45 PM
No surprise there, the labels educate about fat content in the boxes of food.
carbon_footprint on April 13, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Meghan, shut up. We tried it your way — we lost.
Richard Romano on April 13, 2009 at 9:45 PM
How about an Empty Head Room just for her?
JammieWearingFool on April 13, 2009 at 9:46 PM
I’m sorry but I think the whole “civil rights” argument is full of crap. It’s not a civil right issue, it is privileged. Not everyone can get married.
terryannonline on April 13, 2009 at 9:46 PM
while i agree with this statement, why is the gop guilty of this ‘wedge issue’? how the heck is the albatross on OUR necks? gavin newsom, the mass legislature, the calif supremes… from 2004 to today, the dems were the ones pushing this tripe during election years…
…but it must be karl rove’s fault. i just don’t get the left.
battleoflepanto1571 on April 13, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Heh. I’m a big AP fan, obviously, but the repeat threads from the “new right” from headlines to main blog make me want to get banned so I don’t have to trouble with repeating arguments.
I hate doing things over, even repeating myself.
Spirit of 1776 on April 13, 2009 at 9:46 PM
She’s an intellectual heavyweight.
BadgerHawk on April 13, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Oh, dear gawd…
Because this really doesn’t have anything to do with a semantics issue. Those who are adamantly against gay marriage, for the most part, are homophobic. Nothing more.
JetBoy on April 13, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Betcha flint has already called her. Seriously.
Tim Zank on April 13, 2009 at 9:47 PM
The GOP is not going to get anywhere positive by being Democrat-lite like Sen McCain.
I voted in the above poll because while I disagree with Vermont on this issue, they did pass it through the legislature. To me, the issue is over which state has more Constitutional backing when it comes time for legally married gay couples in Vermont who wish to move to a state that specifically outlaws gay marriage. Who has more authority, the state authorizing the gay marriage or the sovereignty of the state who rejects the gay marriage cert. of their new residents?
Weebork on April 13, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Good lord, she’s annoying.
CP on April 13, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Well, then, you forgot racist, xenophobic, bigots.
HornetSting on April 13, 2009 at 9:47 PM
We don’t read it. But many of us, and by reading the comments I don’t seem to be alone on this point, we don’t understand why HotAir continues to quote her and show her picture when she is completely irrelevant to everyone with the exception of the editors of this site.
JeffinOrlando on April 13, 2009 at 9:48 PM
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