In defense of Meghan McCain

My goodness, those right-wing talking heads can be mean! But usually their targets are the poor, the disabled, the highly educated, and the Democrats.

Now they're apparently so bitter over how things went in November that they're resorting to the unthinkable: They're eating their own young.

And their target of choice these days is the offspring of their most recent presidential candidate. They are picking on Meghan McCain.

Meghan's sin? In a recent column for the Daily Beast, Meghan described Coulter as "offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time" (which she is).

Then Meghan went on to talk about how extremism is unhealthy for the party (which it is).

In response, does she get a well-thought-out point-by-point retort? Nope.

Instead, right-wing radio talk show host Laura Ingraham attacked Meghan's weight. And one can only guess what Coulter will fire back with.

I never thought I'd find myself defending a McCain. But, in Meghan's case, we have a Republican woman who shuns extremism and actually wants to get along with everyone. And she is crucified for it by her own party -- the party that nominated Meghan's own father to the 2008 presidential ticket.

If Meghan deserves any criticism, it is for being a bit naive. This is no longer the party of Lincoln, no longer the party of Teddy Roosevelt, and no longer the party of Eisenhower or Goldwater.

It is now the party of the neocons.

And Ann Coulter is the female counterpart to their beloved Lord Limbaugh.