Meet the New Maverick

She’s progressive, she’s controversial… and she’s John McCain’s daughter?

Meet Meghan McCain, the young woman who has been stirring up the Republican cauldron with her media slams about the GOP, going as far as calling herself the poster child of moderate Republicans.

But her views on a number of policies are so anti-Republican that I have to wonder if McCain joined the party for the specific purpose of shifting the spotlight from her father to herself. The 25-year old, who was registered as an Independent from 2002 to 2008, now describes herself as a “Republican who is liberal on social issues.” (This description is also known as a Libertarian, but that’s beside the point.)

McCain says she grew to love the GOP after meeting some of the greatest minds in the party while campaigning with her father for two and a half years. She wrote on her blog, the McCainBlogette (which began as a diary of the campaign trail and ended with serious tattoo contemplations), that she joined “as a symbol of my commitment to my dad and to represent the faith I have in his ability to be an effective leader for our country and to grow and strengthen the Republican Party when he is elected President of the United States.”

Joining a political party as a symbol of family pride and loyalty is probably not the best reason to get on board, especially when you disagree with the majority of that party’s views.

And furthermore, how could anyone have grown to love the GOP at all throughout John McCain’s crusade for presidency? It was by far one of the strangest, low-blowing, desperate times in the party’s desire for power (present day happenings excluded).

My thought is this: Meghan McCain joined the Republican Party at the end of the presidential campaign for the primary purpose of demonstrating loyalty to her father, and after it was over and old John went back to his Senate seat, she realized that she was in a German kitchen making Japanese food.

But she took on an opportunity to amplify her exposure since her father was stepping out of the limelight. So she started talking publicly like a liberal, calling herself a new kind of Republican.

The result: the media paid attention – lots of attention. McCain got a job as a columnist at the Daily Beast, contributed to Newsweek, and even sat alongside Barbara Walters and company a few times on The View. She stopped updating the McCainBlogette and started an unhealthy obsession with Twitter.

Perhaps the most memorable of McCain’s tweets was the picture upload that resulted in a whole lot of ruckus and days of wasted news. The photo, if you have not seen it, is a fleshy web cam shot in which she is busting, literally, out of her shirt with a promiscuous look on her face. The caption read something about being a dork and staying in, and McCain assured the media that she was unaware the photo would solicit such a response.

Oh, please. I am a woman. McCain knew exactly what she was doing when she posted the picture, and she knew the response she would get.

I do not think that Meghan McCain deserves media attention, let alone an outlet like the Daily Beast to make inane statements and then call herself pioneering and controversial. I do not think that she deserves to be called a political commentator simply because she saw a presidential campaign unravel firsthand. Her political depth and understanding is, from what I have gathered, the same as any average Joe (pun intended) who watches an hour of CNN each week.

Her “great work” that captured a lot of attention for the Beast, entitled “My Beef with Ann Coulter,” is one of the biggest pieces of crap I’ve ever laid eyes on, and I say that with genuine conviction. What is worse than McCain’s grammatical inadequacies are her irrelevant jumps between subjects and self advancing my idea that her biggest concern is personal fame.

I don’t think Meghan McCain should be labeled a spokesperson for Generation Y because in my opinion, it’s embarrassing. We’re members of an over-qualified generation struggling to find jobs in a terrible economy, and a woman who has had virtually everything handed to her thinks she can represent us? It makes no sense.

Despite my irritation and resentment – or perhaps to add to it – I’m sure I will read Meghan McCain’s memoir, “Dirty Sexy Politics,” when it starts taking up shelf space on Aug. 31, so expect a review of it in the weeks to come. The anticipation has been killing me, especially when I saw a July 21 Twitter post that read, “wait to read it people, I wouldn’t have titled it “Dirty Sexy Politics” if there weren’t dirty, sexy things inside .”

Yep, Meghan McCain is definitely the mastermind I’d love to see representing my demographic so that the rest of the nation can look on and think, “Wow, Generation Y is the idiot boom.”