Meghan McCain. Remember her? She’s Senator John McCain’s daughter. The one who has devoted her life to “rebranding the Republican party” to appeal to younger generations. She’s done so by maintaining an active Twitter account, filming a reality show, and writing books with catchy titles like Dirty, Sexy, Politics and America, You Sexy Bitch that ultimately end up in bargain bins across the country.
In a new op-ed published in Time, the 30-year-old party girl takes on Rep. Aaron Schock, accusing the disgraced congressman of being a narcissist, a “giant embarrassment,” and “flaming out.”
“The first time I heard Congressman Schock’s name mentioned was probably the same time most of the mainstream media was introduced to him,” McCain writes, “when the gossip site TMZ featured a photograph of him shirtless by a pool, showing off his chiseled abs.”
“An onslaught of publicity for the Congressman with the abs soon followed,” McCain continues. “[P]hotos in GQ, national television interviews, and, probably most notoriously, a shirtless picture on the cover of Men’s Health that displayed the congressman in an unbuttoned shirt and tie.”
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Interesting critique from a woman who once posed for GQ sitting on a bed in a hotel room nursing a beer, but whatever. Carry on, Megan…
McCain acknowledges that she has “not always made the best choices for myself in the photos I have chosen to pose for” but she’s free to throw stones in this situation because “I am not…nor have I ever been, a member of Congress,” adding “I am just the spawn of a politician.” (In case anyone forgot.)
“As I followed the career of Congressman Schock, I became less and less of a fan,” McCain writes. “There is something about a cheesecake shirtless photo of a sitting Congressman on the cover of a men’s magazine that seemed more television star than serious politician.”
We didn’t mind the shirtless photo so much as we did his atrocious record when it came to voting against equal rights for gay people.
“I started taking him less seriously and, more often than not, would wonder who was handling his press, and if they had any long term plans for him beyond just looking cute on social media,” McCain writes. “Today, Schock is a giant embarrassment and disappointment to not only all Republicans, but especially to Millennial Republicans.”
How so?
By exacerbating “every negative stereotype that exists about Millennials being the over-indulged, selfie-obsessed, ‘me-me-me’ generation,” McCain, who references herself with words like “I,” “me,” or “myself” more than 20 times in her 750-word op-ed and whose Instagram page has no shortage of selfies, explains.
“And now,” she concludes, “unluckily enough for us Millennial Republicans out there, our first well-known representative will be best remembered for completely blowing his chance to reform our party simply because he got too caught up riding around in private jets and going to Katy Perry concerts.”
And, of course, his atrocious record when it came to voting against equal rights for gay people.
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SteveDenver
There is no “reforming” the Republican party, Meghan.
ingyaom
It’s not really “shirtless” if you’re wearing a shirt.
robho3
I love Meghan! she is way to cool to be a republican.
CoachS
I know this is gonna degenerate into yet another slam on Republicans. Let’s try something different because we already have three of those on the front page. There are good and bad in both Parties. Can the Republican haters name anyone in the elephant herd that they like? Just wondering… or is it all “Republican bad. Democrat good.” mimicry of a Party line?
Xzamilio
@CoachS: Right, because they don’t bring it on themselves.
Alan down in Florida
@CoachS: Since the drumming out of the Republican Party of almost all members that could qualify to be described as moderate the answer to your question is all Republican bad and majority of Democrats good (there are bad apples everywhere).
CoachS
@Alan down in Florida: @Xzamilio: But is it all about “moderates” (because I can name plenty of “moderate” Republicans)? The “moderate” Democrat is sort of a dying breed in and of itself. Seems to me that most people’s position on here have nothing to do with marriage issues or even gay rights issues on here… and they certainly don’t have to do with hypocrisy (which is rampant on both sides of the aisle. If that’s true then – it’s fine… but what people are then doing is trying to say that LGBT voters should all be left of left of center. I’m not sure I understand that.
CoachS
@CoachS: *”Seems to me that most people’s positions on here have nothing to do with marriage issues or even gay rights issues at all…”
They really should add an edit function.
DarkZephyr
@CoachS: Can you share with us what it is that you personally think is so great about the Republican party? I myself am a independent though I can see with my own eyes which party is the one that is consistently against me as an LGBT person.
NoCagada
@CoachS: “Can the Republican haters name anyone in the elephant herd that they like?”
Yeah…Abraham Lincoln
Now, go get a brain
Kevin B
Does Jon Huntsman still count? He seems like a decent enough guy.
Xzamilio
@NoCagada: He doesn’t even count, as history shows that yesterday’s Republicans are today’s Democrats and vice versa. It’s telling that Democrats were the ones that started the KKK, and yet today, their members are overwhelmingly Republican… Democrats of yesteryear were Dixiecrats….today’s conservative Republican
CoachS
@DarkZephyr: And therein lies the issue. In a general sense, I know who votes with me on LGBT issues. In a general sense, I also know who votes with me on economic and foreign policy issues. I, too, am Independent (or Unaffiliated as we call it here in MA for voting purposes). I’m damned if I do… damned if I don’t much of the time. If I vote for a person who supports my LGBT views, most of the time they are against me on everything else (like ending ISIS which is throwing gay teenagers off of buildings). If I vote Republican, I’m voting against my social issue positions much of the time.
@Kevin B: Still counts for me. Great guy. I wish he was our President right now.
@NoCagada: You’re just simply a leftist regurgitation bot. That’s cool. Whatever. Only a person without ideas of their own resorts to personal attacks. Maybe you could have cited Thaddeus Stevens. He was the real driving force behind change back then. Now go get a life.
CoachS
@DarkZephyr: And actually… I don’t see anything very great about either Party. That’s my point. They both spout a bunch of lies around election time and then dive inside the Beltway and vote to support… themselves. Does it really surprise anyone that 8 of the 12 richest counties in America surround DC?
AlliterationAddict
@CoachS: Jon Huntsman. Lisa Murkowski. Susan Collins. Just to name a few. I may not always agree with them on policy, but I respect them as public servants.
CoachS
@AlliterationAddict: Thanks. Collins was on my list too. Didn’t think about Murkowski… but she’s a good addition.
AlliterationAddict
@AlliterationAddict: The problem is that the general body of the Republican Party does not follow that tradition of serving the public. What upsets me about the Republicans right now is not necessarily their platform, though I do disagree strongly with several aspects of it. It’s their unstatesman-like conduct and shockingly cavalier attempts to undermine this presidency. I am all for Congress checking the power of the President and the rights of individual States, but the current Party isn’t trying to advance policy, they’re trying to make this administration fail. And that shocks me. Its almost like most of the Republicans in Congress care more about their party than they do about America.
CoachS
@AlliterationAddict: I agree with much of what you just said. I am amazed that any thinking person can allow politics to be driven by religion rather than common sense. I am probably half in agreement with each Party’s platform I suppose… but the Republicans have certainly lived up to the “Party of No” moniker. They control both houses now and seem to miss the fact that 1) They are, in fact, the majority now and 2) They have a unique opportunity to get good things done if they would be willing to find common ground. They are driven by their one issue religious donors and campaign volunteers. Time to put the hate away.
Giancarlo85
you can’t fix a broken ship of right wing extremists. Republicans are too right wing to fix. They are too broken and not intelligent enough.
Giancarlo85
@CoachS: What planet are you on? What good things can the republican party do with their idiotic ideology, asides from crashing the country? You accuse others of regurgitating left wing thoughts? You’ve personally attacked people many times on here.
“The “moderate” Democrat is sort of a dying breed in and of itself.”
What are you going on about?
“and they certainly don’t have to do with hypocrisy (which is rampant on both sides of the aisle. If that’s true then – it’s fine… but what people are then doing is trying to say that LGBT voters should all be left of left of center.”
Wrong again. What hypocrisy is rampant in democrats? Having to do with what? And yes, ALL LGBT voters should be left or left of center. It’s just logical. But there is no real left or left of center in America. And don’t try to claim the democrats are left of center. You are ridiculous and naive.
Giancarlo85
Last time republicans had the Presidency and control of the policy in this country… 5,000 Americans ended up killed in Iraq. The economy then crashed and millions lost their jobs. What good does this party serve America? Tell me? I’d like to hear it.
By the way, they just gutted the Dodd-Frank financial reforms. You who claim that this party has “some good ideas” can you explain which ones? Republicans are bad for the economy (this is proven)… the last three republican presidencies have ended up in recessions (this is fact).
“In a general sense, I also know who votes with me on economic and foreign policy issues.”
So what does this mean? foreign policy issues? What do the republicans present on foreign policy that is so much better? Should we send troops into Syria and Iraq again? And how successful was the US in Iraq the last time they were there? 5,000 dead Americans, and 400,000+ Dead Iraqis. Republicans are nothing but a bunch of war criminals. May I remind people that ISIS exists because of republicans? The failed war into Iraq ended up helping ISIS become real. Iraq was better off with Saddam.
Giancarlo85
@CoachS: Huntsman would have been a terrible President. Still in the pockets of corporations. Would have never allowed the Dodd-Frank rules to come to play. Would have gutted the EPA, etc.
There are no good republicans.
And stop naming wolves in sheeps clothing.
polarisfashion
We need Bernie Sanders to run as a the Democratic nominee for President. He is one of the few politicians that totally support progressive values. I’ll vote for Hillary Clinton before choosing any Republican nominee but Sanders is the guy that would best represent us liberals. He is on the Tom Hartman Program every Friday at noon if you want to listen to him.
SportGuy
Republicans do a pretty good job of embarrassing themselves, so this can’t really hurt.
Giancarlo85
Bernie sanders? Is that the best the America center right has? Greece has a fantastic new Prime Minister… Tsipras… A true leader standing up against corporate and banker criminals. Another fine leader is Rafael Correa. Too bad America doesn’t have a real left wing. There is no left in America. Look at other countries and you will see how right wing America’s entire political system is.
Giancarlo85
So when someone says they agree with Republicans on the economy and foreign policy what does that mean? You like illegal wars and recessions? Or how about tax cuts to the super rich? Do you realize how stupid that sounds? Huntsman, Murkowski (sp?), Collins… Yea give me a break. All right wingers.
Again… Some of the libertarians on here need to come back to reality. Social openness and equality is incompatible with economic conservatism. Conservatives in America are similar to the British National Party.
Saint Law
@CoachS: “Only a person without ideas of their own resorts to personal attacks.”
Or the person they’re attacking not only has no ideas of their own, but no ideas worth engaging with.
Just sayin
1EqualityUSA
Who would the Republicans want for the Supreme Court, a life-time position?
jockjack5
Larry Craig was/is a good Republican.
At least he was in that men’s room stall last week.
He is hung like a mule!
Cam
So her biggest problem is that he was selfie obsessed and self indulgent.
I notice that she didn’t mention anything about the fact that he was placed into a leadership position without ever ONCE sponsoring ANY legislation in the House, AND he, you know, STOLE hundreds of thousands of tax dollars.
Curty
Meghan is an idiot, she is just a non ambitious daughter living off the fame and wealth of her dad. Nothing new. Aaron is an asshole. But so is she. Its funny she didn’t list his stealing and moss handling funds, that he was anti and more than likely gay himself. Just someone bitching that he was as narrsacistic as she is. Go away Meghan idiot.
Timothy Ronald Pell
Meghan McCain is disgusting trashy hypocrisy…
Robert Hillyer
Yes, but not for flaming out. For cheating on his taxes, accepting illegal campaign donations, misuse of tax payer funds for decorating and concert attendance, and double billing on his travel expenses, but not for being gay.
Christopher-Aaron Paul Francis Felker
Yes, he is.
Byron Scott Jones
Cam
@Curty: said…
“Meghan is an idiot, she is just a non ambitious daughter living off the fame and wealth of her dad. ”
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True except for something. Both she and her dad are living off the wealth of her MOM. Her father dumped his first wife, when he met the wealthy heiress. Meghan has a HUGE trust fund from mommy. How do you think she manages to do nothing.
Ian Guinta
He’s embarrassing to us gays mostly
John Clerkin-Whitcomb
Yes, he is. AND to all elected officials AND to our system of government AND to the gay community AND to gym-goers everywhere. How it’s possible to be so self-obsessed and closeted simultaneously is beyond me, but he’s managed it.
CoachS
@Saint Law: @Giancarlo85: So the only answer is for me to just give up, pay lots and lots of taxes, accept that I am part of the collective, let the government make more from my business and give it to people who are “just visiting”… oh… and, someday let some piece of crap form ISIS throw me off a tower… because appeasement works (Just ask Neville Chamberlin.
Maybe if some people on here had an open mind they might not need to crap on people. It’s fine. Unlike many of you, I don’t hate someone just because they have views different than mine, I don’t see anything in politics as “single issue”, and I don’t define myself first… or at all… by my homosexuality.
Giancarlo – You think that Sanders is “center-right”???? The man is an avowed Communist. Therein lies our problem. You’re living in the wrong country with the wrong system. If he’s center-right, your definitions are way off. You admit that by listing people who don’t subscribe to our system. It appears that you are further left than I ever imagined
Giancarlo85
@CoachS: Give up and pay lots of and lots of taxes? LOL. Go move to Somalia then. They have no central government. The government is there to maintain infrastructure. Without the government, your business wouldn’t even exist. You are delusinoal. Your business is using infrastructure built by the government (like the roads). You need to pay for your fair share. And your delusional comparisons to Hitler and ISIS are ridiculous.
You need to gain some sense and understanding of the rest of the world.
Sanders isn’t a communist. I can tell that right now. There is no real center left candidate in America. And certainly no left wing candidate. Tsipras and Correa are examples of left wing leaders. Simone Peter is the leader of the German Green Party/90 Coalition and is an example of a left of center leader. You are clueless and can’t look at the entire world.
“It appears that you are further left than I ever imagined”
And you are further right wing… probably close to the British National Party and Marine Le Pen of the National Front in France. Maybe you’re even further right wing and conservative like ISIS (just throwing out the comparison you used like an idiot).
Giancarlo85
I get it. You’re selfish, all your money is yours, you don’t care for other people, and you want to use public infrastructure for free. Plus you want all the benefits for free and pay no taxes. You right wing Americans are full of shit… you can’t have your cake and eat it too.
That’s why most people in the DEVELOPED WORLD and other OECD countries look at Americans like you and laugh. Even the German Christian Democratic Union is more to the center than the democratic party. The democrats in any country would be right of center at best.
So I asked you… what good ideas do republicans propose? What good economic ideas? I just named many bad ideas (including the gutting of the Dodd-Frank rules which weren’t even complete to begin with).
Giancarlo85
“I don’t see anything in politics as “single issue”, and I don’t define myself first… or at all… by my homosexuality.’
I can’t believe I missed this stupid gem.
Who defines themselves by their homosexuality? I define myself by logic and reason… hence why I am politically left wing (like the Green Party in Germany).
Republicans hate everyone who isn’t like them. Learn that fact.
Right wingers lack all reason and logic. Their economic views are destructive and dangerous… their foreign policy moronic and dangerous.
Cam
@Giancarlo85:
So ISIS is who you’re terrified of? How many Americans have they killed? 2? 3? How many Americans have Mexican Drug gangs killed? A Thousand?
But remember, you have to be told to fear ISIS more because going after them increases oil prices and feeds the Defense industry donors of the congressmen.
Giancarlo85
@Cam: I’m not afraid of ISIS. I’m more afraid of being in a car accident. 40,000 deaths happen every year on the freeways. And of course Mexican drug gangs are dangerous. Plus the FARC and ELN in my country are and they have killed hundreds of thousands in the past few decades.
Oil prices are crashing.
Were you talking to me? Or to CoachS?
Zenguy
@robho3:
I agree she is cool too. So cool that I will say it two times. Everyone should do to!
Cam
@Giancarlo85: LOL, yep sorry for the mix-up
Tracy Pope
“…his atrocious record when it came to voting against equal rights for gay people.” should have been “his atrocious record when it came to voting for equal rights for gay people”. Does anyone proof copy anymore?
I’m not sure who Ms. McCain is writing for but she’s a nitwit. Aaron Schock is an embarrassment to Congress in general. Just like every other politician in the House and Senate who get caught cheating, lying, having affairs while espousing some twisted sense of virtue based on religious belief, using their position to further causes harmful to the American citizenry or spending tax dollars inappropriately.
Aaron Schock’s behavior is even more reprehensible when taking into account all the seemingly apparent indicators that he is homosexual yet votes 100% against anything that would allow LGBTQ Americans equal status to any other US citizen. I am thankful someone so obnoxious will (soon) no longer be in a position to have a congressional vote about the safety, security and equality of people in the LGBT community.
Bauhaus
McCain is a ditz. Her comment makes her sound a addled as her father.
Of course, really getting down to what Schock did, along with his abominable LGBT record, would focus attention on the absurdity, hypocrisy and cruelty of the Republican Party.
I suppose she’s one of those “fiscal conservatives” as she and her mother are both out-spoken SSM advocates.