Meghan McCain Slams Ann Coulter Hard
Politics Daily — Filed under: Republicans, John McCain, Ann CoulterMeghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain, is becoming required reading. She raised eyebrows with tales of her disturbing suitors last week. This week, she turns her attention to right wing power grrrl Ann Coulter, and Coulter doesn't stand a chance. From Daily Beast: I straight up don't understand this woman or her popularity. I find her offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time. But no matter how much you or I disagree with ...

Morning Skim: Rush Bashing, Coulter Called Out, Talk Radio Gender Gap and More
Opinionator — ... on the White House.” Daily Beast : Meghan McCain calls out Ann Coulter as a problem for the Republican Party: [C]ertain individuals continue to perpetuate negative stereotypes about Republicans. Especially Republican women. Who do I feel is the biggest culprit? Ann Coulter. I straight up don’t understand this woman or her popularity. I find her offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time. New Majority : In a round-up of comments by women on “Why Do Women Dislike Talk Radio,” Danielle Crittenden says ...

Meghan McCain blasts Coulter as 'offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing'
News — ... Ann Coulter is "offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing," would-be first daughter Meghan McCain declared Monday. In a blog post for The Daily Beast , McCain — the daughter of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — accused the conservative pundit Coulter of being "the poster woman for the most extreme side of the Republican Party." "She does appeal to the most extreme members of the Republican Party—but they are dying off, becoming less and less relevant to the party structure as a whole," McCain said. "The GOP should be happy to have any young supporters whatsoever, even if they do ...

Time to Make a "Love Connection"
Ace of Spades HQ — Time to Make a "Love Connection" It's pretty bad when you lose "conservatives" like Buckley, Frum & Parker, but how low do you have to go before you lose rock-ribbed conservatives like......Meghan McCain! Writing over at The Daily Beast, Ms. McCain has declared in her most recent column that Ann Coulter Does Not Speak For Meghan McCain! I know, I know. Whoda thunk it? Now Meghan McCain has several things going for her here: 1. She's rich. Mom's family business means that Ms. McCain could coast through life like a Kennedy or a Heinz-Kerry. 2. Meghan McCain is a hottie. ...

Meghan McCain: Ann Coulter is ‘offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing.’
Think Progress — ... In a column for the Daily Beast today, Meghan McCain, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) daughter, attacks Ann Coulter as a potent symbol for why the Republican Party struggles to attract younger voters, slamming her for “perpetuat[ing] negative stereotypes about Republicans”: ...

Note To Meghan McCain
Riehl World View — ... this might sound terribly inconvenient, Meghan. But have you considered going out into the real world and accomplishing something besides graduating college before convincing yourself that any one outside your family gives a damn what you think? We don't really value the whole Kennedy-kid thing over here on the Right. As Daddy isn't going to need a campaign prop for at least two years, surely there's something productive you could do in the mean time. My Beef With Ann Coulter Meghan McCain is originally from Phoenix, ...

Meghan McCain on Coulter: 'offensive' and 'insulting'
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... today on The Daily Beast, instead taking shots at Ann Coulter. The Senator's daughter calls Coulter "offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time." ...

Things I Don’t Understand
Balloon Juice — An incomplete list: 1.) Why anyone is paying any attention to Meghan McCain. 2.) Or Glenn Beck, who really seems intent on cornering the “batshit insane” market niche. 3.) Why I continue to get invitations to join the AARP, when I am nowhere near retirement age. 4.) Why the NY Times doesn’t realize stories like this make them seem out of touch, and why the people in them can’t find a happy medium in between extremes: It is a sign of the times when ...

Al Gore & John Kerry Voter Upset With Ann Coulter
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Ah celebrity. It’s a wonderful thing. When your dad is a celebrity, it can get you really cool gigs to prove you are hipper than the hip-replaced crowd. And you can write mildly amusing articles at the Daily Beast complaining about Ann Coulter. ...

quote of the day
skippy the bush kangaroo — meagan mccain on annthrax coulter: she was one of the headliners at the recent cpac conference (but when your competition is a teenager who has a dream about the republican party and stephen baldwin, it’s not really saying that much).

A McCain I can believe in: Meghan unloads on Coulter
The Reaction — ... Meghan is still a Republican, to be sure, but she obviously doesn't like the direction her father's party has taken, and, to her credit, she is using her new platform at The Daily Beast to speak her mind. Let's hope we don't see her, like those Republicans who dared to challenge Dear Leader Rush, crawling back, grovelling, recanting, and begging for forgiveness and readmittance into the fold. ...

Quote of the day
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... differences with Ann Coulter, I don’t like her demeanor. I have never been a person who was attracted to hate or negativity. I don’t believe in scare tactics and would never condone or encourage anyone calling President Obama a Muslim. But controversy sells and Coulter is nothing if not controversial. Everything about her is extreme: her voice, her interview tactics, and especially the public statements she makes about liberals. Maybe her popularity stems from the fact that watching her is sometimes like watching a train wreck .”

Republicans Go On The Warpath-- Against Each Other
DownWithTyranny! — ... sell you out; they will throw you overboard to save themselves, faster than anything. And they'll use you on their way up as often as they can at the same time." "I mean, next week Newt could come out and profess his total admiration and love for me if it would serve his purposes," he continued. "They're running TV ads against me. Newt Gingrich wishes they were running TV ads against him." And... on top of all that, now John McCain's daughter Meghan has come out swinging at Republican Party harridan #1, Ann Coulter. It is no secret ...

Brainster's Blog — The Last Word On Ann Coulter Amen: More so than my ideological differences with Ann Coulter, I don’t like her demeanor. I have never been a person who was attracted to hate or negativity. I don’t believe in scare tactics and would never condone or encourage anyone calling President Obama a Muslim. But controversy sells and Coulter is nothing if not controversial. Everything about her is extreme: her voice, her interview tactics, and especially the public statements she makes about liberals. Maybe her popularity stems from the fact that ...

Meghan McCain, shut up
Alarming News — Meghan McCain, shut up No, seriously, her father loses an election and now she's the poster child of the Republican party? No, thanks : Coulter could be the poster woman for the most extreme side of the Republican Party. And in some ways I could be the poster woman for the opposite. I consider myself a progressive Republican Your dad lost mostly because, like you, he believed there was such a thing as a "progressive Republican." There isn't. What you are, at best, is a conservative Democrat. At. Best. I am not suggesting that extreme conservatism wasn’t once popular, nor ...

Links for 2009-03-09 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... them, "The Government Is on the Case." While I don’t find Justin Fox’s list particularly reassuring — the surprise ending will do that — it did prompt some rethinking. Perhaps I, among others, have been too relentlessly negative in assessing the economy’s performance in the opening months of the Obama administration. After further review, I have found five key signs of economic growth, all of which I attribute entirely, or almost entirely, to President Obama. My Beef With Ann Coulter or Why I am a MORON by Meghan McCain I am not suggesting that ...

links for 2009-03-10
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: barack_obama Colin_Powell) My Beef With Ann Coulter or Why I am a MORON by Meghan McCain I am not suggesting that extreme conservatism wasn’t once popular, nor am I suggesting I should in any way be any kind of voice for the ...

Shots from the Show 3/10
Tammy Bruce — ... I addressed extensively on the air Meghan McCain's article attacking Ann Coulter on the rather liberal Daily Beast website. I will have a Fox Forum column addressing the issue. Having had dinner with both women and knowing them a bit, I do have a sense of why Meghan would do this and will extrapolate on that in the column. ...

Dear Meghan (CraigC)
protein wisdom — Meghan McCain weighed in yesterday on the subject of Ann Coulter, and it’s a doozy.  The pull quote: I straight up don’t understand this woman or her popularity. I find her offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time. Oh, my.  You aren’t a very smart woman, are you?  Actually, there are two reasonable interpretations here.  One is that you really are dumb as a box of rocks, and don’t understand Ms. Coulter.  The other is that, in a pathetic attempt to ingratiate yourself with the Beautiful People, you’re parroting the tiresome, inane talking points ...

Alt. Conservative Update 3-12-09
The Moderate Voice — ... wild guesses, because we’ve actually tried this out in real life before: in 2006, Pennsylvania Republicans ran a “true conservative” against a liberal with a moderate disposition — and it resulted in an 18-point landslide victory for the Democrats. Jim DePeso, the Policy Director for Republicans for Environmental Protection says that Rush Limbaugh should apologize to Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele. Meghan McCain decides to go mujer-a-mujer with Ann Coulter saying that she has a ...

Laura Ingraham mocks Meghan McCain as being ‘plus-sized.’
Think Progress — ... on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show, where she continued to criticize Ann Coulter. On her radio show today, Laura Ingraham responded to McCain’s critique of far right conservatives, saying that she is “just another Valley Girl gone awry.” In a mocking faux- ...

Meghan McCain: On Message
Firedoglake — ... OK, yes yes yes, she has “taken on” Ann Coulter, saying writing out loud in The Daily Beast all the things that, well, 89% of the sentient population already knows. But hey, props where props is due: it’s not like ...

The Other CPAC
The American Spectator — ... Limbaugh "a walking stereotype of self-indulgence," who "cannot be allowed to be the public face of the [Republican] enterprise." Coulter's speech this year produced none of those "she said what ?" moments that had marked her 2006 and 2007 CPAC speeches, causing conference organizers to exclude her from their 2008 schedule. Yet an improvement in Coulter's decorum did nothing to spare her from disparagement by Sen. John McCain's daughter. At Tina Brown's site, the Daily Beast , Meghan McCain called Coulter "offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing…the poster woman for ...

Odds and Ends: Democratic Caucus, Bush's New Library
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man — ... Meghan McCain Are Earmarks Defensible? From the reporter pool report: As we were leaving, Mr. Obama asked, "How's Gibbs doing?" "Great," came the reply. "Not too bad." Mr. Obama's advice to the press: "Take ...

Meghan McCain takes aim at Republican divas Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham
Top of the Ticket — ... voters to her septuagenarian father, who had trouble connecting to young voters. McCain's blog went dark for awhile, and she resurfaced recently as a contributor to Tina Brown's new venture, the Daily Beast. How surprising, given the array of talent corralled by Brown, that McCain has emerged as the newsmaker of the operation. She wrote a column bemoaning the difficulty of finding a date once your dad's run for president.  The other day, she took on Ann Coulter: "I consider myself a progressive Republican, but ...

McCain Daughter to Conservative Radio Host: 'Kiss My Fat Ass!'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Although Miss McCain last week took a swipe at conservative author Ann Coulter as "offensive, radical, insulting and confusing all at the same time," she admits that "at this point" she has ...

Bill O’Reilly Distorts (Lies?) About Meghan McCain’s Comment And Smears Rap Music
News Hounds — ... his circumstances. Noteworthy is that O’Reilly has never apologized for either comment. After his “outrage” over the Rhianna survey, Bill moved on to say that Meghan McCain has laid (couldn’t quite understand the word) into Ann Coulter for being “too rigid.” Uh, scuse me, Bill, Ms. McCain said that Coulter was “offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing.” Nowhere in the Daily Beast article, does McCain reference rigidity. ...

Mean G.O.P. Girls
Opinionator — ... Uh, what? In case you’ve lost track of the struggle-for-the-soul-of-the-GOP, there’s a new player on the field, the latest skirmish is a throwdown between Ingraham and McCain, and, yes, there’s a fat joke involved. Meghan McCain, who blogged during her dad’s presidential campaign, is now writing regularly for The Daily Beast and otherwise trying to insert herself into the Republican party tug-of-war. Last Monday, March 9th, she published an article at The Beast entitled “My Beef with Ann Coulter,” which in general lamented the GOP’s hipness gap and lack of appeal to ...

Meghan McCain Interviews Supriya Jindal, First Lady of Louisiana
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Meghan McCain, fresh off her spats with Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham, is turning her attention to a woman she sees as a "positive role model within the Republican Party," Supriya Jindal, wife of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. At 37, Bobby Jindal is the youngest governor in the US and Supriya, who is also 37, is the youngest first lady. She was born in India--her mother was a stay-at-home mom, her father an engineer--and moved to Baton Rouge when she was four years old. She worked in a chemical plant in Louisiana while earning her MBA from ...

Meghan McCain Interviews Supriya Jindal, First Lady of Louisiana
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Meghan McCain, fresh off her spats with Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham, is turning her attention to a woman she sees as a "positive role model within the Republican Party," Supriya Jindal, wife of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. At 37, Bobby Jindal is the youngest governor in the US and Supriya, who is also 37, is the youngest first lady. She was born in India--her mother was a stay-at-home mom, her father an engineer--and moved to Baton Rouge when she was four years old. She worked in a chemical plant in Louisiana while earning her MBA from ...

Meghan McCain, Youth Spokeswoman
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... her to a plus-sized model--and earlier this month she gave a name to the brand of moderate Republicanism to which she ascribes: "progressive Republican." ...

Britney, Paris, Miley, and Meghan
Politics Daily — ... Don't get me wrong, Meghan McCain is a smart girl with a very bright future, but she is definitely not a political spokeswoman for Generation Y -- at least not yet. All she really is right now is an attempt by ultra-moderates to give themselves a blonde bomb-thrower who can pick cat-fights with Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham. Unfortunately, she lacks the intellectual heft to keep up with either of those women. ...

In defense of Meghan McCain
Alarming News — In defense of Meghan McCain Recently Meghan McCain has gotten a lot of attention by making statements decrying some prominent conservatives. She's identified herself as a moderate Republican, and started something of a row with conservative radio hosts and bloggers with a column titled My Beef with Ann Coulter about a month ago. In response, she's been slammed by bloggers and conservative radio hosts, and told essentially that we don't want her in our party. First off, considering the state of the GOP, and the leftward tilt among young people, the last thing we should be doing ...

Meghan McCain Inks Book Deal
The Caucus — ... giving her an advance in “the high six figures.” A spokeswoman for Hyperion did not return a call requesting a comment. Ms. McCain became a frequent presence in the news media during her father’s 2008 presidential campaign, which she chronicled at mccainblogette.com . Earlier this year, she joined The Daily Beast, where, in addition to scrutinizing the future of the Republican Party, she profiled up-and-coming Republicans and recounted her dating woes. After criticizing Ann Coulter last month, Ms. McCain became e mbroiled in a brouhaha with ...

Karen Dalton-Beninato: Power of the Post: The Permanent Wave of the GOP
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... We'll never know if Rogers could have talked his candidate into curly locks, but to pull from Hemingway, isn't it pretty to think so? The McCains are a web savvy family - Megan McCain is taking on Ann Coulter through the Daily Beast and Cindy could still mix it up with Whoopi Goldberg on ...