“I feel like I have to go on national television and delineate between the two things,” she said. “I’m horrified by this bill as a woman, as a Republican woman I’m horrified. It scares me that this can go on. It scares me that a woman could be vaginally probed without consent or doctor’s consent, and I think this is completely radioactive for Gov. McDonnell and I have no idea why he would even go on any form and say he would pass it.”
Maddow suggested that this issue was once politically toxic, but perhaps no longer radioactive in the modern Republican Party. But McCain argued it was still radioactive.
“I think it gets a lot of media attention,” McCain replied. “It will get a lot of play on right-wing blogs and the conservative evangelical movement. But I think when it comes to mainstream, more moderate Republicans, and especially with independents it’s completely radioactive. I mean, Gov. McDonnell may get a lot of the evangelical vote if he passes it but will alienate almost every single woman possible, especially if they’re independent, from voting for him, you know if he becomes the vice-presidential nominee. But I still think Marco Rubio is the number one candidate.”
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