Posted on 03/25/2009 5:55:09 AM PDT by steve-b
The GOP's identity crisis just got more interesting with the media splash of Meghan McCain, daughter of the senator who did not become president.
Young McCain, who began blogging during her father's presidential campaign, recently made waves at the Daily Beast when she picked a fight with conservative media mavens Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham.
This is enough sport to make the little dog laugh, to say nothing of the dish and the spoon.
McCain, just 24, is one smart cookie. In a matter of weeks, she has created a brand, presenting herself as a fresh face of her daddy's party and a voice for young conservatives. Strategically speaking, what better way to launch herself than to challenge the reigning diva herself, Miz Coulter?
Madonna, meet Britney....
Moreover, thanks to the "Internets," as our former president liked to say, young people are gaining influence sooner than ever before. One of the smarter, slicker political Web sites, Scoop44, is produced, written and edited by high school and college students across the country. Its editor in chief, Alexander Heffner, is a 19-year-old undergraduate at Harvard.
As Heffner put it in a February interview, he and his colleagues belong to a generation that was galvanized by Barack Obama to take their civic responsibility seriously. Meghan McCain may be simply another manifestation of that call to engagement. And she isn't wrong on the substance of her charges.
The GOP's extreme voices are a turnoff, not just to young people but to millions of Americans who might otherwise be attracted to conservative principles. Who better to point that out than a young maverick named McCain?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
She took “Take Your Daughter To Work Day” and made it a career.
When she gets a job and starts contributing, then her opinions will matter.
MSM still playing their little game in order to divide and weaken conservatives ,republicans...free and sensible people.
There is something nice amid a stream of lie,hoax,treason,corruption...carried by MSM by these times!
Things are becoming CLEARER !
True thoughts are coming to light!....
Just wait,hope....and FIGHT
Yes, she’s such a smart cookie, she’s going to make sure that her Dad can’t ever seriously be considered again.
OK, and the downside of such is........? ;-)
Good one SJ. Now go back home Meg
I can only hope you are right.
In Parker’s twisted world Meghan McCain is smart and Sarah Palin is dumb.
Here is another example of stupid kid trying to follow in mom or dads footsteps by right of birth?
About all this McLame offspring can do to gain a moments notice is commit suicide.
Probably, but she's more cut out for a mag like 'XL Girls' or 'Pleasantly Plump.'
Kathleen, Meghan McCain is a cute young lady. Nothing less, and (especially) nothing more. She should probably relax, live her life, enjoy it, and learn from it, and leave politics to her intellectual betters until she joins them herself. If that ever happens. As of right now, the thought of Meggie picking fights with Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham doesn’t make me fear for them, much less the conservative movement. It makes me fear for her.
“She took “Take Your Daughter To Work Day” and made it a career”.
Nice line.
And to think, when she went to “Take Your Daughter To Work Day” as a kid, she was upset at having to go to the Capitol for the day. She wished that her dad worked at Waffle House....
The She-Woman Palin Hater's Club
= Sarah's hot, they're not
That was already certain.
The media reports keep touting Ms. McCain as a republican. If she is a republican, she is and should be labeled a liberal republican. She and her father are proof why the republicans didn’t win last November. As long as she and others like her are speaking for the republican party they will not win a national election.
Parker’s congratulating McCain on finding out that the quickest way to still seem relevant is to make sure your nose is firmly ensconced in the Liberal MSM hindquarters.
Does anything think the MSM would give her the time of day if she was saying good things about Palin and the gop?
You’re right. It sounds like the opening sentence of a Cindy Adams column.
Anyone is a “smart cookie” to the idiots at the post.
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