Another McCain Throws Down a Challenge

The Washington Post ^ | 3/25/09 | Kathleen Parker

[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?

[eclecticEel]

The media will hype up this McCain as talking point fodder against conservatives, just as they’ve always done with the elder. It’s a losers game she’s playing though, when it comes down to an election her MSM ‘friends’ will turn on her. They’re going to pick the real liberal .every. .single. .time.

[Rockingham]

Yeah, just what the GOP needs for a new opinion maker: the young, mega rich blond daughter of a losing Presidential nominee who ran one of the worst campaigns in American political history.

[calcowgirl]

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

Calling all airheads!

Ms. Parker, you seem to fit the category if you think what Ms. McCain presented was a "brand".

[mountainbunny]

For the last time, Meghan, no, I will not go out with you, and neither will any self-respecting conservative guy in his early twenties.

Things must be pretty grim if she complains about not being able to get a date.

How hard could it be? Her mom owns a beer distributorship.

If there's anything that young men like better than cute blonde girls and a cold one, I'm not aware of it.

[Professor_Leonide]

For Meghan McCain I have only three words which I’ll repeat over and over again!

IRON MY SHIRT!
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IRON MY SHIRT!
IRON MY SHIRT!

[Travis T. OJustice]

[Professor_Leonide]

Good picture - that was the inspiration for my comment. With Hilary, the whole thing was staged so the media could gush about “sexism” but Hilary had poor timing - she was running against a black candidate and, as we all are well aware, race trumps sex in the MSM.

Besides, did that bum hectoring Hilary look like the kind of guy who wears ironed shirts? H-— No!

[NinoFan]

Meghan acts and talks like a teenager. Hard to believe that she is 24.