I would agree with other posters here that attacking someone’s physical appearance is the last resort of those who have nothing substantive to say, and shows intellectual laziness.

I also think it is unhelpful, in a culture that encourages so many eating disorders among young women, to attack a woman for being "plus-sized."  That only reinforces the damaging message that women are expected to be stick-thin.

Laura was chiding Meghan for CONTINUING to bad mouth Coulter and Conservative woman…on a LIBERAL talk show…What was she thinking????   

"INGRAHAM (mocking): Ok, Meghan. Do you think that anyone would be talking to you if you weren’t kind of cute and you weren’t the daughter of John McCain? Or do you just think that they would just think that you were just another Valley Girl gone awry?

MADDOW: You picked a fight with somebody who’s definitely going to fight back.

MCCAIN: Yeah. Well, if it was, you know, if it was too hot in the kitchen, I’d get out. I know what I’m doing and I know that I’m creating, she probably will respond, she already has, but I’m sure she’ll respond harder, but this dialogue should take place. It should. I think that you know, often times and I think it’s relevant because I am a Republican. I still consider myself a Republican and that’s why it’s relevant because I’m someone within the party.

INGRAHAM (mocking): How long before she totally totally abandons the Daily Beast and makes it official at the Huffington Post?

MCCAIN: And I think there’s an extreme on both parties and I hate extreme. I don’t understand. I have friends that are the most radically conservative and radically liberal people possibly ever and we all get along. We can find a middle ground.

INGRAHAM (mocking): Ok, I was really hoping that I was going to get that role in the Real World, but then I realized that, well, they don’t like plus-sized models. They only like the women who look a certain way. And on this 50th anniversary of Barbie, I really have something to say.

Ingraham attacked McCain in an appearance on Fox and Friends earlier this week as well, saying "Our economic lives are in a shamble, Megan: We don’t really care about your dating life."

more history on Laura’s disrespect for Meghan.. Laura was scarcastically defending her fellow decades long Conservative friend Ann and othr Conservative with  her anger at how McCAin’s dismal campaign allowed Obama to be elected in the first place… 

 They BOTH should not be airing their dirty laundry in plublic.  Meghan will have a hard time changing the party by coming in like a bulldozer and starting it by speaking about some superficial topic of blaming her love life on the loss of her father’s campaign.  Other people have lost much more than that!!!

"McCain admitted she had only been a Republican for less than a year, …..but even after losing the election, she added, ”I find myself more drawn to GOP ideals and wanting to fight for the party’s resurgence. And if figureheads like Ann Coulter are turning me off, then they are definitely turning off other members of my generation as well. She does appeal to the most extreme members of the Republican Party—but they are dying off, becoming less and less relevant…"

Rookie mistake if she has any aspirations of being a leader in the party!