You aren’t a Conservative either, Meghan.

Meghan McCain, the daughter of the Senate “maverick” John McCain recently exclaimed that she no longer considered herself a Republican.  Because, well, Trump.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/meghan-mccain-no-longer-calls-herself-republican-says-gops-character-seems-be-1306607%3famp=1

“I call myself conservative. I mean, I’m still a member of the Republican Party, and I still vote on the Republican ticket,” McCain said. “I’m not a ‘Never Trumper.’ Trump didn’t melt my brain. I can still see the forest for the trees, and it didn’t expunge all my conservative principles out of me…. Honestly, I’m just trying to survive in a lot of different ways and politically, as well right now.”

Really Meghan?  A conservative?  Sorry.  I’m throwing the bullshit flag, here.

I never hear you espousing for smaller government.  That’s what a Conservative would do; especially one with a mouthpiece as big and loud as yours.  You’re given a platform and a microphone purely on whose daughter you were.  Not from any bona fides you’ve demonstrated.  How about you start pitching a tent for less government in the oversight of our very lives?

I don’t hear any pining from you about people taking responsibility for their own actions.  The easy mantra of the day is about how it is always someone else’s fault.  Someone else is to blame.  Sorry, Buckwheat.  But I didn’t put a gun to your head and make you smoke that joint before you put your infant daughter in the microwave.  Stop pushing off the “my bads” onto society.  But you don’t beat the drum for that either, do you, Megs?

Legal immigration.  I still remember seeing a commercial with dear old Pops.  He was putting on a Border Patrol cap and looking all serious like into the camera.  Like he was against every coyote coming across the river and was going to meet hi personally as he tried to dry off in the Arizona sun.  Yes, he did that a lot around election time.  But he didn’t mean it.  Or your Governor wouldn’t have felt the need to cede miles of the border area to the drug cartel in the name of public safety.  I don’t see you drumming up support to take back our land.

Pot is an illegal gateway drug.  I know certain states have legalized it in some fashion, my own included.  But it is a well-studied, post-doctorate written upon, peer-reviewed fact that pot use leads to psychosis, mental illness and violence.  I never hear you speak out against the legalization and widespread (and growing) use of marijuana.

The Second Amendment is more than just a right.  It is a cornerstone of our foundation.  The presence of the Second Amendment guarantees the continued existence of the First.  If the leftist succeed in taking away our guns (or making ammunition prohibitively expensive, or making magazines illegal), how long before you think the leftists will begin to crack down on some of the speech that already shame people for using?  We don’t need more gun laws.  We need to enforce those already in use.  I never hear you speak out for my right to own whatever type, caliber, design of weapon I could both afford and legally own.

Abortion is killing.  It is murder.  It is ending a life.  Now I will grant you, in some cases one could add the word “mercy” in front of the previously used verbs.  What New York famously recently celebrated and what Virginia nearly passed is pure infanticide.  I always hear the volleyballed phrases used by both groups—pro choice, and pro life.  Only one of these is correct.  My side is pro life.  We advocate for the life of the silent, those that can’t yet speak for themselves.  The other side is not pro choice.  It is pro death.  What they advocate for results in the death of a fetus, or worse, an infant.  How fervent are you, Meghan?  I don’t hear you using your media platform in favor of the unborn.

Freedom of religion.  This issue is multifaceted.  I was raised in a nondenominational Christian church.  My wife is Catholic.  She actively practices her faith while I do not.  (I’m still carrying a 27 year grudge against God.)  But among those who are not the party who say you don’t count yourself a member of, they are against both of these faiths while they ignore those of a particular “Middle Eastern” faith who encourage violence against us.  I don’t know what faith under which you were raised, Meghan, but I’m sure John believed in some higher being while he was enduring torture even as he talked to the enemy.  I bet he took you to worship in the same place.  I don’t hear you defending any religion or slamming that “religion of peace” that calls for the destruction of Israel and all of our slaughter or subjugation.

So, you may not think of yourself as a Republican anymore.  That is your choice.  But you aren’t a Conservative, either.  You’re nothing more than a Never-Trumper.