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'Bratty' McCain on the Twitter Warpath Again

Someone, please, delete her account

(Newser) - Meghan McCain is “too undisciplined and impulsive” to handle Twitter, writes the Cajun Boy on Gawker following yet another of McCain's 140-character tirades. The enemy this time? Brian Williams, who “had the audacity to lower his head ever so slightly in a blatant act of deference” at the...

Hey, Meghan: What Cheney Thinks Is More Important

And it's not because he's an old white man

(Newser) - After Meghan McCain took exception to the idea that her stance on gay marriage is “meaningless” compared to Dick Cheney’s, Washington Monthly blogger Steve Benen outlines in no uncertain terms why—and it’s not “that I only respect old white guys, I don’t respect young...

Soap Box Was No Gift for Meghan McCain
Soap Box
Was No Gift for Meghan McCain
OPINION
May 22, 2009 8:22 AM CDT

Soap Box Was No Gift for Meghan McCain

Unready pundit-in-training is exposing herself too early

(Newser) - Poor Meghan McCain, writes Judith Warner in the New York Times. Nobody’s born a pundit—you have to achieve it. But McCain’s had punditry thrust upon her, and it’s obvious she isn’t ready. “I do feel sorry for Meghan, the 2007 college grad who ought...

'Pro-Sex' McCain Talks Sex on Colbert

Also discusses gay marriage, but not Sarah Palin

(Newser) - Meghan McCain likes sex—a point she made several times last night on The Colbert Report, Gawker reports. Asked by host Stephen Colbert to explain her “pro-sex” stance, she started out by saying abstinence is unrealistic—and ended with “I would never want to practice anything I didn’...

Meghan McCain: Don't Politicize, Take My Guns
Meghan McCain: Don't Politicize, Take My Guns
OPINION
May 14, 2009 11:46 AM CDT

Meghan McCain: Don't Politicize, Take My Guns

2nd Amendment 'one issue where I’m red through-and-through'

(Newser) - She supports gay marriage and thinks the Republican Party is out of touch, but on guns, Meghan McCain is “red through-and-through,” she writes in the Daily Beast: “The right to bear arms, and specifically the idea of it being taken away from me, is one of my...

Meghan McCain 'Bratty' at DC Dinner

Political daughter brings extra guest

(Newser) - Woulda-been first daughter Meghan McCain didn't exactly get the royal treatment she was expecting at Saturday's White House Correspondents dinner. She showed up to the exclusive event with two tickets and a party of three, prompting a security guard to question her. "Doesn't he even know who the f--- ...

Republicans Don't Get Sex: Meghan McCain

(Newser) - Bristol Palin's campaign to preach birth control with a baby at home again proves what Meghan McCain has always known: Republicans don't "get" sex. "God forbid anyone talk realistically about life experiences and natural, sexual instincts. Nope, the answer is always abstinence," she writes in her Daily...

Meghan: Specter Bailed on Us
 Meghan: Specter Bailed on Us 
OPINION
Apr 30, 2009 8:28 AM CDT

Meghan: Specter Bailed on Us

Party needs progressive voices, she says

(Newser) - Arlen Specter has let the GOP down, but only because Republicans did the same, Meghan McCain writes for the Daily Beast. “He’s been made to feel like an outcast by a small, vocal group,” says McCain, herself familiar with the “tired rhetoric” now being hurled at...

Limbaugh to Specter: Take McCain Family, Too

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh thinks erstwhile Republican Arlen Specter should take some “other people who aren't really Republicans” to the other side of the aisle, CNN reports. “Take McCain and his daughter with you,” a laughing Limbaugh said today. Though he said Specter's party switch was “ultimately good”...

'Cone of Silence' No Longer Muzzles Cheney

He just left—but the former VP is back as opposition voice

(Newser) - Former vice presidents tend to keep a low profile right after leaving office—not so Dick Cheney, who has been making the rounds as a voice for Republican opposition. When Cheney “sees the current administration making decisions that he believes are making the nation less safe, he does not...

Meg: Eww, Rove Is Twitter-Stalking Me!
 Meg: Eww, Rove Is 
 Twitter-Stalking Me! 
OPINION
Apr 21, 2009 4:07 AM CDT

Meg: Eww, Rove Is Twitter-Stalking Me!

Creeps like Rove and the county sheriff prove to be the downside of Twitter

(Newser) - Meghan McCain likes being able to share the "humorously uncensored" moments of her life on Twitter but she's not so thrilled about sharing them with the likes of Karl Rove, she writes in her Daily Beast blog. "I am now being followed by Karl Rove, and my...

Meghan McCain: 'Old School' GOP 'Scared Sh**less'

Senator's daughter says there's 'a war brewing in the Republican Party'

(Newser) - Meghan McCain says “old school Republicans” are “scared shitless” of the future, Huffington Post reports. The new GOP it-girl told a friendly audience of Log Cabin Republicans that “too many Republicans want to cling to past successes. We’re seeing a war brewing in the Republican Party....

Meghan McCain: GOP Needs to Rock Out Its Inner Gayness

Opposing gay marriage is 'un-Republican'

(Newser) - It’s time for a gayer GOP, Meghan McCain writes in the Daily Beast. Opposing gay marriage is anathema to the GOP's founding beliefs of personal freedom and liberty, charges the mini maverick, and it’s a political misstep, too. Ditching the anti-gay rhetoric is critical to restoring the party’...

Meghan Gets 6-Figure Deal for Book

(Newser) - Meghan McCain has snagged a book deal thought to be in the high six figures, the New York Observer reports. The 24-year-old chose Hyperion over at least three other publishers. No official word on the subject, but a good bet is the future of the Republican party and how to...

Meghan McCain: House Hunk Is GOP's Hope

(Newser) - Meghan McCain continues her Generation Y rebellion within the GOP with a blog on a hottie congressman she admits discovering from beefcake shots on TMZ. In her Daily Beast column, McCain sees 27-year-old Aaron Schock of Illinois as the party's best hope of reinventing its stodgy image. "Schock should...

'Smart Cookie' McCain Is What GOP Needs

PR-savvy moderate gives party hope in courting youth vote

(Newser) - Meghan McCain’s scuffle with Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham has shown she knows how to take a punch—and how to throw one, writes Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post. McCain’s critique of her party’s bomb-throwers is accurate, and her strategy has been savvy. "If McCain...

Meghan McCain: I'm a New Kind of Republican

Tells Larry King she supports Obama, but is 'totally daddy's girl'

(Newser) - Meghan McCain considers herself a “progressive Republican,” she told Larry King last night on CNN—a new, younger voice for the party. McCain, who’s been in the news lately for her spat with conservatives Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter, said she was “totally daddy’s girl,...

Ingraham Denies Calling Meghan McCain Fat

Blames left-wing conspiracy for taking remarks 'out of context'

(Newser) - The liberals made her do it. Laura Ingraham denied on last night's O’Reilly Factor that she’d ever called Meghan McCain fat—even after playing the radio clip in which she seemingly did just that, Gawker reports. The talk-show host argued that the whole thing was a “left-wing...

Conservative Catfight Knocks Women Down

GOP female pundits attempt fight over party's future, end up in degrading spectacle

(Newser) - Female Republican pundits squabble over the future of their party and it descends into a snarkfest over age and weight? "You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding," writes Dahlia Lithwick in Slate. Meghan McCain and Laura Ingraham's catfight is the reason why men don't see women as serious political...

Ingraham Calls Meghan McCain 'Useful Idiot'

Feud continues; 'I'm proud of my daughter,' says John McCain

(Newser) - Meghan McCain, who has recently attacked certain prominent female conservatives, is a “flavor of the month” being manipulated by the media, says one of her targets. Laura Ingraham writes on her blog—under the title 'Useful Idiot' Watch— that McCain is following her father’s maverick playbook, CNN reports....

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