Meghan McCain

Meghan McCain
Meghan McCain

McCain at the 2011 Time 100 gala
Born Meghan Marguerite McCain
October 23, 1984 (1984-10-23) (age 27)
Phoenix, Arizona
Nationality American
Alma mater Columbia University
Occupation Columnist at The Daily Beast
Known for Daughter of U.S. Senator John McCain, blogger, author of My Dad, John McCain and Dirty Sexy Politics
Political party Republican [1]
Parents John McCain
Cindy Hensley McCain
Website
McCain Blogette
Meghan McCain at the Daily Beast

Meghan Marguerite McCain (born October 23, 1984)[2] is an American columnist, author, and blogger.[3][4] She is a daughter of U.S. Senator John McCain and Cindy Hensley McCain. McCain first received media attention in 2007 for her blog, McCain Blogette, on which she documented life on the campaign trail and mused about fashion, music, and pop culture. In January 2009, she became a contributing author for The Daily Beast.[5]

Contents

Early life

Meghan McCain at the 1992 christening of USS John S. McCain, second from right, with her father John, grandmother Roberta, brother Jack, and mother Cindy

McCain is the oldest of the four children of John and Cindy Hensley McCain.[3] She has been a public figure for most of her life, appearing at the 1996 Republican National Convention.[6]

She was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and attended Phoenix Country Day School and Xavier College Preparatory, an all-girl Catholic high school. She attended Columbia University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in art history. McCain originally planned to become a music journalist and interned at Newsweek and Saturday Night Live.[7]

Political positions

McCain says that she is "a woman who despises labels and boxes and stereotypes."[8] McCain has also described herself as a Republican who is "liberal on social issues".[3][7] She registered as an Independent when she was 18 years old[1] and she voted for John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.[7] She agrees with her father's positions on global warming and stem-cell research.[3] At first she had doubts about the 2003 invasion of Iraq but subsequently supported her father's position regarding it.[3] She has stated she is pro-life,[8] in favor of sex education and birth control.[9] She has chastised conservatives for hypocrisy regarding abortion: "They go on and on about how evil and wrong abortion is, but don't like to talk about how easy it is to not get pregnant."[10]

McCain objected to the Arizona SB1070 illegal immigration law, which her father supported.[11]

She has commented that the cause of the gay community for equality is "one of the ones closest to my heart". As such, she spoke at the Log Cabin Republicans convention in April 2009.[8] There she encapsulated her cultural and political perspectives with the declaration: "I am concerned about the environment. I love to wear black. I think government is best when it stays out of people's lives and business as much as possible. I love punk rock. I believe in a strong national defense. I have a tattoo. I believe government should always be efficient and accountable. I have lots of gay friends. And, yes, I am a Republican."[12] She supports same-sex marriage and gay adoption.[8] In June 2009, McCain posed for the NOH8 Campaign, a celebrity photo project that protests California's Proposition 8 constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, which her mother Cindy also posed for.[13] She was in favor of repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell and allowing LGBTQ women and men to serve openly in the U.S. military.[14]

In terms of economic policy, she has remarked on The Rachel Maddow Show that "I didn't even take Econ[omics] in college. I don't completely understand it so I'd hate to make a comment one way or the other. That's – truly of all the things – I keep reading and I just don't understand it."[15]

2008 presidential election

McCain, far right, with her family and Sarah Palin's family during her father's announcement of Palin as his running mate, September 2008

On June 12, 2008, McCain wrote on her blog that she had changed her party registration to Republican.[1] She said she did so "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."[1] In her book, Dirty Sexy Politics, McCain talks about how she nearly overdosed on Xanax on the day of the elections.[16]

In 2008, she published a book titled My Dad, John McCain. In an interview on Larry King Live in September 2008, McCain stated that she has been too busy to have a romantic relationship while on her father's campaign trail. Although her blogging was devoted towards gaining support for her father among the Generation Z electorate, by October, Steve Schmidt and other McCain campaign staffers had banished her into semi-exile on the campaign.[17]

Subsequent career

Meghan McCain in 2009 at UC Berkeley

McCain is currently a blogger,[3][4] and began writing for The Daily Beast in January 2009.[5]

In March 2009, McCain wrote an article for The Daily Beast titled My Beef With Ann Coulter. In this article, she questioned Republican support for conservative author and columnist Ann Coulter.[18] While Coulter did not respond, conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham challenged McCain's article by comparing her to a "Valley Girl." Ingraham also mocked McCain, stating, "Ok, I was really hoping that I was going to get that role in The Real World, but then I realized that, well, they don't like plus-sized models."[19] McCain responded to Ingraham in a second article for The Daily Beast titled, Quit Talking About My Weight, Laura Ingraham stating, "Instead of intellectually debating our ideological differences about the future of the Republican Party, Ingraham resorted to making fun of my age and weight, in the fashion of the mean girls in high school."[20] McCain also stated on The View that she thought the change in discourse towards her body was "terrible" and further argued: "When Tyra Banks went on her show in a bathing suit and said 'kiss my fat ass,' that's what I feel like. Kiss my fat ass!"[21] Ingraham responded by calling McCain a "useful idiot."[22] During a later interview on Larry King Live, McCain said that as far as she is concerned, "with what's going on with Laura Ingraham, on my end, it's over." She also told King that Coulter never responded to her article, which she stated, "is fine with me. ... All I wanted to do is show women that you don't have to be Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham to have a place in the Republican Party. ... Supriya Jindal is a good role model, but a lot of people hadn't heard of her."[23]

In April 2009, she signed a six-figure book deal with Hyperion.[24] Some 18,000 people were following her on Twitter.[24] She described her aims in this way: "All I am trying to be is a young, cool Republican woman for other Republican women."[24] The Politico stated that while John McCain did not emerge from the 2008 election victorious, "his Bud Light-drinking, talk-show-appearing, insouciantly Twittering 24-year-old daughter" did.[24] Speaking at the 2009 Log Cabin Republican Convention, McCain said there was "a war brewing in the Republican Party" between the past and the future, and that "Most of the old school Republicans are scared shitless of that future."[12] She followed that by saying her enjoyment of Twitter was diminished by the presence of top Republican strategist Karl Rove, saying "I can't shake the fact that Karl Rove is following me – it can be creepy" and "We need to take Twitter back from the creepy people."[25]

Statements such as these led news reports and commentators including Rachel Maddow and Kathleen Parker to conclude that McCain had the same "maverick gene" as her father.[26][27][28] Following the April 2009 party switch by Senator Arlen Specter from Republican to Democratic, conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh suggested that many Republicans wished both John McCain and Meghan McCain would leave too.[29] Meghan McCain's tweet in response was, "RED TIL I'M DEAD BABY!!! I love the republican party enough to give it constructive criticism, I love my party and sure as hell not leavin!"[29] On a May 2009 episode of the Colbert Report, she stated her support for sex education and criticized Bristol Palin's sexual abstinence campaign, saying it was "not realistic for this generation". McCain also stated her own desires for the Republican Party: "It can be a party for a 24-year-old pro-sex woman. It can be."[30] After John McCain campaign fixture Joe the Plumber made some anti-gay remarks (saying he would not have “queers ... anywhere near my children”) in mid-2009, Meghan McCain took aim at him, saying "Joe the Plumber – you can quote me – is a dumbass. He should stick to plumbing."[31] In September 2009 and February 2010, McCain had repeat stints as guest co-host of The View.[14][32] In September 2010, she appeared on the NPR news quiz show Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me and won a prize for a listener.[33]

Her campaign memoir, Dirty Sexy Politics, was published in September 2010. In it she finally unleashes her feelings about Sarah Palin and describes the ups and downs she experienced with the McCain campaign staff. She states that the Republican Party seemed "to have lost its way in the last ten years",[34] that the conservative movement seemed "hell-bent on restricting our freedoms rather than expanding them",[35] and that within the Republican Party, she felt a certain stress to take over the ideas of others, like Mitt Romney, especially regarding same-sex marriage, which was a danger for the existence of the party.[36] The book also serves as a coming-of-age narrative about herself, where she comes across as genuine and candid, yet also naïve and brash.[17][37] However, other reviews were more scathing. Leon H. Wolf wrote "It is impossible to read Dirty, Sexy Politics and come away with the impression that you have read anything other than the completely unedited ramblings of an idiot."[38]. During the promotional tour for the book, McCain cancelled an appearance at Juniata College due to what she called, "unforeseen professional circumstances." However, according to her Twitter, she was actually in Las Vegas on a girl's weekend, as she got over a boyfriend ending their relationship via e-mail.[39]

Bibliography

References

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  2. ^ Kirkpatrick, David D.. "John McCain". The New York Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/john_mccain/index.html. Retrieved 2008-03-28. 
  3. ^ a b c d e f Raeves, Meston (February 23, 2008). "Meghan McCain's Straight Blog Express". The Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-meghanmccain23feb23,1,1404189.story?ctrack=2&cset=true. 
  4. ^ a b "McCainBlogette.com". McCainBlogette.com. http://www.mccainblogette.com/. Retrieved 2010-10-17. 
  5. ^ a b Meghan McCain on The Daily Beast
  6. ^ Scherer, Michael (December 17, 2007). "Meghan McCain is not Chelsea Clinton". Salon.com. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/12/18/meghan_mccain/. 
  7. ^ a b c Veis, Greg (March 18, 2008). "Raising McCain". GQ. http://men.style.com/gq/blogs/gqeditors/2008/03/caps-font-var-1.html. 
  8. ^ a b c d Memo to the GOP: Go Gay. By Meghan McCain. The Daily Beast. Published April 13, 2009.
  9. ^ Berman, Judy (May 19, 2009). "Meghan McCain: "Pro-sex, pro-life, pro-gay marriage"". Salon.com. Salon Media Group. http://mobile.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/05/19/meghan_mccain_colbert/index.html. Retrieved October 17, 2010. 
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  11. ^ "Meghan McCain – Immigration Law in Arizona Divides Daughter and Dad". National Ledger. Apr 28, 2010. http://www.nationalledger.com/ledgerdc/article_272631520.shtml. Retrieved May 5, 2010. 
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  13. ^ McCain, Meghan (June 19, 2009). "Why I Posed Against Prop 8". The Daily Beast. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-19/why-i-posed-against-prop-8/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsR2. Retrieved June 21, 2009. 
  14. ^ a b "Meghan McCain on Mom's NoH8 Pic". The Advocate. 2010-02-07. http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/02/06/Meghan_McCain_on_Moms_NoH8_Pic/. Retrieved 2010-02-07. 
  15. ^ Meghan McCain: "I Just Don't Understand" Economy. ABC News. Published March 13, 2009.
  16. ^ Miller, Oliver (September 21, 2010). "Meghan McCain Nearly Overdosed on Xanax, Wants to Be Honest About Her Flaws". TV Squad. http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/09/21/meghan-mccain-nearly-overdosed-on-drugs-chelsea-lately/. Retrieved 17 October 2010. 
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  18. ^ My Beef With Ann Coulter
  19. ^ Laura Ingraham mocks Meghan McCain as being 'plus-sized.'
  20. ^ Quit Talking About My Weight, Laura Ingraham
  21. ^ "'Meghan McCain On "The View": "Kiss My Fat Ass!" (VIDEO)". Huffington Post. 2009-03-16. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/16/meghan-mccain-on-the-view_n_175319.html. Retrieved 2009-03-22. 
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  23. ^ Meghan McCain: 'I support the president'
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  31. ^ Kirchik, James (2009-07-15). "Meghan McCain: Joe the Plumber – you can quote me – is a dumbass". The New Republic. http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-plank/meghan-mccain-quotjoe-the-plumber-you-can-quote-me-dumbassquot. Retrieved 2009-07-15. 
  32. ^ Shen, Maxine (2009-08-20). "Meghan McCain liked 'View'". New York Post. http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/meghan_mccain_liked_view_FohJ74q0CoWTqsDwKdNc2O. Retrieved 2009-09-17. 
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  35. ^ McCain, Meghan (2010), Dirty Sexy Politics, Hyperion. p. 7
  36. ^ McCain, Meghan (2010), Dirty Sexy Politics, Hyperion. p. 12-14
  37. ^ Victor Stepien, 'The Brashness of Youth', in Out & About Newspaper, Dec 3, 2010 [1]
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