Meghan McCain Poised to Become "New Young Republican," Says The Atlantic

Phoenix New Times ^ | Friday, Mar. 27 2009 | Ray Stern

[nickcarraway]

Meghan McCain is a few major media appearances away from being known as the "new young Republican" and voice of moderate conservatism, says the Atlantic Monthly.

We don't know about all that, but it is fun sometimes to follow this local celebrity's life on the Internet.

It turns out that we share an appreciation for ...and You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead. Following her post in the Daily Beast earlier this month in which she laments that she can't find the right man, we were relieved to hear the post has resulted in numerous date offers. On her Twitter site, we learned where she's getting her education in economics.

The Atlantic, which is the magazine that got mixed up in the flap between Meghan's dad and renegade photographer Jill Greenberg, reports on McCain's centrist conservative tendencies -- she calls herself a "progressive Republican."

But soft-pedaling doesn't fly so well in today's polarized environment -- right-wing pundit Laura Ingraham says Meghan, 24, is nothing more than a "useful idiot" to liberals who want to divide and conquer their enemies.

Ingraham may have a point. It's hard to tell which party Meghan McCain is helping more.

[CWW]

Yeah .. right.

She's a legend in her own mind.

[skr]

Her father’s daughter.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Is there “a voice for moderate liberalism” yet?

[Paladin2]

Meghan poised to become beached whale.

[acoulterfan]

She is so “ditzy”! Can’t stand to listen to her.

[Cheetahcat]

Young Republicans Is that what they call Obama Soros lackeys now days?

[SuziQ]

LOL! She’s poised to replace her Daddy as the ‘new Republican maverick’. She’s the one who doesn’t want to bother with all those pesky social conservative ideas, instead preferring to concentrate on fiscal conservatism. Don’t want to make those, Generations X’rs, country clubbers and baby boomer elites feel bad about their lifestyles, don’t you know!

[dforest]

If that little big mouth pig is a new voice republican, I have voted for a republican the last time.

[Snickering Hound]

[Kakaze]

Yeah she can be the new usurper of the party......good job Meghan.

[Kimberly GG]

...”the “new young Republican” and voice of moderate conservatism”...

“moderate” conservative...this b.s. needs to be nipped in the bud.

[snowrip]

moderate conservatism

in other words, a shivering chihuahua in sheep's clothing. The apple fell, and lodged in one of the tree's lower branches.

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[stylin_geek]

I can’t wait until she hollers about people “being mean to her.”

At least her dad was honest enough to say that “politics ain’t beanbag.”

She’s in for a rude awakening.

[Allegra]

Atlantic Monthly will be happy to push Meghan as a GOP poster child.

Personally, I just wish Meghan would fade back into oblivion where she belongs.

[dforest]

Yuck, the Atlantic is trying to make the big mouth fat airhead a new voice.

Pigs squeal, so does Ms McPiggy.

[Semper Mark]

A New Young Republican with an Old Sellout Rino ideology.

There’s nothing new under the sun.

[yazoo]

“voice of moderate conservatism,”

Just like her old man, a loser.

[1000 silverlings]

Generational elitism. At least she shold wait for the old man to die before she sets the crown on her head