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Meghan McCain's straw man By Rizzuto Tue Aug 11, 2009 - Meghan McCain responded to Michelle Malkin saying that she wanted her to shut up in typical fashion. Meghan delights in taking on conservative critics, but when liberals make a fool of her in public, as Paul Begala did on Real Time with Bill Maher, she’s got nothing to say. Bashing conservatives is obviously her comfort zone, as she has yet to prove that she has talent in doing anything else. Ms. McCain will often set up straw man arguments against her conservative critics. Note this paragraph in her Daily Beast attack piece on Malkin: What do Malkin and the other conservative pundits hope to accomplish by arguing that people “like me” have no place within the Republican Party? And who exactly are people “like me”? Young people? Moderate people? Young female people? People with tattoos who go to biker rallies?She not once but twice puts the words “like me” in quotes. That would denote that someone actually said that people “like her” had no place in the party, the inference being that Michelle herself said it. Unfortunately for Meghan, there’s no evidence that Michelle said anything of the sort. People “like Meghan” do have a place in the party. However, she seems to confuse (or more likely purposefully conflate) her detractors questioning of her qualifications as a critic, which hinge almost completely on her name, with some kind of questioning of her presence in the party. In the end, it’s not her beliefs that make Meghan so unattractive as a leading Republican voice, it’s her complete lack of substance. A brief look at the comment section of any one of her Daily Beast articles would tell you that even her readers understand that the droll she commits to writing is generally empty, purposeless, and boring. Her only message seems to be, “look at me, I think I’m an atypical Republican.” My guess is that Meghan is smart enough to know this, but unwilling to confront it. Until she does, Conservatives and moderate Republicans alike will fail to view her as anything other than the spoiled, vacuous daughter of a former presidential candidate. Being attractive and having thousands of twitter followers might make you popular, but it in no way lends gravity to what you say.
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