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 ...
hey, Meghan.....STFU.
Who cares about her or her opinions.She’s a non-event as far as I’m concerned.
uh huh. How’s the readership lately, WaPo?
Nice try, WP. She’s a big of a bimbo as her dad was a dumbo. Won’t fly. And speaking of extreme, wait till your constituents start rioting when the Obamaloons completely screw our dollar.
A lot of people I talk to think conservatism is GWB.
Of course, that's not true Then you ask them if they believe that government has gotten too big and intrusive and they, most of the time, say yes.
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.
Wrong. Meghan fancies herself the face of "young REPUBLICANS" (progressive Republicans as she calls it). She has nothing to do with Conservatism. She is a self-described social liberal in favor of gay-marriage, abortion and Barack Obama.
Hint: Parker is the smaller of the two.
Good. They can work their asses off and pay for my early retirement.
Kathleen Barker finds a woman she can gush about...
I stopped right here before I barfed all over my monitors.
I have this feeling that this is Meghan’s way of auditioning for a Playboy spread, so to speak. Seriously.
“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?,”
I do think republicans are lame, but Megn is is as relevent as Cindy Sheenan, although Cindy actually had followers before the media dumped her unlike her clueless ssister Megn.
...”presenting herself as a fresh face of her daddy’s party and a voice for young conservatives.”
Well, they’re half right.
If she were actually conservative, this might be true. She's just lipstick on a RINO.
I think Parker's had a stroke or something.
Ok, This girl needs to get a real job. Neither McCain, nor herself, speak for conservatives or real down-to-earth working people. The media is having a blast trotting her in front of the cameras because she comes off as dumb.
How quaint...the Corrupt American Media has a new ‘fresh faced’ irrelevant RHINO to prop up.....LOL!
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