Meghan McCain: Ann Coulter is ‘offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing.’
Meghan McCain: Ann Coulter is ‘offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing.’
In a column for the Daily Beast today, Meghan McCain, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) daughter, attacks Ann Coulter as a potent symbol for why the Republican Party struggles to attract younger voters, slamming her for “perpetuat[ing] negative stereotypes about Republicans”:
To make matters worse, 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. [...]
More so than my ideological differences with Ann Coulter, I don’t like her demeanor. I have never been a person who was attracted to hate or negativity. … Everything about her is extreme: her voice, her interview tactics, and especially the public statements she makes about liberals. Maybe her popularity stems from the fact that watching her is sometimes like watching a train wreck.
McCain writes, “[I]f figureheads like Ann Coulter are turning me off, then they are definitely turning off other members of my generation as well.”
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I understand her popularity. The Republican base is insane.
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March 9th, 2009 at 12:54 pmI was going to pick up tickets for my father to see her and Bill Mahrer debate at the speaker series.
He declined. He didn’t want to put a nickel into her pocket directly or indirectly.
March 9th, 2009 at 12:55 pmm’ann really overstuffed that bra! my word!
NO ONE that emaciated could be that well endowed… naturally…
March 9th, 2009 at 12:57 pmor, whatever…
Good for Meghan McCain. I think she is dead “right.”
March 9th, 2009 at 12:57 pmwell, of course, whatever…
March 9th, 2009 at 12:58 pmjust saying…
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Yes Meghan…
… Ann is a turn off.
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March 9th, 2009 at 1:01 pmIf Rush Limbaugh is the intellectual force behind the Republican Party, I would have to argue that Ann Coulter is its soul. Staring into her hate filled eyes as her mouth flicks venomous insults is essential to understanding what drives the modern Republican.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:01 pmHow sad is it that McCain’s daughter has more courage to stand up to the likes of Coulter than does the Democractic party, Republican party and the mainstream media?? Why don’t we hear this kind of statement from the DCCC or congressional leadership? Wimps!
March 9th, 2009 at 1:02 pmThe problem for the right is that people like coulter and rush are now basically public spokemen for the gop.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
It’s true that Ann Coulter is offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing. But so is Rush Limbaugh. And Michael Savage. And Glen Beck. And Sean Hannity. And Bill O’Reilly. And many others.
Will Meghan diss them all? Or are there just not enough hours in the day to do so?
Seriously, though — it will take more Republicans to stand up and say, “this (pundit, columnist, radio host, etc.) does NOT speak for me” before we become convinced that the shrill and offensive self-appointed mouthpieces really don’t.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:03 pmLike Limbaugh and others, Ann knows that she can make a good living off of the stupified 30% ers.
Good work, Meghan.
¶ AIO
March 9th, 2009 at 1:04 pmGood for Ms. McCain. I welcome her sanity on this issue. She is 100% correct. Ann will go batshit now for sure.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:05 pmPoor Meghan.
hooray for meghan.
ann who?
:)
March 9th, 2009 at 1:06 pmEither Meghan thinks for herself or is strung out on vicodins (mom left some hidden?) like that blowhard GOP leader Limbaugh.
True story: got through on a talk show years ago that had Coulter on here in Chicago. When it came my turn to talk (I had bs’d the screener with some anti-Clinton nonsense), I told her to go eat some GD food as her skeleton frame was disgusting. The radio host (Mancow) called me an *sshole (which I readily admitted to being) and cut me off after I offered to by Man Coulter a McDonald’s Happy Meal.
Yeah, cheap shot, but if anyone deserves it, it’s her.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:06 pmThe next generation are going to be wiser at a young age.
Republicans must be so mad at that now.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:08 pmFirst Bristol Palin and now this.
Good for Meghan! Now she has to apologize to her dad and Rush.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:10 pmMcCain’s daughter proves the fact that not all republicans are offensive morons but all offensive morons seem to be republicans.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:11 pmkaty Says:
m’ann really overstuffed that bra! my word!
NO ONE that emaciated could be that well endowed… naturally…
or, whatever…
Actually, katy, to be precise,in my insulting phone call I referenced, I asked Coulter what the deal was with her? Is she really Calista Flockhart (the emaciated part) with breast implants?
You must be kind of sick, katy, to think like the Lokidog. You poor gal. LOL
March 9th, 2009 at 1:11 pmfletc3her Says:
I gotta hand it to you fletc3her, you have a way with words. It has always reminded me of a blonde rattlesnake, skinny, nasty and black eyes.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:14 pmThank you Meghan McCain for putting moral decency above politics! All these wingnut extremists running the Republican party are helping to destroy America. It will take us ages to recover from the last 8 years of Fascist rule.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:16 pmRUCerious Says:
Good for Meghan! Now she has to apologize to her dad and Rush.
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damn right.
:)
March 9th, 2009 at 1:16 pmIf this is the new voice of women in the Republican party, I think I can handle it. I don’t agree with her, I think she is a little silly, but at least she’s comfortable enough to suggest republicans may need to rethink some things if they want to stay relevant. It should be a trivial admission, but it is the first I’ve heard of it.
Memo to Steele and Congressional republicans, see Ms. McCain for a reminder of what balls look like.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:16 pmManne’s biggest fan demographic is probably the “closeted h0mos3xul” segment of the population, they try to rationalize thier attraction to manly features by displacing thier desires onto shem@les like coulter…
Speaking of birth certificate scandals, has anyone ever seen anne’s???… i swear she has all the physical hallmarks of either a tr@nny or a herm@phr0d1te…I dont even mean than as an insult, just an observation, as I know some tr@nnys and they are usually the nicest people.. I really think it would be hilarious and apropriately ironic if it turned out one of the most lusted after right wing women around used to be a dude..
March 9th, 2009 at 1:17 pmSHE?
March 9th, 2009 at 1:19 pm.
Dear Meghan,
I hear Ann packs away the BBQ Babyback Ribs…
… Is this true?
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March 9th, 2009 at 1:21 pmAt this rate, with some other things Meghan has said and done (she had her Dad buy her a Prius), and when Daddy McCain loses his Senate seat next year she will switch to the Democratic party.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:21 pmMcCain writes, “[I]f figureheads like Ann Coulter are turning me off, then they are definitely turning off other members of my generation as well.”
And yet, what passes for biting GOP satire featured ‘V.P. Ann Coulter’ next to president Gastropod…
(warning, gag factor ahead…..)
March 9th, 2009 at 1:24 pmI read the article and it appears to be nothing more than her doing the right thing for the wrong reason.
This is normally the case when those on the right are found to be doing something that we agree with.
Not once in the article does she take to task the things that coulter says, only how coulter represents the right.
She says:
No cudo’s for this child of mccain from me. They are just trying to save thier own asses. Too late.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:24 pmThe GOP has relied on talking heads with their one line bitter and cutting remarks and now has to live with the fact that they are defining the party.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:25 pmArchie B Says:
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Is this the same Meghan McCain that the far left has viciously attacked countless times? Now, she’s a saint?
==============================================================I missed the post that says the the far left considers her a saint, sh!ste for brains. Please give a link…or just go away…you are waste and stupid.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:26 pmMeghan McCain: Ann Coulter is ‘offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing.’
Why are women always complaining about men?
March 9th, 2009 at 1:27 pmI liken the relationship the right has with rush and coulter, et al with the relationship that labor was forced to adopt with the mob.
This will stick to the right just as the mob is still considered to be stuck to labor.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:29 pmArchie B,
“viciously attacked”
What, you mean the drooling fangs and bloody claws kinda viciously attacked?
Face it Archie B,
We’re over you, aren’t you?
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March 9th, 2009 at 1:30 pmDoes this sound to you as though she is about to be appointed queen? We know who the king is. Does it sound to you as though the talking heads have more and better ideas for their party than the one’s elected?
March 9th, 2009 at 1:31 pmGive them a chance to destroy themselves completely. They are doing a great job.
Meghan McCain is correct of course but to what end?
Is she right about Coulter and the mindless and utterly absolute rabid loyalty shown Coulter by Republicans? Yes.
Is she right about the “train wreck”? I suspect yes on that point, too. Only this time, the train wreck is heading straight for Meghan McCain for daring to speak out against Coulter.
Meghan is about to see the Republicans as they truly are. I hope she is wearing her asbestos undies because Hell Hath No Fury than a Coulter Republican scorned.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:32 pm33. Fred Says: I liken the relationship the right has with rush and coulter, et al with the relationship that labor was forced to adopt with the mob. This will stick to the right just as the mob is still considered to be stuck to labor.
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Are you wanting to nudge the thread to labor? The analogy doesn’t track at all. The mob doesn’t adopt a public platform to slam the republican party, nor does it engage in noise machine tactics
A more apt comparison would be the mob and labor to the Carlyle Group and republican interests I would think….
March 9th, 2009 at 1:35 pmshoeless #32,,There ya go making me spit coffee all over my moniter again..LOL..Blessings
March 9th, 2009 at 1:35 pmI find her offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time.
And ugly as hell.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:38 pmArchie B Says:
Is this the same Meghan McCain that the far left has viciously attacked countless times? Now, she’s a saint?
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if you don’t like her
just say so.
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meghan remarks are for the younger
generation of conservatives.
how old are you arch?
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March 9th, 2009 at 1:40 pmThat’s refreshing. I’m glad she’s speaking up against Coulter and her ilk.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:40 pmNo hans, I’m sorry you missed the point.
Here it is again a little slower:
when you think of labor…..the mob is always there in the back of everyones mind.
when you think of the right……the ann coulters and rush’s are always there in the back of everyone’s mind.
sorry if I wasn’t clear.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:41 pmShe’s got more bal*s than her father. But I guess that’s not saying much.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:43 pmMr. Coulter will be ecstatic for stealing some of the limelight back from Limbaugh. I wonder if he’ll send flowers to Meghan.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:44 pmI read Ms McCain’s whole post.
She’s saying that the Republican party is represented by extremists and risks losing a generation.
Well, duh!
She apparently wants to stay a Republican, but wants ‘her’ Party to change, to be less extreme.
Given her access, will she get involved and try and change her Party from the inside, or will she just complain from her current privileged pulpit, and still vote Republican regardless?
Or will she get some life-experience outside of politics–she’s got time to do that too. It’s her choice.
But she’s asking some questions and trying to find some rational answers and that’s encouraging if she does intend to get more deeply involved.
“certain individuals continue to perpetuate negative stereotypes about Republicans. Especially Republican women.”
March 9th, 2009 at 2:02 pmmk3872 Says:
How sad is it that McCain’s daughter has more courage to stand up to the likes of Coulter than does the Democractic party, Republican party and the mainstream media?? Why don’t we hear this kind of statement from the DCCC or congressional leadership? Wimps!
March 9th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Frankly, it’s more shocking that Meghan’s daddy hasn’t denounced these f ucktard lunatics (Coulter, Hannity, O’Reilly, Beck & Limbaugh).
March 9th, 2009 at 2:07 pm“Everything about her is extreme: her voice, her interview tactics, and especially the public statements she makes about liberals”
I don`t like Mann Coulters adams apple…………
March 9th, 2009 at 2:11 pmWill someone please tell Meghan McCain to shut her yap? Ann Coulter is the gift that keeps on giving to keep the GOP in the minority.
Keep on hatin’, Ann!
March 9th, 2009 at 2:15 pmI am glad to see the younger McCain standing up for her party. I think she just passed Michael Steele as leader of the GOP.
In all seriousness, someone needs to smack the conservative media and make them understand that they are selling sensationalism over sensibility. They are selling so much sizzle in the media (both conservative and liberal) that I wonder just how much steak is actually on the menu…
March 9th, 2009 at 2:15 pmwolfsinger Says
March 9th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Meghan is about to see the Republicans as they truly are. I hope she is wearing her asbestos undies because Hell Hath No Fury than a Coulter Republican scorned.
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I don’t think the GOP can do all that much to Meghan. She holds no office, she’s not running for any office, and she doesn’t work for Fox News. All she has is her blog and her gig with The Daily Beast. Even if Coulter dedicated an entire column to slamming Meghan in the head, the worst that she or anyone else could do is give Meghan more publicity.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:21 pmMegan can say what she wants. However, I would hire a big bodyguard, if I were her. John McCain on the other hand, as a Republican office holder, would be required to begin apologizing and groveling for forgiveness within the standard 51 minute time limit.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:25 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
I don’t think the GOP can do all that much to Meghan. She holds no office, she’s not running for any office, and she doesn’t work for Fox News. All she has is her blog and her gig with The Daily Beast. Even if Coulter dedicated an entire column to slamming Meghan in the head, the worst that she or anyone else could do is give Meghan more publicity.
What Coulter will definitely do is lash out about how the youth has no idea what they are talking about. She’ll plug her agenda about how the voting age should be 40, then go attack liberal and progressive voting movements.
In other words, if attacking the individual doesn’t work, attack a progressive service that resembles the individual. It’s how she writes half of her articles. Can’t slam Olbermann? Then slam the education system.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:38 pm44. Fred Says: No hans, I’m sorry you missed the point….Here it is again a little slower:…sorry if I wasn’t clear.
You needn’t be so contradictory, fred. If your last sentence was genuine, then my ‘missing the point’ was not due to my ‘miss’ but your delivery; and the ‘a little slower’ was just petulant.
If you acknowledge you weren’t clear, a simple, “let me clarify” would have been sufficient.
Thank you for the clarification.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:51 pmMeghan and Bristol are a part of what I have dubbed, “Generation Common Sense”. The children of the current ilk of politicians that have ruled us for the last 30 years. They have grown up in more inclusive settings, and let their views be ruled by what’s good for the moment, no what’s good for a certain group of people. I fear nothing if the youth 30 and under keep speaking out as well and refuse to go quietly into the night as their parents seek to keep the Baby Boomer generation in power and cling to their youth.
However, lets remember that this is still the daughter of JMac and Cindy. That republican blood still runs deep in her, but lets not view her as a paragon of running lefty. Though I appreciate Chris Buckley, Kathleen Parker, and even David Brooks for speaking out against their party and fringe members of their ideology, they still can be partisan hacks as much as a Micheal Moore at times.
But good job Meghan. And whatever Ann throws your way, we will at least respect what you wrote here and now, even if you take the obvious GOP course and go back to grovel and apologize at the alter of the almighty Coultergeist…
March 9th, 2009 at 3:02 pmAnn Coulter is ‘offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing.’”
That skank biscuit is more than just that…vile, loathsome, hateful, a liar and she has a huge adam’s apple…hence the name,,,Mann Coulter.
I just hate this c**t, and can not watch her for more than 15 seconds.
March 9th, 2009 at 3:16 pmmisshusseinmolly at 53 Says:
wolfsinger Says
March 9th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Meghan is about to see the Republicans as they truly are. I hope she is wearing her asbestos undies because Hell Hath No Fury than a Coulter Republican scorned.
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I don’t think the GOP can do all that much to Meghan. She holds no office, she’s not running for any office, and she doesn’t work for Fox News. All she has is her blog and her gig with The Daily Beast. Even if Coulter dedicated an entire column to slamming Meghan in the head, the worst that she or anyone else could do is give Meghan more publicity.
You might be right misshusseinmolly but then again, your thoughts are rational and well thought out. Attributes I am reluctant to give to Republicans in general. Much less, Coulter.
It has been my experience that any “high profile” Republican descent up to and including John’s daughter is fair game and must be challenged at all costs, always. Coulter and Malkin too are extreme “red meat” for an extreme party that can’t get enough of it. I suspect it will be more than a single trip to Coulter’s woodshed for Maghan – and her dad, also.
March 9th, 2009 at 3:23 pmWow. Good statement for a republican.
Any other brave republican/conservative wanting to declare their desire to be part of reality…
didn’t think so.
March 9th, 2009 at 3:46 pmFNC personality Sean Hannity was PHOTOGRAPHED cavorting with a bunch of Moonlite Bunny Ranch ladies.
…it seems like ol’ Sean has to pay for it…I wonder if he was looking for something more like a MAnn Coulter.
March 9th, 2009 at 4:11 pmYa know, the Republicans really needed to start that whole young Republicans thing much earlier, maybe preschool. Getting harder and harder to keep ‘em brainwashed properly….
March 9th, 2009 at 4:22 pmThis is all well and good that Meghan McCain said this. BUT…I do not trust Meghan McCain at this point. Haven’t we all seen this before? Then somewhere down the line, we’ll see something about Meghan McCain being a true-blue rightwing conservative Republican. Been there, done that. Don’t trust any of them. It’s a mistake to trust them. Haven’t we learned this? How many times do you have to be burned?
Maybe she’s distancing herself from the “Coulters” of the world, to try and get inroads to “young Republicans” who hate these crazy rightwing media entertainers.
Don’t trust any of them! I’m telling you!
March 9th, 2009 at 4:22 pmAnd Ann Coulter’s silence about this is very telling. Like maybe this is a publicity stunt in which both of them talked ahead of time?
If Ann Coulter lashed out at Meghan McCain, then there would be some credence to this. Ann Coulter’s silence on this is very VERY fishy!
March 9th, 2009 at 4:24 pmThe best way to put it, is “the boy who cried wolf”. Will Rush Limbaugh be quoted, if he said something that made sense? We’re going to start quoting and giving credibility to rightwingers who say one single thing that makes sense?
Was Meghan McCain for John McCain being president?
Answer – YES
Then she would have said NOTHING about Ann Coulter. Ann Coulter led to HER FATHER not being president, that’s why she’s speaking out against her.
March 9th, 2009 at 4:28 pmThis McCain woman has some real intelligence. Can we get her on come over to the Democratic side where she will be appreciated? Lord knows they need her on the Repugnican side but will they ever listen? Doubtful. What a waste.
March 9th, 2009 at 5:15 pmMethinks this McCain bashing Coulter thing may be a coordinated affair; A dog and pony show of sorts, perhaps to lend some sort of credibility to the ‘next generation’ of Republican spawn.
I will toss it into the trash heap along with their other activities and irrelevant ideas.
March 9th, 2009 at 5:26 pmI have never understood how the purported party of Reagan acts very unReagan-like. What I remember about Reagan, other than I disagreed with about all of his policies, is that he was not particularly angry, but actually was pretty genial.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:05 pmWow, that’s another bomb for the rightwing! LOL
March 9th, 2009 at 8:07 pmMeghan–you go, girl!
March 9th, 2009 at 9:13 pmgood for Meghan — maybe she will become a Democrat
Doesn’t Coulter have the weirdest looking arms?
March 9th, 2009 at 10:44 pmArchie B Says:
Is this the same Meghan McCain that the far left has viciously attacked countless times? Now, she’s a saint?
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Since your idea of far left is anything to the left of Atilla the Hun your question is meaningless. It is also astonishingly stupid. A lot like you. People arent just one thing moron. Only the incredibly ignorant like YOU think only in such basic Manichean terms. That everything is black and white. You are stupid. You think in terms of false dichotomies that are logical fallacies by definition. Very few people are always wrong. No one I know is always right. So even if she WERE usually wrong and stupid that doesnt mean she couldnt possibly come up with something truthful and insightful. I understand you are most likely too stupid to understand this simple concept but most people arent as ignorant as you and DO understand it so why do you so often fell the need to just broadcast how astonishingly ignorant and worthless you are? We already know. Find enough self respect to at least be embarassed by your stupidity.
March 10th, 2009 at 5:29 amPredictions:
March 10th, 2009 at 10:57 amThe leader of the GOP will speak very ill of Meghan McCain.
John McCain will not take up for his daughter. He’ll want to but will be afraid…