Comments on: Meghan McCain: She’s What’s For Dinner

By: Laura Ingraham’s rant on the O’Reilly Factor about Meghan McCain | MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:37:22 +0000

[...] UPDATE again: AMEN!!! Jenn Q. Public nails it! [...]

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:29:54 +0000

STANDING OVATION!

Agree with everything you said, Jenn!

By: nomoreGOP

nomoreGOP — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:49:20 +0000

..’some members of the Republican Party are addicted to this circular firing squad they’ve got going. Let’s see how far that gets them.”

best quote I’ve heard so far about the douchary (since making up words is the new thing to act smart in here) of the Republicant’s lately.

Good riddance :-)

By: Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:32:26 +0000

“Liberty is not the same thing as liberality, to say nothing of libertinity”

Is that because Liberty is is a real word?

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:01:00 +0000

I love Meghan’s blog and her twitter posts. Yes, she has an audience because of her father, but she is representative of young, female, moderate Republicans, like myself. I feel so alienated by the Republican party. They seem to have created a very strict criteria for membership, and I think the message is that if you can’t meet their standards, then they don’t need you. The Republican party is either going to split or drive itself into obscurity with its hate-filled divisive language. Thanks for this great article! Read my blog at http://www.embracingamerica.blogspot.com

By: About That Backside… : The Sundries Shack

About That Backside… : The Sundries Shack — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:12:17 +0000

[...] “undermin[ing] journalistic standards” because my post on Meghan McCain was linked in this post Jenn Q Public behind the words “shapely [...]

By: Schreiber

Schreiber — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:12:34 +0000

Ms. Public

Some quick political calculus:

“…there are tons of liberty loving, fiscally conservative Meghan McCains out there, and most of them are registered Democrats because of what they’ve heard about the angry, hateful bigots in the GOP. It’s self-defeating for Republicans to ignore Meghan when her wing of the Party could be just as reliable at the polls as this nebulous “Republican base” we hear so much about.”

plus

“Why should anyone care if she feels the label “progressive Republican” gives her a little bit of hipster street cred or gasp, best describes her positions?”

Equals

“me too” Republicanism and another 40 years in the wilderness.

Liberty is not the same thing as liberality, to say nothing of libertinity. Fiscal conservatism is ultimately incompatible with social liberalism, unless by social liberalism one means: do whatever you want, so long as you pay for it by yourself. Accepting the notion that one needs “hipster-street cred” in order to show that one isn’t an “angry hateful bigot” like all those other Republicans one is always hearing about is to cede so much rhetorical ground to the left that you’ve lost the argument before it’s begun. And if Progressive-Republican describes anything (other than a state of confusion about one’s core principles) it’s a center-left party oppossed to a left-of-center party.

If that’s the future of the Republican party, then the hell with it.

Sorry for the long reply.

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:18:09 +0000

Actually, my problem with her is that she’s neither bright nor particularly Republican. She is getting publicity far beyond what her skill as a writer or her political insight merit simply because of her last name.

The post of yours shows more writing chops than Miss McCain has shown in her entire brief and vapid career.

As I said, she’s Paris Hilton sans leaked video.

Oh, and to correct your characterization about my post. I didn’t say she had a shapely backside. I said she had a “nice” one and that it’s pretty much the only thing that set her apart from the other brand-new Republican media darling, David Frum.