Senatorial daughter and children’s propaganda author Meghan McCain still appears to be getting paychecks from The Daily Beast for her random thoughts about her dad’s campaign, which most Americans have already forgotten. In today’s blog article, Meghan chimes in on the recent chatter about Republicans trying to carve out their own Internets — be it on Republican Twitter, which will soon replace the entire Main Stream Media, or Michael Steele’s upcoming “off-the-hook” black & Mexican hip-hop torrent hub. Meghan writes that UMM HELLO she *tried* to get these old slobs online during the campaign with her shoe blog, but UMM HELLO they all like hated it??
When I first suggested launching a blog chronicling my experience on my father’s campaign for president, I was met with confusion and resistance. A few people even asked me what’s a blog. Throughout the campaign, I did everything possible to showcase the fun and interesting parts of the campaign. I posted pictures. I wrote posts. I even included a playlist of my favorite songs. But often, I got the sense that people on the campaign thought I was wasting my time.
No, that’s not true; all people everywhere thought that.
Many of the established Republican strategists told me that young people would not visit my web site. I used to categorize many of the advisors in my father’s campaign into one of two groups: those that “respected” the Internet and those who didn’t. It was a running line between me and my friends who worked on my site.
I remember explaining this to former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman (who was also an advisor to my father), and having him share his concerns about my father’s campaign effectively using the Internet. It’s often suggested that because the GOP was in power the past eight years, it became lazy and content with its success. So the party did not see the need to utilize the web as the Democrats did.
It’s hard to pick out any single aspect of a campaign that caused it to lose, but not really: for John McCain, it was because everyone thought that her daughter’s rad site was useless. She tried to explain *The Internet* to these old War people like UMM HELLO all the time? But they didn’t listen? Cause of laziness and Bush right? We can imagine old ex-Navy Secretary John Lehman listening to her explain the importance of her blog for several minutes and responding, “Yeah… look, my thing is boats.”
Why Republicans Don’t Get the Internet* [Daily Beast]
* — Note the title of the article in the actual URL, however: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-19/republicans-suck-at-the-internet/. Editing!
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Well, did she do any cat-blogging? I think even Krugman posted a cat pic on his blog.
I doubt her dried up, old ass daddy liked her blog! Well considering Walnuts doesn’t fuck with the “internets”- I’m sure his senior “advising” masturbating cum balls – Rove & Limhotairbag told him that he not to like it!
logging onto the net with aol and windows 3.5 is definitely a waste of time
Speaking of Blonde repubs (great segue, eh?), Tran Ann will be on Larry King for the full hour tonight! Set your tivo or head for your favorite transvestite bar.
pop tarts writing repub blogs give me diarrhea. she should stick to making playlists of old negro spirituals for her daddy’s next campaign against sarah palin. also.
It’s often suggested that because the GOP was in power the past eight years, it became lazy and content with its success.
And now it’s energetically disgruntled with its failures? WOW, THANKS, MEGGY… I FINALLY “GET IT”!
so, .. ahh Meghan, you said you posted “pictures”?
It was a running line between me and my friends who worked on my site.
She had help? Did she pay them?
Jim you seem to have a crush on Ms McCain otherwise how do you explain your singular lack of interest in Hopey’s trip to Canada. Since I grew up partly in Canada I am partial to my adolescent home. I think it is cute how excited they are about Hopey’s trip. Check out CBC’s liveblog – they have nice picture (just reply and scroll down)
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/02/18/f-obamaliveblogging.html
The problem with Meghan’s blog is that it was on the Daily Beast. It would have reached more Republicans if AOL had hosted it on its main page, next to where the internet button for the email machine is.
Just FYI- Someone, probably W destroyed the metro tracks by crashing his ‘vacuum truck’.. going to the bar
http://www.wmata.com/about_metro/news/PressReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=2469
If she wasn’t dancing in her underwear to “Get Low” by Flo-Rida or whatever, then how can she expect to be taken seriously?
Navy dude: Wow Meghan, you are really impressing me with your grasp of technomology! Sooo, anyway, what’s this “2 girls 1 cup” thing? Are you on that blog?
McCain knows the interweb, like the sea, is a harsh mistress. And McCain KNOWS harsh mistresses.
I also categorize people into two groups: a) normal people and b) those straight out of the Fucking “Tard Barn”.
Please–enough. No one wanted anything to do with her ramblings because they were terrible–and because they had more important things to do. Her ramblings where horribly childish, unprofessional, uneducated, juvenile and terribly inexperience–not exactly the qualifications that important politicians care about during a presidential campaign.
Now, can most of the people from the 2008 campaign please go back to productive lives and stop crying and whining about some of the more sordid aspects of the campaign?
It’s time to move on.
What does young Ms. McCain think about her dad boinking/possibly boinking Vicki Iseman? When can we read about that on her blog?
[re=247637]stew[/re]:
What is it with trans ann and her chicken legs with the black skirt hiked up to her a** on teevee. Please Please start eating protein! Not sexy at all. Just puny, sad, unhealthy looking. Look for much hair flippin’ & spastic adam’s apple tonight as it drones on & on about all the evil monies that the repugs hate, yet are lappin’ up like kitties to milk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHx0oLrGjKY
Can you do me a favor and sit just like that and Google “Stimulus Package”?
Wow — Meghan knows her way around a paragraph the way her daddy navigates the intricacies of the Sunni-Shia divide.
“(Rob helped me with the mccainblogette.com when it first launched before going on to try and fix some of the branding issues my father’s campaign had in its final months.)”
How’d that work out, Rob?
Hey Megs, why don’t you try to find a JOB in Daddy’s Republican trash-can of a mess US of A about now? And yer fat.
Oh yeah, and which house was this picture taken in? I mean, they’s all ugly, but just curious…
Due to state and federal laws limiting Internet access of convicted child molesters, most Republicans can’t even use the Internet—so it’s not really their fault.
[re=247678]tiger[/re]: In what regard Charlie?
John McWho?
I’d hit it. Hard.
I say this every time you put that photo up.
Yes, Meghan, the problem with the GOP was all that success. It’s common knowledge.
I hope no one, including Ms. McCain, will take this the wrong way.
But . . .
Isn’t sex with FAT girls THE BEST?
They’re so . . . eager.
Jenna Bush.
Megan McCain.
Hillary Clin . . . .
::::SUDDEN ATTACK OF PROJECTILE VOMITING:::
Whoops. Sorry about that.
I guess I found the outer edge of THAT envelope.
None of Daddy’s friends like you blog? Well, none of his detractors do, either.
Maybe after Megan* teaches the Republicans about the internet, the Log Cabin Republicans can teach her about things like vertical stripes and the proper way to wear a hat.
Also-“Yeah… look, my thing is boats.” LULZ!
*I refuse to recognize the “h” unless she calls herself Meg-han.
“I was an Independent until I registered as a Republican for Father’s Day last May.”
Smart woman. Much cheaper than a tie and easier than figuring out which house to mail the card to. Has she ever heard of the Commerce Department?
Somehow, I am sure she is one of those people who call tech support complaining that “The Internet is down”.
ugh, i finally clicked over and saw her ‘pic’. She looks like a fucking WWE wrestling chick, or a sorority chick I’d see at any bar in Dirty Jers.
C’mon McCain’s website store sold a ball washer. What’s not to love?
“As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures…”
So I guess Columbia’s become a safety school for the 21st century.
Hm, wait, Daddy’s friends are all Republicans, so the best way to get them to look at your blog is to post pics of 8-10 year old boys. Too late now! C’est la vie.
[re=247675]bitchincamaro[/re]: OK, that’s certainly fair.
But politics aside, she’s referring to the design and resource challenges we faced. There was one designer (me) handling most of the internet design and all the advance work (which included all event collaterals from tickets to banners to podium placards and rally signs). Given that, I’d say we did pretty well. Our events looked great and even Wonkette founder Ana Marie Cox got a kick out of the press passes I did the last few months of the campaign (she featured them regularly on her Flickr page). We’ll get better. And yes, I’m a fan of Wonkette so I appreciate the call out to respond to a comment. Peace.
[re=247681]loquaciousmusic[/re]: ganador!
I wonder if Meghan bytes?
Dad just can’t remember how many Internets he has.
Cunt.
[re=247803]robkubasko[/re]: good job, rob.
But no one has ever been able to make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
Think about going Independent again, bro.
[re=247651]grevillea[/re]: Truly I wish I were not one of the people who got that reference. As for the lack of responses to your post, I can only believe that the people on this specific thread are either blissfully ignorant of that… ew… stuff, or too disgusted to think about it another second. Also, let’s never do this again. Also.
“Many of the established Republican strategists told me that young people would not visit my web site.” Of course not…they were all busy carving a backwards “B” on their faces and practicing their cross burning..also…they have no time for fancy-schmansy electonical silliness.
… maybe if Meghan had gone onto
YouTube with a few “Obama Girl”
type vids for her damn comatose old
man, with Caribou Barbie in tow …..
i think meghan mccain is a pretty cool guy, seh writes blog and doesnt afraid of anything
Perhaps they were simply put-off by your illiteracy, Meghan. For example, when you quote people, the convention is to enclose those quotes within set of grammatical markers known as “quotation marks” (See what I did there?) That way, when people read your sentences they know where you are making fun of oldsters’ befuddled ignorance and when you are simply being a vapid sack of turds.
“Throughout the campaign, I did everything possible to showcase the fun and interesting parts of the campaign. I posted pictures. I wrote posts.”
Well, SHIT. If that didn’t work, nothing would have.
So, when do we get to read Bridget’s Blog? You know, the darker daughter.
Also, more thigh, less laptop. Plzkthx.
The devil you say! Daddy has friends? Who knew? Name names.
Twitter: Loved by backwards-B carving Twits everywhere
IT’s pretty clear she stopped listening to her writing teachers somewhere around the fifth grade. “…me and my friends…” Really?
I believe “me and my friends” is actually correct in this case, as it is the object of the preposition “between”. But that still leaves us with dividing people into two groups, “those THAT ‘respected’ the internet and those WHO didn’t. And thinking that a playlist of her favorite songs counts as a fun and interesting part of the campaign.
Sure, she can talk, but is she really saying anything. No, I don’t think so.
I love her blog — she keeps it trimmed in a heart shape.
Well you know, Lehman wasn’t much for transparency. Or the truth. Now if you were writing about the Soviet Navy, however…
[re=247913]proudcitizen[/re]: I guess a Columbia education doesn’t buy much any more.
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