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Tea Party Candidate Goes After Meghan McCain

By | 02.12.10 | 1:35 pm

Here’s one example of how little the McCain brand is cherished by the conservative grassroots. Les Phillip, the self-identified Tea Party Republican candidate challenging party-switching Rep. Parker Griffith (R-Ala.), just fired off a lengthy statement attacking Meghan McCain — who’s become a sort of a spokeswoman-without-a-constituency for GOP moderation More…

Meghan McCain Picks, Throws a Fight With Michelle Malkin

By | 08.11.09 | 11:31 am

The mysteriously omnipresent daughter of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) picks her latest fight with a conservative pundit and produces my favorite quote of the day.

Malkin has the No. 1 book on The New York Times bestseller hardcover nonfiction list, but I have nearly twice as

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Meghan McCain on Joe the Plumber: ‘A Dumbass’

By | 07.15.09 | 3:39 pm

Jamie Kirchick interviews the incredibly resilient Republican pundit/daughter of the 2008 presidential candidate, who takes a swing at Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher.

Shortly before McCain sat for this interview, Samuel Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, gave an interview to Christianity Today in which he complained about “queers” and declared,

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That’s Probably Enough Meghan McCain for Now

By | 06.22.09 | 2:26 pm

Via Nick Sabloff, this is the sort of media moment that would slow down the schedule of an ordinary pundit. But Meghan McCain’s, err, “expertise,” has never been ordinary.

Yes, Yes, But What Did Meghan McCain Think?

By | 05.11.09 | 10:22 am

The New York Daily News was embedded with Meghan McCain, who “will soon release a book about life as a Republican,” at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and reports that she stood “like an insolent child” until a friend could get a free ticket. She blanched at one of More…