Meghan McCain to Rove and Cheney: “You had your eight years, go away”
posted at 6:45 pm on April 23, 2009 by Allahpundit
I don’t want to post it but I can’t not post it. I’m mystified as to why she assumes Rove’s Twittering is some half-assed pander to younger voters — like her, he probably just does it for fun — but it’s gratifying at least to know she’s pro-life. Free advice to Meggie Mac: Talking about the things you have in common with most Republicans rather than dwelling on the differences would go a long way towards earning you their respect, albeit at the price of losing you some media appearances.
For what it’s worth, she linked this approvingly on Twitter today:
The decline of moderate and independent Republicans, according to historian Vincent Cannato of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, “is only part of the problem” confronting Republicans today. Still, “just as Democrats needed to reach out to Blue Dogs” to build their coalition, Cannato said, “Republicans need to find out who the moderates and independents are in the country — and try to figure out how to appeal to them.”…
A rough road lies ahead for Republicans hoping to rebuild their party. They must recruit candidates that fit their districts, reach out to Hispanic voters among other crucial constituencies and find policies that appeal to a broad cross section of the country in the aftermath of George W. Bush’s unpopular presidency.
That will help Republicans achieve the kind of diversity — ideological, demographic and class-based — that will serve as a brake on extremism, create positive intellectual tension within the party and promote at least some bipartisan solutions to long-term challenges, including immigration reform and health care. A dose of moderation sprinkled onto its conservative base will be among the factors that will carry Republicans to victory in the years ahead.
Exit question: Is Meghan McCain the anti-Palin?
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I have zero love for Meghan Mac, and any shots on her are fine, but attacks on her chubbiness really are unclassy.
/just sayin’
bikermailman on April 23, 2009 at 8:05 PM
What can I say- I like smart men.
anniekc on April 23, 2009 at 7:39 PM
It is kind of hard to come up with some good conservative choices. I would have to say Mark Levin.
TXMomof3 on April 23, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Well said.
She is just not into AP :)
getalife on April 23, 2009 at 8:07 PM
That’s good advice and she should take it gratefully. The same can be said for increasing the Republican base. We can do this by focusing on the issues we share with Independents and Libertarians(smaller gov, fiscal discipline, pro second amendment, etc).
We won’t expand our base by making the issues on which we disagree the focus. This only leads to fighting and fracture. The dems didn’t reach out to Blue Dogs and compromise their platform. They just highlighted the issues where they overlapped in agreement and downplayed the issues that fracture them.
We win by making the elections about issues that lead to support from Independents and Libertarians. We couldn’t do that in 08, because we had a media firmly against us and an unpopular war/president(McCain was a horrible campaigner as well). We have to actually fight the media and offer a competing narrative to the one they craft. They are solid blue and they cannot be counted on for fair treatment. Treating a political party like it’s a pop culture trend is stupid.
The Dem’s can have the under 30 crowd as long as we get the adults. Young people change as they get older and experience more of life. If MegMac actually studied voter behavior she could offer more substantive and constructive observations.
I don’t dislike her for voicing her opinions and ideas. I dislike her for the naivety and ignorance of those opinions and ideas.
Stickeehands on April 23, 2009 at 8:09 PM
I, like Meghan McCain, think the Republican party should be only focussed on winning elections and gaining and maintaining power by pandering to any and all identity groups, and not about ideology and principles.
LOL!
EscapeVelocity on April 23, 2009 at 8:15 PM
When things get too serious,, we’ll always have Meghan.
The new thigh of the GOP.
JellyToast on April 23, 2009 at 8:15 PM
What I see is an immature girl of 24. Megan has never needed to get a job, nor has she ever had one in which her father’s position didn’t secure the employment. Would she be making the news if she weren’t trying to inflame the base? Nope! She is under the misguided notion that going along with the crowd, rather than standing on principal, is a measure of success. She is her father’s daughter.
Pam on April 23, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Are Meghan’s views the views she learned at her daddy’s knee? And do they reflect the real opinions of her father?
Lets face it, she weren’t the daughter of a Republican bashing Republican’s no one would give her the time of day. I think she knows that. What a shallow girl. I have stepped over puddles that are deeper than her.
Mr A on April 23, 2009 at 8:17 PM
She mentioned that 80% of people under 30 identify more with Dems than the GOP. Maybe it’s a high figure, but Obama got 66% of that vote in 2008. You may not care about young voters, but unless the GOP starts to appeal to under-30 voters the numbers will get tougher to make up with older voters.
dedalus on April 23, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Megan you’ve had your 15 minutes now shut up and go away.
Dreadnought223 on April 23, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Meghan McCain, your daddy lost…….Go Away!
JihadKiller1s1k on April 23, 2009 at 8:19 PM
They got elected twice, Meghan.
Something your father failed to do.
manofaiki on April 23, 2009 at 8:20 PM
The dems didn’t reach out to Blue Dogs and compromise their platform. They just highlighted the issues where they overlapped in agreement and downplayed the issues that fracture them. — Stikeehands
No the Dems didnt reach out to Blue Dogs. They didnt even downplay controversial issues. They just bashed Bush, and painted a poor picture of Republican rule…however dishonest a lot of that anti GOP propaganda was….there was general dissatisfaction with Bush and the GOP. The Dems didnt win, the GOP lost.
However, now the Dems have the ball and are sure to fumble it, and no matter how much the media propagandizes for them(certainly handicapping the American Right)….they will throw the Democrat bums out, probably within 4 years.
EscapeVelocity on April 23, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Please go away. What’s she going to do when the Left realizes we on the Right don’t care at all what she has to say? We don’t consider her one of us.
DerKrieger on April 23, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Senator Simcox! YaY!
Punchenko on April 23, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Sure, many of the current problems in our party are due to the actions (or inaction) of Bush, but our Republican Congress should get most of the blame. For some reason, our GOP Congressmen are rarely mentioned.
Congress enacts spending bills and crappy legislation, not the President. Granted, Bush couldn’t find the freakin veto pen in his desk, but if our guys hadn’t have passed massive spending bills and other legislation entirely contrary to traditional Conservative tenets, we wouldn’t have the problem to begin with.
I for one haven’t forgotten and will do everything I can to help elect real fiscal conservatives in 2010.
BacaDog on April 23, 2009 at 8:25 PM
The only way to do this is via school choice and university faculty penetration and expansion, and expanding media penetration.
The Left owns the school system, teachers, cirricula, universities, etc. and dominates the media still.
EscapeVelocity on April 23, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Why? You’ve had your 15 minutes, yet you refuse to go away.
Physics Geek on April 23, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Moderates are the reason the party is in the crapper. Go away little airhead.
single stack on April 23, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Vouchers are a good idea but tough to get done. Not sure the school system is the only reason for the recent youth vote disparity. Reagan and two Bushes were able to win while the schools were still filled with liberal teachers.
dedalus on April 23, 2009 at 8:32 PM
You are your father’s daughter, darling. Now you’ve had your 15 minutes. You go away. Theonly people who like youa re liberals. Why don’t you go hang with them? They like you, we don’t. You agree with them, we don’t. You want to build them up and support their platform, we don’t. Bye.
JustTruth101 on April 23, 2009 at 8:35 PM
This fighting of indoctrination should be primary American Conservative business. Because although Conservatives have more children, those children are being indoctrinated by Leftwingers and a Leftwing dominated education system. On top of that, the Democrats are pandering to illegal immigrants and importing new citizens which they will promote racialist hatemongered resentment in and pander to, in order to keep winning elections.
The Dems have both the import new racialist voters and indoctrination working for them. If American Conservatism is to survive, these must be addressed.
Failing that, the Christians should break out of the Reagan Coalition. Typified by Hucabee, mildly welfare statist combined with Christian social conservatism…they will sway many African Americans and more importantly Latino Catholics who are growing fast via fertility and immigration….and also Blue Dog Democrat voters…blue collar whites. This is a winning formula. Similar to the Christian Democrats in Europe.
EscapeVelocity on April 23, 2009 at 8:35 PM
You know, as of two days ago I hated Allah posting all of Meggie Mac’s drivel, but now I figure it’s this or going back to atheist threads. So, bring it on, Allah!
Emily M. on April 23, 2009 at 8:36 PM
I smell bait.
That’s what it is, isn’t it?
Greg Toombs on April 23, 2009 at 8:36 PM
I don’t care a whit what her dad has to say, why in the hell would I (or any body else) care what she says?
darwin-t on April 23, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Megan, how can we miss you if you never go away.
casel21 on April 23, 2009 at 8:38 PM
I don’t know why this b1tch bothers me *so* much, but seriously, stop fW@#ing posting her drivel.
Midas on April 23, 2009 at 8:39 PM
This will be the last thing I will post or her or click on the blog about her. I think if we all did the same, we might not have her face on the web site every day. Leave her looks, her weight out of it. It’s her positions that I can’t stand, so au revoir babe!
Wish we had Cheney back, and even Rove is a Mensa (course maybe he is a member, anyway) compared to axelrod (the little hitler).
Bambi on April 23, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Republicans who are willing to trash-talk other Republicans are always popular with the Left and with the media (but I repeat myself.)
That must be something she learned from Daddy.
cruadin on April 23, 2009 at 8:40 PM
She told us to “kiss her fat ass” so I take this as meaning her fat ass fat is in play.
kangjie on April 23, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Reagan and two Bushes were able to win while the schools were still filled with liberal teachers. — deadulus
You underestimate the power of propaganda and indoctrination. The 60s New Left is the establishment now.
The GOP and Conservatives are only fighting for phyrric victories and continual movement Left, if they dont fight for the control of American institutions as important as the Universities and the Schools…which influence afterall the voters and leaders of the future.
In that sense, Megan McCain is right, the Democrats will keep moving Left, and the center will keep shifting Left, and the GOP will be branded far right reactionaries out of touch with America. Like now. You arent going to reverse this trend without concentrating on the children/future.
The American Right is handicapped by its principles and honor…..the Left has no honor only an agenda.
EscapeVelocity on April 23, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Why is she still talking – better yet, why is anyone still listening to her?
marnes on April 23, 2009 at 8:45 PM
I mentioned my background, you blithering idiot, only because it’s people like me (educated, moderate, non-evangelical)that you might think would be disposed to consider MM as the “anti-Palin.” As it happens, I don’t.
My Palin objection, which I’ve always stated politely and matter-of-factly, is that I think she’s a hard sell to educated non-evangelicals. If you don’t think that’s a problem for her, well, you might just be a little biased.
And what’s with all the childish hostility? I don’t happen to like your favorite candidate. Deal with it like an intellectual, not a 15 year old girl.
Infidoll on April 23, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Maybe someone should show Meghan McCain her Dad’s apperance on that show to her………
Seven Percent Solution on April 23, 2009 at 8:49 PM
LOL! Not even 100 days in…
-Taliban are a few miles from 2 Pakistani nuclear facilities
-Iran is unchallenged and on course to a nuke before 2012
-North Korea now has nukes missile ready and moved 13,000 artillery pieces to w in striking distance of Seoul
-Israel’s got no reason not to strike Iran and put us -literally in the middle of a ballistic missile shootout
-Mexico’s on the verge of collapse
-economy is awful, getting worse, and gonna get even worse yet
-oh, and people are concerned about Meg Mac’s weight?
Puh LEEZE…focus y’all. There’s 1400 days to go. If the world is this catgut crazy already, then what’s it gonna be like by July 4th?
scottm on April 23, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Funny, that sounds exactly like something Joy Behar would say. I had no idea Behar was a Republican. Go Joy!
Tanya on April 23, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Megatons -
You Dad IS why I no longer consider myself a republican – so STFU – NOW GO AWAY!
Branch Rickey on April 23, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Maybe if the Republican Party had something to offer to teachers and universities they’d get more conservatives in education. Many teachers trend liberal for the simple fact that liberals traditionally offer them better pay and better job security than conservatives. Conservatives can win support in our educational institutions by offering teachers a better deal than Democrats.
RightOFLeft on April 23, 2009 at 9:01 PM
MM, STFU you stupid bimbo. I’m sure Mr. Rove and VP Cheney are having a good laugh at you expense. Just like your Dad…screw those who brought you to the Dance. Did I mention STFU!
jwp1964 on April 23, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Palin and Meghan is like…
“brains and brawn”
“love and hate”
“good and evil”
“beauty and the beast”
Daggett on April 23, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Meghan, they still won’t invite you to their little Lib get-togethers/soirees…and if perchance they do, it will be because you’re a freak and an oddity, and they will be giggling over their glasses of white wine and something about ‘look at how fat her ass is!’.
Save yourself and wise up…girlfriend.
Dr. ZhivBlago on April 23, 2009 at 9:13 PM
speaking of jobs, and maybe someone else mentioned it, but what DOES she do as a job?? media maven?
TheBlueSite on April 23, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Rove and Cheney had the 8 years that John McCain will never have.
Seriously, AP. WHY Meghan McCain all the time? Please STOP.
Oink on April 23, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Those under 30 vote at historically much lower rates than older individuals. You don’t make major party decisions based on time slice information. You have to look at voter history and long term trends. Young voters have significantly trended democrat for quite a while now. The saying”if you’re not a liberal when you’re 20 then you have no heart and if you’re not a conservative when you’re 40 you have no brain” holds true in the data.
This election received more media attention than any in recent history. This was a high stimulus election, but it isn’t likely to hold true in the future. Those who voted for the first time may end up disenfranchised once they don’t get all the hope and change that was promised. This leads to a return to the broader trend we’ve seen over the last few decades of voter fatigue and decreased confidence in the political system. Those who rely on young voters, a mutable voting block, risk a great deal, without much data to support such a risk. Give them time … they’ll be disillusioned and cynical before you know it.
Stickeehands on April 23, 2009 at 9:30 PM
This girl becomes more and more the useless attention whore as the weeks go by.
She’s about as relevant as a TV episode of Beverly Hills 90210.
SilverStar830 on April 23, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Me to Meghan: “You’ve had your fifteen minutes, go away!”
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on April 23, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Allah please, enough of this child already. There are serious people trying to stop the madness here.
seesalrun on April 23, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Aww…….More Mementos from Momenchance Meg McCain.
Go away eh? Well last I checked the View is longer than 15 minutes so you have had more than you deserve. Can you go away now?
Go ahead AP….we know you want to.
Thanks for at least linking to someone who actually has clue in the same post even if it is Politico.
Rocks on April 23, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Well, Sarah Palin has helped run a family business, has been active in electoral politics for more than a decade, and has elected as a mayor and a state governor.
Meghan McCain has been…
a member of the lucky sperm club.
I’m getting really tired of hereditary privilege. Meghan McCain hasn’t done squat to deserve any attention as some kind of pundit or political ideologist. She’s the child of incredible privilege and shows no sign of grace or gratitude for her wealth.
I’d like Ms. McCain to explain what she’s done that merits attention to anything she says. She got a six figure book deal earlier this year. I wonder how many other twentysomething art history majors who aren’t the daughter of a multimillionaire and a politician have gotten book deals.
This stinks. Ms. McCain is no better than any of the Kennedy spawn who think that power is their hereditary privilege.
rokemronnie on April 23, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Stickeehands responded to this in detail but my response is quite short: If this is true, explain 2004.
platypus on April 23, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Ugh. Late to the thread. If it’s been said, forgive me.
Waterboarding–torture? Never. But these Meg McCain points are a different matter.
I’m hoping that all of her appearances are actually a means by which the left moronically provides her with a platform so that she can aggregate a mountain of footage that the CIA can later use to drive captured terrorists crazy.
BuckeyeSam on April 23, 2009 at 9:47 PM
It’s ironic that you call him “childish” and then you yourself use a rather immature insult comparing him to a female child.
rokemronnie on April 23, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Does anyone think that Ms. McCain could accomplish anything starting from scratch?
Give her $25, stick her in some small town and tell her to make something of herself without using her millionaire mom’s and senator dad’s connections.
rokemronnie on April 23, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Here’s an experiment Meghan can try — instead of going on TV or running Twitter posts about what she dislikes about conservative Republicans, then next time she’s asked on The View or some other show, talk about your pro-life positions, and then see how much the requests for interviews drop off.
This is just v2.0 of “The Straight Talk Express” — Just as dad was beloved by the media only for as long as he was useful in bashing Republicans, and then somehow “changed” in their eyes once he was the candidate opposing Barack Obama, Meghan’s only of interest as long as she can be held up as the voice of the disaffected Republican youth. Or alternatively, she can find a House district in Arizona held by a Democrat and when she turns 25 next year, run for it as a McCain Republican. Even by that weak tea standard, she’ll find out how much of a BFF she really is with all the cool people by November of 2010.
jon1979 on April 23, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Stikeehands, I was never a Leftwinger or a Democrat, when I was young. I was a bit of a radical libertarian though. Does that make me heartless, or perhaps more intelligent and ahead of the curve than most?
Its true that with experience comes wisdom and movement from Left to Conservative. However the problem isnt that so much as the whole paradigm shifting Leftward, so that today, GW Bush (villified as a rabid Rightwinger) is left of JFK.
Maybe that will help you to understand.
RightofLeft, bribing constituencies is your proposition? LOL! No the answer is to take the school system out of state control and privatize it (any movement to more school choice is good). Privatized and breaking the NEA will have teachers become more responsive to parents, via market mechanisms….and not unfirable unionized wards of the state monopoly aparatus.
As for universities, I think that Conservatives should be encouraged to teach, and incentives to do so, be made. An ideologically driven push to infiltrate the system and take it over. Once the first wave enters, then they should promote conservatives ideologically over Leftwingers. Thus incentivizing Conservative political ideology, instead of conservatives being punished by the Leftwingers who dominate it now(driving them away from even pursuing a carreer in academia).
The Supreme Court is a somewhat similar situation, eventually the American Right figured out that nominating Souters and OConnors doesnt do your political fight anygood. The Left isnt honorable, they promote progressive activist judges, with no care about quality jurisprudence. Unfortunately, like fighting Islamics….you have to play the game being played sometimes, and not the one you wish you were playing.
EscapeVelocity on April 23, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Meghan’s taken a wrong turn down the Garofalo highway and is gaining speed.
The Ugly American on April 23, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Hmmm… 250+ comments on how irrelevant/unimportant Ms. McCain is.
By your own logic, this would mean you’re terrified of her.
benny shakar on April 23, 2009 at 10:02 PM
They kept her fat ass safe for eight years. Ungrateful (Perez Hilton’s word).
RobCon on April 23, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Benny actually most are annoyed that you and your ilk….the MSM and the left …use a RINO and a LIBERAL ….to try to undermine the GOP and the right. If you know your history you will know many Americans are not too bright as evidence by
1 their votes for Obama
2 the fact they thought the GOP ran Congress the past two years
So we know your lying and the lefts lying is very likely to be believe by many stupid americans.
Jamson64 on April 23, 2009 at 10:11 PM
And nobody cares.
HornetSting on April 23, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Because she inherited her concept of loyalty from her father.
sloopy on April 23, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Uh…no, I doubt it. Based on everything I have seen from her father over the past 12 years, I am guessing he had little, if any, time for his daughter, and that she was raised 99% by her mother and the nanny.
Her views would then have come from television, her friends at the bar, and her professors at Columbia, and she is scrambling to reconcile these leftist/valley girl views with her sudden (need to associate with a Presidential candidate/media magnet in order to get the attention that she so desperately needs and which Daddy wouldn’t give her) sense that she is a “Republican”.
Jaibones on April 23, 2009 at 10:20 PM
You can’t not post this? Oh yeah, until now, I thought MooMoo McCain was a big fan of Cheney and Rove. Thanks for posting so that was cleared up.
JeffinOrlando on April 23, 2009 at 10:21 PM
You and the trash that voted for obama and couldn’t decipher between Sarah Palin and Tina Fey. You are in, uh hem, good company.
HornetSting on April 23, 2009 at 10:21 PM
I want her to pfffftttt…..bloowwww awayyy…It’s like a bad dream you cannot wake up from. Won’t play the clip, she is leaning way to the right (or better, a closeted lib.) and I want her the hell out the party, the conservatives, and our lives.
Do something constructive, like, make quilts, arts, design landscaping…JUST STOP YAKKING!
ProudPalinFan on April 23, 2009 at 10:23 PM
I’d say it just puts you ahead of the curve. There is truth to your point about the perception of Bush as a conservative, while his policies are largely centrist. I wouldn’t put him left of JFK, because that would make him left of LBJ, who actually passed what JFK only advocated.
I think that in some ways Bush is like Nixon. Nixon is also thought to be a right winger, but in reality his policies were rather left of center.
I don’t know if I agree that the entire left right paradigm has shifted, but it certainly has when applied to figures such and Nixon and Bush. Clinton was largely a centrist(and an embarrassment), but he was cast as a left leaning.
I think that it’s largely more about perception concerning individual personality and partisanship rather than a reflection of policies.
Interesting to consider though.
Stickeehands on April 23, 2009 at 10:27 PM
You’re utterly wrong, benny.
There’s “250+ comments on how irrelevant/unimportant Ms. McCain is” because, hopefully, some certain someone(s) will get the message and stop gobbling the chum she’s dispensing and quit posting about Meghan McTwit.
SilverStar830 on April 23, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Her father is a twice failed Presidential candidate, and she hasn’t done anything herself to make me care what she has to say. Yawn…
bigbeas on April 23, 2009 at 10:40 PM
She’s her father’s daughter, for sure. Let’s hope the voting public, should she decide to (shudder) run for office, doesn’t fall for another “maverick.”
Paul_in_NJ on April 23, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Why is the Republican Party being plagued with this simple minded nonsense? It’s some kind of test or something.
This is not high school and if I wanted to be a popular kid I most definitely would not have registered as a Republican at 18 and stuck with those crazy conservative principles. Trust me. No one can shut down a tree hugger conversation at a party faster than I can. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard “Dude. You can’t hit this with logic. It’s a feeling, compassion – don’t you care about the polarbearschildrenhomelesspregnantteenagerwelfaremomcrackaddict?”
MacBaby needs a few years at a job, responsible for kids, carrying her weight at an office to move the company ahead of the competition. She’s like Obama. She’s got ZERO life experience. If I want to be lectured by a kid I can ask my own teenagers if now is the time to buy a Harley or something.
Yeesh. This is a joke, right? Are we really being lectured by this two year old? And taking it?
BrideOfRove on April 23, 2009 at 10:50 PM
She really is her father’s daughter. He kept criticizing the Republicans, and the media loved him for it. But the moment there was a Democrat in the race, they stood him up.
Meghan gets all kinds of press BECAUSE she criticizes the Republicans. Drop the criticism, and her 15 minutes of fame will vanish like an ice cube on a hot tin roof.
ThereGoesTheNeighborhood on April 23, 2009 at 10:50 PM
She’s the Paris Hilton of the Republican Party.
BrideOfRove on April 23, 2009 at 10:52 PM
I think you will find that maybe Bush wasnt to the Left of Kennedy, but he wasnt to the Right either. The Great Society was LBJs baby. Certainly Bush agrees with equality for black Americans and the Civil Rights Act of 1965(passed under LBJ, but started under Kennedy. I agree about Nixon. Here is some Kennedy info, Bush is right in line with…remember Bush pushed a huge Medicare Entitlement through. Im right about the paradigm shift Left, it should be obvious….the New Left won the culture war largely, even if they didnt win the economic Leftist war entirely…the welfare state continues to expand…even under Republican Rule.
Domestic
Kennedy called his domestic program the “New Frontier”. It ambitiously promised federal funding for education, medical care for the elderly,[citation needed] and government intervention to halt the recession. Kennedy also promised an end to racial discrimination. In 1963, he proposed a tax reform which included income tax cuts, but this was not passed by Congress until 1964, after his death. Few of Kennedy’s major programs passed Congress during his lifetime, although, under his successor Johnson, Congress did vote them through in 1964–65.
Economy
Kennedy ended a period of tight fiscal policies, loosening monetary policy to keep interest rates down and encourage growth of the economy.[37] This policy was later blamed in part for the economic problems of the 1970s, as greater government spending helped lead to inflation.
Civil liberties
Responding to allegations that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a communist, the Kennedy’s administration agreed to let the Federal Bureau of Investigation wiretap private individuals, including Martin Luther King, Jr.[47][48] The source of the original allegations was none other than J. Edgar Hoover, who had a burning hatred for King, whom he viewed as an upstart troublemaker. Although Robert Kennedy, as Attorney General, only gave written approval for limited wiretapping, the Bureau, as was common under Hoover’s leadership, extended the clearance to encompass whichever areas of King’s life they deemed worthy of examination—without Kennedy’s knowledge. In Lyndon Johnson’s 1967 State of the Union speech, he referred to the “snooping” and “bugging” of the past, meaning Kennedy’s administration,[47] although Johnson continued to allow the wiretapping of King and others.[48]
Immigration
John F. Kennedy initially proposed an overhaul of American immigration policy that later was to become the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, sponsored by Kennedy’s brother Senator Edward Kennedy. It dramatically shifted the source of immigration from Northern and Western European countries towards immigration from Latin America and Asia and shifted the emphasis of selection of immigrants towards facilitating family reunification.[51] Kennedy wanted to dismantle the selection of immigrants based on country of origin and saw this as an extension of his civil rights policies.[52]
EscapeVelocity on April 23, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Phat Phuck RINO. Destroy.
Coronagold on April 23, 2009 at 11:16 PM
By the way you may have noticed my theme. Death to RINOs. That is all.
Coronagold on April 23, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Yes, in that she wh0res after the media, and the media wh0re after Meghan because she sh*ts all over the conservative wing of the Republican Party.
Exit quote:
Wanderlust on April 23, 2009 at 11:22 PM
How about “Your dad lost, STFU?”
PJ Emeritus on April 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM
For a while there it seemed like HotAir was either posts about bacon, or posts about MegMac.
I miss the bacon posts.
BayCon on April 23, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Hello? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
……c r i c k e t s……
JeffinOrlando on April 23, 2009 at 11:59 PM
It’s Meghan McCain and the View all in one.
Why would any of you think Allah wouldn’t post it? Don’t you know him by now?
SouthernDem on April 24, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Somebody called her the “oinking rino” — I like that one best. lol!
Blake on April 24, 2009 at 12:08 AM
McShamnesty’s daughter is so fat….
Her ass has her own zip code.
csdeven on April 24, 2009 at 12:10 AM
There is nothing “obligatory” about putting John McCain’s maiden heifer on the site every damn day!
clnurnberg on April 24, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Allah has a leg tingle with Hillary AND Bill, but not at the same time. Makes you wonder…
apco on April 24, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Who’s Meghan McCain?
littleguy on April 24, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Hopefully soon we can say “Megham your father is nolonger a Senator please GTFO”
Rbastid on April 24, 2009 at 12:53 AM
She is teh winner of her own American Idol.
unwashed minion on April 24, 2009 at 1:31 AM
One minute, 15 seconds.
That’s how long I could stand their drivel before stopping the video.
Did I miss much? I doubt it. If Meg Mac is the future of the GOP, then count. me. out. (Oh, and for shame…for I wear black, have a tattoo*, and listen to punk music…!)
*…well…not a “real” tattoo…it’s a long story. Just work with me here.
CatsGodot on April 24, 2009 at 2:38 AM
Observing her rants, Meghan seems to be more than just simply immature. I really believe she has some underlying psychological issues going on. She keeps heightening the rhetoric in order to gain more attention. It’s like watching a manic depressive meltdown already in progress.
Christina_M on April 24, 2009 at 2:40 AM
Meghan McCain identifies the challenge that any political party has when it loses an election-how do you appeal the enough people outside of your base to win?
I think it would be helpful if she were more prescriptive on how she thinks the G.O.P. should go about this. Since she has described herself as a liberal Republican, I fear that she may simply want two liberal political parties-a Republican and Democratic, and that is a losing strategy…just ask her father.
sDs61678 on April 24, 2009 at 5:52 AM
AP give it up, you’re not her type. You have a brain!
aigle on April 24, 2009 at 8:06 AM
Hey Meghan McCain, broadcast message for ya, baby!
No one gives a rat’s patootie in space what you have to say about anything!
And your daddy is going to be out of a job come the next time he goes up for re-election because he’s a LOSER and a RINO!
pilamaye on April 24, 2009 at 8:07 AM
I would like to take this opportunity to formally ask Megan McCain to leave the Party. We don’t want you, we don’t need you, and we do not want you representing us in the Media. Please, Megan, leave the GOP.
Thanking you in advance,
Dork B. on April 24, 2009 at 8:07 AM
The Meghan hype is progressing from boring to abrasive. I for one would be healing faster after our recent McCain experience, with better feelings toward John and others of his stripe, if his daughter weren’t constantly rubbing salt in the wound.
That, of course, is why MSM loves her.
You watch, before she’s done she’ll sell out to the Dems.
petefrt on April 24, 2009 at 8:20 AM
Reaching out to the opposition, independents, minorities is fine…problem is the RINOs reach out so far they fall flat on their faces…When we can’t keep the RINOs on the Republican side then its time to cull the herd.
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philly_nj on April 24, 2009 at 8:20 AM
Fatty, fatty, two by four,
Since Dad can’t get thru The White House door,
Gabbing with The View makes you a political whore.
seejanemom on April 24, 2009 at 8:37 AM
Bad poetry.
Just one of my many talents on loan from Gawd. ;)
seejanemom on April 24, 2009 at 8:39 AM
She’s prolife? Doug Kmiec says he’s prolife. Imagine my relief.
manwithblackhat on April 24, 2009 at 8:39 AM
I still don’t understand how you defeat the liberal party by dumping your base and saying you’re more pro-life than not. Meanwhile, talking constantly about what you hate about your party is supposed to attract lefties, who love their America-hating party?
littleguy on April 24, 2009 at 9:00 AM
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