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Kathleen Parker: Is Meghan McCain the GOP's answer to Rush Limbaugh?
NewsBusters ^ | April 3, 2009 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 04/03/2009 6:40:17 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Kathleen Parker, a "conservative" columnist who has discovered that slamming real conservatives was an easy way to lift herself from her earlier state of relative anonymity, has now turned herself into an inadvertent comedienne. I mean, how can you beat this comedy line on the title of her latest column appearing in the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel: "Is Meghan McCain the GOP's answer to Rush Limbaugh?" Yes, Parker is seriously proposing that "Valley Girl McCain" can save the Republicans from that "nasty" Rush Limbaugh:

The GOP's identity crisis just got more interesting with the recent media splash of Meghan McCain, eldest daughter of the senator who did not become president.

Young McCain, who began blogging during her father's presidential campaign, recently made waves at The Daily Beast when she picked a fight with conservative media mavens Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham. This is enough sport to make the little dog laugh, to say nothing of the dish and the spoon.

McCain, just 24, is one smart cookie. In a matter of weeks, she has created a brand, presenting herself as a fresh face of her daddy's party and a voice for young conservatives. Strategically speaking, what better way to launch herself than to challenge the reigning diva herself, Miz Coulter?

Madonna, meet Britney.

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KEYWORDS: kathleenparker; kneepadrepublicans; mccain; mccaintruthfile; meghanmccain; rinoette
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1 posted on 04/03/2009 6:40:17 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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2 posted on 04/03/2009 6:41:26 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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PING!


3 posted on 04/03/2009 6:42:06 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (E.J. Dionne: "Make the World Safe for Tax Increases")
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To: PJ-Comix

Even the title made me LOL.

More like, Madonna, meet William Hung.


4 posted on 04/03/2009 6:44:46 AM PDT by abishai
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To: PJ-Comix

KP has lost it. Valley girl is no match for Limbaugh - not in the same league


5 posted on 04/03/2009 6:47:38 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: PJ-Comix

Dear Miss Parker:

The answer to your stupid column question is NO. Conservatives don’t care what either the Valley Girl or daddy Juan have to say, and if anyone resurrects the GOP, it WILL be Rush Limbaugh. Mr. Limbaugh has 20,000,000 listeners and 40,000,000 24/7 iPod subscribers. Miss Coulter has published over 5 bestsellers. What’s the Valley Girl ever done - appeared on the View and picked a fight with every true conservative she can name. Her 15 minutes are up - no one in the GOP cares.

Further - you are NOT a conservative, and I certainly hope you aren’t holding yourself out as one. You can join the Valley Girl and Daddy Juan and ride a RINO off into the sunset.


6 posted on 04/03/2009 6:50:54 AM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: PJ-Comix
Kathleen Parker: Is Meghan McCain the GOP's answer to Rush Limbaugh?

Maybe if she lost 10 pounds, she'd be his equal in one category.....

7 posted on 04/03/2009 6:51:19 AM PDT by Mac from Cleveland (How to make a small fortune in the Obama era--first, start off with a big fortune....)
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To: PJ-Comix

“a voice for young conservatives”

I am a “young conservative” and I can say that the crap Meghan spews out of her mouth doesn’t represent my views.


8 posted on 04/03/2009 6:51:31 AM PDT by wk4bush2004 (SARAH PALIN, 2012!!!!!!!)
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To: PJ-Comix
Though I think Parker is an idiot, she does bring to light one important thing here. If the GOP was smart, they wouldn't need an answer to Limbaugh, they'd be embracing him.


9 posted on 04/03/2009 6:51:48 AM PDT by ProfoundMan (RightyPics.com)
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To: PJ-Comix

Megan the ‘answer’ to Rush? LOL/and in a ‘word’. . .NO~


10 posted on 04/03/2009 6:54:40 AM PDT by cricket (NOOOOOOO to Serfdom. . .)
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To: PJ-Comix
McCain, just 24, is one smart cookie.

I think Ms. Parker is confused with the "you are what you eat" phrase. Just because Paris Hilton Meg McCain ate a cookie, doesn't mean she is one.

11 posted on 04/03/2009 6:55:56 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: PJ-Comix

In a word, NO. She is a pinhead.


12 posted on 04/03/2009 6:56:31 AM PDT by celtic gal (I think the democRATs should change their logo from a jackass to a RAT with a long tail.)
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To: PJ-Comix
Is Meghan McCain the GOP's answer to Rush Limbaugh?

I'll take Rush over McCain any day.

13 posted on 04/03/2009 6:57:31 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Why should the GOP need “an answer” to Rush Limbaugh?


14 posted on 04/03/2009 6:59:06 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: PJ-Comix

She’s not even the answer to Kathleen Parker...


15 posted on 04/03/2009 6:59:46 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: rabscuttle385

Tits McCain ?


16 posted on 04/03/2009 7:02:43 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: PJ-Comix
KP is dead to me, so I didn't read her spew.

Anything important?

17 posted on 04/03/2009 7:03:48 AM PDT by Jim Noble (They are willing to kill for socialism...but not to die for it.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

—Why should the GOP need “an answer” to Rush Limbaugh?—

One word. Demographics. Most people under 30 with any interest in politics/current events listen to the likes of Jon Stewart and Colbert for their “news”. They could be won over to conservatism, but not the kind, or at least the way, it’s presented by Rushbeckannity, Ingram (sp?) etc. How you do this, I don’t know.


18 posted on 04/03/2009 7:05:24 AM PDT by seatrout (I wouldn't know most "American Idol" winners if I tripped over them!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

—Tits McCain ?—

Well, at least she has them, unlike another blonde commentator/author I dare not mention.


19 posted on 04/03/2009 7:06:08 AM PDT by seatrout (I wouldn't know most "American Idol" winners if I tripped over them!)
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To: seatrout

But are they real?


20 posted on 04/03/2009 7:07:53 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (Americans Bow to No One)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

That’s not something I would have first ... um ... hand knowledge of. LOL!


21 posted on 04/03/2009 7:09:29 AM PDT by seatrout (I wouldn't know most "American Idol" winners if I tripped over them!)
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To: ProfoundMan

—Though I think Parker is an idiot—

True enough. Anyone who writes a book entitled “Save the Males” isn’t firing on all 4 cylinders IMO.


22 posted on 04/03/2009 7:11:40 AM PDT by seatrout (I wouldn't know most "American Idol" winners if I tripped over them!)
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To: seatrout

Understandable. But a self-important never-had-been princess daughter of RINO, who takes it upon her non-accomplished self to attack the stalwarts of the conservative movement is NOT going to be leader of her girl scout pack, much less the GOP.

The future leaders of the conservative movement will come in their own time. And, who knows, that movement may be totally outside of the moribund Republican Party.


23 posted on 04/03/2009 7:12:26 AM PDT by abishai
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To: PJ-Comix
there's a name for GOP'ers like K.Parker and M.McCain ...

democrats

24 posted on 04/03/2009 7:15:50 AM PDT by grandpa jones (obama must be exhausted...having to tote that giant brain of his around all the time)
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To: abishai

—RINO—

That is a tough term to define. There’s no GOP manifesto that says it has to be conservative. Indeed, before Ronald Reagan, most of the GOP’s big shots were mushy moderates; Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Howard Baker, Gerald Ford Bob Michel, Bob Dole all come to mind. The conservative movement MUST not hitch itself to a particular party. And, yes, I think the GOP may be moribund; in fact, it might be in the same shape the dinosaurs were at the end of the Cretaceous, right after the meteor hit.


25 posted on 04/03/2009 7:20:47 AM PDT by seatrout (I wouldn't know most "American Idol" winners if I tripped over them!)
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To: PJ-Comix

she’s dead to me


26 posted on 04/03/2009 7:21:55 AM PDT by zwerni (this isn't gonna be good for business)
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To: PJ-Comix

What is the question?


27 posted on 04/03/2009 7:23:24 AM PDT by manic4organic (We Are S0 Screwed)
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To: PJ-Comix

“Is Meghan McCain the GOP’s answer to Rush Limbaugh?”

Hardly.


28 posted on 04/03/2009 7:23:57 AM PDT by JenB987
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To: PJ-Comix


Kathleen's hero, Megan, went to this "man's" B-Day party.


29 posted on 04/03/2009 7:24:15 AM PDT by roses of sharon (Pray Hussein fails!)
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To: stainlessbanner
“Are you like kidding? I mean like I am so smart, I like went to like Columbia and gained like as many IQ as like my a$$ gained lb, you know, for sure.” Meghan
30 posted on 04/03/2009 7:27:35 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Nemo me impune lacessit)
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To: seatrout

Me neither...But being a woman who is not very fond of Ms McCain, it seemed like the logical response. :-)


31 posted on 04/03/2009 7:27:42 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (Americans Bow to No One)
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To: roses of sharon

For a moment there, I thought you were comparing the likenesses of the persons in the pictures.


32 posted on 04/03/2009 7:29:29 AM PDT by abishai
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To: abishai


Reportedly, Megan partied with this girl inside....who has a MTV "bisexual" themed dating show.

33 posted on 04/03/2009 7:32:14 AM PDT by roses of sharon (Pray Hussein fails!)
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To: roses of sharon

I saw the show. I was bored and was curious about seeing a trainwreck. Don’t understand why all those people wanted a “shot” with Tila Tequila. She looks like an emaciated, drug rattled fourth grader.


34 posted on 04/03/2009 7:37:12 AM PDT by abishai
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To: PJ-Comix

Kathleen Parker is a Conservative like Bella Abzug was pretty.

She’s searching for a new readership since she tried to torpedo Sarah Palin and lost her first audience.

My advice: skip her screeds.


35 posted on 04/03/2009 7:38:19 AM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: PJ-Comix; All

The girl is definitely a RINO. If she wants to go into politics, fine, but not as a conservative:

“Meghan McCain is a 23-year-old, socially liberal John Kerry voter...”

http://men.style.com/gq/blogs/gqeditors/2008/03/caps-font-var-1.html


36 posted on 04/03/2009 7:55:38 AM PDT by Joann37
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To: PJ-Comix

Why would Ms. Parker believe that Ms. McCain represents the GOP?


37 posted on 04/03/2009 7:57:18 AM PDT by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: Mac from Cleveland

OUCH!!!!!

But I do so love the snarkiness of the Taciturn American Freeper (Americanus Patriotus)!


38 posted on 04/03/2009 7:58:58 AM PDT by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: PJ-Comix
Is Meghan McCain the GOP's answer to Rush Limbaugh?

That's the equivalent of saying:

Is a first-grader equipped to design the rocket that will fly our astronauts to Mars?
39 posted on 04/03/2009 8:01:24 AM PDT by adorno (Where is Branch 4?)
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To: PJ-Comix
More like,


40 posted on 04/03/2009 8:21:01 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: PJ-Comix

I have to ask again: Who is Kathleen Parker? I never heard of her until the media made her treachery a favorite topic of political talk last year. This is a huffington/brooks like person for sure.


41 posted on 04/03/2009 8:25:15 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Meghan McCain is going on the same ash heap the Kerry daughters went after 2004.


42 posted on 04/03/2009 8:31:44 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: PJ-Comix

“In the Valley of the Dolls, it’s instant turn-on... dolls to put you to sleep at night, kick you awake in the morning, make life seem great - instant love, instant excitement, ultimate hell!”


43 posted on 04/03/2009 8:32:49 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: abishai
More like, Madonna, meet William Hung.

More like, Paul McCartney, meet Hanson.

44 posted on 04/03/2009 8:34:54 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: PJ-Comix

Oh, she’s ‘branded’ alright..

moo moo liberal.


45 posted on 04/03/2009 8:49:03 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: Jim Noble
Anything important?

Nope. Just Kathleen Parker trying to pretend that she's relevant. Again.

46 posted on 04/03/2009 8:56:32 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: PJ-Comix

Boy, it wasn’t bad enough having Juan McLame resurrected last year to lose the election—now we have to listen to the Monday-morning quarterbacking of his daughter Wynonna.

If her ideas are so great now—how come she didn’t drop her chalupa last year and win the election for Daddy?


47 posted on 04/03/2009 8:58:19 AM PDT by Mac from Cleveland (How to make a small fortune in the Obama era--first, start off with a big fortune....)
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To: abishai; All

I teach my kids to think a little deeper than this McCain airhead.


48 posted on 04/03/2009 9:25:58 AM PDT by DeLaine (To sin by silence when we should protest, makes cowards of men -Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
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To: PJ-Comix

“Is Meghan McCain the GOP’s answer to Rush Limbaugh?”

Only when the question is: Who does the left fear the least.


49 posted on 04/03/2009 9:26:11 AM PDT by yazoo
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To: PJ-Comix

If I had any doubts left that Kathleen Parker is an imbecile, they have been officially and irrevocably resolved.


50 posted on 04/03/2009 9:28:30 AM PDT by JewishRighter
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