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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The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree. Meghan is trying to make herself relevant by taking on Ann Coulter. Don’t bite, Ann. She’s writing on a left wing blog – the only reason she gets a forum there is because she’s a “Republican” who will trash other Republicans.

silvernana on March 12, 2009 at 11:42 PM

Still fighting the last battle, eh? Mac lost, Obama won. Anyone who helped an Obama presidency come about can rot in hell as far as I am concerned. Anyone who calls them self a “conservative” who was fine with Obama winning is a true moron.

Just FYI.

Boxy_Brown on March 12, 2009 at 11:59 PM

She’s writing on a left wing blog – the only reason she gets a forum there is because she’s a “Republican” who will trash other Republicans.

Plenty of that here as well.

Boxy_Brown on March 13, 2009 at 12:00 AM

Bimbo!

youngO on March 13, 2009 at 12:14 AM

Where conservatives have gone wrong is that we have not been extreme enough. Since Obama took office there has been an intensive effort to water down conservatism and turn the Republican party into something the base doesn’t want. This has got to be orchestrated by those who controls what happens in the GOP. Can’t wait to see who they put out next. Michael Steele. Meghan McCain. Who is next? If people like Meghan McCain get what they want there will be little difference between the right and left and that’s exactly what they want.

apacalyps on March 12, 2009 at 11:24 PM

Apacalyps, I’m firing up the wayback machine and the effort actually goes back to well before Obama took office. I’ll say at least 1976 when Reagan challenged Ford for the Republican Presidential nomination, but if you really want to get technical you could say the Goldwater era is when things really kind of got started.

I say 1976 though because it offered up a pretty stark contrast, one that was echoed in the 1980 Republican primaries between Reagan and Bush. I think then, as we’re seeing now, a choice was being set up between “establishment style conservatism” in the person of Bush, or more populist conservatism in the person of Ronald Reagan. We know how that ended up, but to salve wounds and heal the party Reagan took Bush on as VP.

As an aside, even Bill Buckley was a Bush supporter until it became clear he was going to lose the primary, at which time he shifted support to Reagan.

Really, the choice all along has been establishment/elitist conservatism, which seeks to make gains out of the middle, and the more populist style which follows a different paradigm…to move people to the right instead of moving itself to the left to capture votes. Reagan was a master at it, as he had been a strong voice for conservatism for some 20+ years before his run.

We ended up giving Bush I the benefit of the doubt and true he trounced Dukakis pretty handily…although a lot of that was because Dukakis was an inferior candidate. Still, we saw how much Bush took away from Reagan…right? Read My Lips? Blugh.

I figured we were going to have another Wither Conservatism moment in the 2000 primaries, but when the two front runners turned out to be Bush/McCain…well, we’re talking two different brands of the same flavor of ice cream. And of course we suffered 9/11 which I think put the internal debate on hold.

So really the roots of this thing go back further than a couple of months. It really goes back to the dawn of the modern conservative era. And now that, sadly, the Democrats are in control of the field this is the best time for the GOP to sit down and rewrite our playbook. We tried the Meghan McCain-endorsed philosophy in elections going back to 1988, and it really hasn’t worked all that well for us. The problem with 2008 isn’t that we weren’t moderate enough…it was that we weren’t conservative enough (witness 1992, with a specific paean to raw conservative, not “moderate” values by Congressional candidates, resulting in the Democrats losing control for the first time in 40 years….). To suggest otherwise, as McCain does, is to ignore 20 years and six presidential elections of data.

I apologize for being so long winded, but conservative zoology is a hobby of mine.

JohnTant on March 13, 2009 at 12:37 AM

She gives proof to the blond jokes every time she opens her mouth. When will this dimwit fade away?

aigle on March 13, 2009 at 1:14 AM

the only thing nice that comes to mind about MM is that she is quite attractive…and that’s all i have to say about that.

Equality 7-2521 on March 13, 2009 at 1:21 AM

the only thing nice that comes to mind about MM is that she is quite attractive…and that’s all i have to say about that.

Equality 7-2521 on March 13, 2009 at 1:21 AM

This is true.

When she’s not succeeding at looking like a man, that is.

Ortzinator on March 13, 2009 at 1:33 AM

I couldn’t help but think how revealing it was when she said toward the end of the 2nd clip that she doesn’t understand economics hardly at all. She just spent, what did she say, 2 1/2 years campaigning with her dad, including living through the financial crisis on the campaign trail, listening to all of her dad’s speeches, and she didn’t learn ANYTHING about the economy!!! No one could make it through one of Ronald Reagan’s economic speeches without learning something about the economy!

This leads me to 2 conclusions:
1. John McCain, as he admitted during the primary, doesn’t understand the economy and has never discussed it enough for his daughter to pick up the first thing about it. No wonder he’s weak on supply side economics.
2. Republicans have to start educating the American people with their political speeches, not just try to say what as many people as possible already agree with. If it is just a contest of who sounds better, the media-aided Democrats will always win.

willamettevalley on March 13, 2009 at 2:11 AM

She can, and should, figure out how to appeal to my generation – but it involves math. Lots of math.

The pork-ridden spending bills and bailouts are going to weaken the economy for the next decade and impose huge repayment costs on my generation – those who will be working when the bill comes due.

Social Security, Medicare, and government pensions are three more time bombs. These things came about because of FDR’s “Great Society” and, of course, the belief that someone can retire at age 55, with a pension that no private employer would ever match, and, no, there will be no bad costs imposed on the rest of society.

Conservative and libertarian young ‘uns need to talk time bombs, debt, repayment of our debt, the international community’s willingness to lend to us, and our ability to defend ourselves against attacks that may come in 20 years. Fiscal conservatism is a very compelling message for the under-40 crew.

Roxeanne de Luca on March 13, 2009 at 3:56 AM

Meghan McCain, and all the other RINOs are what’s wrong with the Republican Party. And why people think that there is not a difference between republicans and democrats.
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Neville Chamberlain wanted to meet Hitler in the middle. We see how well that went.
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The Republican Party needs to draft some real conservatives as candidates.

darktood on March 13, 2009 at 4:03 AM

Megan McCain blogs for a LEFT-WING blog sight,,,need I say more?

nelsonknows on March 13, 2009 at 4:23 AM

A simple of case of Miss McCain clinging to her father’s second place coattails and trying to milk everything she can out of her own maverick Republican status. The fact that she’s willing to be seen being interviewed by Rachel Maddow says just about all that needs to be said.

Toodles, Meghan. Quit prissing around with your supposedly high-brow “progressive Republicanism.” Argh.

Jockolantern on March 13, 2009 at 4:23 AM

Look I think it is time that Ms McCain puts her money where her mouth is and runs for elected office herself instead of critizing others from the safety of her fathers coat tails. If she loves the party so much and seriously believes what she is saying about the party is true then she should step up to the plate, run for congress or state government and lead the way herself. Until she does that she will be just another attention seeking talking head who’s only claim to fame is that she is the daughter of a War hero Senator who failed in his attempt to become President.

Dreadnought223 on March 13, 2009 at 4:35 AM

Like father like daughter. I see her with her valley girl lingo and I think of the movie “Clueless.” And she is not hot.

Golden Boy on March 13, 2009 at 7:03 AM

Although, she could probably land a “Hustler” spread.

Golden Boy on March 13, 2009 at 7:08 AM

When the left is done with her they will toss her aside like that woman who’s son died in battle and she got all up in GW’s face for a while…
Hmmm…what was her name? Remember?…absolute moral authority…darling of the media…damn!

SKYFOX on March 13, 2009 at 7:53 AM

Dumb and stupid. Yum!

sabbott on March 13, 2009 at 7:56 AM

John McCain lost in part because of her blog, that and the fact that he was the worst presidential candidate since Mike Dukakis.

kanda on March 13, 2009 at 8:07 AM

This pinhead needs to be OUT OF THE PARTY. She is not a republican. She’s a democrat lite.

dogsoldier on March 13, 2009 at 8:46 AM

the only thing nice that comes to mind about MM is that she is they are quite attractive…and that’s all iWe have to say about that.

Equality 7-2521 on March 13, 2009 at 1:21 AM

Isn’t that how Equality would see it?

InTheBellyoftheBeast on March 13, 2009 at 8:51 AM

BTW, where would she be trash talking the GOP had Daddy not won the nomination? Would even the libs be listening?

InTheBellyoftheBeast on March 13, 2009 at 8:57 AM

F & F (Doocy) blubbers over little miss Meghan, Hannity blubbers over Daddy and Meghan both. I thought that John didn’t like conservatives. Meghan at least has the fortitude to insult Ann and the rest of us us to our face. Maverick Senator John likes to sucker punch us.

Mr. Grump on March 13, 2009 at 9:13 AM

Oh, Gawd…… go away Megan.

ErinF on March 13, 2009 at 9:18 AM

Hot – I don’t think so.
PatMac on March 12, 2009 at 9:49 PM

Hey big girls need love too! You don’t think so.
I don’t discriminate.

woodman on March 13, 2009 at 9:39 AM

Maybe I’ll change parties and become a Democrat and portray myself as a Democratic Party Reformer. I’d be a true “lone voice” since the media landscape is lousy with fake Republicans agitating to make the Republican Party more liberal but how many fake Democrats are agitating to make the Democrats more conservative? I’m sure that I’ll be getting all kinds of media gigs ( MSNBC, Newsweek ) where they will let me trash my fellow Democrats and undermine their agenda.

Buddahpundit on March 13, 2009 at 9:46 AM

Why do Republicans always take the left’s bait to attack each other? You never see centrist Democrats attacking the hard left. No Democrat ever goes on television to bemoan the leftwing extremism of the Democrat party. The Democrats are smart enough to understand that they need to keep their coalition intact in order to defeat their opponents. The Republicans just don’t seem to get it. Why do people like Meghan McCain waste their time attacking “right wing extremism”. Do they really think that Coulter, Rush et al are a bigger problem for this country than Obama, Pelosi, and Reed? Coulter may go overboard at times but at least she’s fighting for the right team.

frank63 on March 13, 2009 at 9:47 AM

Still… you single guys know you’d “hit it” as long as she didn’t talk… Republicans are SO MUCH hotter then pasty, angry radical Liberals…

She’s just using her 15 minutes of fame, a bit like the “She Bang” guy from American Idol…

And she’s just as bad at it too…

Mark Garnett on March 13, 2009 at 10:14 AM

Look Twit, centrist nonsense is why your dad isn’t in the White House. Go away. Shoo. No, really, go.

marklmail on March 13, 2009 at 10:15 AM

McCain was a bad candidate.

In my heart of hearts, however, I still think that the Democrats would have won. Very rarely does a party remain in control the of the executive for longer than eight consecutive years. (Before Bush #41, it was FDR.)

eaglescout1998 on March 13, 2009 at 10:25 AM

Meghan makes the same mistake many people make at her age of thinking young people represent the future of the party. They do and they don’t. Except for Reagan I think that has never been a conservative voting majority. Like Winston Churchill said if you are not a liberal before 30 you have no heart and if you are not a conservative you have no head. She doesn’t understand stupid things like the latest flavor in liberal politics like gay marriage are always something the younger generation grabs on to befoer the more important realities sink in about life. She is too young and close to her liberal college professors words from Columbia that make her think the world is sitting around thinking about Gay marriage and going green. My advice is when you get a chance to shame this women do so. The democrats are looking for distractions and because she is a McCain this is a great one. Shame this woman off the stage please. I was dissappointed Hannity even let her sit on his panel the other night.

Conan on March 13, 2009 at 10:27 AM

Conan, in reality the youth vote isn’t that significant of a voting bloc anyway, liberal OR conservative. The young simply don’t vote in numbers that matter all that much.

Every election cycle we’re treated to how the young are going to revolutionize the paradigm, or some such nonsense. And every cycle they simply fail to turn out. They have passion, I’ll give them that, but at the end of the day it doesn’t translate into votes.

JohnTant on March 13, 2009 at 10:42 AM

she’s as worthless as her father. please shut up and go away. or just crawl up obama’s a-hole where she so clearly wants to be. i wish ann coulter would give her a verbal beatdown.

Ghoul aid on March 13, 2009 at 10:47 AM

Mehgan, you are not a Republican. You are a Rino like daddy. Do us a favor, Keep mouth shut. You are young and pretty but your mouth makes you seem dumb. You are no moderate at that. You and Daddy are both RINO’S!!! I hope Ann rips you alive. You will deserve it.

sheebe on March 13, 2009 at 10:52 AM

Meghan McCain’s problem stems from the fact that Ann Coulter has consistently said, albeit in more subtle terms, that John McCain is essentially a loose cannon asshole and wholly unsuited to be the GOP’s candidate for President. In that Coulter is right. Unfortunately, McCain represented the “best compromise” of a bad bunch of GOP candidates, and hence the Messiah levitated his way into the White House due to the gullibility and stupidity of the bovine masses, encouraged by the equally stupid liberal majority of the MSM.

Jabba The Cat on March 13, 2009 at 10:52 AM

For God’s sake, she’s a kid. What is the point of even commenting on what she said? She’s a kid. A teen.

rightwingprof on March 13, 2009 at 10:57 AM

Still… you single guys know you’d “hit it” as long as she didn’t talk… Republicans are SO MUCH hotter then pasty, angry radical Liberals…

Mark Garnett on March 13, 2009 at 10:14 AM

Ugh, no. Just…no. She may be ‘pretty’ but it would be too much like doing her dad in drag. She just looks way too much like him, even down to a miniature version of the neck thing.

James on March 13, 2009 at 11:11 AM

Daddy trained her well, she will try to walk the tightrope her entire life and be hit with crap from both sides. She is a cute girl maybe she should do a photo shoot for a mens mag and get her political career over with now.

Tremmy on March 13, 2009 at 11:18 AM

Well, I’m just as unhappy with the Republican party as Meghan is except, I want the party to be more conservative.

Perhaps we should start a new party and call it “Conservatives” so there’s no confusion. Then Meghan along with her dad and others like Specter, can go pander to the middle, or center that the Republican party now stands for.

moonsbreath on March 13, 2009 at 11:30 AM

I didn’t vote for her dad and I don’t care about her opinion. If she wants attention she can keep janging out with her buddy Rachel Maddow who apparently loves her. Note to Meghan if MSNBC’s anchors love you…YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING MASSIVELY WRONG! Wake up, shut up, and I am obliged to ask the McCain family to stop screwing us.

therambler on March 13, 2009 at 11:32 AM

I realized that I should also add i did not vote hopeandchange either…but I did vote.

therambler on March 13, 2009 at 11:33 AM

Since I’m from Arizona, where her daddy (the carpetbagger) was foisted on us by the east-coast country-club set and has been liberal enough to obtain the liberal Arizona Repulsive’s endorsement, I think I smell a future run for daddy’s seat, or some political office, testing the waters to see if she has poll numbers, likability and all that stuff….
and McCains’ upcoming re-election bid is the reason he has swung back into the conservative camp…till after elections then he will become Obama’s closest ally, making Specter look fashionably conservative…………..

colonelkurtz on March 13, 2009 at 11:35 AM

Isn’t that how Equality would see it?

InTheBellyoftheBeast on March 13, 2009 at 8:51 AM

oops…i quoted out of character. impressed you caught it, though!! :)

Equality 7-2521 on March 13, 2009 at 11:48 AM

“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?”

She is not interested in inspiring gen-x about anything. She is looking for a job in the media.
Being a so called Republican who hates conservatives is a good niche to be in as far as the media is concerned

kangjie on March 13, 2009 at 11:48 AM

Dead from the neck up.

EEprom on March 13, 2009 at 11:53 AM

Clueless, vapid, wannabie who is trading on her daddy’s name and her willingness to trash a political party she obviously knows sqat about. Makes me question the wisdom of having the voting age under 30.

katiejane on March 13, 2009 at 12:12 PM

the only thing nice that comes to mind about MM is that she is quite attractive…and that’s all i have to say about that.

Equality 7-2521 on March 13, 2009 at 1:21 AM
This is true.

When she’s not succeeding at looking like a man, that is.

Ortzinator on March 13, 2009 at 1:33 AM

And, according to men in my family, when she keeps her mouth shut *grin*

Whats with Hannity et al suffering this foolish woman. Id like to see her on Glenns show. No prisoners, no quarter.

kooziegirl on March 13, 2009 at 12:16 PM

Meghan needs to get a real job and quit trying to be a celebrity. She needs to be ignored along with the other wannabees like paris hilton, etc.

workingforpigs on March 13, 2009 at 12:21 PM

Unfortunately, McCain represented the “best compromise” of a bad bunch of GOP candidates, and hence the Messiah levitated his way into the White House due to the gullibility and stupidity of the bovine masses, encouraged by the equally stupid liberal majority of the MSM.
Jabba The Cat on March 13, 2009 at 10:52 AM

LOL. Add to bovine masses, slack-jawed mouth breathers.

kooziegirl on March 13, 2009 at 12:21 PM

Dear McCain( any of you)…

people like you are why we are in the shape we are in today, which is basically going to hell in a handbasket.

OwlorNothing on March 13, 2009 at 12:24 PM

Anne responding would be like arguing with a second grader. Yes, you can argue with a second grader, yes they will argue back and won’t know better than to shut their mouth, but is it really fair?

TTheoLogan on March 13, 2009 at 12:29 PM

Since I’m from Arizona, where her daddy (the carpetbagger) was foisted on us by the east-coast country-club set and has been liberal enough to obtain the liberal Arizona Repulsive’s endorsement, I think I smell a future run for daddy’s seat, or some political office, testing the waters to see if she has poll numbers, likability and all that stuff….
and McCains’ upcoming re-election bid is the reason he has swung back into the conservative camp…till after elections then he will become Obama’s closest ally, making Specter look fashionably conservative…………..

colonelkurtz on March 13, 2009 at 11:35 AM

I’m not a huge mccain supporter, but he has had a pretty good response to the “carpetbagger” accusation. You’re sounding anti-military with that stupid comment.

TTheoLogan on March 13, 2009 at 12:30 PM

The only reason I voted for your RINO of a father is because of Sarah Palin. Go away little girl, the Republicans don’t need to be more moderate. They need to get back to their Conservative roots.

Repubtallygirl on March 13, 2009 at 12:41 PM

At first, I thought the alledged anti-Palin rumors after the election came from Nicolle Wallace. At the very least she was very incompetent how she handled Sarah.

However, based on the hokiness of the spilled rumors, it is quite reasonable that these came from Meghan McCain. She obviously is liberal, but we knew that going way back. Also, she seems kinda immature. If I had to place a bet, I’d guess it was her or her chums within the campaign.

Ann Coulter has not responded because let’s face it, Meghan is like a tiny ant you don’t notice from the eyes of a much more substantial woman like Coulter. And yes, Ann is hotter live and up close (book signing). She is a person who looks better live than on TV. Sometimes it is the reverse.

Sapwolf on March 13, 2009 at 1:02 PM

She makes Bristol Palin seem more grown up.

Meghan, go find a REAL job or marry some guy who does.

Move on. It’s like watching a high school baseball player taking some hacks vs. Pedro Martinez in his prime. One missed swing after another continually behind on the fastball.

Pathetic.

And Hannity wasting any of his show on this attention whore is just so wrong.

Sapwolf on March 13, 2009 at 1:10 PM

If you try to be both things you end up being nothing

Simply put the reason the republicans got their asses handed to them was because they didnt do their jobs..
They tried to be centrists..

and all i have found out in my life is
each time i tried to please everybody
I just made everyone mad..

So i stopped trying and now i will tell you where i stand
and if you dont like it Tough crap..
Go suck an egg

She is trying to be a centrist hoping to be friends with everyone..

Sounds familiar doesnt it…
yea the democraps trying to be friends with Iranian Islamic nazis..

Sorry wont work and i wont bow down to them either..
so this stupid tart can go ahead and kiss the democraps and iranians ass

I am ready to start kicking some ass..

jcila on March 13, 2009 at 1:12 PM

I think Meghan needs to post here.

She’ll wish she never opened her mouth.

moonsbreath on March 13, 2009 at 1:41 PM

Like, omg, Meghan? Are you, like, for real?

I love Laura Ingraham’s take on this: “Maddow seemed pretty excited to talk to Meghan McCain.” Ugh…

hockey2k5 on March 13, 2009 at 1:55 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

Amen to that, and take Colin Powell, Scott McClellan, Ken Adelman Andrew Sullivan, wt al with you.

Hilts on March 13, 2009 at 2:01 PM

“…the only reason she gets a forum there is because she’s a “Republican” who will trash other Republicans.”

Now who would she have learned that trick from?

drunyan8315 on March 13, 2009 at 2:17 PM

Loudmouth RINO, take your Zicam quickly and flush your system, or else admit your true affinity with Socialism and drop the GOP facade.

Though she did not build the great divide, to deny the GOP its essence is to deny the GOP its relevance, ergo its existence. It is not the responsibility of the GOP to disable the Constitution. Democrats need no help in dismantling it. Meghan speaks for herself, certainly not for either centrists or for the GOP.

maverick muse on March 13, 2009 at 2:34 PM

So really the roots of this thing go back further than a couple of months. It really goes back to the dawn of the modern conservative era. And now that, sadly, the Democrats are in control of the field this is the best time for the GOP to sit down and rewrite our playbook. We tried the Meghan McCain-endorsed philosophy in elections going back to 1988, and it really hasn’t worked all that well for us. The problem with 2008 isn’t that we weren’t moderate enough…it was that we weren’t conservative enough (witness 1992, with a specific paean to raw conservative, not “moderate” values by Congressional candidates, resulting in the Democrats losing control for the first time in 40 years….). To suggest otherwise, as McCain does, is to ignore 20 years and six presidential elections of data.

I apologize for being so long winded, but conservative zoology is a hobby of mine.

JohnTant on March 13, 2009 at 12:37 AM

Very well said. No apologies necessary. I completely agree with you. Uh, just to clarify my position. I am under no illusion that the effort to turn the GOP into the “Democrat lites,” has been going on for far longer than the last couple months. If we go behind the scenes and see how things really work. The Democrats and Republicans aren’t controlled by ordinary citizens who give $5 contributions or $25 contributions or even $100 contributions. They’re controlled by multi-national corporate giants who organize massive fundraisers who raise hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars for the political process. That’s who controls what happens in Washington. That’s who controls what happens in American politics, and the same situation exists behind the scenes in every Western country. They’re the ones who are through Hollywood and the news media feeding lies to American youth and creating moral decay and destroying the American family with their decadent, filthy, and moral filth they peddle day and night to American youth. They are the ones who are destroying everything good in the United States. That is why John McCain was the Republican nominee last election and why abortion supporter Michael Steele is the RNC chairman and why Meghan McCain is trying to turn GOP centrist. And it will continue to go down hill as long as these kind of people are speaking for us. That is why I say it is essential we build a real conservative movemement. If not, America is doomed. They will bring down America.

apacalyps on March 13, 2009 at 3:09 PM

Good gravy, she loves her Dad. Simple. And she is a kid. Other simple.

My kid thought sarcasm was awful, awful, awful, too, at her age.

He was a sweet guy. She’s a sweet girl. McCain did a nice job of raising a sweetie-pie.

Coulter’s brand of humor upsets sweet people.

Of course, by 40, she’s like spicy food. We like that tart voice.

But at Meghan’s age?

No.

She’s barely out of the Barney stage.

AnninCA on March 13, 2009 at 3:11 PM

Sorry. Cannot control the barf reflex when I view that hideous gender challenged shemale Rachel Maddog.

A level actually exists beneath Olberdope. And she is it.

DeweyWins on March 13, 2009 at 3:22 PM

She’s sticking up for daddy, can’t blame her for that – but it could all go pear-shaped faster than she can imagine.

Maybe she can connect to the up-talking mall-rat generation-duh demographic….but vacuous Republican cheerleading ain’t gonna cut it with those of us with sufficient neurons to generate warmth.

LimeyGeek on March 13, 2009 at 4:03 PM

She looks like a kinky little minx. Bet she cusses like a sailor in the bedroom.

marklmail on March 13, 2009 at 4:03 PM

She looks like a kinky little minx. Bet she cusses like a sailor in the bedroom.

marklmail on March 13, 2009 at 4:03 PM

Bring out the ball-gag then….

LimeyGeek on March 13, 2009 at 4:11 PM

How long before Megan McCain attacks Bristol Palin?

nelsonknows on March 13, 2009 at 4:12 PM

So long as mud and booze is involved, it can’t happen soon enough

LimeyGeek on March 13, 2009 at 4:18 PM

My kid thought sarcasm was awful, awful, awful, too, at her age.

Coulter’s brand of humor upsets sweet people.

AnninCA on March 13, 2009 at 3:11 PM

Political correctness is a policy whipped on all of us that makes Coulter’s humor scary to people under 30 who have been convinced that the PC police around them with jail them socially and makes the rest of us cheer for freeing us from this externally imposed restriction on oyr rights to object.

Listen to Meghan and you can almost hear that she and her friends don’t have a dialogue about the possiblity of what Coulter’s humor is aimed at they quickly scramble for the low-thought bunkers of PC and stay there.

This is the appeal of the Rush Limabugh show. Rush came along and started to make fun of PC and the PC police started taking it of context and attaching their own labels. Young people see this and really aren’t equipped to take those kind of arrows so they quickly say…I am PC…I love liberals…

Conan on March 13, 2009 at 5:01 PM

It’s official: she’s an idiot.

Metro on March 13, 2009 at 6:25 PM

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?
Good question. It takes real courage to, say, defend Sarah Palin.
ddrintn on March 12, 2009 at 5:23 PM

Mega-dittos on this one.

ProudPalinFan on March 13, 2009 at 7:11 PM

MEGHAN is AAAAAAAAALL about MEGHAN.

Spoiled little rich brat with too much time on her hands and not good looking enought to be an heiress anyone gives a DAMN to read about in PEOPLE MAGAZINE, and that.eats. her.lunch.

I have heard her classist comments about the NASCAR/GOP voters from her very own lips.

She is a CLASS “A” , late life, “look at me” bratty little B!TCH whose McDole Daddy’s time has PASSED!

Next.

seejanemom on March 13, 2009 at 7:48 PM

moonsbreath on March 13, 2009 at 1:41 PM

Well, getaclue is the closest one at this point
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FontanaConservative on March 13, 2009 at 9:47 PM

she looks like a kinky little minx. Bet she cusses like a sailor in the bedroom.

marklmail on March 13, 2009 at 4:03 PM

FREAKING HILARIOUS

Equality 7-2521 on March 14, 2009 at 1:52 AM

She’s just using her 15 minutes of fame, a bit like the “She Bang” guy from American Idol…
And she’s just as bad at it too…
Mark Garnett on March 13, 2009 at 10:14 AM

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Hung was entertaining the first couple of times you heard him, Meghan worse she doesn’t have any value.
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Repubtallygirl on March 13, 2009 at 12:41 PM

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I only voted for McCain, because of Obama.
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Dumb and stupid. Yum!
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sabbott on March 13, 2009 at 7:56 AM

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Rich, somewhat attractive, dumb, and stupid. Quick we need a young, handsome, and long suffering hero to sweep her off her feet, and take her out helping disaster victims to show Republicans care.

darktood on March 14, 2009 at 3:06 AM

Tolerance people!! Ms. McCain has a right to her cry baby, whiny @ssed opinion, just like her idols…Barbara Streisand Jane Fonda and Rosie O’Donnell.

DanaSmiles on March 14, 2009 at 7:38 AM

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