Is Meghan McCain the New Maverick?

Ok, hear me out! I have been following the latest media blitz of Meghan McCain and have found her, next to Ron Paul as the Republican that has made the most sense recently. I watched her on Larry King Live and missing were those witch hunting Republican talking points, the criticism that President Obama and his administration are trying to do too much too quickly, and rebirth of the out of context use of Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" policy that the Republicans have been using recently, and instead saw something fresh and new.

Just look at Meghan McCain's critics. Anytime some is vilified over something personal (like weight, which the OC disagrees with) you know that they are getting their message across. The OC thinks of it this way. The enemy of your enemy may just be your friend. Think about it in your daily office politics and life in general. Remember World War II and the alliance of the United States, China, and Russia? That was clearly the enemy of your enemy is your friend.

The Republican Party has been looking for its leaders in all the wrong places. It is not the talking radio piece with the drug problem or Michael Steele (the RNC Chairman) aka the Obama clone or Sarah the folksy-talking governor from Alaska and definitely not Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal either--or is he the guy from 30 Rock. Sometimes the most obvious things are right in front of us. Meghan McCain can talk issues, give honest answers, keen at bipartisanship, and can put her personal differences aside and be proud of and willing to work with our President from another party. She has her own beliefs but still understands that we don't have to legislate them and demonize those who beliefs are different from our own.

This isn't new and we have found leaders in the most unlikely of places, remember Bill Clinton, or President Obama and who have thought that W. would have been President--of the United States? Their rise to prominence wasn't predicted either. Meghan, your Dad was this nine years ago when he first ran for President, long before he compromised himself to his party. He set out to change the Republican Party and in turn it changed him. He put on attacks against then Senator Obama, that G.W. Bush did to your family in 2000. He was once a Maverick, but now he is just the sidekick to the old-new Republican Party slogan, "Just Say No!" (It didn't work for drugs and it's not going to work here either.)

So Meghan, take it from the OC, you have a future in politics and have the chance to finish the work that your Dad started in making the Republican Party respectable and a source of substantiate debate. I would just advise that you avoid those talking points that they like to hand out and you stay away from the Republican Kool-Aid that they have been serving recently. Stay true to your Maverick roots and don't let anyone bully you or change who you are. Maybe we can kill the outrage and get some serious work done.