Posted on 08/11/2009 12:43:34 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Meghan McCain told Michelle Malkin Tuesday that she would not "shut up" and that the Republican Party should be more inclusive of moderates like herself. The attack by McCain, the Republican daughter of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), against conservative Malkin is the latest battle in this year's public war of the Republican women pundits.
The latest name-calling started on Friday when, according to McCain, "Malkin was asked which conservative political figure or commentator needs to shut up. Guess who her answer was? Yeah, that's right -- yours truly."
McCain seemingly was first made aware of Malkin's comments by a follower on Twitter. She responded: "bet it sucks, to see my face everywhere" -- Kelly Clarkson @DennisAlcover @michellemalkin just dissed @McCainBlogette during her Arena chat". McCain also tweeted, "chill people, I don't give a f--- about @michellemalkin."
On Tuesday, McCain used decidedly more intellectual language in her column on the DailyBeast, saying Malkin "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."
McCain's strongest point in the column is that the Republican Party needs to be more inclusive: "What do Malkin and the other conservative pundits hope to accomplish by arguing that people 'like me' have no place within the Republican Party?"
But she then waters down her argument with a high school-like comparison of who is the more popular girl: "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."
McCain has 53,668 followers on Twitter to Malkin's 25,927 followers. The NYT does not provide the number of books Malkin has sold to get to the top of the list. McCain, who pushes for a more inclusive, moderate GOP, has been the target of female conservative pundits like Malkin, as well as Ingraham and Coulter. McCain thinks she is the victim of GOP females' schoolyard bullying: "But if people like Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter think they can bully me into giving up this fight and what I am doing, they are going to be severely disappointed." Ironically, it was McCain who started this war of words among female Republican pundits in March when McCain wrote that "certain individuals continue to perpetuate negative stereotypes about Republicans. Especially Republican women. Who do I feel is the biggest culprit? Ann Coulter. I straight up don't understand this woman or her popularity. I find her offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time."
Coulter did not respond to McCain's comments, but Republican radio talk show host Ingraham said, "Memo to Meghan McCain: Enjoy the media coverage while it lasts, but know you're being used. You are the flavor of the month in left-wing media land because you are a Republican bashing the GOP."
Malkin also came to Coulter's defense, writing that "The trouble with Meghan McCain is that, like her father, she has no fixed ideological principles -- conservative, liberal, or otherwise. She seems to have inherited the notion that playing the "maaaaverick" imparts her with moral authority and credibility as a fresh voice for the GOP."
I'm a conservative Republican woman, in the Malkin, Ingraham, Coulter camp politically.
But I also firmly believe the GOP needs to reach out to independent voters and be more inclusive of our party moderates, so I agree more with Meghan McCain's point of view. I believe in the Big Tent Republican Party, and I want anyone who wants to be in our party to feel welcome and their views respected.
A tactical note to my fellow GOP ladies: We are not helping our party get back in power by in-fighting and name- calling. From spending us into generations of national debt to forcing government to run health care, the Democrats have provided us plenty of legitimate issues for us to attack outward instead of inward.
And, as always, remember President Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
Fat & Dumb Vs. Sexy & Smart. No contest.
Meghan McCain has a long and promising career at MSNBC in her future.
Rabs, when you gonna propose to Petunia?
She’s Ron Reagan, minus the ballet shoes.
Meghan is an idiot, and I think she suspects it too.
BUYLA?
I would commit seppuku on the steps of the Capitol before I would consider proposing to McLame's RINO spawn.
Emily doesn’t make herself sound too smart either
My goodness, Meghan, what the hell do you want? An official ‘Moderate Republican’ membership certificate? It’s a free country, be whatever you want to be, just stop begging for acceptance from people who disagree with you. You have absolutely no right to expect anything other than freedom of speech to express your political views. Anything else, you’re on your own, just like everyone else.
“...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.”
wow.. an accomplished author certainly has no chance against someone who’s popular on...Twitter... /sarc
Seriously, someone needs to tell this child that just because her last name is McCain, it doesn’t mean that she has any credentials or credibility worthy of being heard.
Moderate Repubs are one of the reasons why we are losing the fight for this country.. we don’t need moderation..there is no moderation among the libs.. as far as I’m concerned.
MMCCain’s problem is the same as Ron Paul’s, you never see them in an article bashing the Democrat’s. Every time they open their mouths it’s to tear down the GOP.
It is fine to take your party to task once in a while. But if that is all you do, it’s not really your party anymore, now is it.
Kick them when their up, kick them when their down. (Dirty Laundry)
Also, never forget that it was Ronald Reagan who said emphatically "Let Them Go Their Way."
What are Meghan McCain’s Republican credentials, other than being pro-gay marriage and pro-abortion? Wait a minute... What?
Faux-cons and moderates are killing the GOP
The GOPs losses in recent years are due directly to trying to be “moderate” (aka liberal)
The funny thing is that Ms McCain attacking Ann Coulter....as Coulter has kinda “moderated” herself recently (trashing birthers, etc)
The author states: “. . . and I want anyone who wants to be in our party to feel welcome and their views respected.”
What a dolt! I will not respect Bill Ayers’ views, nor Obama’s, Polosi’s, Rev Wright’s. Need I go on?
But I also firmly believe the GOP needs to reach out to independent voters and be more inclusive of our party moderates, so I agree more with Meghan McCain's point of view. I believe in the Big Tent Republican Party, and I want anyone who wants to be in our party to feel welcome and their views respected...
Sorry, my dear...Meghan is not a Repub, she just plays one for the left wing media. She's not discussing principles, she's discussing strategy...and she's woefully unqualified for that.
In fact, I've not yet heard what she may believe on any issue; I suspect she doesn't know.
It's entirely consistent to believe in a "big tent" party, but on the other hand, to believe that Meghan should shut up. She's assuming a status not earned...and if her father hadn't built his career on bashing conservatives, the media wouldn't be listening to her now.
Respect, BTW, is earned.
Maybe rabs has that secret longing for her, really dumb girls are attractive to some even if they are a bit chubby
“...Seriously, someone needs to tell this child that just because her last name is McCain, it doesn’t mean that she has any credentials or credibility worthy of being heard...”
I can list lots of regular joes who are/were seriously more intellectual than Meghan...Junior Samples of Hee Haw, Larry Fine of the Three Stooges, Lon Chaney, Jr, Andrea True of pop/porn fame, Elmer Keith of Guns and Ammo Magazine, and on and on.
Meghan is out of her league with all of the above.
Man, I hate to go against my own beliefs but I think in this one case it may be ok for congress to abridge this woman’s speech. /reluctant sarc tag
I don’t (necessarily) want you to go away megan - but I would just as soon you stop acting like a spoiled brat (Oops - I just that’s too much to ask for)...
I don’t think its a secret anymore.
Rinos for Obama. Nuff said.
Maybe she can get into a 3-way with Kathy Griffin and Palin’s ex-boyfriend, Levi.
Calling yourself a Republican doesn't make you one.
David Duke for example. A Democrat Politican who later ran as an Independent Politician and then a Republican and is an Independent again.
Yes, the media (I think ABC-Disney’s publishing arm) has signed her up for a book deal in 2010. She will get tv time to bash the GOP during the congressional election.
This little piglet will say anything hoping for someone to notice her. How pathetic she is. She’s not even smart enough to figure out how the two unintelligent younger Reagan children got noticed and “loved” - become loud lefty Democrats - that bought them press while they whined for attention like she does.
Right, it would have been wrong for Republican politicians to pay any mind to what Ron Reagan Jr. and Patti said about GOP (and Ronald Reagan's) policies. Michael Reagan on the other hand...
Ron Reagan Junior is doing radio ads for prostate pills these days.
Just how many twits IS that?
>>She’s Ron Reagan, minus the ballet shoes.
6 posted on August 11, 2009 3:50:06 PM EDT by maggief<<<
OUTSTANDING! LOL
Like father, like daughter
Ann IS really hard to understand. She uses alot of big words. Math is like really hard too. I always thought twitter wasn't a really clever name either. So it's bragging rights about who has the most twits following them?
This Meghan McCain is an idiotic mess. She is a joke. First of all, she is the daughter of a rino, so what did we expect, and worse still even her Dad has more common sense than her at times which makes her a liberal. Secondly, She is attacking all the people left who are worth a damn. She is a big mess. For one thing she works on a liberal website and for another she has voted liberal before. To say she is republican is a joke. And worse still because she is in a liberal state now she believes all The lies told to her. This woman is nothing but trouble. So I would just ignore her as all the facts prove she is flat out wrong. Whatever she has against Malkin, it is safe to say Malkin could school her in a debate. Meghan is no Conservative and hates all the people who are saying the truth about the Obama. Sure seems like it.
Okay well at least he took a modest poke at BO. You notice he goes on to through the REAL blame on Bush? And you notice he only gave this brief criticism in response to a question by a reporter?
And Peggy was a conservative and a genuine Republican once upon a time. Meghan was never either.
Well, there you go.
"The trouble with Meghan McCain is that, like her father, she has no fixed ideological principles -- conservative, liberal, or otherwise.
I have not heard her explain what it is about Republicans that makes her want to be one. I have never heard her explain what her principles are, or what it is that she admires about the Republican movement historically or philosophically.
I have heard her attack Republicans, but never defend them.
She is like a lot of people, convinced that the world needs more people like herself, but unable to explain just what it is that she stands for, and what it is that she is prepared to live and die for.
Well, Bush had no respect for free markets.
Awwww Michelle, why did you have to go and bring her name up again? It was so quite w/o her. You should have said Peggy Noonan. Meghan is no conservative political figure!
Note that paleoPaulie the elder still imagines that our woes are Bush's fault. As Al Qaeda spokesthing, he is not allowed to learn. I think Meggie Moderate is old enough to be his running mate in 2012. That way we get to absolutely kick two dimwitted patoots with one right boot.
The Galveston surrenderman is crediting Obama’s world-wide apology tour which is right up Paulie’s treasonous alley.
If it weren’t for Bush, we wouldn’t have Obama.
Actually, that’s not a bad picture of Meghan.
Meghan says she loves, loves, loves sex! She just can’t get a date. Meghan has 50,000 folks who take pleasure in laughing at rich little dumb girls.
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