Say Anything Blog

Because they’re, like, so partisan and racist and stuff.

Former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado, slammed President Obama on the first night of the Tea Party convention last week in Nashville. Tancredo, known for his outspoken views on illegal immigration and his disdain for Sen. McCain, charged during his speech that “People who could not even spell the word ‘vote’, or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. His name is Barack Hussein Obama.”

Tancredo also expressed relief that Sen. McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, lost his White House bid. “Thank God John McCain lost the election,” Tancredo said.

On Monday, Meghan McCain fired back.

“People were saying that this is the new movement in the Republican Party,” McCain said during an appearance on ‘The View.’ “I did not want to go [to last week’s convention]. I have (a) very much different, ideological differences with them.”

And she described Tancredo’s comments as “innate racism.”

“And I think it’s why young people are turned off by this movement. And I’m sorry [but] revolutions start with young people. Not with 65-year-old people talking about literacy tests and people who can’t say the word ‘vote’ in English. It’s ridiculous.”

Meghan McCain also decried the divisiveness and partisanship in American politics and the growing populist rage that has powered the Tea Party movement.

“Maya Angelou says we have more in common than we do apart,” she said. “We need to use this message in politics more.”

Maya Angelou’s words are nice and all, but let’s be honest.  Politics have always been rancorous.  Full of faction and partisanship.  Lies.  Fraud.  Violence.  Even in the early days of this Republic we had Presidents jailing members of the opposition party, and members of the House beating one another on the floor of that chamber of Congress.

Meghan McCain thinks those words are wisdom.  They’re not.  They’re naivete, and Meghan McCain makes that mistake because she’s an airhead.

I’m not exactly a fan of Tom Tancredo.  I am not for illegal immigration at all, but I think he does more harm to that cause than good with some of his over-the-top statements.  But Tom Tancredo is hardly representative of the tea party movement as a whole.  Just as Meghan McCain is hardly representative of young Republicans and/or conservatives.