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Kathleen Parker: Is Meghan McCain the GOP's answer to Rush Limbaugh?
NewsBusters ^ | April 3, 2009 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 04/03/2009 6:40:17 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Kathleen Parker, a "conservative" columnist who has discovered that slamming real conservatives was an easy way to lift herself from her earlier state of relative anonymity, has now turned herself into an inadvertent comedienne. I mean, how can you beat this comedy line on the title of her latest column appearing in the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel: "Is Meghan McCain the GOP's answer to Rush Limbaugh?" Yes, Parker is seriously proposing that "Valley Girl McCain" can save the Republicans from that "nasty" Rush Limbaugh:

The GOP's identity crisis just got more interesting with the recent media splash of Meghan McCain, eldest 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.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kathleenparker; kneepadrepublicans; mccain; mccaintruthfile; meghanmccain; rinoette
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

That’s not something I would have first ... um ... hand knowledge of. LOL!


21 posted on 04/03/2009 7:09:29 AM PDT by seatrout (I wouldn't know most "American Idol" winners if I tripped over them!)
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To: ProfoundMan

—Though I think Parker is an idiot—

True enough. Anyone who writes a book entitled “Save the Males” isn’t firing on all 4 cylinders IMO.


22 posted on 04/03/2009 7:11:40 AM PDT by seatrout (I wouldn't know most "American Idol" winners if I tripped over them!)
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To: seatrout

Understandable. But a self-important never-had-been princess daughter of RINO, who takes it upon her non-accomplished self to attack the stalwarts of the conservative movement is NOT going to be leader of her girl scout pack, much less the GOP.

The future leaders of the conservative movement will come in their own time. And, who knows, that movement may be totally outside of the moribund Republican Party.


23 posted on 04/03/2009 7:12:26 AM PDT by abishai
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To: PJ-Comix
there's a name for GOP'ers like K.Parker and M.McCain ...

democrats

24 posted on 04/03/2009 7:15:50 AM PDT by grandpa jones (obama must be exhausted...having to tote that giant brain of his around all the time)
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To: abishai

—RINO—

That is a tough term to define. There’s no GOP manifesto that says it has to be conservative. Indeed, before Ronald Reagan, most of the GOP’s big shots were mushy moderates; Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Howard Baker, Gerald Ford Bob Michel, Bob Dole all come to mind. The conservative movement MUST not hitch itself to a particular party. And, yes, I think the GOP may be moribund; in fact, it might be in the same shape the dinosaurs were at the end of the Cretaceous, right after the meteor hit.


25 posted on 04/03/2009 7:20:47 AM PDT by seatrout (I wouldn't know most "American Idol" winners if I tripped over them!)
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To: PJ-Comix

she’s dead to me


26 posted on 04/03/2009 7:21:55 AM PDT by zwerni (this isn't gonna be good for business)
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To: PJ-Comix

What is the question?


27 posted on 04/03/2009 7:23:24 AM PDT by manic4organic (We Are S0 Screwed)
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To: PJ-Comix

“Is Meghan McCain the GOP’s answer to Rush Limbaugh?”

Hardly.


28 posted on 04/03/2009 7:23:57 AM PDT by JenB987
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To: PJ-Comix


Kathleen's hero, Megan, went to this "man's" B-Day party.


29 posted on 04/03/2009 7:24:15 AM PDT by roses of sharon (Pray Hussein fails!)
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To: stainlessbanner
“Are you like kidding? I mean like I am so smart, I like went to like Columbia and gained like as many IQ as like my a$$ gained lb, you know, for sure.” Meghan
30 posted on 04/03/2009 7:27:35 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Nemo me impune lacessit)
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To: seatrout

Me neither...But being a woman who is not very fond of Ms McCain, it seemed like the logical response. :-)


31 posted on 04/03/2009 7:27:42 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (Americans Bow to No One)
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To: roses of sharon

For a moment there, I thought you were comparing the likenesses of the persons in the pictures.


32 posted on 04/03/2009 7:29:29 AM PDT by abishai
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To: abishai


Reportedly, Megan partied with this girl inside....who has a MTV "bisexual" themed dating show.

33 posted on 04/03/2009 7:32:14 AM PDT by roses of sharon (Pray Hussein fails!)
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To: roses of sharon

I saw the show. I was bored and was curious about seeing a trainwreck. Don’t understand why all those people wanted a “shot” with Tila Tequila. She looks like an emaciated, drug rattled fourth grader.


34 posted on 04/03/2009 7:37:12 AM PDT by abishai
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To: PJ-Comix

Kathleen Parker is a Conservative like Bella Abzug was pretty.

She’s searching for a new readership since she tried to torpedo Sarah Palin and lost her first audience.

My advice: skip her screeds.


35 posted on 04/03/2009 7:38:19 AM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: PJ-Comix; All

The girl is definitely a RINO. If she wants to go into politics, fine, but not as a conservative:

“Meghan McCain is a 23-year-old, socially liberal John Kerry voter...”

http://men.style.com/gq/blogs/gqeditors/2008/03/caps-font-var-1.html


36 posted on 04/03/2009 7:55:38 AM PDT by Joann37
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To: PJ-Comix

Why would Ms. Parker believe that Ms. McCain represents the GOP?


37 posted on 04/03/2009 7:57:18 AM PDT by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: Mac from Cleveland

OUCH!!!!!

But I do so love the snarkiness of the Taciturn American Freeper (Americanus Patriotus)!


38 posted on 04/03/2009 7:58:58 AM PDT by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: PJ-Comix
Is Meghan McCain the GOP's answer to Rush Limbaugh?

That's the equivalent of saying:

Is a first-grader equipped to design the rocket that will fly our astronauts to Mars?
39 posted on 04/03/2009 8:01:24 AM PDT by adorno (Where is Branch 4?)
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To: PJ-Comix
More like,


40 posted on 04/03/2009 8:21:01 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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