Meghan McCain: "Red til I'm dead baby!"

[K8-EEE]

Apparently this was her response to Boss Limbaugh's suggestion that she and her dad leave the GOP.

She went on to reiterate her "I love the Republican Party!" mantra but one thing I wish somebody would ask is: WHY? WHY DO YOU "LOVE" IT?

SERIOUSLY WTF IS "LOVABLE" ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY???

I guess if you're an heiress you don't want to pay yucky taxes like working people, but other than that......I can't even IMAGINE even liking much less loving the Republican Party, they are good for NOTHING and I mean absolutely nothing.

[Richardo]

1. As long as she's pissing off Limbaugh...that's the important thing

...other than that, I don't care enough about her to know why she likes the GOP. Family inertia, I'd wager.

[K8-EEE]

3. OMG that beagle is so freaking cute!

Well apparently she used to be indie until her dad was gonna run and then switched (how heartwarming!)

OMG that beagle puppy is so cute. My beagle Julie is 15 -- she's still cute!!

[Critters2]

8. DU needs a "people owned by beagles" group.

I'm the proud possession of an 8 year old beagle. See below.

[K8-EEE]

10. Awwwwwwwwwww................

Cute!!! Looks like my Julie-bugs!!! She's not really a low-maint type dog but she's all heart.

[Critters2]

14. Nothing low maint about mine either.

In fact, she's on antibiotics and codeine for kennel cough as we speak. Giving her pills is a challenge. She actually eats the pill pocket and leaves the pill. :grr:

Still, nothing's more lovable than a beagle!

[MADem]

27. Stick it in a piece of cheese...or a hotdog! nt

[Critters2]

34. I've been making peanut butter, codeine, antibiotic and dog food sandwiches.

Her pills stuck in the peanut butter, with the added vitamins, minerals, and protein of dog food to keep her strength up. She hasn't been eating well otherwise, but this seems to be working.


Peanut butter, codeine, cephalexin, and kibble on wheat. There's good eatin'!

[mix]

9. she's a bee in his bonnet n/t

[TheCoxwain]

33. I'd like her to be a bee in his underpants

That should be fun to watch.

[calimary]

2. Well, remember, these types always remind you that "Freedom ISN'T Free!!!!"

Well, that's correct. It ISN'T free. Just like all those other things you've come to depend upon and loudly demand because now you feel full-on fuckin'-A entitled to them - which constitute many of the benefits of our freedom. You know, those incidentals like food inspections and border security and road/bridge repair and that Medicare enrollment that'll help cover your medical expenses when you're old, and police and fire protection - you know, those things? THOSE aren't free, either.

[K8-EEE]

4. Right???

This is what I'm thinking when I see these teabaggin' fools, HELLO!!! The sidewalk you're standing on, the streetlight above it, NOTHING is free and maintaining them is also not free. But yet these fools are standing there with ZERO TAXES signs. Get off my sidewalk, deadbeats!

[vixengrl]

5. Wow--used to be better "Dead then Red" in a whole 'nother context.

It's a strange thing, coming from her, when things she has said recently concerning the GOP and, for example, scocial issues, suggest she's in disagreement with where we think "the base" stands. But I wonder if, given her somewhat privileged background, she's simply had more exposure to what we might think of as "intellectual conservatives" (I know, there's a lot of intellectual dishonesty to be found, but her thoughts on a possible less soccially-conservative party do mesh with what Steve Schmidt said recently, and I think her acknowlegement that the party has to change is right in that Frum, Douthat (although he's so not the change-the-social-conservative-stance guy)frame of "how do conservatives claw back?"--which is where people who are serious about that party need to be.

I'm not sure she's directly looked at the whole, steaming, screaming, Tea Party, nativist, Christian Identity, hung up on bigotry, lower -echelon stew in full just yet, even if she expressed what I think was distaste about the Palin phenomenon.

I suspect that she doesn't love the party so much as what it's history has been, and the good friends she has within it. But whether she shares the ideals of what the party is becoming? I find that hard to imagne from the little I've read from her blog. Unless she already sees herself as part of the change she wants to see in her party. If they could get back to Theodore Roosevelt, that could be cool. If they weren't representing for out of office war criminals and supporting war all the time, that would be cool, too.

But otherwise, if she ever wondered what it was like being a Democrat...."Blue because I have a clue, Baby!"

[K8-EEE]

11. "Blue because I have a clue!"

brilliant!!!

It just annoys me that she's always saying she "loves" the effin' GOP and nobody ever says, well, um, what exactly do you love about it??? I can't imagine what the answer would be.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. Maybe she hasn't been fully clued into the seemy underbelly of the GOP

She's still young and maybe she just hasn't been fully exposed to the worst of her party yet but how much more creepiness does she really want to take from fellow Republicans like her stalker, Rove? She probably also does not understand how futile her attempts to help "moderate" the Republican Party are probably ultimately going to be. Of course, it's always *possible* that the moderates might stage a comeback and kick the kooks out of the party (or at least marginalize them) but at the moment- with people like Arlen Specter jumping ship (and there may be more to come)- it seems as though the *kooks* have pretty solid control of the party and are probably not going to be on the losing side of any intra-party "civil war". I somehow greatly doubt that her social views are going to end up back in the mainstream of the GOP and if she believes in them that strongly, she'd be better served by becoming a Democrat or independent because her more liberal social views will NEVER be tolerated within the present GOP now or ever.

[K8-EEE]

15. OK but what's the BEST of it???

Seriously honest question, WTF is good about it from her perspective? She's not a wacky fundie so what could possible attract her to that cesspool callled the GOP!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

19. I dunno

Maybe she's just slow and/or holding onto it out of loyalty to dad? Denial? :shrug: I certainly can't think of anything *attractive* about the GOP but I'm not a wacky fundie or a scion of a filthy rich family either so I really can't say. I knew from the time I was 16- back when I was first becoming "politically aware"- that the GOP had NOTHING to offer me or the country. Time has done NOTHING to change my impression thereof.

[tabbycat31]

32. I knew the same from the time I was 12

but I also don't have the background of Megan McCain. I'm named after a Kennedy, and was raised by a very liberal family in a dark blue state.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

38. My mom is a semi-fundie/semi-racist Repub

My Dad is a more or less a "Truman Democrat" (he greatly admired him). As you can probably tell from me being an active member here on DU, my Dad ultimately had a MUCH more profound influence on my political philosophy than my mother (Thank God!).
I love my mom and respect her beliefs but she has some quirky prejudices when it comes to minorities, particularly when it comes to hispanics and african-americans, and gays and lesbians. I've never been able to figure out because she is generally a sane/friendly person and is normally pretty pleasant to be around and I've had a few African-American friends my entire life without having any problems from her and, heck, we even had a nice african-american woman who cleaned our house and stayed with my brother and I when they had to go out of town and she was always nice to her. :shrug:
She is very active in her church as well and definitely socially conservative but she's not really a bible-thumping fundie whackjob. I thought for a moment that I might be able to persuade her to vote for Obama in the last election but she ended up getting all distressed about the so-called "extremism" of his former pastor (and I think that the fact that he was African-American had something to do with it) and in the end voted for McCain/Palin although I didn't get the impression that she was really crazy about them and I don't think she was ever that gung-ho for GWB either.
I'm just glad that I ended up how I am politically.

[Believing Is Art]

22. Military and her dad

She's stated many times how proud she is of those in uniform, and she's fallen for the whole "Democrats hate our servicemen and women" line.

[struggle4progress]

17. Gotta wunda wat 'er pa thinksa dat

[lame54]

30. I think it's come full circle

[xchrom]

6. meghan who? nt

[Skittles]

7. she loves her dad

just be thankful she's not a repuke whore

[K8-EEE]

13. Well cripes

A lot of people love their Republican dads without loving the effin' Republican PARTY (Patty Davis & Ron Reagan Jr. for example!)

[Maru Kitteh]

16. She said dead baby?

Meghan, why do you hate the children?

[DainBramaged]

18. She is becoming a politician

[Quantess]

20. She's young and naiive.

Remember how it was to be so young, so cute, so optimistic, so damn plucky, and so wrong?

[Dogmudgeon]

21. Right now, Meghan is one of about three Republicans who are not insane

And all women -- Meghan, Susan Collins, and Olympia Snowe.

Chances are VERY good that the Club for Growths will target the Ladies from Maine before the year is out, and we'll have 2 more Democratic senators.

At that point, I propose we take up a collection and buy Meghan a leather teddy and a whip.

:evilgrin:

--d!

[fujiyama]

23. gw

likely primarily - family inertia.

Plus, she strikes me as somewhat dimwitted and not very intellectually curious anyways. Her thinking is likely naive and shallow. She's been raised in a household with a republican father that "adhered to true Reagan republican values" (whatever those are) and was raised on myths of the greatness of Reagan. And she probably believes her father is actually like Theodore Roosevelt and is some sort of reformer. Also, at her parents income level, she never had to think about the economics of conservatism and the destruction it has wrought on many. That's just not possible for her. At the same time her parents were not religious fundies so she's obvious moderate/liberal on most of those issues. I think many middle class suburbanites bought into this ideal "social moderate/economic conservative" mentality until they realized that without a safety net, they're screwed too without a job and savings. She's probably still misguided into thinking the current GOP is hijacked and is reformable, while the hijacking occurred long ago and what remains are mainly the equivalent of zombies.

I'm sure it's tough to break out of, but if she hasn't been able to by now...

Well let's at least give the poor girl some credit for NOT agreeing with Jabba Limbaugh. She's had the guts to go against Limbaugh and Coulter. She's in tune with the social beliefs of her generation and realizes that the current GOP has no future. And she seems to relish the fight. I say good for her. It's entertaining (in a guilty pleasure sense)...

[skooooo]

24. Better dead than red1 nt

[JI7]

25. she isn't informed enough to be a Democratic Spokesperson

i prefer her just causing infighting in the Republican party. and in some ways that may be her intention. i mean, even if she were to become a Democrat, she is hurting the Republicans and helping us by doing what she is doing now than if she were to switch .

[K8-EEE]

29. Oh def, I agree, who needs her

It just irks me that she's constantly professing this undying "love" for a party she just joined recently and nobody ever asks her to explain why it is so superior to the Dems, Libertarians or being indie. I honestly wonder what she would say.

[JI7]

35. it's not the party she loves but her Father

she views the party as something her father is part of. she wants the party to be something that accepts and supports her father.

but that's not what they are and haven't been. even in 2000 when McCain was very popular and likely would have won in a general election it was independents and moderate Dems who liked him. the Republican party,e specially the base has never liked him.

[SoCalDem]

26. Family money has kept her infantile

She's grown up never having to do for herself..and even if she did (or ever does) set out on her own, she has that big ole safety net..

She's the only girl (anyone who thinks Bridgett is more than a poor disadvantaged girl Momma brought home, is deluding themselves)..

She really thinks that people care what she thinks:)

[zbdent]

28. she loves the Repuke party ...

because they're trying to make sure she doesn't pay a single cent in inheritance taxes ... or any other taxes, for that matter ...

[K8-EEE]

31. Bingo! But....

I guess it doesn't sound to warm and fuzzy to say that so she stays with her mysterious love affair.

I've always been a dem but I'm not sure I would say, "blue til I'm dead..." It's a political party, it can turn, if it got as wacked out as the GOP I wouldn't feel "married" to it, this is the kind of language she uses.

[dkofos]

36. OH SHIT!!! I didn't know she was a commie!!

[Kitty Herder]

37. Wait... Now she's a communist?

:sarcasm:

[ForrestGump]

39. Stockholm

Syndrome.