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Why Republicans Don't Get the Internet
Why Republicans Don't Get the Internet
The Daily Beast s Meghan McCain talks to Republicans about the party s crippling technology disconnect and the new conservative Web zealots who can save the GOP. When I first suggested launching a blog chronicling my experience on my father's campaign for president, I was met with confusion and ...
Why Republicans Don’t Get the Internet
Why Republicans Don’t Get the Internet
themoderatevoice.com — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk4Ekbpn_Pc Meghan McCain, daughter of John and blog chronicler of his campaign at McCain Blogette.com , had... a post on the Daily Beast yesterday promising to explain it to us. Of the site featuring the video ... (more) Why Republicans Don’t Get the Internet
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Well, that explains why there are NO Republican blogs
ClareifiedIdjit. The Daily Beast’s Meghan McCain talks to Republicans about the party’s crippling technology disconnect—and the new conservative Web zealots who can save the GOP. When I first suggested launching a blog chronicling my experience on my father’s campaign for president, I was met with confusion and resistance. A few people even asked me what’s a blog. Throughout the campaign, I did everything possible to showcase the fun and interesting parts of the campaign. I posted pictures. I wrote posts. I even included a playlist of my favorite ...

Meghan McCain: None Of Daddy’s Friends Liked My Blog!
Wonkette » top — Senatorial daughter and children’s propaganda author Meghan McCain still appears to be getting paychecks from The Daily Beast for her random thoughts about her dad’s campaign, which most Americans have already forgotten. In today’s blog article, Meghan chimes in on the recent chatter about Republicans trying to carve out their own Internets — be it on Republican Twitter, which will soon replace the entire Main Stream Media, or Michael Steele’s upcoming “off-the-hook” black & Mexican hip-hop ...

Republicans Way Behind in Using the Internet
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — Meghan McCain, the senator's daughter, writing for the Daily Beast: "Until the Republican party joins the twenty-first century and learns how to use the Internet, its members will keep getting older and the youth of America will just keep logging on to the other side."

Meghan McCain Explains How Her Blog Could Have Saved The GOP
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... GAH. Am I actually reading Meghan McCain's piece in the Daily Beast, about how her blog was the unused secret weapon in the 2008 Campaign Battle on the Internet? Yes, apparently: ...

Meghan McCain Explains How Her Blog Could Have Saved The GOP
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... GAH. Am I actually reading Meghan McCain's piece in the Daily Beast, about how her blog was the unused secret weapon in the 2008 Campaign Battle on the Internet? Yes, apparently: ...

McCain takes up BlackBerry, Twitter
News — ... not only has McCain starting using a Blackberry and Twitter, but it was all his idea. “He started using [a BlackBerry] in January,” she said. “And he came up with the idea to start Twittering in January. It’s a growing way to reach out to a lot of people.” Buchanan noted that McCain is fond of the expression “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” but added that “this was something he wanted to do and he’s got a little bit more time now.” Meghan McCain, the senator’s daughter who recently wrote that the GOP needs to be more technologically advanced, egged her dad on. “She’s ...

Meghan McCain Overshares On Dating, Daddy Issues
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... !f the above were, say, the voice-over preamble of some tween-tastic, recession-averse Disney Channel adventure, it would make sense. But this is actually the disclosure of a grown woman, living during a complicated period of our nation's history, that I am supposed to take seriously. Actually, I am now taking her previous recommendations on online strategy for the GOP more seriously, by comparison. ...

Meghan McCain Overshares On Dating, Daddy Issues
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... !f the above were, say, the voice-over preamble of some tween-tastic, recession-averse Disney Channel adventure, it would make sense. But this is actually the disclosure of a grown woman, living during a complicated period of our nation's history, that I am supposed to take seriously. Actually, I am now taking her previous recommendations on online strategy for the GOP more seriously, by comparison. ...

Fat Pockets
American Thinker — ... in the Gossip/Rumors section of TMZ. Is this what her readers are willing to pay for? Given her track record, I struggle to believe there is much of anything one will learn from a $22.95 Meghan that they can not get from the free one. The worst aspect of her "rise" is that she has tried to seize the role of spokesperson for young conservatives like me, and that is a role which no one asked her to play and for which she certainly does not have the message or credentials. By her own admission she she has not even been a registered Republican for a year. While I do agree with ...

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