If this is any indication, I can't wait to read the full interview with Meghan McCain:...A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll shows a dramatic rise in support for gay marriage. Nearly half of all Americans in the new poll said they favor legal marriage for same-sex couples, an increase of 13 percentage points since June 2006.I mean, obviously most Democrats and independents know that "Joe the Plumber" (neither named "Joe" nor a licensed "plumber," but be that as it may...) is a bigoted "dumbass" But to hear the daughter of John McCain, who (disgracefully and inexcusably) made "Joe" the centerpiece of his campaign during the fall of 2008, it's striking.
Against those shifting attitudes, the resurfacing of Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher-- who told Christianity Today last month that he won't allow "queers" near his children -- feels comically out of touch rather than menacing. Even his mentor, John McCain, may be softening, to judge from the comments of his daughter Meghan. In an upcoming interview with Out, Ms. McCain draws a solid line between new school Republicans such as herself, who believe in gay marriage, and old schoolers like Wurzelbacher, whom she dismisses as "a dumbass."
By the way, "Joe," how exactly do you know who the "queers" are in order to keep them away from your children? Also, what are you so worried about, that your kids might watch Adam Lambert on American Idol and suddenly decide that they've been suppressing their inner "queer" all along? Wouldn't your solid, blue-collar, salt-of-the-earth pseudo-plumber "values" prevent that? They wouldn't?!? Yeah, I'm really sorry "Joe," but it looks like the American people are increasingly going for Adam Lambert, Freddie Mercury, Brokeback Montain and Ellen Degeneres over...well, whatever retrogade homophobic bigotry it is you're peddling these days.
