which is to say, none at all. “Also,
Republicans. #Lovewins,” she tweeted. “This is the future and everybody
better now get in line.”
Yes, “get in line.” You will recognize same-sex marriages
and you will like it. This one is settled, so shut up.
Is it obvious now that “big tent” philosophy that Meghan McCain
advocates for the Republican Party is a sham? What she wants is a tent
that’s big enough for her but not big enough for you. She wants to talk
endlessly about social issues but to shush you if you happen to
disagree. “For the last four years, I’ve been calling for Republicans to
stop concentrating on social issues,” she wrote after the 2012
election. And for those same four years she talked of nothing but social
issues and why her party is wrong about them. She doesn’t want anyone
to apply “purity tests” to candidates, while reserving the right to
apply her own. The most important issue in McCain’s purity test is
“marriage equality.” It’s the only thing she seems to care about. In
2012, she even threatened to leave the GOP if the party didn’t change
its tune on that issue. Sounds like a purity test to me, and one based
on a social issue to boot.
This is how “big tent” scams always work. First, the liberal
Republican knocks at the door and asks nicely to be let in. She appeals
to your better instincts—can’t you make a little room for divergent
viewpoints? If you open the door a crack, she barges in and puts her
feet up on the coffee table. Before you know it, you’re out in the cold
begging her to let you in.
And she will deny you. Because you’re an insufferable bigot, that’s why.
In all of Meghan McCain’s years in the public spotlight, I have never
once heard her say anything the least bit conservative, with the
exception of a few completely disingenuous statements she regurgitated
to establish her conservative credentials just before delivering a
left-wing rant.
… McCain’s going to “modernize” the rest of us, whether we like it or
not, mostly by demanding that we modify our stances on social issues.
It’s for our own good.
… Meghan McCain may be a Republican but that’s only a party affiliation
and doesn’t mean much. She is not however, a conservative, and no
amount of forcing a square peg into a round hole will change that. She’s
a professional “seminar caller.” A seminar caller, for those not
familiar with the term, is a person who calls into (usually
conservative) radio talk shows claiming to share the host’s political
convictions but who feels compelled to disagree on this or that point.
Often, seminar callers try to appropriate their opponents’ vocabulary. A
seminar caller might, for example, claim to oppose lifting a finger to
enforce our immigration laws because enforcement costs too much. The
seminar caller’s opposition is supposedly grounded in fiscal
conservatism, which forces the host to sound like a profligate spender
and a hypocrite if he objects. The key to seminar calling is always to
pretend to be an ally. It helps to begin every call with “I’m a lifelong
Republican but…”
