I’m hoping she’s using this as an opportunity to take a shot at Rove and Arpaio, who really, really deserve it.  And isn’t shocked that somehow, people find her tweets relevant.

It’s Karl fucking Rove. Are you saying you wouldn’t be creeped out if he were following *you*? I know I’d shit a brick.

My daddy is a awesome republican and uses Twitter. Karl Rove is a creepy old white dude who is not an awesome republican. GO DADDY! Republicanism is for Awesome!

Because she’s a public figure… I’d say she needs to deal with people who follow her.

But if it were random people being followed by people they don’t like who are after them because they’re young a hip and pretty? Scary.

Y’know, if she really finds it THAT creepy, Twitter’s got a perfectly good “block” feature.

+1 Rikibeth

Which takes me back to Jesse’s point.  How stupid are you or how stupid do you wish to pretend to be ms. mccain?

As for any of the rest, who gives a shit.  One republican complaining half-heartedly about another?  Fuck these people, they are always, do you hear me, always victims, even of themselves.

Seriously, fuck Twitter.

Dumbest part of the internet. Ever.

Eh, I’m pretty ambivalent about McCain’s feelings about Karl Rove following her around on Twitter.

While I think she’s fairly clueless when it comes to giving a concise answer as to exactly why she’s a Republican (aside from the obvious fact that her trust fund likely depends on it), I have to give her some credit for recognizing what almost no other national Republicans are willing to admit.  Unlike Coulter, Ingraham, Hannity, or Limbaugh, she knows that the GOP is losing the culture war on social issues, and that their party’s problem isn’t that they don’t know how to most effectively use Web 2.0 media but rather that most of the social agenda they are promoting isn’t ever going to be palatable among younger voters…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/18/meghan-mccain-old-school_n_188636.html

“I feel too many Republicans want to cling to past successes,” said McCain. “There are those who think we can win the White House and Congress back by being ‘more’ conservative. Worse, there are those who think we can win by changing nothing at all about what our party has become. They just want to wait for the other side to be perceived as worse than us. I think we’re seeing a war brewing in the Republican Party. But it is not between us and Democrats. It is not between us and liberals. It is between the future and the past.”

Later, she called out those officials in the Republican tent who insist that tactical improvements, technology and brass-knuckle politicking are the path back to relevance.

“Simply embracing technology isn’t going to fix our problem,” she said. “Republicans using Twitter and Facebook isn’t going to miraculously make people think we’re cool again. Breaking free from obsolete positions and providing real solutions that don’t divide our nation further will. That’s why some in our party are scared. They sense the world around them is changing and they are unable to take the risk to jump free of what’s keeping our party down.”

To be honest, I would say that Meghan McCain is exhibiting more insight into what is actually killing the GOP than RNC Chairman Michael Steele, who seems to believe that the Republicans only problem is that they aren’t hip enough on the intertubes.  And if what she’s saying is something that could get Republicans to say, “huh, maybe we are completely wrong on this gay marriage thing,” then I would say it’s a good thing.

Unfortunately for McCain, I fully expect her to be publicly flogged and called fat by the reactionary radio wingnuts in the next few days for daring to again challenge the Republican orthodoxy.  I don’t know where she stands on any other issues, but I would argue that on gay marriage, Meghan McCain’s position is more progressive and more sensible than Democratic NY State Senator Rubén Díaz, whom Pam wrote about the other day.

You’re on fucking Twitter - if you don’t like the point of Twitter, stop complaining about it and get off of Twitter

Or do what lots of people do, which is have a private account for friends, and a public one for the big wide world. Also, fuck Twitter. I was over it before it got popular, and not in an Insufferable Internet Snob way, either.

OTOH, if Rove is @ or direct-messaging her, that would be a bit creepy, and the block facility is her friend.

It is a bit scary, but while Megan is clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer, she makes far more sense than her daddy.  Sadly enough, she may really be the brave new hope of the Republican Party.

Thank you, pseudonymous in nc.

Twitter sucks.

My dad has some friends who dress up like bikers and ride Harleys on weekends.  They are always alking about how they hate people staring at them.  Seems to me if they stoppoed dressing like Pat Boone during his metal faze they might get less looks.  Sounds like Megan has a little of the same thing going.

“The sheriff also inexplicably Tweeted me to say my mother owes him $10. Say what?”

that’s total wtf, i’ll give her that. but why wouldn’t karl rove be interested in another person who gets attention in the media, and the daughter of a former candidate?

and how can she possibly be shocked at huffington post being interested in her? seriously? if it’s that damn big a deal, lock your posts. that is simple to do.

She’s not stupid. But you sort of get the sense that she grew up very sheltered and doesn’t really understand what it means to be a public figure, or even a conservative. She at least knows what she believes, even if she’s borderline-clueless as to how it relates to the world around her.

Come to the Blue, Meghan… your dad almost did after 2000…

She should have realized the problem long ago, as I did:

Karl Rove is in your extended network

I love Celebrity Angst.  It’s the manifestation of the self-hate that is caused when an insufficiently-insightful celebrity realizes that the fame isn’t in any way deserved and lashes out at the people who before then dutifully followed the celebrity according to the publicist’s schedule.  This lashing out is much more cathartic and doesn’t risk the career nearly as much as the sane thing which would be to drop out of the nonsense portions of being a celebrity (having a Twitter account, displaying one’s pubic grooming regimen, attending a nightclub opening, or driving drunk.)  I’d feel sorrow for them, but I’m not generous enough with my pity.

You guys are all completely missing the point, and I think using it as a gleeful opportunity to say What A Stupid Bitch Har Har.

Meghan McCain doesn’t give a shit about whether Karl Rove follows her on Twitter. Of course, she’s smart enough to know that shitloads of people are going to be following her on Twitter. She’s just using the fact that Karl Rove follows her on Twitter to say that she doesn’t like Karl Rove, to get more attention as the Cool Young Hip New Republican in town.

The actual annoying part of that article was not her complaining about Karl Rove, but her complaining about blogs reporting on what she says on her Twitter feed.

What this article is it:
1. Karl Rove SUXXOR
2. I am hip and fresh!
3. p.s. even though I’m doggin on the old guys, my dad is still awesome KTHXBYE

m_leblanc, thank you for restating the expressed point of the post.