Tue 11 Aug 2009
Reading Meghan McCain makes me ill…
Posted by Locke under Blogs , Media , Personalities[23] Comments
I have never been a Meghan McCain fan and her latest article adds to her nonsensical delirium.
So Michelle Malkin successfully rounds out the trifecta of extreme female conservative pundits, following Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter, who believe that I, and Republicans like me, need to shut up and get out of the party. Is this surprising? Not really, given my father’s complicated history with the extreme right of the GOP. But what confuses me is this: Malkin recently posted an item on her blog about how “drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.”…
I don’t know exactly what about me threatens them so much, other than that people are listening to me. Malkin has the No. 1 book on The New York Times bestseller hardcover nonfiction list, but I have nearly twice as many Twitter followers as she does. And trust me, Twitter is more of an indication of where young people are than books published by the hyper-conservative publisher Regnery—which will be bringing you Carrie Prejean’s new book and published one of Ann Coulter’s.
There is a place for the far right in this party, Malkin included, and I respect their right to be heard. But the Republican Party will continue to lose elections unless we start reaching out in a more effective way to people my age and to moderates. Barack Obama won the last election on the slogan “Yes We Can,” and there is no reason why Republicans can’t go forth and win elections with equally positive messages. We will not get anywhere by continuing to sell hate and fear. Of course, there is always going to be a fraction of the GOP that is going to respond to that, but at some point we have to start facing the reality that hate and fear will only get us so far. Those emotions are not sources for inspiration of joining anything, let alone supporting a political party.
These three paragraphs actually give me a migraine. It was actually surprising to me that someone as young as Meghan would believe that Twitter followers are an accurate representation of anything. I am young and conservative and all my buddies think you’re….eh…well let’s just say my response cannot be contained in 140 characters or less. News flash Meghan, you’re not that cool. You’re humored by the left because they use you as tool. Your constant mantra that the right is filled with people who only care about God, guns, religion, and nascar is music to their hippy ears.
Meghan, it is not your moderate views that irritates people, it is your constant attack of the right. Hell hath no fury when Meghan takes to penning her views about how the Republicans are “un cool.” If only we embraced the big bag of crap that is Obama’s “Yes We Can” campaign we would dig ourselves out our hate mongering hole. Let’s all forget the negative campaigning and strategy the left has used the last 9 years to try to make conservatives into monsters.
Instead of bashing people like Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, and Michelle Malkin for nailing the left to the wall, why don’t you come up with some solutions. We want solutions that don’t revolve around simply saying words like, “Twitter”, “Facebook”, and “MySpace” over and over or bashing on pundits. Why don’t you spend your time fighting all the “hate & fear” that is coming from the left in regards to our current health care fight? I mostly just want you to go away but you won’t, the left won’t allow it.
P.S. Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, and Michelle Malkin are viewed as GODS by young conservatives around the country. Maybe GODS is a little much but way more interesting than “EVERY BODY LOOK AT ME!!!” McCain.
IN MY OPINION GOOOO AWAY!!!!!
UPDATE: Commenters are nailing me to the wall in regards to some grammatical errors in my post. I guess that is what I get for venting late last night on the east coast, but you guys are right it is embarrassing. tHiS KoLLeGe StUdent WiLl bE MorE ViGilAnt iN ThE FuTure
August 11th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Meghan is right…she is trying to keep you from hanging yourselves in public and you won’t listen. I tell you the same thing, but unlike her, I am gleeful about it.
August 11th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
There is a difference between your and you’re that spellcheck won’t catch, and correcting that will elevate your otherwise good piece.
August 11th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
News flash Meghan, your not that cool. Your humored by the left because they use you as tool.
Violating pedestrian third grade English impacts credibility. Flaws portraying profound ignorance DO MATTER. Anyone reasonable can forgive a typo, but the English only crowd might take offense at your grotesque ignorance of your own language.
When did you drop out? Conscientious third graders exceed your command of our nation’s language. It’s called English. They teach it in places called schools. A mediocre fourth grader knows what you do not.
Meghan McCain is clear about this. She has in fact distinguished the love affair between the GOP and ignorance. She’s clear about you.
August 11th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Megan McCain is a spoiled rich kid that doesn’t have a clue about the Republican Party. I wish she would go back to the Democrat Party where she belongs.
August 11th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Come to the light Meghan. You belong in the Democratic Party.
August 12th, 2009 at 6:28 am
She’s free to say what she wants, but it’s kind of sad to see her trade on her name to bash Republicans. Is she really so desperate to appear relevant that she uses her last name to bash the right?
August 12th, 2009 at 7:04 am
Eh…I am not so worried about the typos on a blog as my little comments are littered with them…out of haste.
That said, Meghan is giving you all a warning that you should be heeding and taking as true criticism. She might be doing it privately if it would help at all. After all, when I was a young Republican once, no one listened to us when we invited to events, but essentially told our opinions don’t really matter.
Her advice is that you have turned off young people…and even now attack them…because they don’t believe what you the elderly in your party believe.
In addition, I think she knows very well that you are alienating Hispanics at a critical critical time…at time when they are moving into the majority.
That vote, for whatever reason, against Sonia Sotomayor is going to hurt you. Seriously hurt you. You may disagree, but I am right.
August 12th, 2009 at 8:24 am
kralmajales Says:
You make my point about Megan McCain. It doesn’t worry me that you got discouraged with the Republican Party. YOU ARE NOT A REPUBLICAN! Your posts show that you belong in the Democrat Party. Enjoy your party and take Megan with you.
August 12th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Meghan McCain is a twit if she thinks her twitter following carries more weight than anything Michelle Malkin does. McCain is a typical narcissist who needs to grow up and learn a little history. Republicans win elections when they stick to their conservative principles like Ronald Reagan (unlike her father, who didn’t).
August 12th, 2009 at 9:56 am
“Enjoy your party and take Megan [sic] with you.”
Indeed.
In the history of the United States, I cannot recall a political party other than today’s Republican “base” who were so eager to expel members from their party.
I expect that after her father is out of politics, Meghan will indeed become a Democrat, as thousands of others of her generational peers are. The “unfavorable view” numbers of the Repubican party are sky-high among Millennials.
Your party seems determined to alienate a lot of people who would otherwise be Republicans: young people, Muslims, Latinos, gays and lesbians, educated voters, etc.
What I suspect will happen is that the Republicans will either reverse course or do as most of you on Sonoran Alliance want: kick out people like Meghan McCain.
The Republican party, born in the 1850s as an anti-slavery political party, with a long history, will then wither away like the Whigs or the Federalists and be replaced by a newer party of economic, social and foreign policy conservatives who are — forgive me — not insane like most of you on Sonoran Alliance.
August 12th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Well, she is right about one thing. We need a more positive message. Ronald Reagan was well known for attracting a whole new generation to the party because he always projected an honest, positive view of America and its future. We need to get back to that.
August 12th, 2009 at 10:44 am
The antidote is quite simple – don’t read her…
August 12th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
I was going to post a response to DeAnn, but Richard said it perfectly.
Seriously, I hear more from college students than most of you do and what she says is absolutely true.
I don’t know why I am trying to tell you what fools you are not to listen. It is your own undoing.
Every day the GOP gets smaller. It was because of people not buying your philosophy. It is now because they are dying off (rest their souls…and I mean that).
August 12th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
As a young conservative, I can say Meghan McCain has zero relevance among my peers. From the little I know about her, she seems to be the equivalent of a young Hollywood starlet that craves attention, yet who has little relevance in the real world. I don’t know why Meghan McCain thinks she is the spokeswoman for young Republicans, but she is most definitely not.
That being said, I’m not gung-ho on the “mad as hell” attitude representative of the Coulters, Limbaughs, and other attention-mongers on the right.
I believe an understanding of history, economics, and current events will persuade young people that classic liberalism- meaning liberty from government, free markets, enhanced personal responsibility, etc.- will lead our great nation to prosperity in the future. Unfortunately, I surmise that few of my college peers even know to what “classic liberalism” refers. At the university we receive an education rife with leftist leanings and deficient in conservative thought. However, as this generation becomes exposed to, and eventually disillusioned with the shortcomings of government planning, government sponsored industry, and government control, they will make an ideological switch as did Democrats that voted for Ronald Reagan.
August 12th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Actually,
I talk to a lot of young people and they are surprisingly conservative. Megan is a potty mouthed brat that doesn’t and shouldn’t speak for the Republican Party. I agree that a lot of college aged kids have an “unfavorable view” of the Republican Party. They are being influenced by very liberal Socialist professors. Once they get out of college and get a job, they become Republicans. We can wait.
August 12th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Meghan couldn’t be more right when she wrote:
“the Republican Party will continue to lose elections unless we start reaching out in a more effective way to people my age and to moderates.”
I can remember the day when the GOP was all about winning elections. How many more do we have to lose before the Republican Party is irrelevant? Maybe it already is.
August 12th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
I am surrounded by 30 and under politically astute and engaged people who are completely put off by the Republican Party. They see it as old, tired, angry, and determined to be rid of anyone who is less than pure according to the subjective standards of “the blue hairs”.
Just this evening I was in a conversation about this topic with a 31, 30, 29, 27, 25, and 21 year old. They are pro-life, believe in the right to own guns without intrusion, want to make a difference and stop the spread of socialism and the encroaching of the liberal government, see the MSM as a fraud…and they have no desire to take part in the red meat hate-fest they see as the GOP. They are registered R’s because they do not want to waste their vote but many of their friends have switched to Libertarian or Independent.
BTW…they despise Ann Coulter as a mercenary, conservative version of the liberal elite and see John McCain as a true American hero.
August 12th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Ann is correct. If the GOP dropped the anti-gay rhetoric and the clear racial divisiveness and over the top anti illegal immigrant hyperbole it might have a chance of attracting younger voters. This stuff just doesn’t fly with young people and it is driving them away in droves.
Thankfully most of you won’t listen.
August 12th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Todd… I have hope they will overcome and persevere. The extraordinary efforts of Pelosi/Obama to force unwanted change has energized many young voters who were previously alert to a point but complacent to their role. They are waking up.
I will disagree with your perspective on immigration. I see them as very concerned about the future of the job market and the economy. They see the infusion of non-documented workers and their children….they get it and do not like it. The how it is addressed, not the if, is the issue.
August 12th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Ann,
Just to clarify, there is over the top hyperbole you do see on the right. There are some that blame most every social ill on illegal immigrants and some also clearly have racial motivations in addition to any valid concerns about the economic impact. There is concern and there is intolerance, I am speaking of the latter.
August 13th, 2009 at 12:10 am
Ann,
Speaking from personal experience, I believe many young voters are turned off by the Republican Party because they view all politicians as virtually the same. They believe all of them are selfish and they’ll all tell you what you want to hear in order to get elected. The dissonance between political promises and real results turns young voters off of political parties and politics in general. It is much easier for young voters to unite behind a promising and inspiring candidate (see Reagan in the 80s and Obama now)than to support a party that doesn’t deliver.
I, myself, am a registered Republican, but I always consider candidate over party. There are many Republicans out there I could never support. Thankfully, my congressional representative, Jeff Flake, is one about which I have no qualms.
Basically, I believe that either political party, whether Republican or Democrat, is hard to defend in the long run. There are too many self-serving individuals within both parties that prevent young voters (and older voters for that matter) from getting excited about “the Party.” I see the party structure as merely a vehicle to elect palatable politicians. It is not something to support in and of itself.
August 13th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
The Republican Party will win elections again only when it stands for something. We cannot try to be so inclusive that we don’t stand for anything and we need to stop listening to people, like Megan or anybody on NBC, who keeps telling us that we basically need to be a softer version of the Democrats.
August 15th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Let’s face it gang!
Meghan is a “chip” off the old block!
Only a step further!
While John ‘talks’ right and maneuvers Left, his progeny seems to ‘walk’ the ‘talk’
If nothing else, one has to appreciate her intellectual honesty.
That’s a rare commodity in R.I.N.O. Land!