Miss South Carolina 2007 is on board the Straight Talk Express! Ashley Zais, a beauty queen and graduate of Wofford College, will serve as John McCain’s intern coordinator at the Republican Senator’s campaign’s HQ.

John McCain met Ashley Zais last year when he gave a speech at South Carolina’s Newberry College, where her father serves as president.

Ashley Zais: Reason #1 (of 1) to apply for a John McCain campaign internship!

Ashley Zais’ father is Mitchell Zais, a retired Army general, and a man who McCain became friendly with after Zais published a piece in 2006 critical of how Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon had handled the Iraq war.

Man. Imagine if Bill Clinton had interns that looked like this. Sorry, that was sort of crass. But come on, you know you were already thinking it.