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I'm not sure why that gentleman is being a jerk, but I digress.

I liked this piece and have recently taken a liking to your writings. My only complaint about this piece is saying Republicans were too extreme the last eight years. If anything, the Republicans were too much like Democrats. Want proof? Obama seems to be pushing the same economic policy Bush was right before he left office. What needs to happen is the Republican Party needs to distinguish itself from the Democrats, but also moderate on issues that just don't matter (such as Gay Marriage, I agree with you).

Ignore the haters,
Steven Allen Adams

Meghan, you have about as much intelligence as a potato chip. You don't understand (Ann Coulter) or her popularity because you're clueless just like your father. You're about as true a conservative--or representative of the Republican Party--as he is.

McCain says, "I find her offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time." Has Columbia stopped teaching the use of logic to find truth? Coulter uses logic and sarcasm to analyze what liberals say. Much of liberal public discourse is nonsense. It creates feel-good pandering with no common sense, often counter-productive policies and programs. Perceiving logic as "extreme conservatism" shows how irrational public discourse is. Coulter is "the most extreme [member] of the Republican Party" because she is logical, and she does not fear offending media liberals who attack critics of liberal politicians. "tomgtv" fails to recognize that McCain is from a long line of military leaders who know how important the military is. Read Coulter's new book "Guilty." It is all about logic and evidence. She is great!

Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are two peas in a pod. Both are hypocritical, hate-filled narcissists who are only out for themselves. The fact that the Republicans allow them to speak for the party shows just how deeply dysfunctional the party is.

I am really sorry to go after Meghan, but this is way too dumb. I didn't vote for Obama because he's hip and her dad is square. I voted for Obama after watching the Republicans divide and trash my country for 8 years.

You could literally teach entire ethics classes on the Bush years. We are on the brink of disaster, but Meghan is having trouble dating, so I guess times are tough all over.

I wont get into all the obvious rhetoric on just how bad Bush was. John McCain probably already told Meghan after he got his dick kicked in by Bush in 2000.

I will leave with a quote from Winston Churchill, whose bronze head is now being used in another smear campaign by conservative pundits with no morals.

"The Americans always do the right thing. After they've exhausted every other available option."

We are finally making it right. And it's got nothing to do with Twitter and Hip Hop.

Dear Mr Spock,

"Coulter uses logic and sarcasm to analyze what liberals say."

-Now this must be your conclusion. So the next step is to find your premises that lead to this conclusion.

Hmmm? Well you attack the liberals, but that does not support your conclusion. Where is the supportive evidence for dear Ann?

Conclusions without premises->highly illogical. But am I talking about Mr Spock or Ms. Coulter?

First of all, tomgtv, everyone knows that Meghan has two brothers serving in our military. Do you forget that her own father is a decorated war hero? The McCains understand the importance of our armed forces as well as the problems. How dare you suggest that her family's wealth makes her unfit to support our military!?! We would be so lucky if all people with her kind of privilege showed her kind of respect for our service men and women.

Meghan - I, like you have a deeply ambivalent relationship with the Republican party. I am a social liberal but an economic conservative--as such, I feel there is little room for me in this party (though I have voted Republican in the past and support many of the core ideals). I agree with you that one of the party's biggest problems is spokespeople like Ann Coulter who are too divisive. I love reading your columns!

THank you for this article. A train wreck is a good way to describe Ann Coulter and the fact that she's taken seriously by anybody is one of the great mysteries of the modern world.
You are right. If she remains a leading voice on the right, it will be as harmful to the Republicans as if Rosie O'Donnell; were taken seriously on the Left.
good stuff!
jmw

menckenlite: it doesn't matter what you say about what Ann is trying to do in her books. In reference to what Megan is stating - it's true. Republicans should not be using them as their own representives of the Republican party. This is what the youth think of it, even my own daughter. They listen and read what is being said of people like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. Their own anology is "This is worse then what happens in High School".

"Aren't we supposed to act like adults when we grow up"? To allow our kids first to think that all members of the party think this way is wrong. To seperate Ann Coulter and Rush away from the Party from those who are IN office, and those who use controversial means for shock value - and to sell themselves, is much like prosititution.

People want to hear reasonable statements, not hateful spewed comments. I will also add that the interfighting about being "conservative" enough badly represents the party as well.

I believe we need more then one party. More then one opinion to continue to grow and not to become stagnate.

Ann Coulter and Rush come off as "freaky" and radical, then call themselves the marchers for the Republican Party.

Oh my. Here once again we have the wisdom that is the self proclaimed "1 year republican"
It's funny how she is slamming Coulter, saying;

"I straight up don't understand this woman or her popularity. I find her offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time."

Yet this extremely priviledged little girl says nothing about the vile that is coming out of the mouth of Limbaugh, or the rest of the GOP talking heads. I wonder why.

Is it because Coulter is an extreme cartoon version of a rabid republican, no that can't be it because Rush, Graham, Hannity and the rest of the clowns have said many things as bad or worse than Coulter, so what could it be.

Catty much?

Why does everyone get so mad at Meghan McCain every time she writes a piece. She is clearly dose not have "the intellegence of a potato chip" Sahas24, don't be mean. The comments after her articles are always so condescending but I really enjoy what she writes even if I usually disagree with it. Good article Meghan.

Will somebody get this girl a date. Sweetie, didn't watching your dad kiss up to liberals show you that it doesn't work? Go spend your inheritence and be happy.

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to MattePgh
The opposite of what you say is precisely the point. Coulter uses no logic, and instead claims a self-evidence to what she says. That's self-referencing narcisstic in the extreme, which cancels out whatever intellect she must have stowed under all that landing gear. She reminds me of the little girl who gets attention at her fathe's dinner parties by saying the most outrageous thing she can think of and then just sits back and enjoys the spectacle she's just caused.

Ann Coulter makes a lot of bigoted statements about Muslims, which should not be tolerated by other Republicans. What I don't like about her is that she seems to be a mean person. I think it's important for people, regardless of political ideology, to be kind and humane, even if being satirical, which Ann Coulter claims to be. I'm glad Meghan is out there showing a different kind of Republicanism, one with which I can identify. I like the idea of the GOP being a "big-tent" party that can tolerate a lot of different kinds of people. No one person is the only face of the Republican party.

Are all the commentators on the daily beast really this extreme? You all seem to be giving her a hard time for either not including other people you feel are extreme (such as Hannity or Linbaugh) or your calling her a moron for thinking that maybe Anne Coulter shouldn't be propped up quite so much as a voice of her party.

I'm from the same generation as Meghan and she actually has some great points. Most people my age (conservative or not) think that Anne Coulter is a joke and as they allow her to represent their party in many instances, many feel the same way about the party. Answer me this Anne Coulter supporters. Do you think she could win any sort of office? Could she EVER win the popular vote for just about anything? Then don't let her speak on behalf of your party. Yes, I realize that half of what she says is done in order to get her underlining point across (which is sometimes a good point) but she is still comes off as "extreme" to the majority none the less, and therefore shouldn't be seen as the representative that she is because most people don't like extremists either way.

On another side note about this whole "voting for someone because their hip" thing. Just because there are people who read a lot and at least somewhat keep up on what is really going on in world politically, (like the people I presume would be posting on a website like this) and they wouldn't dream of voting for somebody because there "hip." It doesn't mean that many others (probably the majority) haven't in the past, and won't in the future vote that way. I'm not saying it's right (just like Meghan did) but it's true.

Coulter is a mean, lonely, lunatic -like Limbaugh. The GOP is fading fast because their carnival barker message: intolerance, invective and smug-superiority actually still appeals to what is left of the GOP base. There is a simple reason we are aware of these slobs. There is good money in putting a jackass on the radio or tv. Examples: Springer, Hannity, Geraldo, blah, blah, blah.

I consider myself a supporter of what you term the "extreme" wing of the GOP, but I don't think Ann Coulter is particularly helpful even as a conservative advocate - she's simply too unpleasant and vicious.

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Thank God the republican party has people like Meghan McCain telling preaching her thoughts and ideas. This what the Republican Party needs, someone to tell it like it is!
Ann Coulter is confusing the Republican Party in many ways, especially with her off the cuff comments!

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Ann is just a cheap parlor trick gone bad. She's a political Britney Spears. I presume she realizes this about herself and doesn't take herself seriously in private or that's just sad -- like a magician who starts to believe he really is magic. Being able to debate a point is not the same thing as really having one or it being true. I could go at it with equal conviction on both sides of virtually any issue. Its a trick. Like mentalists. Rush does it. Beck does it. Ann does it. And some liberal hacks too. Even Nancy Grace... Let's not mistake it for real meaning. Logic itself, BTW, does not equate to truth. Logic is just a tool. It is only as good as the source material, which is usually highly selective and often dubious. Plug the right variables into a computer and it will come back with convincing modeling for the Universe revolving around the Earth. Doesn't make it right...

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Meghan, you're probably a nice person but like your father, not too bright and certainly no asset to the Republican Party and where it needs to go. Many of us voted for your dad in order to register a vote against Obama. The ONLY thing that makes an Obama presidency palatable is that he lost to the bland, wooden, "reach across the aisle" John McCain. And by the way, Ann Coulter is fifty times the person you...or your father for that matter, can ever hope to be.