Video: Meghan McCain in heroic one-woman crusade to turn GOP centrist or something
posted at 5:15 pm on March 12, 2009 by Allahpundit
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She means well (I think) so I don’t want to dump on her, but a few things here. One: She needs to knock off calling Coulter anti-semitic. I’m not in the habit of defending AC but that’s simply a bad rap. Two: What’s with the Kathleen Parker-ish self-congratulations about being a lone voice brave enough to cry out in the wilderness about the party’s message? Frum was on this very network just the other day pitching the same thing. Surely that tendency was a contributing factor in the Times hiring Ross Douthat. There’s plenty of media fame and fortune to be had in being a Republican who criticizes Republicans. (Except for me!) Three: Beyond rehashing her pop’s aversion to earmarks, does she have any concrete policy suggestions on appealing to young voters or is this purely a stylistic matter of pushing back against the right’s provocateurs? Every time I see her on TV she’s talking about how much she loves the GOP without ever explaining why. What’s the attraction? Small government (in theory), social issues, what? Exit quotation: “If Meghan McCain were serious about inspiring an influx of gen X and Y-ers, why not rage against the out-of-touch elected officials in Washington who’ve ran the GOP into the ground and still struggle with a cogent message?”
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Meh. Just as bland as her father.
keep the change on March 12, 2009 at 5:17 PM
Go home little girl.
Maxx on March 12, 2009 at 5:17 PM
I’m leaning heavily toward yes.
Snowed In on March 12, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Meghan,
Go away. Now.
doug1981 on March 12, 2009 at 5:18 PM
See its not John McCain’s fault that he lost it is conservatives fault !
Sigh the Moderates so want to blame the conservatives for McCain it is becoming laughible.
It is moderates that cost us the election Conservatives stayed true.
William Amos on March 12, 2009 at 5:18 PM
If her father were not John McCain, no one would know who she is. Hopefully by 2012 no one will remember her.
Didn’t she vote for Kerry in 2004?
bw222 on March 12, 2009 at 5:18 PM
So help me, I’ve got little Donny Osmond in my head now…thanks a lot!
Snowed In on March 12, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Hot and stupid. Just how I like ‘em.
matd on March 12, 2009 at 5:19 PM
If she’s so concerned for the party, why is she on MSNBC instead of FOX?
Iblis on March 12, 2009 at 5:19 PM
14:59 – it’s almost over.
sherry on March 12, 2009 at 5:19 PM
She is a traitor to the party just like her old man. She is basically a Democrat who can’t say she is because of her dad. A waste of time and a nobody. She has never articulated conservative principals in any meaningful way and she expects people to follow her crusade against “extremism” among our ranks. What a joke.
echosyst on March 12, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Because that would include her dad.
FloatingRock on March 12, 2009 at 5:20 PM
If it didn’t mean a slaughter at the polls and an automatic second term for Obama, I’d like to see a “centrist” ticket in 2012. Maybe something on the order of Romney/Pawlenty or Romney/Crist. That way, when the GOP gets pummeled, they won’t have any “extremists” and “socon albatrosses” to blame.
ddrintn on March 12, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Her columns are pedestrian and the only reason she is being interviewed by anyone is because she is trashing the party. She is the silly daughter of a disastrous candidate whose opinion frankly does not matter. She is so happy to challenge Ann Coulter on MSNBC and in her columns and thankfully for her Ann won’t take the bait. Because a debate between the two would reveal Meghan for what she is, spoiled and uneducated.
nswider on March 12, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Shameless PR grab…post election traffic must have dropped off. Grow up a few years and we can talk…
d1carter on March 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM
If you want to be a moderate become a flippin’ Democrat.
roux on March 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Beautiful, smart, young lady.
getalife on March 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM
I wouldn’t dump on her, but she is forcing her idiotic ideas into the public arena. She deserves all the abuse that morons who spout their foolish opinions publicly have coming to them.
progressoverpeace on March 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Beat me to it.
whitetop on March 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM
http://s300.photobucket.com/albums/nn23/lucasmuseumofmodesto/?action=view¤t=meghan-mccainx.jpg
that bout sums her up….
alexraye on March 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Jonathan Krohn got a gig on MSNBC?
Ted Torgerson on March 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM
I’ll bet she’ll have her own show on MSNBC sometime in the future.
ddrintn on March 12, 2009 at 5:22 PM
She said the other day she wants a guy who’s “center leaning right.” My question: Should we sit the boss next to Maverick at our wedding?
Allahpundit on March 12, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Maddow?
joey24007 on March 12, 2009 at 5:22 PM
lol. In a nutshell.
a capella on March 12, 2009 at 5:23 PM
According to the Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll, the ONLY time McCain was ahead of Obama was from the time Sarah Palin was announced as his running mate until the financial meltdown.
Then, according to Meghan, Sarah forced her dad to suspend his campaign, return to Washington and try to save the world.
bw222 on March 12, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Good question. It takes real courage to, say, defend Sarah Palin.
ddrintn on March 12, 2009 at 5:23 PM
That is the one thing the Moderates dont get. If we act MORE like Obama why would voters chose us when they have the real thing ?
We could make our veiws more palitible for those further left. But they arent going to abandon Obama for a pale copy of him. Its ultimately self defeating.
We cant out bid Obama for pro choice voters or Economic programs. Any attempt to move left will be counter by the left and we will look foolish.
Americans like a clear choice not a dull echo.
William Amos on March 12, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Here is my Open Letter to Meghan McCain about Economics.
Dadvocate on March 12, 2009 at 5:24 PM
It’s amazing how quickly the high-ups in our society turn to name-calling. It’s like you can’t criticize a group without it being assumed that you hate that group. Criticize the fact that >90% of the black vote goes to Democrats, for example, and you are instantly called a racist. Apparently if you suggest that their is something better than judaism, you are an anti-semite.
Really deadens the words too. There are plenty of real racists and anti-semites out there.
kc8ukw on March 12, 2009 at 5:24 PM
AP you have a point. I have not heard anything from her other than that young people need to vote for the GOP and she is the person to make it happen. While I was getting ready this morning she was on Fox talking about how Coulter was just a bomb thrower who didn’t do the party any favors. She sounded confused and unfocused in her message. She wants to increase her stature, but she is unsure on how that will happen.
txaggie on March 12, 2009 at 5:24 PM
That’s because she’s not very deep.
CP on March 12, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Typical blond!
grapeknutz on March 12, 2009 at 5:24 PM
You getting married to Megan Allah ?
William Amos on March 12, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Because this is what the debate is all about. Who ran the GOP in the ground? Please have your point of view but can you admit that there’s no universal consensus on this? I love these rhetorical questions:
- Sure, say whatever you want. But why don’t you just admit that you’re an idiot?
A small admission, indeed.
radiofreevillage on March 12, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Bless your little pea-pickin’ heart. Meghan, darlin’, go on like a good girl and find yourself a boyfriend. The adults have serious issues to discuss. ‘Bye now.
kingsjester on March 12, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Allah -
If your mom was a beer baroness, you could be rich and famous too (and drunk all the time).
bw222 on March 12, 2009 at 5:25 PM
She’s so brave.
myrenovations on March 12, 2009 at 5:25 PM
She’s an embarrassment. She has no clue what republicanism means, her first vote went to long face John Kerry, and she calls herself a “progressive republican.” In other words, she is a socialist. A has-been. Nothing else to see.
jencab on March 12, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Yes, and she’s only been a Republican since June of last year “as a symbol of my commitment to my dad and to represent the faith I have in his ability to be an effective leader for our country and to grow and strengthen the Republican party when he is elected President of the United States.”
So it’s not as if she even became a Republican out of agreement with their policies or out of repudiation of Democratic policies.
There’s not a whole lot of credibility with her. It seems now that she’s an official Republican she wants to help change the party to Democratic-lite.
INC on March 12, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Would someone please put a muzzle on this dog.
HornetSting on March 12, 2009 at 5:26 PM
She’s being used to paint all Republicans who aren’t RINO’s as “haters” and “evil”.
She really has no idea what she’s doing and how she’s being used.
Personally, I find her attitude and ignorance quite aggravating.
darwin on March 12, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Hot in a brassy bottle blonde sort of way. If you like brassy bottle blondes.
ddrintn on March 12, 2009 at 5:26 PM
My guess is that her book sales are lagging.
thomasaur on March 12, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Because that could be interpreted as helping Sarah, which McCain (John, Cindy, or Meghan) would be reluctant to do under any circumstance…
Nat Hound on March 12, 2009 at 5:26 PM
I for one will know there is a God in Heaven if Allah marries Megan.
No comment if Allah will learn there is a hell after the marraage.
William Amos on March 12, 2009 at 5:27 PM
I don’t know about that, but returning to Washington was the right move, without any question. McCain even did okay by voicing the concerns of House Republicans and helping them to slow down the original cr#ppy bill to get at least some controls put in for the next cr#ppy incarnation. McCain blew it by going to the debate and letting the dems and the press mock him about it, but I’d like Senators to do their job, which means being in the Senate when the biggest piece of legislation in history (and very unconstitutional, at that) is coming through.
progressoverpeace on March 12, 2009 at 5:27 PM
She’s a tool who’s trying to get her 15 minutes of fame (by way of her pathetic Dad) extended. She has nothing to say and is repugnant to every true conservative and most Republicans
flytier on March 12, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Answer: she doesn’t love the GOP; it’s a con game. Frumation (if you will) leads to TV interviews. That’s all this is about.
Erich66 on March 12, 2009 at 5:27 PM
I am all for bringing more young people into the party, but sell them on the party! You are wasting your time bad mouthing those in the party you disagree with. Tell people what is right with the party. If you are such a big tent Republican, then you should be defending Ann’s right to a diverse opinion. Diversity of thought is allowed in the republican party; it is the dems that prefer group think.
bopbottle on March 12, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Palin fan?
radiofreevillage on March 12, 2009 at 5:27 PM
My answer: Where should KP sit?
MadisonConservative on March 12, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Just like her oldman… Sigh.
Theworldisnotenough on March 12, 2009 at 5:28 PM
I hope I won’t live to regret saying this but I am pretty proud that Ann hasn’t felt the urge to take this youngster on. But she is smarter than I thought because she figured out the magic equation for being invited on TV.
Cindy Munford on March 12, 2009 at 5:28 PM
It really is such a treat to watch her with the sound turned off.
MadisonConservative on March 12, 2009 at 5:28 PM
She has the perfect mental furniture to be an O-bot, really.
ddrintn on March 12, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Beautiful, smart, young lady.
getalife on March 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM
All she needs to make her life complete is a loser like you.
bw222 on March 12, 2009 at 5:28 PM
She has her daddy’s personality, dull and boring. She and her old man should both shut their pie holes and slink off into the sunset.
UnEasyRider on March 12, 2009 at 5:29 PM
I for one was worried that Hotflashes and stupid meant Helen Thomas.
William Amos on March 12, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Meghan is an heiress, went to Columbia, interned at Newsweek and Saturday Night Live, and voted for Kerry in 2004.
So, she’s not what you’d call a conviction Republican. She
s more of a “use my Mom’s money to run for my Dad’s senate seat when he retires” sort of Republican.
Terry_Dyne on March 12, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Meghan and Allah. A match made in hell.
HornetSting on March 12, 2009 at 5:29 PM
I’ll just say it would test at 60 PSI.
Dusty on March 12, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Your first thought was about an Obama man-crush?
ddrintn on March 12, 2009 at 5:30 PM
If there were just two Republicans left in the country, MSNBC would still spend 90% of its time sowing division between them while Democrats bankrupted and embarrassed the country.
Speedwagon82 on March 12, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Feh… Amy Carter with a more expensive, salon dye job.
Kalifornia Kafir on March 12, 2009 at 5:31 PM
This is Meghan’s desperate version of The Dating Game.
Fletch54 on March 12, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Meghan… please follow General Powell out the exit to the left… Thank you…
phreshone on March 12, 2009 at 5:31 PM
For future reference, is there any chick you wouldn’t date/marry? I mean, Kirsten Powers, Mary Katherine Ham, and now Meghan McCain? Dude, you’re all over the map.
amerpundit on March 12, 2009 at 5:31 PM
You could put her in the middle of getalife and radiofree village standing side by side and you would have a wind tunnel.
kingsjester on March 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Like father, like daughter.
TheBigOldDog on March 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM
I see mommy left her precious little one alone in the back of the trailer home again! Don’t worry! Her new boyfriend will only be there for 1 hour! It’s a bit confusing and all but you will sort things out when you grow up… It won’t be pretty…but San Fransisco is a nice city!
sabbott on March 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM
MadisonConservative on March 12, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Yes, but she tends to “pork out” if you remember during the campaign. I’m sure she went on a diet before her “media tour” just as Kathleen Parker had the facelift before moving to the dark side.
bw222 on March 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Oh please. You’re telling us you wouldn’t tap all of those?
MadisonConservative on March 12, 2009 at 5:33 PM
This kid is just out of college, and only joined the GOP a year ago, just for her father’s campaign. The only person I can think of with less credibility is Barry.
Vashta.Nerada on March 12, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Meghan…the token young RINO.
coldwarrior on March 12, 2009 at 5:33 PM
I guess the irony is lost on her and Maddow is her old man is the very kind of moderate Republican she is promoting and he ended up getting his ass kicked. She knows picking a fight with Coulter will ingratiate her with the left, a pathetic attempt to extend her 15 minutes. I hope Ann doesn’t take the bait.
echosyst on March 12, 2009 at 5:33 PM
You betcha.
getalife on March 12, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Megan, go to the Dating Game. Get off the political train. Daddy lost. Moveon.org
stenwin77 on March 12, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Oh, and Rachel Maddow? Seriously? Was Olbermann busy or something?
amerpundit on March 12, 2009 at 5:33 PM
At least they’re all cute (with KP being smoking hot).
progressoverpeace on March 12, 2009 at 5:33 PM
That a girl Meghan. Get out there and fight to split the Republican party just like dear old dad. Ya, like, really tell them, ya know, like not liking extremes cuz, like…..I mean, really.
oakpack on March 12, 2009 at 5:33 PM
PS – somebody really needs to tell Meghan that we were just being polite because we knew what the alternative was.
TheBigOldDog on March 12, 2009 at 5:33 PM
I wish she was more articulate, when she backed down on the economy question that was kind of sad. She sounds too valley girl, I mean it wouldn’t have killed her to research some info about the current economic situation and offer her own thoughts, she doesn’t have to agree with any one side.
zembla on March 12, 2009 at 5:33 PM
I just find it hilarious that someone who voted for John Kerry and wasn’t even a member of the GOP until last year is now on the TV talking about how to fix the party. This is exceptionally ballsy considering her father is a traitor to the Revolution he claims to have been such a great foot soldier for. It’s like Benedict Arnold’s daughter giving Washington advice.
cbconnolly on March 12, 2009 at 5:34 PM
She was on Hannity’s panel the other night. I watched a minute of it and turned it off. She sounds like she hangs out with Caroline Kennedy. “Like, um, I don’t know, but it really freaks me out.” That bad.
conservative pilgrim on March 12, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Sigh. Shut up Ms. McCain and shut up Mike Huckabee.
funky chicken on March 12, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Oh, so she is a Kennedy but with an R after her name.
txaggie on March 12, 2009 at 5:34 PM
You have a weakness for KP-style blond bimbos because you don’t get out much and they look okay on a LCD monitor. Get out of that small stuffy apartment and actually talk to them. You will contract a serious case of shrinkage.
keep the change on March 12, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Does anyone else see AC shaking in her knee high boots?
oakpack on March 12, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Gladly. But there’s tapping and then there’s marrying.
amerpundit on March 12, 2009 at 5:34 PM
I don’t give a rat’s backside what that woman thinks or says. . . at best she’s a waste of bandwidth and electromagnetic spectrum.
rplat on March 12, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Good question.
Heh. Good luck with that. Her next blog post at the Daily Beast: Marriage to Beta males as bad as Michael Steele unplugged.
Spirit of 1776 on March 12, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Down boy.
HornetSting on March 12, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Right there’s your problem, AP. Flawed thesis statement.
Meghan has no idea what she’s talking about. She hasn’t even figured out what she believes in, or if she has, she certainly hasn’t made it very clear.
Another progeny who parachutes into the limelight and the media (and bloggers) hang on her every word.
Irrelevant and immature daughter of an American hero who likes to make believe he has conservative values so that American-hero-loving conservatives will vote for him.
This movie is over.
IrishEi on March 12, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Twit!
pcpower1 on March 12, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Now you’re just being contrary for the hell of it.
TheUnrepentantGeek on March 12, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Pfft. You think Allah could tap anything with out forking over a stone?
MadisonConservative on March 12, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Then why don’t you shoot an email to MSNBC/CNN; they’ll book you. Hotair is prominent enough. Ed’s been on TV a number of times. Heck, even a fourteen year old can get on TV. You can finally reveal yourself to the world, and land a book deal, maybe a gf.
IR-MN on March 12, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Yeah, she’s clearly irrelevant. I can’t imagine anyone on the right taking her seriously. I consider this more of an audition for a media job post Dad’s-candidacy.
Spirit of 1776 on March 12, 2009 at 5:35 PM
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