Meghan McCain is become more and more of a media figure since the end of the presidential election. McCain, more of a moderate Republican, is fighting a tough battle in trying to modernize a party clinging to past glories. She issues a comment, captured by Huffington Post, in which she said “‘old school Republicans’ were ’scared shitless’ of the changing landscape.’” This is old news in a lot of ways and that is part of the problem … older Republicans continue to miss the boat and sink their party deeper into the depths of irrelevance where all they have to cling to is relentlessly and recklessly attacking a president who has been in office less than three months.
McCain added this comment:
“I feel too many Republicans want to cling to past successes,” said McCain. “There are those who think we can win the White House and Congress back by being “more” conservative. Worse, there are those who think we can win by changing nothing at all about what our party has become. They just want to wait for the other side to be perceived as worse than us. I think we’re seeing a war brewing in the Republican Party. But it is not between us and Democrats. It is not between us and liberals. It is between the future and the past.”
We can only hope that the young and more moderate Republicans can wrest control of the party from the old, bitter hardcore conservatives openly rooting for our nation to fail because Barack Obama is president. The old men and women in the Republican party who call themselves “patriots” look less than patriotic as they openly root for our president and the commander-in-chief of our recruits to fail.
Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/18/meghan-mccain-old-school_n_188636.html
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