Ms. McCain’s ideas are neither new nor exciting. In fact, if you took Nelson Rockefeller’s speech to the GOP in 1964 when Barry Goldwater was nominated, toned down the language so a whiny teenager would understand it, inserted a few pointless digs at other peoples’ appearance/online fan base, one or two lines of bizarre biker fetishization, and peppered it with logical fallacies and non sequiturs, you’d have the makings of a pretty standard Meghan McCain column. In fact, if you took the former self-described “conservative” and two-time Adlai Stevenson supporter Peter Viereck’s thoughts on Joseph McCarthy and replaced the name “McCarthy” with the name of any socially conservative Republican politician/commentator, and replaced the terms “communists” and “reds” with the word “gays” or “bikers,” you’d also have the makings of a pretty standard Meghan McCain column. Both of these people ended up lost on the ash heap of failed Republican political figures, a destiny which Ms. McCain herself is destined for if she keeps on offering unsolicited advice.
What a ditz. But it’s sort of like shooting a whale in a barrel.
When Ms. McCain says she speaks for the new generation of Republicans I can only smile and be glad that I no longer call myself a Republican (gotta get around to changing my voter registration one of these days). If she typifies the new Republican party and the Republicans embrace her then I guess they can have each other.
“whale in a barrel” Nice one.
I committed a grave error by donating to the Republican party when John Kerry ran against Bush.
I thought registering as an independent might end their annoying phone solicitations, but it hasn’t, despite numerous pleas to be excised from their calling list. I now believe this one-sided relationship will endure until the wingspan of death overshadows my telephone hand.
I’d say Meghan McCain is the Paris Hilton of the Republican Party, but I’m not sure Ms. Hilton deserves to be insulted like that.