The daughter of 2008 presidential candidate John McCain lambasted the growing Tea Party movement as promoting “racism” that will not achieve the political revolution that organizers aspire to create.
Speaking on the popular ABC talk show “The View,” Meghan McCain roasted organizers and participants — including Republican speaker Sarah Palin — for their thinly camouflaged prejudices that have failed to appeal to the younger demographics in America.
“It’s innate racism, and I think it’s why young people are turned off by this movement,” McCain said. “And I’m sorry — 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.”
Known for departing occasionally from her father, a renowned ultra conservative and archrival to President Obama, Meghan McCain bitterly criticized former Rep. Tom Tancredo for saying that people “who could not spell the word vote or say it in English” elected a “committed socialist ideologue” [in Obama] because the country does not require a “civic’s literacy test.”
“This rhetoric will continue to turn off young voters, and anybody that says different is smoking something — period,” Meghan McCain said.
Meghan McCain also took her father John’s former running mate, Palin, to task for demanding that Obama’s adviser Rahm Emanuel be fired for calling liberals “retarded” but said that it was OK for conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh to say it in a satirical way. “That’s exactly what is wrong with politics today,” she added. “We can’t placate and say Democrats can say one thing and Republicans can say another thing,” she said.
–terry shropshire
