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McCain's daughter says "in the eyes of young republicans...O'donnel is a 'nut job'"

source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/18/AR2010101800244.html

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U.S. Sen. John McCain's daughter said Sunday that Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell of Delaware, a tea party favorite, is seen by many young Republicans "as a nut job."

"Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office," Meghan McCain said of her father's fellow Republican, who recently ran an ad declaring, "I'm not a witch."

Appearing on ABC's "This Week," McCain said O'Donnell "has no real history, no real success in any kind of business."

"And what that sends to my generation is one day, you can just wake up and run for Senate, no matter how [little] experience you have," said McCain, 26, author of the recently released book, "Dirty Sexy Politics."

O'Donnell stunned the Republican establishment in September when she defeated Mike Castle, a two-term governor and longtime member of the U.S. House of Representatives, to win the Republican U.S. Senate nomination from Delaware.

O'Donnell prevailed with the help of the conservative tea party movement and Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor who was John McCain's running mate in the 2008 White House race.

Meghan McCain, who became known for her online chronicle of daily life on her father's failed presidential campaign, ripped into O'Donnell's candidacy.

"It scares me for a lot of reasons, and I just know in my group of friends," she said, "it just turns people off, because she's seen as a nut job."

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26 comments // McCain's daughter says "in the eyes of young republicans...O'donnel is a 'nut job'"

  • KSirys
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      KSirys  

    • I bet her father and friends think the same, but they are not going to come out and say it.. great comment Meghan!!

    • 1 year ago
  • PlatoTacius
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      PlatoTacius  

    • Consider that, in the eyes of certain individuals, she can be a 'nut job' and still belong to the club... after all, when they manipulate her to fit the mold and if she succeeds at promoting the hidden agendas, then they can take credit for guiding her along the golden path, but, if she fails, they can say it's because she's a 'nut job'..."bring in the next nut job, please..."

      When are we going to get more responsible people who care about 'we the people' working in our government toward the goals of 'we the people'..? Is that too much to ask..?

    • 1 year ago
  • NickerBocker09
  • bike10
  • randallr01
  • likeamazing
  • Elevator
  • freecrack
  • onemalefla
  • FtheBULLSHT
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      FtheBULLSHT  
    • onemalefla:

      Freshman Girl: Will you marry me?
      Dawson: I don't know. What's in it for me?
      Freshman Girl: Anything you want?
      Dawson: Anything?
      Freshman Girl: Anything.
      Dawson: [opening his mouth wide] Go like this. Do you spit or swallow?
      Freshman Girl: Whatever you like.
      Dawson: Whatever I like? I would definitely marry you.

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
  • RojoGatto
  • bailey78
  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  
    • bailey78:

      remember high school? The all ran for student council back then, and all the mean girls wanted to be prom queen.

      I had a friend of mine explain it to me once in a way I will never forget. She was defending her preference for great big huge 4-wheel drive vehicles. She put it quite simply really:

      "I like to be able to look down on everyone else."

      She has her daughter in pageants...seriously...you can't make this shit up.

    • 1 year ago
  • bailey78
  • themotivateddropout
  • Progresshiv
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      Progresshiv  

    • Meghan McCain and folks like her give me hope that things can improve, but there seems to be an endless supply of nut jobs waiting in the wings.

    • 1 year ago
  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  
    • Progresshiv:

      Meghan and the young Republicans give me worse willies than O'Donnell...Meghan and her elitist cohorts are quite capable of making their privilege and elitist policies and opinions seem normal....they have done so for generations. O'Donnell is easier to recognize for what she is, a puppet like Bush, who will have a far more sinister and recently promoted young Republican pulling her strings in the background.

    • 1 year ago
  • Progresshiv
  • AsiaSuperLoop
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      AsiaSuperLoop  

    • It would be comforting to believe that people take risks in order to enjoy the things that matter most in life, even if all that's there ultimately is a grand illusion. But O'Donnell brings us the realization that success, and its promise of happiness, even at the lofty Senatorial level, is completely illusory, perhaps even pathological, even before she's succeeded.

      And without substantial rewards, there's only risk. And that, you know, is totally ridiculous.

      And so my point is this: O'Donnell is no different from those young Republicans in their polo shirts with the outsized cameo blue ponies that they'll never own emblazoned on their breasts. The only difference is that the mystical blue pony, which doesn't exist, is more conventional than O'Donnell's witchcraft, which ironically is probably completely true.

      It's apparently easier to be crazy when others share your insanities.

      Go figure. Being crazy by yourself is apparently a hard but somewhat funny road. But if you're crazy in the right way, the lucky thing is that you just don't care.

    • 1 year ago
  • Incredulous
  • AsiaSuperLoop
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      AsiaSuperLoop  
    • Incredulous:

      Those blue ponies are just marketing for the lottery of life. People are encouraged to wager their entire lifetimes so they can become more efficient and highly rewarded wage slaves. But because it's a lottery, there are really few winners. There's that one guy in Venezuela who wears the polo shirt and actually owns the stable of polo ponies, but the rest of us get taken out back and whipped until we agree to comply and say yes, yes, the lottery is the truth, and please put me back on my hamster wheel so I can spin and sweat some more.

      O'Donnell and the Young Republicans and the Tea Party people are uber-rubes. They're gamblers who don't know that the casino is rigged. A sad bunch.

      While we, yes, we may also be rubes, but at least we understand the statistics now. And because we're a fraction smarter, we're trying to find a way out; or better yet, a way to take the casino down and make it pay on all of those promises that were broken and fraudulent. But most importantly, we absolutely refuse to wear the blue pony or take O'Donnell and her coven mate Sarah Palin seriously.

    • 1 year ago
  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  
    • AsiaSuperLoop:

      nice....gotta go, the hamster wheel is waiting....but oh, you are so right.

      I am just not willing to wager an entire lifetime on becoming a better, more efficient or highly rewarded wage slave....but the secret is to NEVER let them know that you know.

    • 1 year ago
  • tommic
  • jubal
  • Varex_Sythe
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