Will Meghan McCain Save the Republican Party?

by Michael Jones · 2009-03-24 09:38:00 UTC
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Meghan McCain

There's somewhat of an odd irony here.  The daughter of Senator (and former Presidential candidate) John McCain is better on the issue of same-sex marriage than the current occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  Meghan McCain, who has been on a bigger media tour these past few weeks than Britney and Ted Haggard combined, gave her take on same-sex marriage during an episode of Larry King Live last night.  Meghan McCain:

I consider myself a progressive Republican. I am liberal on social issues. And I think that the party is at a place where social issues shouldn't be the issues that define the party. And I have taken heat, but in fairness to me, I am a different generation than the people that are giving me heat. I'm 24 years old. I'm not in my 40s, I'm not in my 50s and older. And I think there's just such a generation gap, that the people that don't understand me, I actually take it as a compliment, that sort of this new young Republican can come forward and make progress and be successful in the ways that this party has currently failed...

We have a very big generation gap between me and my father...I was raised in an open-minded home. I was raised a Christian, but I was raised open- minded Christian -- one to accept people, love people, not pass judgment. And that's the kind of place I was raised. It's how I lived my life and my father is great...I believe in gay marriage. I believe in many things socially. I personally am pro-life, but I'm not going to judge someone that's pro-choice. It is not my place to judge other people and what they do with their body.

Yup, that's definitely the type of rhetoric that will get you blasted by the likes of Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham.  But Meghan McCain says bring it on - or better yet, "it's a compliment" not to be affiliated with the boneheads that count as the spokespeople for the modern day Republican party (Rush, Cheney, Coulter, Huckabee).

So there's the question: Is Meghan McCain the future of the Republican party, or a voice in the wilderness?

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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