Excerpt:If McCain thought her blog post and appearance on the Rachel Maddow show would generate a fight with Ann Coulter, she must have been surprised when it was radio show host Laura Ingraham who attacked the young Republican by insulting her body type, intimating that she can't get a real job because she has a 'plus-size' body.
There is little that Ingraham could have done to promote McCain's popularity among young women who are tired of trying to live up to the near anorexic female body type that is so pervasive in the media. McCain's twitter page has been filled with support from a growing number of young fans.
Meghan McCain is a lightweight when it comes to political savvy but she is a rare young voice in the party that is calling for the GOP to move away from its entrenchment in extreme conservative right wing ideology.
Ingraham called McCain a "useful idiot" who is being used by the 'liberal' media.
While it's been fun watching GOP pundits eat each other alive, Michael Steele vs. Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney vs. Dick Cheney, Michael Steele vs. everybody else in the GOP, and so on, picking on Meghan McCain is sort of like making a snarling attack on Bambi. I wouldn't recommend it.
There are few moderate Republicans left and they are all but in exile from their party and though Meghan McCain is young and more 'all about dating in the 21st century' than she is 'We're the GOP, and this is what we need to do to change', the recent coverage of her battles with the female bastions of the conservative movement is lending support finally, to the radical idea that the GOP could actually leave the 20th century behind at last and start looking for a fresh start.
You can read the rest of the article here and see the interview on the Rachel Maddow show as well.