Clueless? Meghan McCain Slams the Old Fogey Tea Party Movement

It's hard to top Christiane Amanpour for damaging the brand at ABC News, but the producers there sure worked overtime in bringing on Meghan McCain as an "analyst" for Sunday's show. See, "Meghan McCain: Christine O'Donnell 'Seen as Nutjob': 'Donnell 'Making Mockery of Running for Public Office,' John McCain's Daughter Says."

Check at about 3:00 minutes. Ms. McCain talks in sweeping generalizations about how the tea party is out of touch with "my generation." Of course, it doesn't take a political scientist to know that young people aren't normally as engaged in politics as older Americans. And not only that. The huge wave of youth enthusiasm in 2008 may well have been a historical anomaly. Ms. McCain might have done better by explaining why the Democrats are in fact losing the young people who joined their cause a couple of years ago: "Fewer Young Voters See Themselves as Democrats." I remember Ms. McCain's first few columns at the Daily Beast back in the day. She made some good points about the GOP not connecting with young people via social media. But as the Twitter revolution has taken over political networking, and as the more hip techies become more integrated into the GOP electoral infrastructure, the old assumptions are being blown away. Ms. McCain's schtick is getting old. If she's looking to have a future as a network commentator, she's gonna need to update her drill. Her views are looking kinda dowdy, and that's ironic for someone attacking her opponents as dowdy: