Meggie Mac spent Tuesday evening on Twitter attempting, as only she can, to say something witty and clever about Mark Sanford's win in the SC special election. (She has since deleted her embarrassing tweets but Twitchy saved them (http://twitchy.com/2013/05/08/lib-celebs-meghan/) for posterity and out of spite. Sadly, I am blocked from Meggie Mac's twitter feed due to several dozen tweets about fried chicken and gravy not being one of the major food groups.) She wasn't happy about Sanford winning and bleated on and on and on until...
Iowahawk destroyed her with this:
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So...in honor of that epic tweet, this book review was posted on the AoS ONT:
On June 20, 2002, the United States Supreme Court decreed, in the case of Atkins v. Virginia, that the mildly mentally retarded were categorically exempt from capital punishment, reasoning that fully functional adults of diminished mental capacity were as a matter of law not as culpable for their acts. Writing eloquently in dissent, Justice Scalia drew a sharp distinction between the severely mentally retarded (who are truly not responsible for their actions), and the merely stupid (the category into which Mr. Atkins undoubtedly fell). Scalia argued forcefully that, with respect to the merely stupid, at least sometimes they deserve to be punished for their antisocial and destructive behavior.
This article, of course, is not about capital punishment. It is a book review of Dirty, Sexy Politics by Meghan McCain. However, the above discussion is relevant because I initially had reservations about writing this book review at all. After all, it is clear to everyone who has read Meghan McCain’s twitter feed, her “articles” on The Daily Beast, or her ill-fated campaign blog that Meghan is not a paragon of clear reasoning, exemplar of familiarity with facts, nor a model of English language expertise. And after subjecting myself to 194 continuous pages of her “writing,” it became clear that none of the above-described works truly plumbed the depths of mental vacuity in which Ms. McCain aimlessly and cluelessly drifts.
This presented a dilemma.
It is impossible to read Dirty, Sexy Politics and come away with the impression that you have read anything other than the completely unedited ramblings of an idiot. This being a professional website for which I have a great deal of respect, I searched for a more eloquent or gentle way to accurately phrase the previous sentence – but could not find one.
This is the review that I wanted to write. But, because I couldn't bear the thought of parting with so much as a dime that might find it's way into Meggie Mac's chubby, fried-chicken-grease-stained-fingers, I never bought the wretched thing. This is a great review. It is certainly better than anything I could have written because the author is significantly better at grammar than I am. I don't pretend to be an expert on grammar but I do know good grammar when I see it and that's about as far as it goes. Of course, the grammar, spelling and punctuation mistakes that this book is chock full of are but one aspect of its atrociousness. I encourage you to read the whole thing. (http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2011/12/08/meghan-mccains-dirty-sexy-politics-a-review/)