Rod Dreher joins the piñata-party:

Meghan McCain gets a platform on The Daily Beast and on TV because of who she is, and because she’s a useful idiot for the media left. (“Look, even John McCain’s daughter is saying how screwed-up the GOP is!”) I say this even though it’s likely that Meghan McCain and I agree on some things. She ought to know enough to realize that she’s not getting on TV because people think she’s genuinely got anything interesting or important to say.

Rod is responding to a Judith Warner column on Meghan McCain column from today. An excerpt:

You can’t, after all, go on national TV, all perky and blonde and blushing and young, and endowed with a soapbox years before you’ve paid your dues and, while talking about how Republicans should reposition themselves on sex, say, “I would never wanna practice anything I didn’t preach.”

One, this smells of envy. The Left never seems to mind when the children of Democrats trade on the names of their parents. Two, Meghan McCain is writing a book. She’d be an idiot not to be on as many shows that would have her. Three, the idea that Republicans shouldn’t be hypocrites seems like a pretty good strategy to me. For example, 40 percent of the earmarks in the Obama budget were from Republicans. It’s quite hard to be the party of fiscal sanity when 40 percent of the insanity is our fault. And four, name the Republican who’s doing a better job selling the Republican message than she is?