I cannot believe I'm agreeing with Judith Warner, but, well, stranger things have happened. Today, Warner writes that even a liberal like her can't help feeling sorry for Meghan McCain, who's making a national fool of herself. Excerpt:
You can't, after all, go on national TV, all perky and blonde and blushing and young, and endowed with a soapbox years before you've paid your dues and, while talking about how Republicans should reposition themselves on sex, say, "I would never wanna practice anything I didn't preach." Even with the best of intentions. Even if your larger point -- that the Republican party has been hijacked by extremists whose modern-day Puritanism is for many young people a major bummer -- is a perfectly good one.You can't afford to tweet about licking Stephen Colbert's face, or to call the Republicans "an awesome party to be part of," as though the party of Lincoln were some kind of super-fun co-ed fraternity.
You can't do these things because they're just stupid and, when you're already a sitting duck, particularly one who at some point in her career could very well rise to make a valuable contribution, you just can't afford to look stupid.
Meghan McCain gets a platform on The Daily Beast and on TV because of who she is, and because she's a useful idiot for the media left. ("Look, even John McCain's daughter is saying how screwed-up the GOP is!") I say this even though it's likely that Meghan McCain and I agree on some things. She ought to know enough to realize that she's not getting on TV because people think she's genuinely got anything interesting or important to say.
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In the first comment, Hector said, "...any change for the Republican party right now is a good change." With that one sentence, Hector, you lost all credibility. How can ANY change, no matter what it is, be good for the Republican party, or any party for that matter? As for Meghan McCain, she is becoming more and more pathetic by the day. She's in her mid-twenties but you'd never know it. She writes and behaves like a teenager, even using the idiotic word "anyways" instead of "anyway." She's a horrible writer, and if her last name were not McCain, she never in a million years would have ended up at Columbia. This moron (yes, moron) is a lost soul who needs to find her niche. Hopefully that will happen for her soon.
I was just reading through all of the comments here and started wondering if maybe "curvy" is the politically correct word for fat. As I recall, Meghan also refers to herself as curvy (and let's not forget about her "big juicy ass" comment - that's classy, Meg). I couldn't care less if Meghan or anyone else is fat, but using the word "curvy" in an effort to pretend she's not fat is just plain funny. What happened to all that McCain straight talk?
Yeah, not to mention what she is doing to her Dad's upcoming campaign. True conservatives may choose not to contribute any more as I have done.All are welcome to the republican party, it's just a shame they want the conservatives out.... join the dems and get on with your day.
Moronic Meghan McCain? How about moronic Cindy McCain! One look at Cindy's twitter page left me shaking my head in amusement. The woman spells like a 2nd-grader, does not know the difference between there and their, thinks that the plural of McCain is McCain's (with an apostrophe) and, in general, comes across like an uneducated teeny bopper. I realize it IS twitter and not a term paper but Cindy's lack of knowledge about the basics is a little bit pitiful. Dad John is always bragging about graduating from the Naval Academy at the bottom of his class - - it would seem that, in the McCain family, being a dolt is a good thing.
A word in defense of Cindy McCain: I have not read her Twitter page, nor do I have any intention of reading it. Twitter is Twitter. One does not expect grammatically correct, profoundly insightful arguments there (and if you're careless about the difference between "there" and "their" on Twitter, you're probably careless about it in general). I would not even expect memorable 140-character epigrams there (as exemplars of witty brevity in classical literature, perhaps Baltasar Gracián in Spanish, Jean de la Fontaine in French or G. E. Lessing in German might have stood a chance).
But I admire her charity missions overseas. A woman whose outward appearance and demeanor might belie such work and the adoption of a child from Mother Teresa's orphanage in India is evidently a more complex person than one might think. I only wish that as an obviously still-beautiful mature woman, she would tone down the glam-gal hairstyles and fashion choices, or as Gracián once wrote: "A bad manner spoils everything...a good one supplies everything...and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself." Or more pithily: "A beautiful woman should break her mirror early." (He was equally pitiless about men and maturity, for the irredeemably pc...)
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