The Party of McCain, Palin or Cheney?

No, I don’t mean Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin and John McCain. I mean their daughters: Liz Cheney, Bristol Palin and Meghan McCain.

It’s take-your-daughter-to-work season for the Republican Party.

The three women have emerged as hugely influential voices for the GOP and its agenda; and each anchors very different wings of a fractured political movement.

Liz Cheney is everywhere these days on cable and network television, defending the Bush Administration’s national defense and torture policies.

“[I]t’s, you know, fundamentally un- American, frankly, for one administration to come into office and then threaten legal action and criminal prosecution against the predecessor over policy differences.“

Cheney essentially reflects future of the neo-con, national defense wing of the GOP.

Bristol Palin — the 19 year old unwed mother of a 4-month-old baby — has embarked on an abstinence tour, and has been embraced by the pro-life, traditionalist wing of the party.

“Regardless of what I did personally,” Palin told Chris Cuomo on Good Morning America, “abstinence is the only … 100% foolproof way you can prevent pregnancy.”

Meghan McCain (who described herself on a recent Colbert Report interview as a “pro-sex” Republican) is pushing what she describes as a far more moderate, centrist agenda.

“Bristol Palin’s new abstinence campaign shines a light on the Republican Party’s unhealthy attitude about sex and desire,” she wrote, in her Daily Beast blog.

(McCain grandmother has also spoken fiercely and publicly against “radical” conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh.)

What does it mean that three daughters have emerged as leading voices and figureheads of the GOP and its agenda? And what does it mean that these women seem to have very little time or love for one-another?

And which faction do you think will control the future GOP. Is there a way that the Party of Bristol, Meghan and Liz can find common ground?