Meghan McCain to CPAC head: Why isn’t there ‘a modicum of respect for my family’?

Meghan McCain slammed American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp Friday after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was booed at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week. 

“I’m aware my father has never been invited to speak at CPAC. I know he’s not a conservative darling,” McCain said on “The View.” “But why, at this moment, when he’s suffering through the worst brain cancer that exists and going through chemo, why [isn’t there] a modicum of respect for my family at this moment?”

“Your father is a national hero,” Schlapp replied. “He has served his country, he has fought for his life before and is fighting for his life now, and I think we all respect that. My conversations, when I talk about your dad, is just to keep him in our prayers.”

{mosads}Schlapp later said there’s a “disagreement on policy questions” when it comes to John McCain.

“Meghan, I have a lot of respect for you, too, and your family,” he said. “I think it’s OK in America to disagree with someone’s votes in the Senate.”

Schlapp on Twitter last week said John McCain’s vote against the bill was “worth a boo.” Meghan McCain fired back, accusing Schlapp of “making excuses for the inexcusable.”

During his speech at CPAC, President Trump called out John McCain for his vote against a Republican bill to repeal ObamaCare.

“Except for one senator, who came into a room at 3 o’clock in the morning and went like that, we would have had health care too, we would have had health care too. Think of that,” Trump said, imitating the thumbs down motion that John McCain made during a late-night vote to pass the bill. The CPAC crowd then booed.

Earlier this week, John McCain’s wife Cindy joined Meghan McCain on “The View’” to criticize Trump for his attack on John McCain.

“We need more compassion. We need more empathy. We need more togetherness in terms of working together. We don’t need more bullying, and I’m tired of it,” Cindy McCain said.