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Meghan McCain Predicts ‘Bedlam And Hysteria’ If Santorum Becomes The Nominee

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On Wednesday’s edition of Now with Alex Wagner, the eponymous host asked MSNBC commentator Meghan McCain if her party was in crisis. McCain trashed the Iowa caucus and dreaded the rise of surging Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum. “My father did not become the nominee having anything to do with the Iowa caucus. I find it completely irrelevant. If Rick Santorum becomes the nominee of this party, I mean, it is going to be bedlam and hysteria like you have never seen.”

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With her over-the-top prognostication for the pending apocalypse in that scenario, McCain appeared to be channeling Bill Murray from Ghostbusters, with implying her party would be headed for a disaster of biblical proportions if it nominated the former Pennsylvania Senator.

Hot Air‘s Tina Korbe thought that whenever the blogette referenced her father’s “path to the nomination, she instantly (lost) points.”

What she seems never to have realized — and what, I think, makes her so aggravating to conservatives — is that plenty of Republicans look at 2008 and regret their nomination of John McCain. In large part, the stiff opposition to Romney stems as much from the fear of repeating the mistake the GOP made in 2008 — the mistake of nominating “the next in line” even when that “next in line” espouses troublesome views and hasn’t proved himself a particularly adept campaigner.

Watch McCain’s slam on Santorum below via MSNBC:

(h/t Hot Air)

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  • Gloves Jesse Donahue

    Santorum will be bludgeoned by the vicious left on his social conservative stances:
    In 1971,
    “…Norman Lear took over the airwaves to preach liberalism to the masses. The caricature of the white conservative as an overstuffed racist who cannot deal with change was embodied in Archie Bunker and lives on today.
    If you question abortion or wonder why after 10,000 years of civilization men should marry men, you must be a racist and therefore your argument automatically is invalid. Critical thinking, this was not.”

    http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/49045#more-49045

  • Anonymous

    And Hot air already bludgeoned Meghan for her social conservative stances.

  • Anonymous

    If Meghan hates him then he must actually be a conservative.

  • Anonymous

    Too many things to say. All unkind. All I will say is HA!

  • http://twitter.com/#!/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    I wonder how much of Mrs. Sharpton’s blueberry pie Meghan McCain has eaten over the holidays ?

  • http://twitter.com/#!/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Hmmmm……. I’m not sure .Food for thought .  Though if food were really thoughts than Megan McCain would surely starve .

  • Anonymous

    Ask Terry Schiavo how much government involvement in the lives of Americans SANTORUM is for.

    LOL!!!!

  • Gloves Jesse Donahue

    Low class lefties have already tried to make Santorum’s name into something filthy. The man has children, and there are bound to be plenty of people with the same name around the country. There has to be a special place in Hades for these clods.

    There are a lot of morons here that do it, too.

  • Anonymous

    Good Lord Meghan, you can’t say “bedlam” about Santorum, he’ll cry bestiality.

  • http://twitter.com/RabbleRealist A Rabble Realist

    Meghan “fat ass” McCain forgets that her father was a gigantic LOSER. So is she. 

  • huffnnoccupyn

    If Romney is the GOP candidate, then Obama wins with just under 300 electoral votes, especially is Santorum is the VP candidate. If Santorum is the GOP presidential candidate, regardless of the VP candidate, Obama wins with more than 350 electoral votes.

    Weeeeeee!

  • http://twitter.com/ondrock Carl Ludwig

    Oh…that was Meghan McCain? At first glance I thought it was Newt Gingrich. Too much turkey perhaps…

  • 12voltman1

    Please, do not feed the trolls!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    What’s with this wingnut obsession with the size of woman’s butts?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LUKTQTZLZUTCR3SGOO76TTVOGY moremonkeybusiness

    I didnt know that she knew what bedlam and hysteria was.  Big words for a small brain.

  • Jim Harper

    I don’t think that Obama beats Romney by 300 electoral votes, but he beats him by at least 50 and 4% of the popular vote.  Problem is that Santorum will be slaughtered by the leftwing media and the useful idiots of the mainstream media who will fall unquestioningly behind the meme that he is “dangerous” or that he is far too “fill in the blank” to be President.  

    If Santorum is the nominee, Obama will crush him, and then Rick could solve his name issue on Google, by changing it to Mondale.  

    As far as Ms McCain goes, I have to wonder if she would get any air time if her opinion was positive towards Santorum, even mildly.   MSNBC seems intent on pushing the meme that the repubs are a bunch of evangelical nut jobs who aren’t really part of the “real America”.  Her comment fits that meme nicely.   That Santorum would cause havoc if he were nominated.

  • 12voltman1

    Meghan you have the pretty face, but do you have to sound like a valley girl?
    You need a diction coach!
    Gag me with a spoon!

  • Anonymous

    Poor Meghan McCain has an inflated sense of her own importance. Being an heiress and the daughter of John McCain does not confer intellect nor critical thinking skills- and don’t tell me she went to Columbia, so did lots of people whose admissions were based on their parents.

  • Anonymous

    The great thing about Meghan McCain is that she gives Republicans all kinds of excuses for putting their bigotry on display.  She’s young, she’s a woman, she’s heavy, she doesn’t hate homosexuals, she tends to tell the truth, she’s independent, she isn’t ashamed of her sexuality… And every time her name pops up, the haters go on parade.

  • Jane

    The right wing haters?   Of course.     

  • Anonymous

    Like most children, the only value Meghan McCain brings to an adult conversation is that her comments betray what her father says behind closed doors, but is too afraid to say publicly.  Of course, now, no conservatives even care what her father has to say, so she really serves no purpose whatsoever.

  • Anonymous

    quit crying so much damn……

  • Gloves Jesse Donahue

    Says the number one hater of Republicans.

  • Michael T.

    Meghan obviously has some of her father’s feisty and prickly mannerisms.

    She needs to learn how to express her views w/o sounding like a caffeinated confrontational lightweight privileged snob. (Gee, did I use enough adjectives?)

  • Anonymous

    Since most of them are asses…..ergo.

  • huffnnoccupyn

    I know! And it’s a bad thing to them!

    One could speculate about how it’s a denial of the subconscious and natural attraction to women with child-bearing hips. Righties are all about outward denial of all natural urges.

  • huffnnoccupyn

    You said the same thing about George W. Bush 13 years ago, too, right?

  • Anonymous

    Frank Zappa’s daughter Moon Unit was the voice of the valley girl on his song about, what else, valley girls.

  • huffnnoccupyn

    Your description of how she expresses her views is apt, and her expression comes from a lifetime of a GOP-privileged upbringing. I am giving her the benefit of the doubt with respect to the fact that she IS reaching out to those outside her party to diversify the Republican party ideas rather than evangelize party doctrine.

    I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Meghan McCain will save the Republican party from obsolescence.

  • Anonymous

    You don’t seem too concerned for Obama’s kids,shrieking cheep insults at their mother and father daily.

    So save your faux outrage for the rest of your hive.

  • Anonymous

    Why would somebody not hate Republicans? It would be like not hating racism. Or not hating torture. Or not hating mass murder. Or not hating authoritarianism.

  • Anonymous

    Nothing wrong with a little meat with your potatoes.

  • http://profiles.google.com/brownlifton joseph capra

    As a registered DFL voter, I have to say GO SANTORUM! Game, set, match, and you folks will look sooo stupid for nominating this disgraced wingnut!

  • Michael T.

    I am not so sure there will ever be a GOP nominee named Santorum to be “bludgeoned by the vicious left” after Romney’s super PAC gets through painting him as a big government conservative who loves earmarks (whether justified or not).

    So I am not sure why dems, the left, liberals, Obama, etc. are even mentioned in a thread about one Republican (McCain) attacking another Republican (Santorum).

  • Michael T.
  • Anonymous

    The only way Meghan McCain could have been accepted at Columbia University would have been to tell them that her father and mother spied for the Soviet Union during the Cold War!  If she told everybody that her father was a war hero and a Republican Senator, no Ivy League School would have admitted her. She might have been accepted at The University of Colombia, but her parents would not have wanted her crossing the border through Mexico.

  • Anonymous

    Why would I?  George W Bush was in his fifties 13 years ago?

  • Anonymous

    Pointing out one’s faults isn’t hating.

  • Michael T.

    Joe Scarborough’s man crush for Rick Santorum this morning was a sight to behold.

    The folks at Fox News seem to be ecstatic as well, although it’s more subtle.

  • Gloves Jesse Donahue

    shrieking cheep insults at their mother and father daily.

    “cheep” education, huh?

  • http://twitter.com/#!/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    While I appreciate your ” go-getter type ” attitude , you could have followed the embedded link in the story that the author provided…. .. like everyone else did .

  • http://twitter.com/MissConservaGal MissConservaGal

    She’s like more smarter than…well nobody.

  • Anonymous

    “Santorum will be bludgeoned by the vicious left on his social conservative stances:” – Good, he should be…he’s an extremist religious, xeno/homophobic zealot and has no chance of winning independents…

  • Anonymous

    Like, for sure!

  • Michael T.

    Oh, I see you are one of those who actually read the Mediaite article rather than going straight to the video.

    Good for you.

    I stand corrected.

  • Anonymous

    I guess it is okay for the children of gay parents to hear that their mother/father are perverts who are going to hell? Or that they are in the same category as people
    who perform bestiality? This is the guy who defended the child rapist in Boston and blamed the liberal environment in Massachusetts on the problem and not the priests who were raping and torturing the children.  This guy, like you, has no problem with vilifying anyone not in their tribe, but when it comes back to them they whine poor me and please think of my children.  Are republicans, and you, so deluded that they don’t think people will notice this hatred?    You really live in an alternate universe Dude, but wither way you and Rick should just STFU if you don’t like people reacting to your hate.

  • http://twitter.com/#!/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    You say that like it is a bad thing .
    Try it sometime Mikey . You may find that you like it .

  • 12voltman1
  • Anonymous

    You sir, are a close-minded, bigoted, ignoramous. I suggest you stop posting anywhere near intelligent, thinking people, be they Dem or Rep, until you can get past your evident adolescence.

  • Anonymous

    Do you disagree with something I said? If so, what?

  • OSTL

    lol

  • Mo Fokker

    Ditto when it comes to you chubs.

  • Anonymous

    Actually “liberals” have done all those things and more. “Liberal/progressive” governments are responsible for the greatest cases authoritarianism, mass murder and genocide in human history. “Liberals” also loves terrorism as seen with their love for Bill Ayers and their celebration of 9/11. They view it as a day the “evil corporate empire of America” was almost brought to it’s knees.

  • Anonymous

    Santorum will not get the nomination. He’s just the “Republican of The Week” like Bachmann, Cain, Perry and Gingrich was before him.

  • Anonymous

    And she’s an elitist snob that liberals love. Go figure, huh? 

  • Anonymous

    Mass murder? Really? You went off the deep end on that one.

  • Anonymous

    “The man has children…”

    There’s the real problem.

  • Anonymous

    Poor baby can’t take a joke.

  • Anonymous

    Obviously MSNBC picked Meghan to have a “conservative” voice but at the same time not a serious one.

    They want to have their cake and eat it too…
    “HEY LOOK, WE HAVE A RIGHTY BUT SHE’S AN IDIOT!”

    MSNBC embarrasses themselves every day.

  • Anonymous

    What do you think you did in Iraq?

  • Anonymous

    All Romney(‘s PAC) has to say is: “this guy wants to ban contraception”.

    GAME OVER

  • huffnnoccupyn

    Age is not an issue in your initial comment. Meghan and George W. are both adults.

    Have you noticed that GW really serves (and has served) no purpose whatsoever?

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Someone here is impersonating me.  Just a warning you don’t want to do that.

  • Anonymous

    What do you think you did in Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Afghanistan and East Africa?

  • 12voltman1

    Nothing new. It has happened to me too.
    Childish idiots. 

  • Anonymous

    Got nothing eh?

  • Anonymous

    But who will save “liberalism”? Don’t you know your numbers are shrinking everyday?

  • http://www.facebook.com/miraclelurker?v=wall Ellen Carey Rowe

    Please, do not feed the trolls!

  • Anonymous

    He won that amount against McSame. For Mr. Frothy Mix, it would be an electoral landslide. He would only win a collective of deep south states. Obama would win the east, west and midwest. 

  • Anonymous

    Mehgan: Occupy an IQ

  • Anonymous

    Just a bit…lol.

  • Pablo

    Yup. Exactly right. Meghan is the conservative that only matters to progressives.

    Hey, where’s Tommy? The Olbermann meltdown beat is calling him. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/keith-olbermann-current-tv-gop-primary-278050

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nite-Lite/100001946917048 Nite Lite

    Well it sounds as though you are ok to post here then…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nite-Lite/100001946917048 Nite Lite

    Hey that was a cheep shot…

  • LindaLeigh

    Though Joe is of Santorum’s same congress class, I didn’t notice it.  I am wondering what his thoughts on Santorum are since he must know him fairly well.

  • Anonymous

    Which was why the ONLY excitement for the 2008 election on the Republican side was for the VP.  McCain came off as cranky and shallow as a certain other cranky candidate from this election.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    I warned everyone it was not you last week.

    Childish.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nite-Lite/100001946917048 Nite Lite

    *slap slap*…nice hooters as well…

  • Anonymous

    Cheep,cheep.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nite-Lite/100001946917048 Nite Lite

    I HATE when that happens…

  • Anonymous

    So with the escalation of drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan, would you equate Obama to a mass murderer too?

    Let’s see how far your equation stretches. 

  • Booberry Pah

    “Like Bedlam And Hysteria And Stuff”.

    FTFY

  • Booberry Pah

    “Like Bedlam And Hysteria And Stuff”.

    FTFY

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Pre-emptive Conservative Victimization Syndrome.

  • Anonymous

    …Harsh!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Not your call to make, Big Petty.

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    Meghan McCain, is about as noteworthy and credible, as any liberal gossip trash tabloid writer deserves, as well as being given credence in the company of her fellow liberal buddies at MSNBC..Anyone who can beat that Liberal Republican Party establishment RINO Romney elitist 2 faced hypocrite, anywhere, anytime. is fine with us..

  • Gloves Jesse Donahue

    In 1971, you were a 31 year old whackjob.

    2012: Robert now a much older whacko.

    Most people learn and grow as they age.

    Too bad for you.

  • Gloves Jesse Donahue

    Stop the nastiness, man.

    I’m not a Santorum supporter, but he’s a human being on this planet.

    Do you want “Stephenson” to mean something bad?

  • Anonymous

    Tell me more.This is juicy.

  • Tucsonense

    WOW Gloves! What the hell that mean???????????????

  • Anonymous

    Watching her and watching Palin, Megan comes up looking less rehearsed and more knowledgable and refined than Palin.  Palin never appears comfortable in front of the camera and seems to aways be reading her lines from a telePrompter.  Megan spouts off her answers quickly and they make sense, unlike Palin’s “word salad”.  Say what you will, but she makes more sense than Palin will ever be able to without a telePrompter.  As far as her message, that depends on your political view.

  • Anonymous

    Meghan McCain is no conservative!  She’s one of those fakes like Joe Scarborough.  She doesn’t have the brains to be conservative, so what does that make her?  Her appearance on Alex Wagner, the newest liberal airhead, was good for a few laughs.  In fact all the LIB babes reminded me of a group of retail shoe store clerks trying to discuss national issues, when in reality they have all the depth and understanding of the “Real Housewives”!    In fact, I can’t tell MSLSD from Bravo-TV!
    Thanks Meghan, for the belly laughs!

  • Anonymous

    She’s no match for Michelle Obama and her three dozen ho-ho’s a day (thighs don’t lie!)

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    Although I am not a Palin supporter any longer, I will not be a fan of, and supporter of, that spoiled rotten brat Meghan McCain..

    She is neither intelligent, intellectual, competent, coherent, and mature, let alone experienced in anything, except gossip trash tabloid talking..  Compared to the long list of distinguished achievements, that Gov. Palin has accomplished, without any assistance from anyone..  I only state so, as it’s seems obvious you are a Palin hater, and thus will never see her side on, any issue.. regardless of her being right..

    Meghan McCain, has niether served her country, nor anyone else, except herself..  which is typical of liberals..  Self-serving as always..  Regardless of Sen. McCain’s RINOism politics, he at least I respect, especially as a retired US Military person myself, for his service to his counrty, and will always give him that respect, in that regard, that is due him..

    Meghan McCain on the other hand, I wouldn’t give 2 peices of feces for anything she ever says or does, period.

  • Anonymous

    “DIVERSIFY” is liberal code for all of life’s losers. You libs can keep them.

  • Anonymous

    I said this over a year ago.  The Tea Party Repubs have no choice but to have Romney for their Candidate.  Obey your Republican Overlords.  You Have No Choice.

  • shonangreg

    Is that you, Hank Williams, Jr.? Are you still railing against any cooperation with liberals? Wondering why would a conservative ever take food and hospitality from a liberal?

    It takes a brain death and a deep inability to think for yourself to demonize the political opposition the way you are doing.

    Question: What would happen if all the conservatives in America were raptured and taken to heaven tomorrow?
    Answer:  The liberals would split down the middle and we’d have a new conservative party.

    It may sound illogical to you, but we will always have liberals and conservatives. Neither side is bad. Neither logic is faulty. That so many Republicans have drunk deep from the extremists’ Kool-Aid is no indictment of conservatism, in my opinion. It is an indictment of the Republican Party and it allowing itself to be taken over by extremists. We liberals criticize our nuts openly and maintain a sense of perspective and rationality. You Republicans just call anyone dissenting a RINO without thought; you cannot make sense anymore.

  • http://twitter.com/#!/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Hi . Thank you for writting all the words that you did . That must have taken some time .

  • Anonymous

    They could have went with someone with credibility and could offer some insightful analysis. Instead, they went with someone who has name recognition only because of her father. Its easy to trash someone. The hard thing to do is make a well-argued case for someone else. She’s just a tabloid journalist.

  • Anonymous

    Its possible, but with Bachmann out and Cain also out the support (however small) that they had will be divided up into the remaining camps. As we get closer to the coming primaries, people are going to start making that choice instead of just thinking about it. 

  • Anonymous

    Blond roots.

  • Anonymous

    I predict Meghan will have a “civil union” with Rachael Maddow and they will adopt Keith Olbermann who will be locked in the basement….and used as a man-haters…inflatable Clown Bop Bag.

  • http://twitter.com/RabbleRealist A Rabble Realist

    Have you seen her build? It’s not curvaceous – it’s fat. She has a square upper body and her face looks like her Dad – yikes!

  • Anonymous

    Who cares what M McCain says or does. Besides being the child of a senator, she has done nothing to contribute to the discussion of anything. Elevating people who are nominal has got to stop.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AMIT3D6QWDIO657RJBIHVZ34CQ Truth Matters

    Meghan McCain is a moron and her father is a loser too. Why does anyone listen to somebody who lost a critical election? Who cares what they have to say?  They are losers…

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