A Great Review Of Meghan McCain’s Book

But is the book great? Not so much:

It is impossible to read Dirty, Sexy Politics and come away with the impression that you have read anything other than the completely unedited ramblings of an idiot. This being a professional website for which I have a great deal of respect, I searched for a more eloquent or gentle way to accurately phrase the previous sentence – but could not find one.

There’s a lot more.

12 thoughts on “A Great Review Of Meghan McCain’s Book”

  1. I caught a glimpse of Meghan McCain on Leno the other night, and it put this book review entirely in context. Ouch!

  2. Wow.

    By far the biggest problem the Republican coalition has right now is moderates who refuse to accept defeat at the hands of conservatives. Think Dede Scozzafava endorsing the Democrat in NY-23. Think Charlie Crist and Arlen Specter bailing the party and running against the Republican when it became clear that they would lose their primaries. Think Lincoln Chafee currently running as an independent for Governor of Rhode Island despite the NRSC spending millions to help him defeat a conservative in the primary. I defy Meghan McCain to identify a conservative candidate who acted or behaved in this way towards the party after a primary loss.

    Let’s back up — I defy Meghan McCain to even read and understand that paragraph. Baby steps.

  3. Well, that’s actually the line I have a problem with: Clint Diddier of Washington State is demonstrating soreloseritis.

    Dino Rossi: fiscally sane guy while being on the socially conservative side – but tepid about the social issues. It’s at least plausible he could win a Senate seat in Washington.

    Clint Diddier: “Everything he says – squared!” Plus he’s a firebreathing anti-abortion guy.

    Clint is “The Tea Party Guy”, but polls have shown for the entire primary season that the tea party folks are mighty comfortable with Dino Rossi also.

    Primary Season Clint: “I’ll fight my best in the primary, but in the end I, and everyone, should support the winner.”

    Post-Primary Season Clint: “Dino can get my endorsement with a short phone call. [In which he agrees with my abortion position.]”

  4. It sounds to me like this book fills a well-needed gap.

    Nah. The covers are too far apart and my desk doesn’t wobble that much. I’ll use The Enduring Policy Successes of Jimmy Carter instead.

  5. “I’ll use The Enduring Policy Successes of Jimmy Carter instead.”

    How useful can one blank piece of paper be?

  6. Wow, that was an epically long article. It’s those that make me glad I have a copy of Textaloud. I can piddle around doing other things while the friendly Neospeech voice, Paul16, reads the article for me. But I was LoLing at the parts where he cited excerpts from the book. Textaloud pretty accurately changes the cadence of the reading based upon the punctuation. Having the text-to-speech ramble through her incoherence just emphasized the poor grammar even further.

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