Are McCain And Palin Really Leaving The Republican Party?

Well, the McCain I'm referring to is Meghan and the GOP left her; she just doesn't know it. Palin isn't Todd-- who was never really a Republican anyway, just an anti-American secessionist slob and a member of the Alaska Independence Party-- but Sarah, who claims she's willing to campaign for anyone, regardless of political party, reactionary enough to support the failed policy agenda that makes up her narrow world view. Let's look at her first since Huckabee, her main rival for the yahoo vote that make up so much of the base of the GOP left behinds, was mouthing off about her yesterday. Huck was on GOP-TV pushing the self-serving meme that Palin is going to become an independent, clearly intending to smear her with his fake southern fried concern.

"I hope she remains-- let me be real clear-- a part of the Republican Party," Huckabee told FOX News. "I'm a little concerned when I hear her say that she may sort of branch out and go third party or go independent. That would be a big mistake because we need to rebuild the Republican Party, not abandon it."

Just as a new poll starts circulating that shows only a third, or a little less than a third of Republicans think Palin is qualified to be president-- far more than Democrats or independents-- Huckabee is trying to drive silver spike into the heart of her presidential aspirations, a move that would benefit Willard Romney, whose VP nominee Huckabee is hoping to be.

As for McCain's sometimes befuddled-sounding daughter Meghan... she's become something of a bête noir to the self righteous dullards of the right-wing blogosphere who pounce on her every statement as proof that John McCain should never have been nominated to run for president. Today they're mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore because she called Joe the Plumber a dumbass and said she loves gay men. Her rabidly fascist cousin Stacy takes the opportunity to go on a vicious homophobic diatribe-- click the link above-- insulting her every which way imaginable and proving for anyone who cares to give his hateful blatherings a second look that he fears and detests women, particularly women who disagree with his extremist and primitivist way of responding to the world.

So what brought on this week's hysterical outpouring of loathing from the far right for poor Meghan? James Kirchick's rambling interview with McCain in the new issue of Out.

“Does it sound campy to say I love gay men?” asks Meghan McCain, sipping an iced tea at the nouveau-chic Hotel Palomar in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle. Campy or not, the lovesick McCain has been ubiquitous this year, sallying forth on late-night TV-- Larry King Live, The Colbert Report, The Rachel Maddow Show-- to scold the Republican establishment for its social conservatism and stump for gay marriage. “If two people fall in love, they should have the option to get married just like I can,” she told Stephen Colbert, pointing out the inherent hypocrisy of a party that believes in keeping government out of people’s private lives-- except when those people are gay men and women.

...Like her father, Meghan McCain isn’t shy-- a fact she’s quick to point out. “I think I’m a lot like my dad,” she says. “We’re the same person.” Most noticeably, both McCains have a preternatural ability to piss off their fellow Republicans, an asset they wear on their sleeves. Within weeks of starting a regular column for The Daily Beast, McCain flexed her newfound muscle by attacking the GOP’s queen of mean, Ann Coulter-- “watching her is sometimes like watching a train wreck,” she wrote-- and dissing fellow GOP Twitterer Karl Rove, whom she branded a “Twitter Creep.” Easy targets perhaps, but it was a smart way to position herself on the opposite side of the aisle. “I’d be flattered to be considered the anti–Ann Coulter, the anti–Rush Limbaugh,” she says.

...“Homophobia is the last socially accepted prejudice,” McCain says, repeating it for emphasis. So it’s only natural that she also views the fight for gay equality as “my generation’s civil rights movement.” At a time when California can constitutionally ban gay marriage and the current presidential administration-- having vowed so much-- has yet to fulfill its promises, it’s hard not to be won over by this bubbly optimist. “In general, I don’t get a good response from the conservative movement,” she admits, unfazed. “But there are a lot of people who have said, ‘I’m Republican and I’m pro–gay marriage. Thank you for showing that you don’t have to be anti–gay marriage to be a Republican.’”

To drooling misogynist Stacy McCain and his fellow hate-filled neanderthals this makes her a desperate and pathetic "fag hag" and a "fish."