I think I like Meghan McCain

It's not often that I find someone, alive in present day, whose logic and belief system I admire. This doesn't mean that I must agree with everything they say, but just fucking "going for it" and creating a movement out of an original and logical concept that could actually change the world if the laggards would actually open their damned ears...ugh. Well that is a breath of fresh air.

It's even more rare that those people have a viable, accessible, and marketed outlet for this brilliant communique; and even more rare that they aren't stuck preachin' to the choir.

While poor John McCain has been shackled, tarred and feathered, and mentally beaten into assimilation by his own party (even further chained to the idiocy of the GOP by the forced selection of Miss Sexypants Palin as VP candidate), his daughter, Meghan, was taking the reigns that he couldn't. She was busy, toiling away at Columbia University becoming a phenomenon writer and communicator. She was formulating coherent, logical, and progressive ideas. Most importantly, she was identifying herself as a republican but with all of the upgrades and improvements that the party ought to give itself.

There is nothing wrong with being a republican (I have probably contradicted myself in this blog on this statement previously, please don't look). There is something wrong with being an out of touch, "party of no", politician hell-bent on controlling others' lives based upon a reality of 40 years ago.

Meghan McCain is calling for the party to open it's fucking ears and listen to the way the world is. She appears to believe that social issues are not the government's god damned business and homosexual love and life should not be punished.

Meghan and her mother, Cindy McCain, campaigned for NOH8 in California and posed in ads for the cause. John McCain was forced, by lovely pre-scheduled, pre-aired, pre-written politics, to remain silent.

Where I have great difficulty with Meghan's views is when we get to the concept of socialism. She firmly believes the government should stay out of people's lives. She has also openly admitted that she does not understand economics (see her Wikipedia page). I believe that once someone understands economics, it will shape all of their social and financial beliefs. It is crucial, but not many people do understand it. I'm more thank happy to see economics be a pivotal academic tool utilized in the public and political debate forum for all issues. Debating socialism on the basis of macro and micro-economic principles is worth some blood, sweat, tears and thousands of sheets of paper.

What is not open to debate, regardless of political party or forum, is freedom over our bodies, sexuality, love, and lifestyle.

It would be lovely if Meghan was, at some point in the near future, empowered by the loudmouthed assholes of her party. Maybe once they get tired of Sexy Sarah they'll step aside and let a smart girl talk. She's a brilliant, shining, homage to the actual American ability to move forward and change, at the very least, our world if not THE world. She is a progressive.

I think I like her.

I hope you will check out her posts on TheDailyBeast.com (most of this blog I don't agree with, but Meghan refreshes me).