Posted on 03/24/2009 10:26:55 AM PDT by presidio9
Sen. John McCain's daughter continued her all-out media tour with a stop on CNN's "Larry King Live" Tuesday night, voicing support for her father's campaign opponent, President Obama, but none for her Republican critics.
Meghan McCain, a columnist for TheDailyBeast.com, also tried to take the high road after conservative radio host Laura Ingraham had joked about the 24 year-old's weight last week.
"As far as I'm concerned with what's going on with Laura Ingraham, on my end, it's over," McCain told King. "There are nine million women in this country suffering from eating disorders. And I'm not going to be bullied around about my weight and what kind of standards I'm not fitting."
In the past few weeks since she started her career as a political columnist, McCain has angered conservatives - especially after she blasted pundit Ann Coulter, calling the author, "offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time." Ingraham had poked fun of McCain's weight on her radio show, then back-peddled on an interview with Fox News a few days later.
Meghan McCain's "progressive" - code for liberal in the eyes of many fellow Republicans - views on supporting gay marriage have also made her controversial among her party's base.
"I have taken heat, but in fairness to me, I am a different generation than the people that are giving me heat," McCain told King. "I'm 24 years old. I'm not in my 40s, I'm not in my 50s and older."
But perhaps her most controversial view as far as Republicans are concerned is her support for Obama to succeed as president.
"He's our president and when the election was over and when President Obama won, all negative feelings were gone," McCain said on the CNN show. "I support the president."
Guilty as charged.
Glutimous Maximus needs a salad.
She fogot to add that she was also an idiot.
A fat liberal lesbian. You hardly see that around anymore.
I have never been brave enough to do that.
You probably did her a lot of good. I hope it haunts her. At 60, she doesn’t have that long left to get it right.
Ah! Nancy Pelosi’s future understudy has arrived.
Meghan is a dumb ass..nuff said..I wonder if her father is ashamed to have THAT for a daughter. I guess he taught her everything she knows.
Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
I see the pear shaped one didn’t fall far from the tree.
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