http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/10/28/us/AP-US-FEA-The-Other-McCain.html?_r=1&hp When Meghan McCain said on national TV recently that Senate GOP hopeful Christine O'Donnell "is seen as a nut job," the reaction from the right was swift and furious, with critics bashing everything from McCain's lack of experience to her judgment to, well, her anatomy.
So now that she's had time to reflect — after all, she does call herself "a work in progress" — would she like to tone it down a notch?
Um, no.
"I DO think she's a nut job," the very uninhibited, 26-year-old daughter of John McCain said in an interview this week. "I say what I mean and I mean what I say. I wish more for politics, and I wish more for women in politics."
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She doesn't exactly shy away from naming names. She writes openly of her mixed feelings about Sarah Palin, and how she and her sudden, explosive star power sucked up all the oxygen in her father's campaign. Of conservative commentator Ann Coulter, she wrote on her blog last year: "I straight up don't understand this woman or her popularity. I find her offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time."