Quote of the Day: Meghan McCain on the Tea Party Convention and Tom Tancredo
Arizona Sen. John McCain’s blunt spoken daughter Meghan McCain gives us our political Quote of the Day in her response to the Tea Party convention — particularly former Rep Tom Tancredo’s remarks that a lot of the voters who voted for Barack Obama couldn’t spell the word “vote” or say it in English…and that it would have been worse if John McCain had won the election.
On Monday, Meghan McCain fired back.
“People were saying that this is the new movement in the Republican Party,” McCain said during an appearance on ‘The View.’ “I did not want to go [to last week's convention]. I have (a) very much different, ideological differences with them.”
And she described Tancredo’s comments as “innate racism.”
“And I think it’s why young people are turned off by this movement. And I’m sorry [but] revolutions start with young people. Not with 65-year-old people talking about literacy tests and people who can’t say the word ‘vote’ in English. It’s ridiculous.”
Meghan McCain also decried the divisiveness and partisanship in American politics and the growing populist rage that has powered the Tea Party movement.
“Maya Angelou says we have more in common than we do apart,” she said. “We need to use this message in politics more.”
Meghan McCain added, “This rhetoric will continue to turn off young voters and anybody that says different is smoking something. Period.”
22 Responses to “Quote of the Day: Meghan McCain on the Tea Party Convention and Tom Tancredo”
Tancredo is an idiot, but nothing he said was racist. Meghan is more likely mad because Tancredo insulted her dad quite blatantly:
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/tea-party-fireworks-sp…
Even though I opposed McCain in 2008, the ire he has drawn from his own party has always baffled me. He is a fairly conservative guy–certainly more conservative than Scott Brown, for instance. He's generally fallen into line on important votes in the Senate; he tows the company line, reasonably well. He's one of the few Republicans that have actually served in the military, and can speak with any real moral authority on the subject.
But the base hates him. I guess what they sense is that he doesn't really buy into it. I actually voted for him in the primaries in 2000, because he seemed like such a better choice than Bush. I suppose the fact that people who generally vote Dem, actually liked the guy, was enough to doom him.
Anyway, his daughter's got guts to speak the truth. She runs rings around the Republican establishment. What gutless wonders.
That's not saying much…
BTW
“El Voto” is vote in spanish and “votar” is to vote, considering how similar the words are, I am pretty sure that people who could find the polling places could spell “vote”…
Another fine member of the “Tea Party Nation”, a racist xenophobe…
From where I sit the Tea Party movement is aligning with the rigid, socially conservative wing of the GOP. This is the same wing that threw fiscal responsibility overboard during the GWB years, expanded government and ran fiscons out of the party. The Tea Party appears to have changed it's priorities, which formerly stressed small government and control of spending.
Meghan McCain is right that Tancredo's rhetoric will just make things worse for the Tea Party. Hopefully the Tea Party convention represents only a small percentage of Tea Partiers.
Tancredo: “Mostly because I think we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in the country, people who could not even spell the word, “vote,” or say it in English, put a committed, socialist ideologue in the White House. The name is Barack Hussein Obama.”
Like or hate Obama, but please don't insult the Americans who elected President Obama
Indeed, only Rahm Emanuel is allowed to call liberals retarded.
Mr. Smith, would you care to quote where I have said that, or anything remotely resembling such?
I believe I was talking about literacy tests…
Thank you
Sure, in fact I already did in my above post.
I am a young voter and I'm not sure I want Meghan McCain speaking for me. It seems like it is difficult for her. I don't disagree with her, but she kind of validates Tancredo's point. Innate racism? Innately racist perhaps. Whatever.
I like her reference to a poets perspective however, we need to function in a united fashion. But I'm pretty sure our president already covered that ground.
God I hate politics.
Ah, Ms. McCain, as soon as you're ready to break away from your daddy's party, we'll be waiting for you with open arms here on th left…
Spot on, speak for yourself, don't let Megan McCain do it for you agree or disagree with her. I like to see such independence in the younger generation. Your voice is every bit as important as hers or anyone else among the general population.
Sound you barbaric (or not so barbaric =P) YAWP over the roofs of the world!
Roro,
More balanced, and less extreme, voices are welcome in both parties…and among indpendents. D's have no lock on moderates and have their own issues with extreme elements. It is refreshing to hear from the moderate R's since most reporting focuses on the R fringe at the moment, witness multiple posts on the Kos poll recently. Not that the kooks aren't out there, just that we tend to over emphasize them in our partisan wars.
Btw, it speaks well, I think, of John and Cindy McCain that they raised an independent thinker like Meghan. She almost always warrants a listen.
I hope this is one of many posts we see from you in the future.
The latest in fame seekers and opportunists rises to the occasion. Joe Leinweber Jr, 9 February 2010
The daughter of, I can’t remember how many times he’s run for President, the lifetime Senator from Arizona John McCain is now in the limelight. The 23 old is full of the wisdom and fortitude of the ages and if you have seen her recent photos on one of those social media outlets where she has an Andy Warhol book and an extreme push up bra or borrowed Pamela Anderson’s breast augmentation devices from Baywatch.
Her derogatory comments about the “old folks” and the new revolution lack any sense of creditability since most of her generation can’t even spell constitution let alone having read it, or even having any historical reference to the founders and our history. By the way Meghan, get a real job, I love this comment you made;
When Barbara Walters asked McCain what her father thought about a possible presidential run by Palin, she played it safe and said she'd have a book out in August and would talk about it then.
He Meghan you are a hack, hawking a book that probably says absolutely nothing but maybe your college friends will buy but since it seems you are having trouble finding a date maybe men do care more about what is inside a person than how they look. Hey you should get Mommy and Daddy to buy a producer to do a remake of Baywatch.
I apologize for being so insulting but you are a joke young lady, why don’t you go enlist in the military and go to Iraq or Afghanistan for a tour and then come back and talk to me. Or go to Africa and help Doctors without borders or some group out there really helping people.
Oh by the way if you had any journalistic ability you would have realized that the Tea Party Convention you speak of is not the real movement and you should do your homework.
When the young people in this nation realize that hacks like yourself and most of the interviewers that have accommodated your claim to fame are full of crap to and get off their cell phones, blackberry’s and start taking part in their country I will gladly, as most of my generation and those before me, step aside, applaud and support their efforts.
By the way you have a lot of nerve insulting the people that endured the depression, 2 World Wars, Korea, Vietnam and the Cold War and it is an insult to the fine young men and women that follow the orders of those in Washington regardless of their personal beliefs and go in harms way, where two of my daughters have been one almost losing her life in the Mid East.
I am demanding your public apology to the American People that make your little elitist and pampered life possible and if I were not a Christian I would call you a little
b—h, but you know what you are.
Abraham Lincoln said;
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Here are some of the comments from the young McCain;
Straight Talk for Meghan McCain
Arizona Sen. John McCain’s blunt spoken daughter Meghan McCain gives us our political Quote of the Day in her response to the Tea Party convention — particularly former Rep Tom Tancredo’s remarks that a lot of the voters who voted for Barack Obama couldn’t spell the word “vote” or say it in English…and that it would have been worse if John McCain had won the election.
On Monday, Meghan McCain fired back.
“People were saying that this is the new movement in the Republican Party,” McCain said during an appearance on ‘The View.’ “I did not want to go [to last week's convention]. I have (a) very much different, ideological differences with them.”
And she described Tancredo’s comments as “innate racism.”
“And I think it’s why young people are turned off by this movement. And I’m sorry [but] revolutions start with young people. Not with 65-year-old people talking about literacy tests and people who can’t say the word ‘vote’ in English. It’s ridiculous.”
Meghan McCain also decried the divisiveness and partisanship in American politics and the growing populist rage that has powered the Tea Party movement.
“Maya Angelou says we have more in common than we do apart,” she said. “We need to use this message in politics more.”
Meghan McCain added, “This rhetoric will continue to turn off young voters and anybody that says different is smoking something. Period.”
Looks like a life devoid of romance has taken a toll on Meghan McCain. Last week she was complaining she couldn't get a date. This week, in a new blog post for The Daily Beast, McCain calls President Obama “the hippest politician around” and blasts conservative author Ann Coulter for helping to “perpetuate negative stereotypes” about Republican women. “Maybe her popularity stems from the fact that watching her is sometimes like watching a train wreck,” McCain says.
When most Republicans think about her dad voting against the Bush tax cuts, pushing amnesty for illegal immigrants, enacting McCain-Feingold, getting behind cap-and-trade, visions of train wrecks dance in our heads. In fact, the last two years of her father's presidential campaign was one massive train wreck that enabled our country to elect the “hippest politician around.”
Meghan McCain added, “This rhetoric will continue to turn off young voters and anybody that says different is smoking something. Period.”
Well she knows it all; I did when I was 23, 35 years ago.
And a comment about her posts that says it all;
Here’s the problem with the McCain family: they are more concerned with being popular than they are about being right. Pun intended.
Enjoy your 15 minutes of fame Meghan!
Everybody that receives this post it on one her sites if you agree and are tired of these elitist kids now that can’t find or get a real job so they write a book or get a job with one of the millions of opinion mills or run for daddy’s office.
I was mostly joking. But point taken.
My sentiments exactly, roro.
“This is the same wing that threw fiscal responsibility overboard during the GWB years, expanded government and ran fiscons out of the party.”
Yep — what you're left with is the specter of the Religious Right competing for influence with the more numerous seculars (the Tea Party and, notably, also the GOP current stereotypes).
DLS — Props on the avatar. Love it!
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my issue is i dont like hypocritical politicians. I feel Palin writing notes on her hands would not be revelant if she was not always attacking others. I am looking at the facts… the fact is she had a prepared speech at the tea party convention so she had a hard copy instead of a teleprompter. She clearly knew the questions to the QandA the washington post has a picture of her on thier website with answers written on her hand before she started speech. I am more concerned as to why Palin needed to write her core beliefs down on her hand. In addition im concerned about her double standards and what she stands for or against. I feel she will run for office again but she has a whole bunch of work to do.She didnt not impress me with her convention speech very partisan…i honestly feel the whole tea party movement is partisan. i am not understanding why the tea party convention was filled with partisan speakers that are to the far right but they claim to be nonpartisan and i noticed it also in the Q&A session. I dont like politicans that personally attacks a president either republican or democrat. If you all dont know this story has made it over seas! Can somebody explain… maybe there is an answer to my concerns. I have to agree with Meghan Mccain i viewd Tancredo speech and it was filled with racial undertones.
Thanks, Roro.
Meghan McCain needs a little time to ripen. She isn't ready for prime time yet (and she admits it), but she is still out there trying to be a young voice for the Rep party that seems to be full of 90 year olds. The fact that Meghan can so easily fill a massive youth void in the party should be troublesome to its leadership.
I'll never forget her appearance on the Bill Maher show.