December 1, 2010
Meghan McCain: Building her career on Daddy’s accomplishments and trashing Republicans.

Posted at 3:33 pm, in: Republican Party
Tags: Ann Coulter, Barry Goldwater, Bristol Palin, Christine O'Donnell, John McCain, Laura Ingraham, Meghan McCain, Nelson Rockefeller, Sarah Palin, The Other McCain

Sorry I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks, but time got away from me, as it has a tendency to do. Does anyone else feel like the older we get the faster time goes by? I can’t believe it’s December already. What happened? It feels like just yesterday was Halloween, now we’re almost at Christmas. Anyway, enough about that.

Meghan McCain posted a new “column” last night. Shocker alert: She’s attacking Sarah Palin, again. If she spent half as much time hatin’ on women from the party she claims to stand in opposition to she might actually be an asset to the party she claims to be a member of. That’s doubtful, though, because it’s not like anyone cares or listens to what Meghan has to say about anything. And, we all know that she wouldn’t be as popular with the media or get as many guest spots on The View if she spoke out against her own liberals.

So, Meghan has her panties in a bunch because Sarah Palin called the Bushes “blue bloods.” Yeah, I know. With all of the major issues going on in Washington right now, this is what political pundit Meghan decides to waste her time on. But, here I am wasting my time on her, so I guess I can’t talk much.

After Googling to find out what the term means, stating, “although I could surmise that it was some kind of knock against education and coming from a family of some success,” she realizes that she is probably a blue blood herself as is the entire Bush family. Point for Meghan for realizing the obvious, but that point is canceled out by the fact that she had to Google the term to even figure out what it meant. Seriously? And, why would you admit that? I have never seen anyone so eager to flaunt their ignorance.

Being called a blue blood is not necessarily a knock against education and family success. It’s about the elitism that often infects people who grow up rich, get handed everything on a silver platter including their education whether they deserve it or not, and think they’re better than everyone else because they come from a rich/famous/powerful family and went to “all of the right schools.” Yes, Meghan, you fall into this category. You have proven time and again that you clearly did not get into or graduate from Columbia because you rightly deserved it based on your intelligence and hard work. You got there based on your family name and the amount of money in your parent’s bank account.

Sarah Palin, love her or hate her, is the epitome of the American Dream. She has worked hard and made her own way in this world. Meghan McCain is the antithesis of the American Dream. She has never worked a day in her life, earned anything based on merit, and has been handed everything from Ivy League degrees to book deals and a wide range of interviews and spots on TV and radio just because of who her father is. Sorry, sweetheart, but that is NOT the American Dream, but in a nutshell it is why I dislike the woman so much.

And, as if building her career based on her father’s accomplishments isn’t enough, she has built the rest of her career on starting fights with prominent Republican women such as Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin and, most recently, Christine O’Donnell. The only reason people give her a forum is because she uses every forum she is given to bash the political party she claims to belong to and represent. And, she is such a tool that she doesn’t even get this and continues to play right into the Left’s hand.

So what if Sarah Palin is now a multi-millionaire? It’s because she built her fortune herself. She wasn’t brought up with a silver spoon in her mouth with everything handed to her just because she was born to the right family. And, who says that historically it is the moderates–which, I would argue, you are not a moderate but a liberal who refuses to leave the Republican Party just like her father who should march his way on over to the other side–have been accused of starting in-fighting? Where does Meghan come up with this stuff? Has she ever read a book about the history of the Republican Party? About the Goldwater years? About the fight over the heart of the party between the Goldwater conservatives and the Rockefeller LIBERALS? It was the conservatives who were blamed for the Republican defeat when Goldwater was the Republican ticket. Conservatism was dead! Or so they all said. Then came Reagan and, lo and behold, conservatism was alive!

I agree with Meghan that Republicans are losing a public relations battle and they need to focus on rolling back the liberal agenda the people so obviously rejected on November 2, 2010, but I have no problem with a little bit of infighting. Based on the fact that any Republicans voted for the Food Act, yesterday, tells me that the Republican Party is once again fighting over what is at the heart of being a Republican. And, that’s a good thing. If the Republican Party stands for what John and Meghan McCain think it should stand for rather than what people like myself and The Other McCain think it should stand for, it will ultimately lose and fail. I refuse to attach my name to a party that resembles nothing more than Democrat-Lite.

This is how politics works. It’s all cyclical. Let the in-fighting continue. I hope the voters continue to vote the Democrats with an R behind their name out. Maybe then, some day, I can be proud to call myself a Republican. Right now, I stand firm shrouded in my label of political independence. I don’t need some blue blooded elites who have accomplished nothing on their own to keep telling me what is right for my country. It’s not because you are rich and educated. I’m pretty well educated myself, with an education bought and paid for by myself (well, I’m working on the paying for it part, but I’m getting there!). I don’t need a bunch of spoiled brats who only got into the “best” schools because of what other members of their family have accomplished telling me what is best for me and my country.

Every column Meghan writes is badmouthing Republican women specifically or the Republican Party in general. If you hate the party so much and the strong, self-made women who represent it, why don’t you leave? Call yourself an Independent if you want. But, stop telling yourself that you’re a Republican or represent the Republican Party of Republican views. You’re not a “moderate.” You’re a liberal. Deal with it.