Meghan McCain: Joe the Plumber's a dumbass...

...and since my father said "You're all 'Joe the Plumbers,'" you're all dumbasses too...

In an article from The New Republic, Jamie Kirchick profiles Meghan McCain for an article in OUT magazine, a GLB"t" publication, and discusses her rapid ascension in the punditocracy, by taking on more prominent conservatives, and much like her father, attempting to liberalize the Republican Party and the conservative movement. Samuel Wurzelbacher, or as he's more commonly known, "Joe the Plumber," recently gave an interview to the evangelical magazine, Christianity Today where the question of "same-sex marriage" was asked. Joe's response, or what got Jamie's knickers all knotted up, was Wurzelbacher's belief that having teh ghey is wrong, but he loves the sinner and hates the sin. He has friends who have teh ghey, but is not inclined to have his children exposed to them, and he stated his gay friends understand that (I also think that Joe's gay friends don't view him as 'homophobic,' either...).

To this, Meghan McCain replied "Joe the Plumber -- you can quote me -- is a dumbass. He should stick to plumbing." It's odd she won't comment on Sarah Palin publicly. Before you get the idea that liberals are embracing the bravado of Meghan, some of them see her for the political opportunist she is. Between liberal's thinking aloud about Wurzelbacher's sexuality (they think that all people who oppose "gay" rights are closet homosexuals, but they slam the Right for bringing up old arguments), many of the commenters at TP, (again, not something you need to wipe their posts with) point to McCain's appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher as evidence that the girl's in over her head (and I tend to agree with them...). So much for calling other people "dumbasses..."

Meghan McCain has to learn the lesson that Cindy Sheehan, Scott Ritter, Richard Clarke, Scott McClellan, Valerie Plame, and Joe Wilson had to learn the hard way. They were tools of the Left when they wanted to score points against the Right. They still want to maintain relevance by saying things about their fellow righties, or Amuricans, and hope to get media time. They haven't learned their five minutes of fame are up, the Left has moved on. Meghan needs to reread and understand the story of Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Christ for 30 pieces of silver. He no longer had the trust of his allies in Christ's discipleship, and he lost trust with the Roman authorities, because they rightly deduced that if a man is willing to sell out his principles for 15 minutes of media time, there will be no price too high to stop him from doing it in the future. No one likes a stoolie...

As far as her belief that the GOP needs to get progressive on a few issues, she's not totally off base. I believe the GOP can do a great service to the GLB"t" community by reminding gays, lesbians, bisexuals and the "transgendered" that free market principles, smaller government, lower taxes, etc. is better for our community than Democratic positions. The GOP can fight against the Democratic label that Republicans are "anti-immigration," by celebrating the sacrifices immigrants have made on behalf of Amurica, but say that opposing illegal immigration is essential to our national security. They don't need to try and convince people like Rachel Madcow or Keith Olberdouche, because they'll never be convinced. They can use the new media to get their message out.

Have a great day...