March 3, 2009 11:17 AM

Meghan McCain: Politics Killed My Libido

By
Michelle Levi
Topics
Congress
(AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman)
Meghan McCain, blogger and daughter of former presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ), wrote in the Daily Beast online magazine that her dating life is "on life support" after her father's failed campaign.

And she blames her dad.

"Of all the things people warned would happen post-election, no one ever said anything about how complicated dating would become. Especially if your dad loses the election," McCain said. "I have become something I used to despise: people who let politics dictate his or her attraction to someone."

To illustrate her frustration, Miss McCain explained a troubling recent interaction with a potential suitor.

(AP)
"One extreme fan of my mother's recently told me I could be 'his Cindy,'" she writes. "And then asked me if I ever wore pearls because they probably would look as good on me as they do on my mother."

McCain thwarted the poor guy's dreams: "Any guy that has a fetish for older women in pantsuits and large pearls obviously only finds my last name attractive about me."

McCain previously showed off her no-nonsense, pop-culture-laden style on her blog, McCainblogette.com, where she documented traveling and campaigning for her father during the 2008 presidential campaign. She became a media fixture, speaking on behalf of her father in order to attract young voters.

The once potential First Daughter wrote she can usually tell within the first 30 seconds if a man is only interested in her because of the prospect of meeting her father. In the past, she said, she has been able to keep politics from hindering her relationships, and assumed that would continue after the campaign.

She also said she did not try to influence her Columbia University friends' political persuasions last year – but "when it comes to dating, it's become an entirely different subject," she said.

"I know that no one can really explain sexual attraction and why you are drawn to someone or not—but at this point in time, nothing kills my libido quite like discussing politics," McCain wrote.

"Here's the biggest surprise: I am not only turned off by people who voted for Barack Obama, but I am also turned off by people that voted for my dad—or more so, obsessive supporters of my dad," she continued. "Recently, over dinner, a guy started explaining his reasons for supporting President Obama during the election (I didn't ask, I think the poor guy felt guilty) and I immediately found any attraction I had previously had dissipate. But same thing happens if a guy starts talking about all the reasons why my father should be president."

"I have the ultimate Catch-22 in post-election dating," she lamented.

The litmus test for potential dates, Meghan explained, is pretty straightforward: "When I find my father's face staring back at me on a potential date's Facebook page I am equally put off. I don't want to see my father's picture near any picture of a guy I am attracted to, especially if we haven't even had dinner yet."

In closing, she sent a sarcastic message to protective fathers and frustrated daughters: "To all the fathers out there: If you want your daughters to be single in her 20s, I can say this—run for president."


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by forautisitc March 4, 2009 9:21 AM EST
I think the Democrats are really loving about getting rid of any mentally retarded or physically handicapped person through genetic testing or late term abortion. I have tried to initiate programs and help people from all ends of the spectrum, have been shot down in my church, but will not side with the left on its "moraless value system" especially the wholesale extermination of the handicapped. Guess that leaves me by myself.
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by heliocracy March 4, 2009 4:42 AM EST
I've never met a female Republican before. I've only seen them on TV. I've always assumed there weren't very many of them, because women tend to have a heart and actually care about people.
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by harbinger19 March 4, 2009 2:33 AM EST
?I know that no one can really explain sexual attraction and why you are drawn to someone or not?but at this point in time, nothing kills my libido quite like discussing politics,? McCain wrote."

Not to mention that always lurking (no matter how cute the guy is) that the guy is a repressed closet homosexual, (or pedophile) who bashes homosexuals--wants the hottest GOP chick he can get to deflect suspicion ; then spends his time, either running after men in bathrooms or trying to pick up prostitutes (male or female) or worse yet, repeatedly gets up for glasses of water while he secretly goes to check on his kids and gives them incest lessons.

www.subversive.com--the republican real deal.
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by Joe_the_Philosopher March 3, 2009 10:34 PM EST
I totally understand her feelings. I have never been able to date Republican women. I basically find them ignorant.
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by HellfireHelviti March 3, 2009 8:23 PM EST
I'd be willing to give it a go..... lol

She's smokin'
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by sero5 March 3, 2009 6:16 PM EST
How is this newsworthy? Does America care about her lovelife? I would think not, especially in the midst of a worsening economy and war. This young woman needs to learn to lead a more private life. Her father lost the presidential election and now it is time for her to move on, and for the media to focus on larger issues in the world. The media in modern times overemphasizes frivilous, personal matters of people in the political realm, who live in different worlds than the rest of us.
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by andie52 March 3, 2009 3:51 PM EST
So if her dad had won the election she would be dating? Perhaps she should just blame a bad gene pool.
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by newslink March 3, 2009 3:48 PM EST
Maybe she should examine herself. And not blame her Parents. Whining turns off most people.
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by jsilver2th March 3, 2009 3:13 PM EST
I bet that hat doesn't help much either...
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