Meghan McCain ‘Can’t Get Over’ Smears Of Her Sister, Forgets Same Operatives Now Run Her Dad’s Campaign
Meghan McCain ‘Can’t Get Over’ Smears Of Her Sister, Forgets Same Operatives Now Run Her Dad’s Campaign
Last night on Fox’s Hannity and Colmes, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) daughter Meghan explained that she could never bring herself to “get behind Pesident Bush” because of “what happened in 2000.” She was referring to a racist smear campaign run by Bush supporters in the 2000 South Carolina Republican primary.
Meghan McCain recalled, “It had to do with my little sister … And there are things that I don’t know if I’ll ever completely get over.” Watch it:
In 2004, Sen. McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis wrote an article in which he explained the smear campaign that turned Meghan McCain against Bush:
John and his wife, Cindy, have an adopted daughter named Bridget. Cindy found Bridget at Mother Theresa’s orphanage in Bangladesh. … Bridget has dark skin. … Anonymous opponents used “push polling” to suggest that McCain’s Bangladeshi born daughter was his own, illegitimate black child.
In 2000, Sen. McCain held that those “anonymous opponents” were Bush adviser Tucker Eskew and Bush political strategist Karl Rove. McCain accused them of negative campaigning, saying that they had “unleashed the dogs of war.” Today, however, Eskew is Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) chief of staff and Karl Rove is an informal McCain campaign adviser.
Eskew has been instrumental in pushing the McCain-Palin campaign to adopt a Lee Atwater-style playbook. Independent organizations have debunked numerous McCain campaign smears. Still, Meghan McCain yesterday said, “[O]f course, I’m supporting my father.” She further claimed that the attacks in this election have “been particularly harsh on my family.”
Transcript:
COLMES: Is it true you voted for Kerry last time?
MCCAIN: I did, I voted for Kerry and Al Gore, yes.
COLMES: What happened? Oh your father ran, that’s what happened, right?
MCCAIN: You know — you mean what happened now?
COLMES: Well, I mean there was a transition for you in terms of what your.
MCCAIN: I can be behind my father all day every day.
COLMES: Sure.
MCCAIN: — until the end of time. I just couldn’t get behind President Bush. I just couldn’t. It’s personal.
COLMES: Yes. You couldn’t get behind President Bush?
MCCAIN: It’s personal. I was 19 at the time.
HANNITY: And it’s a primary 2000.
(CROSSTALK)
COLMES: Hold on, let’s.
MCCAIN: It had to do with my little sister, and like, you know, you were just saying that the wounds of a political child run really deep. And there are things that I don’t know if I’ll ever completely get over.
COLMES: Was it because of what happened in 2000 during the campaign?
MCCAIN: Yes.
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McC(UMST)AIN forgave Bush.
“It’s nuttin poisonal, Carmine. Just bidness” (BLAM, BLAM)…”Just bidness…” (Toes dead body)…”I hope he unnerstood…”
October 15th, 2008 at 6:25 pmSince I’ve two brown step daughters, I can understand how upset she is. Rove and company have made politics so vicious that the RP is in real trouble, as evidenced by McCain’s campaign. They call it politics, most everyone else calls it racism. When will they learn.
October 15th, 2008 at 6:27 pmWouldn’t it be entertaining to watch Meghan plant her sneakered foot deeply in Karl Rove’s groin? Or Jeff Schmitt’s. Or all of “em?
I’d pay real money to watch that…
October 15th, 2008 at 6:27 pmIt would have been nice if she named names. “Yes, I love my father and I support him completely, but Karl Rove is a big fat shithead.”
October 15th, 2008 at 6:29 pmI had no idea dementia and senility were contagious.
October 15th, 2008 at 6:29 pmSo let me get this strait…..she disapproved of the way bush ran his campaine which I agree with her but she is going to vote for her father for useing the same formula that was used in 2000 and is useing the same people that bush used in 2000 yeah I see the big diffrence between the two not
October 15th, 2008 at 6:29 pmdarlin tell your dady and his moose woman not to go away mad when they lose but please please just go away
That McCain would hire the Rovians that smeared him…makes him more like Bush.
October 15th, 2008 at 6:29 pmMeghan McCain ‘Can’t Get Over’ Smears Of Her Sister, Forgets Same Operatives Now Run Her Dad’s Campaign
– - Gosh, I’m mystified as to why at the campaign rallies we only see Meghan, her parents and the Palins on stage, and never ONCE have we seen Bridget.
What could that be about….?
October 15th, 2008 at 6:31 pmMeghan McCain ‘Can’t Get Over’ Smears Of Her Sister, Forgets Same Operatives Now Run Her Dad’s Campaign
So it’s okay if your stupid old man does it ?
The GOP ; where the kids are (buffalo) chips off the old block……………
October 15th, 2008 at 6:32 pmI can’t blame her for her loyalty to her father. And frankly, just because she supports her dad doesn’t mean she’ll necessary vote for the Republican ticket…Palin’s team IS made up of the very same people that tried to destroy her dad. I agree with Obama. The family of the nominees should be off-limits (unless they’ve done something illegal or unethical themselves that has anything to do with the election).
So this is OT – but I think these are far more important stories to address and certainly affect the direction and future of this country a good deal more than Meghan’s interview:
* New discouraging economic numbers pushed the markets even lower today, with the Dow falling 733 points.
* McClatchy reports, “A U.S. official who participated in drafting the top secret National Intelligence Estimate said it portrays the situation in Pakistan as ‘very bad.’ Another official called the draft ‘very bleak,’ and said it describes Pakistan as being ‘on the edge.’”
* Christians are fleeing Mosul in the wake 10 recent killings. (thanks to reader M.R. for the tip)
October 15th, 2008 at 6:36 pmWill meghan get over her father chumming up with the people who insulted her little sister?
October 15th, 2008 at 6:39 pmcognitive dissonance – not just a temporary state of mind, it is a lifestyle!
October 15th, 2008 at 6:39 pmMegham…mama’s calling….medication time. Mama Cindy has some nice oxy for you
October 15th, 2008 at 6:39 pmHer comment shows McCain isn’t in charge of his campaign. His staff was assigned to him. He couldn’t fire them, even if he wanted to take Bill Kristol up on his advice.
Steve Schmidt, Tucker Eschew, and Karl Rove’s informal advice come with the nomination. The big money boys behind the curtain pull the campaign strings…
October 15th, 2008 at 6:42 pmNonsense. She has been told to play the pity card. And to do damage control on the charges of racism, by reminding us all that McSlime has an “almost black” daughter.
Don’t believe the hype!
October 15th, 2008 at 6:52 pmWaddayawanna bet if her daddy won, she’d forgive and forget?
October 15th, 2008 at 6:52 pmBadmoodman Says:
- – Gosh, I’m mystified as to why at the campaign rallies we only see Meghan, her parents and the Palins on stage, and never ONCE have we seen Bridget.
What could that be about….?
They put her on full display at the convention (probably the only nonwhite person in the building) and since then she has stayed at home to focus on schoolwork or some other excuse.
October 15th, 2008 at 6:53 pmI guess it all depends on whose ox is being gored, huh, Meghan?
October 15th, 2008 at 6:55 pmThey put her on full display at the convention (probably the only nonwhite person in the building) and since then she has stayed at home to focus on schoolwork or some other excuse.
Perhaps she is helping Bristol with the wedding planning. They are going to have to make some changes, though. I understand that the White House won’t be available for the affair.
October 15th, 2008 at 6:56 pmThe attacks in this campaign have “been particularly harsh on my family” What? harsher than 2000? Give me a break.
October 15th, 2008 at 7:00 pmI dont know why she can’t “get over it”, her father sure seems to have forgotten all about it.
John McCain: Presidency over Family.
“I’m Karl Rove and I approve of this message”
Idiots
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October 15th, 2008 at 7:02 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
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McCain must be the most tormented man on the planet. He made a pact with the Dark Lord’s hairdresser – Satan (the real Dark Lord, Cheney, had a heart scare today and is probably still pissed at MccCain for being a fly in the ointment over the past few years). I do not pity McCain – he knew that he would end up sacrificing his soul by following the advice of scumbags like Steve Schmidt, Tucker Eschew, and Karl Rove.
October 15th, 2008 at 7:08 pmShe is obviously not too proud of her father’s antics if she decided to actually answer that Q and quietly bash this year’s campaign. Going down…
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/
October 15th, 2008 at 7:09 pmHave the attacks been as harsh as insinuating that your family patriarch is a terrorist? Has your whole family gotten death threats? That harsh?
I think the tinfoil hats left over from ‘9/11 was an inside job’ have been re-enforced with lead and mercury and its slipping into their collective brain.
October 15th, 2008 at 7:18 pmEskew is the perfect name for a political slander expert. Imagine growing up in the McCain household. Country club grifter dinner guests ralphing on the orchids in the wee hours. Howls of glee as the wool is pulled over the voters eyes and the angry scotch glass morphs into a comet when the ploy fails.
October 15th, 2008 at 7:37 pmI love it when Republicans eat their own.
October 15th, 2008 at 7:40 pmI don’t really put much stock in what a spouse or a child of a candidate has to say… I expect them to be totally supportive of the candidate, and that is how it should be. I don’t really expect them to say anything of substance.
Unless, of course, the child or spouse is not supportive of the candidate… now that IS news and may give some insight into the candidate’s dealings with other people, like Mayor Guiliani’s kids not supporting the Ex-mayor.
In this case, she may not even realize that the same people are running her father’s campaign… and if she does, I don’t expect her to comment on it in public.
October 15th, 2008 at 7:46 pmGum @ 18
October 15th, 2008 at 8:05 pmI was playing my own drinking game during the repug
convention, a shot every time I saw someone other than
white, I was still sober after the last speech .
Meghan is right about the way the Republican Party attacked her family and I must admit that is something that is hard to forget yet forgive. Now Meghan’s Family is doing the same thing to Senator Obama and his Family yet she has no problem with it. I guess that’s how John and Cindy bring their kids up believeing that others don’t count and you can treat them anyway you want to even lie about them and attack them but just don’t do it to the McCain Family. I do get to see what John and Cindy teach their children with their view of Family Values and Christian Values.
October 15th, 2008 at 8:29 pmWow, how many losers can you fit in a chat room to repeat Mcsame, Mclame, McGrampy? Is this a circle jerk, to the left?
October 15th, 2008 at 11:07 pmIf you wanted to run against President Bush you should have run four years ago. That is the best line of the night but one sided losers aren’t willing to admit it. What did the gay lady on MSNBC have to say? Who knows. Nobody watches MSNBC.
wetblanket Says:
October 16th, 2008 at 5:52 amabsolutely nothing that makes any sense.
Meghan dear,
October 16th, 2008 at 9:01 amIt’s okay to oppose your father’s politics. Another poster already brought up the Giuliani (adult) children, but more significantly your dad’s running mate, Sarah Barracuda, opposed her own (pro choice) mother-in-law to succeed her as mayor of Wasilla.
wetblanket Says:
You are an ignorant hivemind PUNK. Go away and let the adults talk now. I hear your shortbus honking for ya
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