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
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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Oh please. If McCain had won, your ilk would be treating her like you treated the Bush Twins by now.
Speedwagon82 on March 12, 2009 at 5:36 PM
And that sums it up pretty well. She was on Hannity the other night, she’s not the sharpest tack in the box and talks like a Valley Girl.
And if she’s so gung-ho on the GOP, what the hell is she doing over at the Daily Beast? I’d pay big bucks to see her take on Ann Coulter. Who doesn’t love a good cat fight?
Knucklehead on March 12, 2009 at 5:36 PM
She dumps on Coulter. Such courage!
ddrintn on March 12, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Has this child ever held a job or had to make payments on anything without getting the money from her daddy? Go grow up.
AubieJon on March 12, 2009 at 5:37 PM
She puts the twit in twitter…
f*ing dolt.
Roc on March 12, 2009 at 5:37 PM
She’s an airheaded twit obsessed with fashion and pop culture. Her brothers need to tell her that she’s embarrassing them. She certainly embarrasses me as a woman and a member of the GOP.
funky chicken on March 12, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Dump Steele and hire her.
getalife on March 12, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Because her father is one of them?
MadisonConservative on March 12, 2009 at 5:38 PM
She will sleep with you but you can’t love or hate her dad, just like him.
The whole “boyfriend dad relationship” concept to sleep with a chubby girl seems weird.
Mr. Joe on March 12, 2009 at 5:38 PM
She could help the GOP’s appeal to younger voters if she’d appear on these TV shows wearing nothing but a black bustier.
paul006 on March 12, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Her message seems to be “I wish Republicans would be more like liberals”.
darwin on March 12, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Exactly right. “The slut has had 14 abortions, I read. How do you like that, socon hypocrites?”
ddrintn on March 12, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Meghan McCain, David Frum, Ross Douthat, David Brooks, Rod Dreher, Heather MacDonald, Kathleen Parker, Peggy Noonan:
Please end the charades and join the Democrat Party.
Norwegian on March 12, 2009 at 5:39 PM
She puts the twit in twitter…
f*ing dolt.
Roc on March 12, 2009 at 5:37 PMTwit!
Precisely!
pcpower1 on March 12, 2009 at 5:40 PM
I’d love to see her and Coulter debate!
May just be the thing to show little Meghan that she needs a few more years out in the world before she undertakes trying to remake the party.
I want a ringside seat.
katy on March 12, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Meow…..
IR-MN on March 12, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Good grief people she’s only 24 …give her a break.
She’s certainly a lot more mature than I was at her age.
The Ugly American on March 12, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Classy.
getalife on March 12, 2009 at 5:42 PM
You know the difference between Meighan McCain & Rachel Maddow?
Lipstick.
portlandon on March 12, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Great. The GOP has its own Paris Hilton.
Amadeus on March 12, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Uhhg. Fake blonde vs. fake blonde.
bitsy on March 12, 2009 at 5:43 PM
If she fancies herself a political analyst, then she doesn’t get a break. She is where she is solely because of her father, not because of any skill.
MadisonConservative on March 12, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Anti-Semitic? Isn’t that what Jew-haters call conservatives? I’m pretty sure Ann isn’t advocating the destruction of Israel, or abandoning them to the Arab world.
Who cares what another McCain thinks? She’s clearly following in dad’s footsteps, trying to get left wingers to like her, and not really thinking about right and wrong in her rush to find the middle of the road. Some day she’ll REACH the middle of the road, and the her “friends” on the left will run right over her.
hawksruleva on March 12, 2009 at 5:43 PM
from laughter perhaps. and I’m not a Coulter fan at all, but this gal is a serious dim bulb.
funky chicken on March 12, 2009 at 5:44 PM
I would have said Testosterone in Maddow’s case.
William Amos on March 12, 2009 at 5:44 PM
They are going to keep giving her airtime b/c she speaks what they want hear. They all agree, the GOP is just too extremely conservative, blah, blah, blah. It is the media’s erroneous zone…”if only you were more like me…” sighing wistfully…
JAM on March 12, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Aren’t her 15 minutes up yet?
msmveritas on March 12, 2009 at 5:44 PM
“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?”
“Because I’m my dady’s girl, and did you know he’s, that is my mom, who loves him, is very rich?” ~ ~ Meghan
Entelechy on March 12, 2009 at 5:45 PM
I beggin’ ya, AP–please make HA a Meghan McCain/David Frum/Derb/CrunchyCon guy/any other “Republican” feeb-free zone!
I can’t take much more in the face of Ogabe’s Marxist takeover of our soon-to-be-not great country!
Jenfidel on March 12, 2009 at 5:45 PM
I’m at a loss why her opinion matters in the first place. Sure she’s the offspring of a (I’ll be polite here) moderate “Republican.” But what are her creds? Why should we care about what she says?
The fact of the matter is that Meghan McCain’s opinion has no more merit than asking Sasha Obama about our foreign trade deficit.
highhopes on March 12, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Shades of Scott McClellan. I guess that didn’t work out to well for him either.
Knucklehead on March 12, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Hope she grows up soon.
joe_doufu on March 12, 2009 at 5:46 PM
I actually take this Meghan McCain situtation seriously. Because she is such a bumbling fool who can’t articulate positions she is ripe to do a couple things. She can alienate young voters by the fact she tries to agree with Democrat postions on Gay marriage,etc. All this does is set up in a young person’s mind that they are already in the right party. Meghan is not making any argument of “attraction” for young people. She is giving reasons they should stay liberal until her great Crusade finishes and the party is socially liberal. This extremely ill-thought out plan will have the opposite effect most of us want as young minds WOULD be opening up as the liberal fault lines in policy start to appear under Obama. I think we should shame this stupid girl off the stage. She is not just a poor representation of Conservatives, she is an attacker of Conservatives meanwhile a lefty like Maddow can interview her and while seeming “tolerant” can let Meghan do the attacking. I have already registered at the Daily Beast and point out what a misguided figure she is there. Hopefully if more do the same we can get this girl off the media spotlight before she makes a tough job tougher.
Conan on March 12, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Precisely.
Spirit of 1776 on March 12, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Just like you and your kind, sweetness. See, Palin, Bristol.
ddrintn on March 12, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Does this chick have a job? Seriously, why is she interview-worthy?
Y-not on March 12, 2009 at 5:47 PM
H
You mean like GW Bush?? Daddy handed the Decider everything. Heckuva job you did there, Bushie!
capitulus on March 12, 2009 at 5:47 PM
“but like… I like have been through, like sooooo much.. ya know…. and like I’ve seen what a presidential campaign is, like… really like.”
katy on March 12, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Aw hell. Bring on the trolls.
HornetSting on March 12, 2009 at 5:48 PM
McCain’s running to the media whoring themselves to be relevant. Pardon me while am sitting here not being surprised.
portlandon on March 12, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Ann would look like a bully taking on M. McCain she is like a stupid bunny. You can’t slap her around without looking mean. I say start shaming her online with her ignorance till she shuts up and leaves the stage.
Conan on March 12, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Yes, several times over. It seems obvious to me that she’s just stumping for more traffic to her “political analysis blog”. She didn’t have anything relevant to say when she WAS relevant!
anniekc on March 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM
At least he could put together a friggin’ Cabinet.
ddrintn on March 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM
That is an insult to Paris Hilton.
Knucklehead on March 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Mmm, Meg and Bristol.
Yeah, very sweet.
getalife on March 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Listening to Meghan McCain is like listening to the sound of one hand clapping.
Percy_Peabody on March 12, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Better idea: Dump getalife, and sign her up for an account.
capitalist piglet on March 12, 2009 at 5:52 PM
You don’t want to dump on her, AP?
Fine – I will.
Hey Meghan — No. One. Cares.
D2Boston on March 12, 2009 at 5:52 PM
I believe we should give her a break. She is very young. I was a flaming liberal at her age for no other reason than the fact that I was indoctrinated into it. I saw no need to look around, research or understand an opposing point of view and certainly not a “backward, redneck conservative one.” I woke up, hopefully Meghan will too.
She needs to get a coherent message if she is going to put herself out there like this though. What Allah said.
JAM on March 12, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Notice neither Meghan nor Daddy feel compelled to tell those of in the Base how they regret not holding our Conservatives views–they just want us to change and be more “inclusive” and “moderate” like them.
Reason Numero Uno Miss McCain doesn’t have a line of handsome naval officers picking her up for dates at the White House!
Jenfidel on March 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Nahhh. She’s a lib Democrat who just doesn’t have the nerve to come fully out of the closet yet.
ddrintn on March 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM
They showed a TV clip it might not be the ones here where McCain is introducing her and saying “does anyone have a job for an Art History major?” Actually kind of cruel for McCain to point out she is useless. The important fact is she had a chance to go to Columbia and chose Art History. She is not a serious person. She got a rich girl degree who is going to live off a trust fund and just wanted the Ivy Sheepskin for cocktail parties. Now she has decided she has an opportunity to be a pundit since no one needs an Art History major. Get her off the stage.
Conan on March 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Good grief people she’s only 24 …give her a break.
She’s certainly a lot more mature than I was at her age.
The Ugly American on March 12, 2009 at 5:42 PM
—-
I’m 21 and i’m not that dumb
youngO on March 12, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Looks to me like Rachel has a crush.
sheesh on March 12, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Bill Clinton? I thought that might be you.
ddrintn on March 12, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Who Coulter? Great idea !!
Maxx on March 12, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Say, ask Meghan what happened to Ron Reagan (jr).
Matthews used him during Ronald Reagan’s funeral and now he is a radio pitch man for a prostate health product.
Captain America on March 12, 2009 at 5:55 PM
So instead challenging Meghan’s views in calm, measured debate, let’s just pick her apart with ad hominem arguments and summarily dismiss her.
Brilliant.
The future of the GOP is bright.
The Ugly American on March 12, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I was stayin’ away from that thought. ; >
thomasaur on March 12, 2009 at 5:56 PM
It’s like her idiot father, now that we are trillions deeper into debt and with a dangerous socialist trashing our country, raving about “earmarks”.
All the earmarks in history are about a tenth of a single percent of the economic black hole that Obama is sending us into.
TexasJew on March 12, 2009 at 5:56 PM
You mean like GW Bush?? Daddy handed the Decider everything. Heckuva job you did there, Bushie!
capitulus on March 12, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Interesting. While I agree that he was born into privilege, he did have to run for office and was the Gov. of the great state of Texas. Daddy doesn’t own Texas, so he couldn’t really hand it to him, now could he?
JAM on March 12, 2009 at 5:57 PM
How appropriate.
Y-not on March 12, 2009 at 5:57 PM
You could be on TV all time, Allah, but I think they’re all freaked out by the whole bag-over-your-head thing.
Rhinoboy on March 12, 2009 at 5:57 PM
The fact McCain’s handlers didn’t give her a bigger role tells you all you need to know. If she could rub more than 2 ideas together children of candidates who can are outfront in campaigns. She has complained during the campiagn that she didn’t have a bigger role (we know why). Now that the handlers are gone she is off the leash and not for the better.
Conan on March 12, 2009 at 5:58 PM
I was just thinking, if you combined Meghan and Ann Coulter into one, then split them equally into two, you’d actually have two normal sized blonde women.
sheesh on March 12, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Who the heck is Meghan McCain?
ladyingray on March 12, 2009 at 5:58 PM
That’s not even true. Granted, the Bush family is part of America’s patrician class but it was supposed to be Jeb who got to the White House after GHWB.
That being said, give the Bush family for raising balanced children who are not complete trainwrecks. That can’t be said often of offspring raised just outside the public eye.
highhopes on March 12, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Rachel Maddow. I hate that man.
portlandon on March 12, 2009 at 5:59 PM
She better hope that Coulter doesn’t view her as someone worthy of responding to directly. Coulter uses sarcasm like straight razor; if she decides to engage Ms. McCain, Meghan will definitely have something to be angry about.
Personally, I hope Coulter gives her both rhetorical barrels and the gun-butt; I’m sick of moderates attacking conservatives like a democrat would, and then snivelling it’s all about building a better party. All it’s about, is the moderates getting happy ending treatment from media for bashing their own party. So why are the conservatives holding back? I guess nobody likes us anyway. Levin let Frum have it; so here’s to hoping that Ann goes after this barbie doll.
austinnelly on March 12, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Why is anyone paying attention to what she’s saying? She needs to shut up… Becoming “more moderate” is the LAST thing we need. It’s the reason we are where we are today.
Also, I’ve always said someone needs to get Coulter sammich, but maybe we could lipo Meghan until she’s hot, and pump all that excess in to Coulter, making her appear more healthy at the same time.
Seriously though, Meghan… you can have your stupid views that are simply shaped by an increasingly secular and “no judgments” world, but support for things like abortion and being gay are illogical on their face, and the least of our concerns while we race towards socialism. I pray that no one is dumb enough to be influenced by her, but we don’t need her out there trying to speak for the GOP and “moderate” us, just because her dad ran for POTUS.
RightWinged on March 12, 2009 at 5:59 PM
And the process would fascinate Lorien.
Vashta.Nerada on March 12, 2009 at 6:00 PM
I kind of feel like Ronald Reagan. I bought that microphone.
She is only on tv because of the notoriety she gained during her dad’s presidential campaign. Many of us helped pay for that campaign. It’s pretty irritating for her to turn around and shoot her mouth off to a very eager liberal media at the expense of our party.
So, yeah, I’ll criticize her.
Y-not on March 12, 2009 at 6:01 PM
I think it may be Olby in drag and on tranquilizers.
sheesh on March 12, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Good grief people she’s only 24 …give her a break.
Yes there is a FRIGGIN REASON we don’t have 24 year old punidts in EITHER PARTY!!!!
You need to shut up and listen and participate in dialogue AND MATURE for a while before you start lunging after popular figures and only an uninformed YOUNGSTER doesn’t know that.
Conan on March 12, 2009 at 6:01 PM
A Jeopardy response under the category of Meaningless Quotes by Politician’s offspring.
highhopes on March 12, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Meg is the next great gop hope.
getalife on March 12, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Having watched this video, I can’t help feeling sorry for Meghan McCain. She has, after all, shown up to a battle of wits against perhaps the wittiest pundit in all punditry (Ann Coulter) woefully unarmed.
sondiehl on March 12, 2009 at 6:02 PM
One of Laura Ingraham’s best schticks is to rename Ron “Non Reagan.”
No truer thing was ever said.
I have infinite pity for President Reagan who was cursed with 2 of the worst children on the planet, Non and Patty–the man bore a heavy family burden while he served his country so well.
Jenfidel on March 12, 2009 at 6:02 PM
And average intelligence.
funky chicken on March 12, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Mark this down as “Birth of a RINO” for your educational tapes…………
Seven Percent Solution on March 12, 2009 at 6:02 PM
If it is to be McCain vs Coulter, I vote for 10 rounds of mud wrestling.
el rey on March 12, 2009 at 6:04 PM
I hope that Coulter makes her mascara run all over her face.
DFCtomm on March 12, 2009 at 6:06 PM
The only reason the media is fawning all over her, especially MSNBC, is because she’s bad mouthing the GOP.
There is no such thing as a “moderate” or “centrist”. You either believe in the party’s values or you’re a liberal.
darwin on March 12, 2009 at 6:08 PM
The ultimate insult would be if Ann Coulter just ignored her.
darwin on March 12, 2009 at 6:08 PM
I heard Ron “Non” Reagan trying to sell prostate health medication on my local AM station on the way home. All I could think of is How appropriate it was that the Little Ballerina was selling it.
portlandon on March 12, 2009 at 6:09 PM
Frum in pantyhose.
ewwwww.
Amadeus on March 12, 2009 at 6:09 PM
Meghan’s a liberal. Who does she think she’s fooling.
notagool on March 12, 2009 at 6:09 PM
More importantly, you need to live life for a while before your opinion matters. Colleges crank out really smart people every year (and I am not even sure that Meghan McCain if Megan McCain falls in this category). It is only when intellegence is tempered with real-life experience that one’s opinion should matter. Meghan McCain, bless her heart, simply hasn’t lived life long enough to be making the statements she is making.
Still don’t know what her dad’s excuse is for much of the crap he utters.
highhopes on March 12, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Oh. Another Princess Caroline!!!!
ladyingray on March 12, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Sez who? YOU??? Buwahahahahaaaa…
ladyingray on March 12, 2009 at 6:12 PM
What kind of father would name his son Rachel?
Amadeus on March 12, 2009 at 6:14 PM
OMFG.
Is this a joke?
You people are scaring me.
The Ugly American on March 12, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Out, damn spot! Out!
ladyingray on March 12, 2009 at 6:14 PM
On the subject of life expereience what is John McCain’s excuse for letting her go out in front of TV audiences without the life experience and political background HE KNOWS you need not to come off like a dunce? Where is her father’s advice on how the political machine works in the media? Does he even care enough to watch these clips and state the obvious? My father would for sure not even being a US Senator and Prez Candidate! Does he warn about being used by the Daily Beast? MSNBC? Duhhhh!
Conan on March 12, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Ann Coulter is like this butterfly that’s the biggest butterfly you’ve ever, seen and a bit scary.
And not that it’s fair or that you can compare this unevolved girl to her, but if you could she’d be a noseeem.
Not so long ago, when Ann’s father passed away she wrote a moving piece about him and her family. Ann is fearless, and so is Rush.
I’m with VDH’s understanding of Rush (and I would add Colter) in that it’s better to forgo the acquisition of power than become a conservative who Frum, et al would approve of.
An interview w/McCain’s first wife would be very interesting, I think. Not to rehash a past of wounds, but to see what kind of woman she is.
Eirenic Rebel on March 12, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Screw you, AP. This thread sucks.
I’m gonna go float out to sea on an ice floe.
The Ugly American on March 12, 2009 at 6:18 PM
So is MKH, and she doesn’t get a break.
leetpriest on March 12, 2009 at 6:19 PM
They simply take after Nancy. They really weren’t that bad compared to other children out there. The family never became estranged. The “bad ones” never disowned the Gipper (just some of his public policies) They showed up at his funeral.
I know others who are much more deserving of the “worst children on the planet” title. For example, the twenty-something kid of a couple I know who was running a drug ring out of the family home. They let him move back in after his divorce and he repaid them by bringing the cops down on the residence. That seems to be far more heinous than Ronny Jr. bashing Reagan’s stance on abortion.
highhopes on March 12, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Boo!
swede7 on March 12, 2009 at 6:19 PM
The same kind that would inspire his son to have that Anthony Michael Hall haircut that Mr. Rachel Maddow has.
leetpriest on March 12, 2009 at 6:21 PM
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