The trouble with Meghan McCain
You know what’s wrong with Meghan McCain? It’s not her weight. It’s not her voice. It’s not her looks. She’s a beautiful young girl with TV-friendly poise and natural charm. The trouble with Meghan McCain is that, like her father, she has no fixed ideological principles — conservative, liberal, or otherwise. She seems to have inherited the notion that playing the “maaaaverick” imparts her with moral authority and credibility as a fresh voice for the GOP. I’m all for speaking truth to power. But like her father, Ms. McCain’s maaaaverick-iness appears to be rooted less in any firm set of beliefs than in the need for liberal approbation.
Take her “beef with Ann Coulter.” (Ms. McCain’s not the first or only one on the Right to ever criticize her, by the way.) If Ms. McCain sincerely detests Coulter’s “demeanor” and “extreme” thinking, statements, and behavior because they represent “hate” and alienate young voters, then how is it that the same genteel Ms. McCain can cheer the cretinous, left-wing extremist Russell Brand?
Here’s what she wrote on her Twitter page Friday evening:
Russell Brand is freaking hilarious, just started listening to his podcasts on itunes. Everyone should check it out. 6:05 PM Mar 13th from web
She followed up by linking to his website:
http://www.russellbrand.tv/ to everyone that asked, here is russell brand’s website
Ms. McCain, have you forgotten what Russell Brand said about your dad’s running mate and her family? Have you forgotten what he said about President Bush? Here, let me remind you…from my blog post on September 7, 2008:
Reader M.G. writes that the MTV Awards show was the latest venue for vicious Palin family-bashing:
“I know a few people at Viacom and I tuned in to see the MTV music awards tonight. I was disgusted and appalled when the British host Russell Brand started begging America to vote for Barack Obama. Like his opinion matters. He’s not even a citizen. What’s worse is that he attacked Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter. He made a snide joke that her baby was not a boy or a girl, but a P.R. stunt.”
You can watch Brand’s opening screed here. This cretin’s claim to fame? Dressing up as Osama bin Laden on the day after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
I’ve transcribed some of his Obama endorsement and GOP-bashing, which occurred barely 3-4 minutes into the show:
BRAND: “Now, as a representative of the global community and a visitor from abroad, I don’t want to come across a little bit biased, but could I please ask of you people of America, to PLEASE ELECT BARACK OBAMA. Please! On behalf of the world. (Camera pans to singers Chris Brown and Britney Spears applauding and cheering.) Some people, I think they’re called racists, say that America is not ready for a black president. But I know America to be a forward-thinking country, right. Because, otherwise, you know, would you have let that retarded cowboy fellow be president for eight years?
We were very impressed. It was nice of you to let him have a go. Because in England, George Bush wouldn’t be trusted with a pair of scissors.
I am obliged by broadcasting law to show some balance in this situation, which means, uh, the Republicans might be alright. Sarah Palin. She’s a VILF! A vice president I’d like to…fumble, fondle, I dunno. I do feel a little bit sorry for her daughter, getting pregnant, poor kid. Is it a boy? Is it a girl? It’s a P.R. stunt. Come on. Be honest.
And I feel most sorry for that poor teenaged father. Boy. One minute, he’s just a teenaged lad in Alaska having joyful, unprotected sex. And the next minute: Get to the Republican convention. I think that is the best safe sex message of all time. Use a condom or become Republican! …That boy will spend the rest of his life masturbating while wearing a condom…
…New music, new president, and brand new America. And you people deserve it after eight years of Bush. I promise you, you deserve it…
Does the GOP need a new generation of conservatives who can defend our core values against the constant campus/media/Hollywood/effete European onslaught? Hell, yes.
Does the GOP need rudderless, self-defeating representatives who embrace pop culture demagogues on the Left while castigating the incivility of the “extreme Right?” Hell, no.
In her blog post on Coulter last week, Ms. McCain wondered: “Is she for real or not? Are some of her statements just gimmicks to gain publicity…or does she actually believe the things she says? Et tu, Meghan?
More reminders: Ms. McCain’s favorite comedian went on last fall to trash the Jonas Brothers for vowing to abstain from premarital sex before marriage. He had planned even more disgusting, vicious jokes — some aimed at Ms. McCain’s father and another involving an electric chair gag targeting the Palins:
The British comedian appeared to annoy celebrities and some fans when he made a series of risque political and sexual jokes hosting the 25th anniversary show. But Brand, who called for Americans to vote for Democratic nominee Barack Obama in the presidential elections, claimed censors at the channel had already toned down his routine and vetoed several jokes.
He said: “I had John McCain gags pulled. And they asked me to tone down the gags about Sarah Palin. I wanted to say she was forcing her teenage daughter to have a baby because she is so anti-abortion.
“But also, as a Republican she is pro-execution so she is going to give her the electric chair for being a little slut.
“They weren’t keen on that one.”
Neverthless, he did manage to include a reference to George W Bush as a “retarded cowboy” during the routine.
Last fall, the BBC suspended Ms. McCain’s favorite comedian over prank phone calls he made to British actor Andrew Sachs in which he made a string of lewd comments about the actor’s granddaughter:
Mr Sachs’s granddaughter, 23-year-old Georgina Baillie, said the family was still considering a formal complaint to police – a move that could lead to the presenters facing prosecution for making a nuisance call. She said: “What is funny about humiliating a lovely old man who has never harmed anyone in his life? We’re very close and I can’t tell you how much it hurts to know they were so unkind to such a sweet person. They should at least pay for what they’ve done with their jobs.”
Ross and Brand left a series of obscene messages on the answering machine when they could not reach Mr Sachs, 78, for a pre-arranged phone interview. Each message, aired on October 18 after senior producers authorised the programme for broadcast, contained lewd jibes about how Brand he had slept with Ms Bailie. Further transcripts of the programme have emerged in which Ross and Brand joke about breaking into Mr Sachs’ house and performing a sex act on him by way of apology.
Ms Bailie, a burlesque performer known as Voluptua, confirmed she slept with him three times in late 2006 but said: “It was never going to be a serious relationship but I felt I could trust him as a friend. I feel utterly exposed and betrayed.“What happened between us was supposed to be private but he is clearly no gentleman. What girl would ever want to have to tell their granddad who she slept with? He hasn’t asked me about it because he is too much of a gentleman – unlike Russell Brand.”
She added: “It was bad enough that they recorded these things on my grand-father’s answer machine but astonishing the BBC saw fit to broadcast it when they could have stopped it.”
What, exactly, does Ms. McCain find “freaking hilarious” about Russell Brand? If not his diatribes against social conservatives and mockery of 9/11, then what? Is it the photo of him urinating in the desert? The videos of him prancing around in his underwear? Or perhaps we’re just too old and too unhip to understand the humor and need to lighten up in order to broaden our base? Is that the takeaway?
How, exactly, does Ms. McCain reconcile her fervent disdain for Coulter with her fevered endorsement of an anti-American vulgarian who hates everything the Republican Party stands for?
I’d freaking like to know.
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Related good read today: Kyle Smith in the New York Post is ready to convert and become a new liberal media star.
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She’s a young, naive and gullible girl. We all were that way once. But, anyone who uses the phrase, “freaking hilarious”, needs to take some English Comp. courses first, before writing anything. Emotion rules, rather than logic. When we have no concrete foundation in which to build a good opinion and political base, we tend to use emotion. That’s why liberals love young people; it doesn’t make sense but it sure sounds good.
The left has anointed Meghan McCain as the new, fresh voice of Republicans / Conservatives. That’s why she’s getting so much air time in the media.
If she said that she loved Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, and Tammy Bruce; and despised the demeanor, hate, extreme thinking, statements, and behavior of bill mahar, michael moore, al franken, and ward churchill, then the national media would not only ignore her but they’d literally do everything they could to shut up so no one else could ever hear anything she said.
The left made her father the Republican candidate because they knew he’d be easy to beat. Now they’re trying to make her into something because they know that most of America doesn’t bother to pay any attention to the real story behind their propaganda. They’ll say that she’s a real Republican, and that all Republicans should be like her. Again, they’ll be wrong.
They want to choose Republican leaders that they can easily smack down. She’s another in a long line that fits the bill.
We choose our own leaders. Meghan McCain is no leader.
Meghan McCain is a young, foolish, immature little girl.
She talks about the big tent ideology of moderate/liberal Republicans and yet doesn’t allow room for conservatives.
And thinks Russell Brand is funny? He is not funny, only arrogant and obnoxious.
She says things that the liberal media can use and make her a tool of the left.
That 14 yr. old boy who speaks about conservatism sounds more mature and informed than Miss McCain.
Meghan McCain is young and unthinking. However, her picking fights with conservatives, Ann Coulter first, now Laura Ingraham is much like her father and his being the media darling while he trashes Republicans but then being a pariah if he says anything about Obama. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
She claims that she is trying to remake the Republican party her claims to loving to be a Republican and that there are too many mean people (as claimed on the Rachel Maddow show). I don’t know who is handling her “career” but it is looking a bit coordinated now. I am guessing that she is going to go after Michelle now. She has already claimed that Rush Limbaugh is mean. This young woman has all the money she will ever need, she now seems to need attention. Perhaps Paris Hilton or Nicole Ritchey aren’t available as a presstitute buddies. So Meghan is trying to do it on her own, she will be making the morning shows, she has already been on Rachel Maddow, perhaps she will do Chris Matthews or Keith Olberman next. I am sure they will book her, since her message fits with their agenda.
So this all begs the question, is Meghan McCain just a tool or is she doing this on purpose?
There are enough RINOs acting as the public face of the party, they do not need another. Especially one who embraces foreign leftist loons.
The republicans need spokespeople of strong character and conviction. Miss McCain falls short.
Yet another RINO that has failed to do even the most basic research against liberal libel. It’s just amazing to me how quick people like Meghan are to answer the question of “Do you agree with vile, hateful, bigoted sexist evil people in your party like Coulter and Limbaugh?” They never bother to ask the question “Who says Limbaugh or Coulter is ‘vile’ AT ALL?” I have yet to meet someone who can quote anything they said which was objectionable, beyond the occasional half-quote lifted by media matters.
They all just fall into the same tired old “Tell me, do you still beat your wife?” trap. If that’s the level of critical thinking she’s capable of, I’m NOT going to miss her as a “GOP spokesperson”
The same way her father and about half the posters here – who where cheering “Only McCain can win”(tm) last election cycle – they are not Conservatives. When they profess to be Conserv., they lie. Whether the lie is committed knowingly or not is of no concern to me — and shouldn’t be of concern to any other Conservative. We’re been “nice guys”, invited them into our tent, tried to be inclusive — all that emotion driven stuff — but we allowed them in w/o frisking them. Turns out they were mules, you know, a hybred donkey!
But by “mules”, I mean more than that. Not only are they donkey-lite, mules (in the drug trade) carry drugs into a country, often without knowing it. So have those people who complain about “ideological purity” smuggled in a virus that has wiped out the R-party. They will never see that it is the adulteration of the three legs of Conservatism that has brought us to this bitter pass. Instead, being addicted to emoting in place of a thought process, they will continue to insist that “Purists” are the problem, that only by becoming the enemy can we defeat them.
They will never see that if something isn’t pure, it is muddy. That to turn your back on Principles means you are UNPrincipled. That winning at any cost is losing because you’ll have given up what you were fighting for.
You’ve heard them, and they are certainly well represented by McCain sr. & daughter — the “pretend” Conservatives who can’t wait to excoriate anyone who calls for Guiding Principles in the Party. Instead they adopt Socialist phrasology, such as “Truth to Power” — a completely emotive phrase without any native semantic content whatsoever — it is colorless, and therefore can take on whatever meaning the listener “feels” it has.
And on top of all that, Brand just isn’t funny no mater how offensive or non-offensive his material is. I can’t even figure out what he is. A comedian? One of those people that’s just famous from reality TV or something? Where did that guy come from?
Probably in much the same way as you, for example, can raise alarms about child abuse when Lefties show up at protests with their children, yet applaud when Conservatives do exactly the same thing, as several of your recent posts featuring toddlers equipped with signs and costumes berating the stimulus package show.
I contacted Miss McCain and asked her for her response with a link to this thread. I’m not holding my breath, though.
@ JHSII On March 15th, 2009 at 6:28 am:
Let’s place the blame where it belongs. No one ‘made’ anyone do anything. Unfortunately, there are too many people, even among the squishy right and certainly among many ‘independents’, that get their ‘news’ from the LeftSM. That’s a choice not an imperative.
I’m hoping that conservatives have learned something from ’06 and ’08 and realize this is war and that we have to be active not passive or apathetic. 2010 will tell.
One of The Mules most favorite clubs to hit Conservs with is “if we don’t have CINO in the NorthEastern states, we’ll lose them! Only Dems will be elected there!” So? Instead, we’ve taken the Liberalism virus into our body-politic and perhaps it has killed us!
I’ll tell you what would have happened if we’d stood on Principle: the same as during Reagan. Yes, we *might* have lost a few states — but for the last 8yrs we’d have had a majority of both houses and perhaps the Presidency!
We’d have rolled back the Intrusive Socialistic Welfare State! Those NE Socialistic states would probably *still* be circling the drain, but all the other states (the Conservative ones) would be blossoming under the reduced Statist Burden. Those citizen of those Liberal states would have clear examples of the evil that is Socialism — so clear all the propaganda of the Socialist would fall on deaf ears, so clear that even the emoters could tell that the Socialists were lying. Evntually, with clear common examples infront of them of proper Principles making the difference between the good life and the New Slavery, they’d come around. Instead, we’ve let the Moderates muddy things until no one can see a difference between the outcome of Conservatism and Socialism — so the Socialists, the Enslavers, who have the biggest mike and control the schools, get to define us.
McCain got momentum in the primarie from largely democrat states like NY and CA. We should ‘reward’ such states for not voting Republican by putting them at the END of the primary. Let the states that voted Republican in the general election be in the front of the line during the primaries.
Look, strip away the emotional window dressing, discard the red herrings, and the argument of the “Centrists” is:
Boiled down, and honestly stated, THAT’S what the “moderate”s and the “maverick”s are saying! They are miserable unprincipled people who want company in their misery.
And, Heaven help us, we’ve given it to them.
It’s Bash Ann Coulter week as Rush was bashed last week. Even my small local paper has a letter to the editor callin her out for antisemetic statements. They managed to get O’reilly and Hannity into the letter for not calling her on it.I read Ann regularly and was stumped on the accusation until I remembered her “Jews would be perfect if they were Christians” quip. It’s not that all Dems have no sense of humor, they are told not to. The left is using the same strategy and contacts that got Obama elected.They have an army of attack agents that get their marching orders on a regular basis. Why do you think they are so interested in getting broadband to the sticks?
Reminds me of a joke:
Clinton was riding in his limo, when he saw a young boy with a box labeled “Democrat puppies — free.” Clinton opened his window, gave the boy the thumbs-up, and drove on.
About a week later, Clinton was riding by the same location, and he spied the same boy. However, the box now read, “Republican puppies — free.”
Clinton rolled down the window and asked, “Why are the puppies Republicans this week?”
The boy answered, “Their eyes have opened.”
Its been widely reported that Meghan’s social life has suffered and she has gone dateless many weekend this past year. This attitude adjustment on her part is just an attempt to fit in with the beautiful people she is so desperate to have the approval of.
Also not to forget TV appearances are her sole source of income. Perhaps she is trying to please her employers too.
Then again maybe its just McCain family values.
Yeah, wonder if Russell Brand is still keen on Obama after the snub he gave Gordon Brown. Maybe that set of DVDs Mr. Cheap Skate gave Brown contained some of Russell’s work? No, that would have started a freakin’ war.
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Also, when Ann says that type of thing, she’s being brutially honest to her pov. She’s made that statement many times, and the purpose of saying it isn’t to knock Jews, but to show how PC enslaves. As she’s said, if she didn’t think her flavor of religion was the best, she’d change it.
So, (as she’s often said) when she says that kind of thing, of course she feels her way is best — if not, why bother to be her way? If you’re a Jew and don’t think its best, why be a Jew? And further: if you *are* a Jew/ Catholic/ Mormon, and its because you think its best, why are you so selfish that you don’t want to share the message with people you know & say you care about?
Instead, PC enslaves — it tries to gilt you for not following the herd… or, rather, for what th Slavers SAY the herd should do & feel. Eventually through repetition, the herd forgets it ever felt any other way.
Michelle hit the nail on the head with the above quote. Ms. McCain, like so many other Americans, does not have any core beliefs when it comes to government. They go with what seems to be popular and will get them accepted.
I am not a republican or a conservative. (And absolutely NOT a socialist/communist/marxist/collectivist.) When I try and figure out what our federal government should or should not do I go to the documents that are under all my political beliefs, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. They help to focus my thinking, acting like a compass. Without a compass I would be more likely to run after whatever thing seemed the most popular at that time.
Better to be thought a fool then to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Oh wait, too late Meghan. And Russell.
Perfectly stated, Michelle. Ms. McCain is being used just like her daddy was by the MSM. She will find, just like he did, that their flattery is empty and they will abandon her when she says something they don’t like. I don’t understand what qualifies her to have a national platform upon which to speak about this party. This girl has done nothing but wave from limos her entire life, why should we care what she thinks? I won’t give her one more minute of attention. As far as I’m concerned, the left can keep her.
Once again, another apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
Well, if you go to the Founding Documents, you are a Conservative. If you think otherwise, it is because the McCainannites, (unmoored leaf-blowing-hither&yon-on-fads people), Socialists, etc have sucessfully muddied “Conservatism” up.
Washington wrote about the danger of these political faddest (the moderates) presented to the Republic, as did Madison and John Adams, and probably others of the FFs as well.
The clearest of the most concise explanations of Conservatism came from Reagan’s “3-legged stool” speech. When the “Mod”s start to flail crap into the water I usually go with that… and they act like vampires pelted w/garlic.. [chuckle]
Unfortunately, the MSM – aided by schools and Hollywood – is encouraging younger generations to be rudderless.
It’s so much more “enlightened” to not have any fixed principles, but to bounce around like a pinball and decide “X” is okay one day and not okay the next.
I’m off on Fridays so, out of curiosity, I listened to Rush Limbaugh (I normally don’t). He wasn’t on, but they replayed parts of his CPAC speech. Very interesting to listen to. One of the themes was relying on our core principles. He repeated that frequently.
What this comes down to is parents – us conservative parents – having children and passing along our values to them. But not in a “because I said so sort of way” (which happens) but in a “this is why liberalism is wrong and our beliefs are correct” sort of way.
We also need to get over the notion that “judging” others is wrong. It isn’t. That’s just a card liberals play to try to guilt conservatives into not questioning them – much like the “racist” and “homophobe” and “bigot” cards they throw out when someone says/does something they don’t like. We need to stop being thin-skinned and start standing up, saying “This is what I believe and if you don’t like it, tough.”
And we need a candidate to do that.
McCain wasn’t it – how many of us criticized that pick because “maverick” meant “just this side of liberal”? He’s a decent guy who served this country bravely, but he – like his daughter – has become rudderless in an attempt to get liberals to like them.
It’s time to grow up, make the RINOs extinct, and reclaim conservativism.
Meghan McCain is but the air headed child of an air headed political hack-if not for her father, as with the Kennedy spawn, we would never have heard of her. And again as with her father she is jealous of anyone who actually does achieve.
Her blog, her father’s endless RoBo calls and “Centrist Without a Center” are to be ignored as are the Hollywood airheads. I do wish the McCains would move to Massachusetts or New York or such. They could Country Club with their Friends of the Left.
The boy answered, “Their eyes have opened.”
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Keep the change-I’ll keep my guns
Fixed it… Don’t worry, its early in the morning: confusing what megan does with a thought-process is easy to do early in the AM!
The intersting thing is Daddy McBackStab doesn’t seem to learn from these incidents — he just bootlicks the Leftys more ardently!
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Which, I might add is a never-ending uphill climb – given the state of public education and the constant indocrination of our children. Busy parents beware: daily review of your childrens’ learning experiences are critical.
Voted for McCain with reservations like many — mostly because I believed Obama to be a fraud – - and I was correct.
Meghan McCain just reaffirms my doubt in her father and his beliefs. I don’t even think he actually fully supported Palin. She was convenient and filled the bill for the moment, but he was less than enthusiastic and that was reflected in the final vote.
We don’t need more people like this…. those that want to follow the politically correct crowd while they claim to be conservative. Instead of trying to unite the party, this woman is doing the opposite … fearing that she won’t be part of the ‘in’ crowd. Her next venue will be MTV and VH1. Just what we need, more adolescents in politics.
Meghan is less than impressive and no one would even be talking about her if her father wasn’t John McCain. What she thinks about Ann Coulter is not important…I’d ignore her if I were Ann.
If you believe in everything, you believe in nothing.
Nothing wrong with her weight, but I disagree with how she comes across. She is a total bimbo and valley girl that is getting a lot of airplay right now in the MSM because 1) she is stupid and the MSM can pretend she is a typical Republican, 2) she has no core beliefs and takes on Republicans, and 3) her criticism of smart conservatives, like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Laura Ingraham deflects from the real issues.
Laura Ingraham is 100% correct in taking her on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9zlHHqAxY4
Whoa. Add that guy to my “List of People I’d Like to Bust in the Jaw”.
mike.musculus – I do have to agree I am much more closely aligned with conservatives than any other current group. I do have a strong libertarian streak, though, as I imagine a lot of people here do as well.
I think the problem is quite the opposite. I think there are many who have inflexible rigidity to their ideology. Now Im not saying this is just a problem with conservatives liberals are just as equally guilty. Why can’t Mccain criticize some people in her own party. Why can’t Limbaugh face some tough criticism from Republicans. Same for Obama, why can’t you disagree with him and still remain a Democrat? I wish both parties would stay the big tent parties. I would consider myself socially liberal but fiscally conservative. The idea that you can’t be a fan of a comedian because he said some things that you may not agree with is ridiculous. I love Dennis Miller, think he is hilarious, but disagree with almost all of his political views.
By the way, if I were Ms. McCain, or any other low-level “political celebrity”, I would think very long and hard before taking on the likes of Ann Coulter or Rush!
TxSkirt…We will abandon her when she says something we don’t like too.
The hated Newsweek front cover has Rush with a blank band over his mouth saying “enough” by that idiot Frum.
We are never going to win with the left’s approval. Let’s get the ship in fighting shape by jettisoning all the junk we don’t need for the fight to come.
Principle; We aren’t an Ark, dump the RINO’s over the side.
Twice now, with Dole and McAmnesty we have rewarded senior party leaders with the nomination…and lost badly.
Principle; Politics isn’t about fairness. Second place is last place. Play to win.
It’s been argued that the Republican Party represents the rich and the religious and the Democratic Party everyone else. It’s not true but that’s what that last vote for our dumbass President believes.
Principle; Have principles. Low taxes, robust capable military, devolution revolution for 10th Admendment, deport illegals, sound money, English only, …actually be conservative. Don’t pander, that’s the DemocRATS job.
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Keep the change-I’ll keep my guns
In one hundred percent agreement: Ms. McCain’s lack of identifiable ideology means she is either angling for a career in tv journalism/political punditry at some liberal organization like nbc news, or is attempting to form a political personality for herself that is not unlike her father’s so she can make a run for his seat when he retires.
Exactly.
You can’t go through life on your tiptoes and have any solid footing.
Is it possible that Meaghan veiws one as a comedian, and the other as a political commentator? And, bases her opinions in that context. One she takes seriously, and the other she does not. Therefore, she does not veiw a comedian with equal standing of a political commentator.
I don’t know, maybe?
Meghan McCain is a political lightweight whose taste is clearly all in her mouth.
A true slice off the old ham.
This is what the young people has grown up thinking is funny…very sad
Don’t get your panties in a wad. It’s not like her dad tried to get elected…
I think that’s exactly correct, Michelle, and it’s the sort of analysis that keeps me coming back here as a regular reader. In the final analysis, being a “maverick” in the McCain sense of the word simply means being ideologically rudderless. Ms McCain is truly her father’s daughter. God save us from “mavericks”.
just as with her father and others before her, the way to be a regular on tv talk shows is to profess you are a republican while bashing republicans. it has launched and extended the careers of numerous jerks, arnold, lindsey, juan etc. it’s so easy to get your 15 minutes in the msm. even this 20 something done nothing can do it.
I saw her on some Fox show last week, and basically I was disgusted by her “tisk tisk” attitude towards Republicans. When she stated that Republicans needed to be more moderate, I basically shouted…then leave the party and become an Independent!
This woman has no Republican principles whatsoever.
Meghan, do us all a favor — you’re not a Republican, so please leave the party.
It’s depressing we even have to discuss this twitter twit. Without her daddy’s name, no one would pay the slightest attention to her. And if she wants a date so bad, there are plenty of Meet-A-Liberal-Democrat sites out there. Or if she wants to continue to do this RINO dance and get lots of lib attention, maybe she should change her last name: Meghan “Silk” Specter has a nice ring to it.
Note: it has been pointed out by people much smarter that me that the young and those who earn 250K+, two groups that went overwhelming for Obama, are the ones who will be most hurt by his policies. Oh, the irony.
You call it inflexible rigidity? Wow…that is nasty. I call it “standing up for what you believe”. So,I see you are another Meghan McCain “conservative”. You are a perfect example of what Michelle is talking about. As for disagreeing with her, the point of Michelle’s piece was, how can she claim to be conservative and still love that slimy, disgusting, not-funny British comedian, who bashed her father in front of an audience and on TV? He didn’t just “say some things we didn’t agree with”, he slimed everything we stand for, including calling President Bush, who was our President at that time, “retarded”. Meghan is a hypocrite. Anyone who recommends to her friends that they catch this guy because he is freaking hilarious, and then sends them a link to his website…is NO CONSERVATIVE. As for compromising our principles for the likes of you…I’ll pass.
I should care about the daughter of a failed Presidential candidate and mavericky Senator, why?
It’s funny that she thinks that the Republican party needs to get rid of Conservative “extremism” and go more moderate. If you can use logic, you would realize that’s what your daddy did–and he lost.
I just hope people realize that not all of us young’uns are this blonde.
She stated on Rachel Maddow (the only interview of Rachel’s i have ever watched in entirety) that she “used to be independent before becoming Republican”.
No dear, your ideology still tells us you are an idependant with some left-leaning notions, and without any leadership skills, like your dad.
You, nor your dad speak for conservative Republicans.
It is so easy to just get weary with this constant onslaught against conservatives.
Ms McCain. You have a lot of youthful energy and talent to spend for your own benefit and your country. I just want to ask you a couple of questions.
Do you ever really read or listen you Ann Coulter. I do. Every word is couched on real life hatred of conservatives by liberals. She qualifies every thing with real examples of left abuse. Megan it is called “truthfulness”. You cannot rewrite the truth.
Have you ever seen a conservative attack a helpless little kid and think its funny. Chances are you will not. However,your funny guy is mean. Thinks he is really being cute. I won’t give him credit by using his name , because, he was just one of many mean ass liberals that parroted each other.
Have you ever really looked at the term Maverick and wondered if you or your father could still be called a Maverick if you were in the Democratic Party.
I have a longer and different lifetime experience than you. For what that is worth I would advise to pick a set of principles and stick to it or be just another celebrity blogger mired in mediocrity.
You really need to relax. He is a comedian, he tells jokes for a living. You may not find them funny, but I think Bush is a big boy and can handle some mean and derogatory remarks being thrown his way. I’m not asking anyone to compromise there principles, but to allow other voices to be heard within your party. If you believe so strongly in your principles let them win in the battle of ideas, rather than throwing any opposing viewpoints out of the party.
Brat much????
Brat much????
I visited Ms. Megan’s website during the election one time and found it so utterly non-professional and corny I clicked off. Now, she’s attacking the big hitters and starting verbal wars with them and for what purpose? I’d recommend we simply ignore her, like any other troll. Have to agree with DBNinKY #37 – she’s angling for something to give her sheltered little life meaning – either a political pundit, commentator, or raise her awareness level to where she is a shoe-in for dad’s job down the road. She’d be perfect for The View.
Speaking of her lack of principle:
Is she kidding? Does she not know the history and philosophical foundations of feminism? It is because of feminists that such problems persist. I guess Columbia doesn’t teach how Marxism and feminism are inextricably linked.
Ms. McCain is merely an example of the typical 20-something who bases more of her beliefs on bumper sticker clichés and song lyrics than she does on any systematic political philosophy.
Ms. Megan is a little spoiled _____. I say if Ms.Megan has any guts she should debate Ms. Coulter.
Meghan who? Russell who?
Telling someone to “relax” is an nice, arrogant way to demean them and their viewpoint. Not nice. Since this thread is about a RINO who professes to be conservative, I have a perfect right to express the way I feel about people who do that. They are exactly why we have been losing elections and will continue to lose them until we stand up for what we believe. So NO, I WON’T RELAX. You need to move over to a website that is more to your liking…like Kos or something.
Again, you miss the point entirely! Meghan is not giving an opposing viewpoint. I will debate anyone, anywhere on viewpoints! She is a ditzy young lady who CLAIMS to be a conservative, yet recommends comedians who are filthy and disgusting. Not a conservative value or way to live. She claims to represent conservatives, but does not live it. I deeply resent that. She has a right to an opposing viewpoint. But she does not have a right to pretend she is a conservative. It takes the rest of us down.
Just another ditzy daughter of a famous person, like Paris Hilton. Why do we still listen to these people?
Ya gotta love a happyscraper!
Is this for real? Meghan is a spoiled brat craving attention!
Great article Michelle.
It’s interesting that Miz McCain wasn’t a Republican until her dad started running for President.
What principle!
“But, anyone who uses the phrase, “freaking hilarious”, needs to take some English Comp. courses first, before writing anything.” – graysonret
No, they don’t, that’s stupid.
Funny how Meghan McCain claims she can’t stand supper partisans on both sides but the only supper partisan she attacks is a conservative one. How exactly does she calim to be a republican all her life? She once said that she voted for Kerry in 04. So basicaly she has voted for a Republican once and it was her father. Enjoy your 15 mins of fame until you run out of conservatives to throw under the bus. Like Father like Daughter. What’s the over and under on her endorcing Obama in 2012? She is a trust fund baby, and I think they do better in the Democrat party anyway.
HappyScrapper – you took the words right out of my mouth. I agree: Telling someone to relax is a tactic to shut down dialogue, so that the leftist indoctrination can continue unfettered.
Meghan is getting too big in her own mind. I’m unwilling to dismiss that as just the antics of a “young” girl who doesn’t yet know better. She is rudderless, just like her old man.
You hit it right out of the park, Michelle.
Gee thanks (blush).
Yup! You can identify the trolls because they use that tactic a lot. It is done to make you feel like you are sounding crazy. Or you are “over the top”. Like, “calm down”, or “relax” whenever we passionately express our true beliefs. I have a very liberal brother who did that to me all my life. I always felt “inferior” to his intellect and thought he was so brilliant and I was so stupid. Then I grew up and figured it out. He is a liberal and has a haughty, arrogance about him, as do the so-called intellectuals you see from the universities, etc. Just look at the John Kerry’s and Al Bore’s of the world. To me, their lofty rhetoric and demeaner is laughable. They are at the bottom of the food chain, as far as I’m concerned. (Not my brother, though! I love him in spite of his strange outlook on life.)
Plus it’s prefaced with a command, a la “you *need* to….”
I do not like Megan McCain, and I have no use for The Daily Beast either. I ran across a headline that caught my eye there, written by hit-or-miss Tucker Carlson, and the comments indicated that the site is just a left leaning populist money machine.
Thanks, Michelle, for reminding us about Brand’s comments. He was on Leno the other night, and seeing him made me feel uncomfortable. Now I remember why.
*Hey, if it walks like a RINO, talks like a RINO, and, according to Laura Ingraham, is the size of a RINO, it must be a RINO; Sign this MM up as a spokesperson for Rhino Linings; We’ll keep our MM thank you.
Blonde Bimbo schtick? I think Paris Hilton cornered that market. The McCains are not worried about Senator McCain’s reelection to the Senate? Really, the McCain Brand is so rock solid/sarc. Look how the non enforcement, sanctuary and proposed amnesty for illegal aliens agenda is playing out….even as the city Meghan McCain was born in, gets the dubious distinction of kidnap capitol of the U.S.? Phoenix will rise from the ashes? Not at this rate. If I were John McCain I would tell my daughter to put a filter on that brain mouth thing. She is the daughter of a U.S. Senator well for now anyway.
The I-net seems to be one instance where the supposedly no-fail Tina Brown is behind the curve, re: TDB – a venture that’s ten years behind the times.
This is what you get when having the big bucks is more important than principle.
Why is anyone paying any attention to these fools anyway?
Michelle criticizes leftists for taking their children to protests and putting them in actual danger by sitting them in the middle of the street to block trucks.
People who take their children to Tea Party protests don’t do that.
This is the intellect of the twenty-somethings. Pretty scary! Me thinks she was raised by her university professors.
Well, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree… I would advise MS MCCAIN to take on a less formidable opponent then COULTER… In a ring COULTER would chew her a NEW ASS#*$E… She would not lay a GLOVE on the young IDIOT… She would do it with WORDS, and MS MCCAIN would be reeling around and wondering… Did anyone get the number of that truck???
Whether you agree with her or not…the majority of Americans relate to her over an Ann Coulter type.
Could we have some actual statistics, please? And a link would be nice. Thank you.
No moonshot, the majority of Americans do not agree with the McCainites of our country.
MM hits it just perfect with her assesment of the squishy new conservatives.
Why is it all right for dems to be hateful about everything normal and conservative, but when a conservative actually uses sarcasm with logic to show liberalism for the failure it is we are demonized from vermin like McCain and all his DC insiders.
Megan McCain is trying to be a cable whore. Whoring off of her fathers stupidity will not work for her, just like it didn’t work for John McNasty!
Come on, you know as well as I do that the majority of the American people don’t like hateful/extreme people…whether it’s Ann Coulter or Michael Moore.
I’m surprised at Ms. McCain’s appreciation for Russell Brand’s humor. Her father has shown himself to be a very funny speaker when not campaigning. His speech at the Alfred E. Smith dinner back in October was superb. Comparing Brand’s talent for humor to McCain’s is like comparing hamburger to wagyu beef.
Well said. And I might add…Ann Coulter is a CONSERVATIVE HUMORIST. She uses wit and sarcasm to make her point. She has never pretended to be anything but. Her wit and sarcasm are SPOT ON. But “those who will not see”, otherwise known as liberals, don’t get it. Any time someone uses words that are actually in the dictionary and are over four letters, the liberals can’t handle it and tune out. Thus, they don’t understand Ann Coulter’s great nuances! She is a treasure.
I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Remember the old joke about the difference between John Giotti and George HW Bush? Gotti has ONE conviction. The problem is that joke applies to most republicans. (The leftists would have lots of convictions if the justice department would get off their butts!)
This is what we are getting from the 20-somethings around the country. Megan McCain passes for an “intellectual” when in fact she seems to lack any critical reasoning skills.
Is Ann Coulter sometimes over the edge? Yes, sometimes. But that doesn’t mean she is wrong about the objects of her well-deserved scorn.
It is kind of sad but it appears that McCain and his daughter learned nothing from the election cycle. Living for leftist approbation is pointless. They hate her dad and they hate her too.
There are people who don’t like Ann Coulter. Those people have either never bothered to actually listen to what she is saying, or they are liberals who HATE what she is saying. Same as with Rush Limbaugh. Michael Moore, on the other hand, is a big fat liar! He makes “documentaries full of misquotes, deliberate lies, and “creative” editing. He is a sleaze who loves socialism and Cuba much more than he loves this country. To compare Ann Coulter to him is a disgrace. TAKE IT BACK OR LEAVE. Methinks we have a few trolls on board.
It’s not hard to understand, she’s a spoiled little airhead, just like her father.
Megan who? This obscure little twit took on Ann to get into the news. The other day, an Obama supported/Palin hater I know said that Megan could be POTUS one day. After slaming Palin for her qualifications, Megan was qualified??? McCain failed and she isn’t first daughter….so disappear already.
happyscrapper is right…at least Ann Coulter loves this country, while Moore figured he could make a buck by playing to those who don’t love this country.
Why are we cursed with Meghan McCains, Patti Davises, and Ron Reagan Jr.s? We have too many squishes and too many fame whores who want to be liked by the glamourous people.
The hypocrisy on the left is quite a thing to behold. You are so right…they are still trying to destroy Sarah Palin, even though she is no longer running. Hateful, completely unfounded, slanderous lies. And she is one of the countries most successful Governors with an approval rating of 80% and more brains in her little pinky than Meghan and Barak combined. To think that someone is so STUPID to say Palin is not qualified and in the same breath say that Meghan McCain IS? I should be used to the incredible stupidity of the left, but it just puzzles me so!! How did they get so brainwashed that they can’t see the hypocrisy of a statement like that?
There is so many good points that I agree with. That makes it hard to look another way at the situation.
It seems to me the Libs love the McCains only because they can be counted on to throw conservatives under the bus. We saw it in the campaign. They love him. Until he got the nomination. Even the New york times endorsed him. Until he got nominated.
This has to have a little straw person syndrome in this somewhere
I have said this before. I’m tired of getting my nose rubbed in the dirt by liberals and I just want someone to stand up and fight back. Ann does that. If the McCains did that I think he would be president.
So, true conservatives can’t find Russell Brand funny?
Is Michelle going to a post an even longer list of people “true conservatives” must despise?
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I used to be a conservative democrat when I was young. Serving as a draftee in the U.S. Army and watching President Lyndon Johnson fail to win a winnable war changed my mind. The (then) new anti-American democratic / liberal / socialist / marxist / communist party behavior made me leave–like Ronald Reagan said, “I didn’t leave the democratic party–it left me!”.
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Winston Churchill made a quite apropo comment on changing political thinking–”Anyone who is 20 and isn’t a liberal doesn’t have a heart. And anyone who is 40 and isn’t a conservative doesn’t have a brain!”
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Another germane comment is that A CONSERVATIVE IS A LIBERAL WITH EXPERIENCE!
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Possibly Megan McCain will change as she gets more life experience. In the meanwhile–the good Conservative Ladies–Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, and Ann Coulter are carrying the torch for liberty and the American way.
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As far as Ann Coulter’s biting wit–she is right 90+ percent of the time. Like conservative democrat “Give ‘em hell” President Harry Truman said, “I just told them the truth and they thought it was hell!”. Keep up the good work.
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John Bibb
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I don’t like Meghan McCain and I think she is getting way too much attention. She will do nothing but harm to the GOP down the road.
Show me where MM states we conservatives “must despise” anyone…typical lib makes untruthful statements in an attempt to show their lack of honesty.
Dear Ms McCain, I will not enter into personal attacks. What I would ask you to do is to read the words of the founders of this country; George Washington, Samuel Adams, Ben Franklin, etc. and read the Federalist Papers. Digest that knowledge and then look at where we are today. Ask this one question; have we lived up to the principles of those men? Let the honest unbiased answer to that question guide you. If you still think as you do today, I will be greatly surprised, as well as disappointed, if you do.
Huh? What does that even mean?
You mean like her dad did and is still doing?
Love your quotes! Funny, but I never read quotes of anything liberals say. I guess they are too stupid to repeat.
Um…no. He is a sleazy, not funny person. Why would we find him funny? I put him in the same category as Sandra “potty mouth” Bernhardt. Why would you even think that true conservatives find those people funny? Their brand of humor is using four-letter words, and sliming anyone who has a faith in God or conservative leanings. Geez, you are a real moron, you know that? Why don’t you try another website and leave us alone?
I am in the mood for some troll-slapping today, so bring it on, fools. Of course, I could choose to ingore you. Just depends on my mood and how stupid you sound.
Well, my input is that it behooves Conservatives/Republicans/GOP whatever, to throw out there a young beautiful and articulate true conservative version of Miss McCain out there. In a way, I can see why she’s voicing the way she is, if she ever vies for a career in Hollywood so she’s just being opportunistic not dishonest. More than that, I can’t just rail at the left for crowning her a conservative voice if we left an empty silent field for them. I mean, where’s OUR equivalent of pop rock artists and actors out there and if any, why aren’t they speaking up? Isn’t there at least one hip teenie-twenty booper-type beauty out there who can elegantly convey conservative tenets to teetering America out there, like some kind of spice-and-span clean Lindsay Lowhan or Hannah Montana?
James Greenidge
Queens, NY