Roberta McCain slams Dear Leader Rush
By Michael J.W. Stickings
What's going on with the McCain Family? While Senator John continues to play the faux maverick, some of his closest relatives are speaking out, aggressively, against the various right-wing demagogues and ideologues who have taken over their beloved GOP. First it was Daughter Meghan, who took on Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Cheney/Rove, and, more broadly, the extremism that dominates the party. (In response, John acted like a jerk, implying that he disagrees with his daughter and otherwise dismissing her views as a difference of opinion). And now it's 97-year-old Mother Roberta, who, on The Tonight Show on Wednesday, took on no less a towering giant than Rush Limbaugh:
Of course, this is, in part, a mother standing up for her child. Rush hates John, and so Roberta's maternal juices flow with full force.
Otherwise, it's not clear what Roberta's "side" of the Republican Party is. John's side? (But John doesn't really have a side. He is what he needs to be at any given moment.) The moderate side? (But what is left of moderate Republicanism?) If Roberta doesn't know what Rush means, and what he's talking about, then she just doesn't know much about her party. It's like she belongs to, or delusionally wants to belong to, a Republican Party that doesn't exist anymore. I appreciate the nostalgia -- yes, things used to be different -- but the current Republican reality is all about Rush and Sean and Ann and Glenn and the rest of that extremist ilk. John knows this. Should he not have a little talk with his mom about her political, er, misunderstanding?
But why pick on Roberta? She's 97 years old. And still admirably feisty.
And while the Republican Party may have passed her by, now a right-wing party that isn't quite what it used to be, her disgust, rightly directed at Dear Leader Rush, is understandable, and much appreciated.
It won't, but it should give some pause to Republicans that even McCain's mother, a loyal partisan, finds herself on the outside looking in, angry, frustrated, and alienated, aghast at what the party has become.
What's going on with the McCain Family? While Senator John continues to play the faux maverick, some of his closest relatives are speaking out, aggressively, against the various right-wing demagogues and ideologues who have taken over their beloved GOP. First it was Daughter Meghan, who took on Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Cheney/Rove, and, more broadly, the extremism that dominates the party. (In response, John acted like a jerk, implying that he disagrees with his daughter and otherwise dismissing her views as a difference of opinion). And now it's 97-year-old Mother Roberta, who, on The Tonight Show on Wednesday, took on no less a towering giant than Rush Limbaugh:
I belong to the Republican Party. What he represents of the Republican Party has nothing to do with my side of it. I don't know what the man means, I don't know what he's talking about.
Of course, this is, in part, a mother standing up for her child. Rush hates John, and so Roberta's maternal juices flow with full force.
Otherwise, it's not clear what Roberta's "side" of the Republican Party is. John's side? (But John doesn't really have a side. He is what he needs to be at any given moment.) The moderate side? (But what is left of moderate Republicanism?) If Roberta doesn't know what Rush means, and what he's talking about, then she just doesn't know much about her party. It's like she belongs to, or delusionally wants to belong to, a Republican Party that doesn't exist anymore. I appreciate the nostalgia -- yes, things used to be different -- but the current Republican reality is all about Rush and Sean and Ann and Glenn and the rest of that extremist ilk. John knows this. Should he not have a little talk with his mom about her political, er, misunderstanding?
But why pick on Roberta? She's 97 years old. And still admirably feisty.
And while the Republican Party may have passed her by, now a right-wing party that isn't quite what it used to be, her disgust, rightly directed at Dear Leader Rush, is understandable, and much appreciated.
It won't, but it should give some pause to Republicans that even McCain's mother, a loyal partisan, finds herself on the outside looking in, angry, frustrated, and alienated, aghast at what the party has become.
Labels: conservatives, John McCain, Meghan McCain, Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
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INSTEAD OF PULLING TOGETHER AND HELPING PULL AMERICA OUT THIS ECONOMIC MESS ITS IN THAT WAS CREATED BY GREED AMONG OTHER THINGS
AND NONTHELESS FUELED BY THE KIND
LESSAIZFAIRE THINKING OF RIGHTWING AMERICA THIS FOLKS KEEP
ON BICKERING AND SNICKERING AND GENERALLY DRAGGING THEIR FEET.
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