Great news: Meghan McCain lands book deal in the “high six figures”

I hope it is about how Reps should change for the young because that will make it a HUGE failure. Young people who are dedicated libs are not going to sway. The believe the right is full of devils. Young people on the right think McCain is a joke.

The only people seriously reading it will be aging pervy baby boomer libs whose lame fantasies she totally fulfills.

herrevery on April 9, 2009 at 5:33 PM

We speak of RINOs often in these parts, but I think the most significant schism among people who identify themselves as “conservative” is between those who accept the basic tenets of liberalism, and those who do not. Ms. McCain, and arguably her father, are examples of the former group. They could say they aren’t truly “liberal,” and John McCain has a significant number of legislative achievements to back up that claim. The problem is that they accept, or at least refuse to combat, the basic beliefs behind the liberal worldview – they see conservatives as a minority dissenting party within an irreversibly liberal establishment, and they have made their peace with that second-class status. They even relish the opportunity to be “mavericks” by occasionally disagreeing with serious liberals, and more frequently with serious conservatives.

If Meghan’s book is an attempt to state her philosophy, it will likely be filled with many sharp points of disagreement with the hardcore conservative base, and salted with a few mild and polite dissensions from liberal orthodoxy. She might, for example, say that the worst excesses of affirmative action are unfair, but would not reject the very concept of government giving preferential treatment based on race. She’ll almost certainly have bricks to throw at Sarah Palin, but I think we can count on a much softer attitude toward Barack Obama, with a 99% probability that any criticism of him will be preceded by praise for his ability and achievements. She’ll reflexively give him a level of credit for good intentions that she would never be willing to extend to Palin, or any other prominent conservative.

The problem with the Meghan McCain wing of the Republican party isn’t that they are Republicans In Name Only. The problem is that they think it’s only a name. Their goal in life is to slightly reduce the speed of the country’s movement to the left, not burn down the liberal establishment by challenging its most basic assumptions. They accept the Left as the true arbiters of virtue – they would be much more worried about incurring the anger of Jon Stewart or Katie Couric than making Newt Gingrich, Bobby Jindal, or even Rush Limbaugh mad.

Unfortunately for Meghan, her book will arrive on shelves right about the time the long American death march to the Left has been forcibly completed. In Fascist America 2010, there won’t be much need for people who think the country should move a little more slowly to the left, because there won’t be any room to head in that direction at all. She’s about to collect six figures in a bid to become the fresh young face of a completely dead branch of an ideology that needs warriors, not diplomats.

Doctor Zero on April 9, 2009 at 6:03 PM