Meghan McCain, who has already stirred part of the Republican base into a frenzy with her position on gay marriage, will probably lose herself a few more GOP diehards when they hear about this comment:
Here's the problem for those aforementioned diehards - she's right. A viable party that can legitimately contend for national elections doesn't turn any amount of leadership over to a plumber who has no license to plumb. It doesn't drag its feet on a social issue with a long-term trend that's only going one direction. And it certainly doesn't walk on eggshells in order to avoid offending Rush Limbaugh and his bottles of Grand Old Painkillers.
The sooner the Republicans wake up and realize that Meghan is a better face for the party than Rush or Sarah Palin, the better, at least in terms of their own electoral prospects. Running away from moderates as fast as possible is no way to consistently win elections.
