McCain’s daughter questions Tea Party movement – (Political Hotwire)

Written on February 9th, 2010 by barryfail

Young people ‘turned off’ by Tea Party movement’s racist undertones, McCain says The daughter of former presidential candidate John McCain has sharply criticized the Tea Party movement, accusing it of “innate racism.” In an appearance on ABC’s The View, Meghan McCain also took issue with a number of recent statements from Sarah Palin, criticizing the former Alaska governor for defending Rush Limbaugh’s use of the word “retard” and for suggesting that President Obama launch a war against Iran in order to win a second term. McCain described Former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo’s call for a literacy test for voters as “innate racism.” In his opening speech to the Tea Party convention last week, Tancredo urged the creation literacy tests for voters, a move some observers likened to a return to the Jim Crowe laws of the pre-Civil Rights Act era

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McCain’s daughter questions Tea Party movement – (Political Hotwire)

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