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I don’t think Ann’s getting a Christmas card from the McCain’s this year.  Although it seems as though Meghan has a beef with the conservative movement in general.

(CNN) – Fresh off public complaints about her own love life, Meghan McCain has a new target for her most recent gripes: conservative commentator Ann Coulter.

In a new blog post for the Daily Beast as Ann Coulter and HBO host Bill Maher are kicking off a week-long debate tour today in New York, McCain calls President Obama “the hippest politician around” and says being a Republican is “about as edgy as Donny Osmond.”

And she blasts Coulter for helping to “perpetuate negative stereotypes” about Republican women. “I straight up don’t understand this woman or her popularity,” says McCain. “I find her offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time.”

She concedes that Coulter seems to be followed by a “cult that cannot be denied,” and was a popular headliner at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference, but adds that “when your competition is a teenager who has a dream about the Republican Party and Stephen Baldwin, it’s not really saying that much.”

Meghan feeling a little bitter about conservatives not rallying behind her father during the election?  That’s my guess, though I tend to agree with her on Coulter who excels at being insulting and incendiary in an (admittedly) sometimes funny and entertaining way but rarely adds anything new to the political debate.

But Meghan saying that Obama is hip while being a Republican is uncool tells me that she’s operating at about the same intellectual level as your average smarmy, liberal college newspaper “reporter.”  Sure, Obama looks and sounds (when he’s got his teleprompter) like the sort of President you might see in a movie, but what’s so hip about forcing everyone into a nationalized health care system?  What’s so hip about higher taxes?  And more government involvement in our lives?

I’m hardly one to claim to be an arbiter of what is and is not “hip,” but to me what’s cool in terms of politics is freedom and individualism.  And Obama isn’t promoting those things.