What You Gonna Do?

From GQ's profile of John McCain's 23 year-old daughter Meghan:

“I like bad boys for the most part,” Meghan adds. “In the past, I have liked tattooed guys who wear Converse. But I’d be open to anyone as long as you have a sense of humor. I have also dated totally normal guys who look like you, I guess—D.C.-looking guys.”

How much of a bad boy does wearing Converse really make you? We also learn that Senator McCain bought a condo for his daughter as her graduation present (nice!) and that she likes The Big Lebowski which Jon Chait sees as a potential dig at her Walter Sobchak-esque dad.

Comments

How much of a bad boy does wearing Converse really make you?

In Scottsdale? You're probably practically Al Qaeda.

Posted by SoCalJustice | March 26, 2008 11:54 AM

How much of a bad boy does wearing Converse really make you?

About the same amount as listening to the Raveonettes makes you a cool kid.

Posted by James Gary | March 26, 2008 11:54 AM

That is called a record store geek. I guess for a daughter of a Senator that would be called rebellion.

Posted by R. Pointer | March 26, 2008 12:01 PM

About the same amount as listening to the Raveonettes makes you a cool kid.

Well played.

Posted by J.B. | March 26, 2008 12:04 PM

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

Converse.

Posted by Monster | March 26, 2008 12:05 PM

Why is this even worth bringing up?

Posted by john m | March 26, 2008 12:05 PM

"Click to enlarge"

Posted by JonE | March 26, 2008 12:07 PM

I'm just depressed to realize that a 23 year-old would have been 13 when the Big Lebowski came out.

And isn't McCain more like the Big Lebowski than Walter. Living off his wife's money. Talking about how he met Ronald Reagan. Having younger blond wife. And telling the Dude that "I didn't blame anyone for the loss of my legs - some Chinaman took them from me in Korea. But I went out and achieved anyway!"

Posted by Merle | March 26, 2008 12:09 PM

That first photograph is, um, blatant.

Posted by Klug | March 26, 2008 12:10 PM

Honestly, getting a tattoo stopped being a badass thing like 10 years ago at the very least.

I think she just means that she dates guys who shop at Urban Outfitters instead of Old Navy.

Posted by J.W. Hamner | March 26, 2008 12:11 PM

Converse is what "musicians" wear.

http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2267214,00.html
I'm with the band | Pop | guardian.co.uk Music

"From the Clash to the Kaiser Chiefs and Blondie to the Beatles, Converse have been the musician's footwear of choice. Krissi Murison wonders how a sports shoe - now owned by Nike - came to symbolise the spirit of rock"

Basically she is saying she is a good girl outside hiding her sensitive goth girl inside and goes for musicians and tats.

Or another way of looking at it, basically she's a fadish trendoid like so many others (looking at you.)

Posted by jerry | March 26, 2008 12:11 PM

I agree with Merle, McCain is more like the Big Lebowski. "Your side lost Mr. Lebowski! The losers lost!"

My favorite scene is when Jackie Treehorn is on the phone and jots something down on a notepad.

Posted by Peter K. | March 26, 2008 12:17 PM

I am sure that goes over well with dear old dad. Is the tattoo something the guy got while in the Navy serving on a ship somewhere? That is about the only acceptable tattoo McCain might find acceptable. She has to keep up appearances after all. While McCain isn't a blue blood, his family has a long line of military service. They aren't the riff-raff.

Posted by Joe Klein's conscience | March 26, 2008 12:18 PM

I'm wearing them now. I assure you, I am not a bad boy. Alas, Meghan, 'tis not to be; maybe in another universe we could have been something, a universe in which I had more tattoos and your dad didn't want to blow up the world while doing nonsense things with the federal budget.

Posted by jhupp | March 26, 2008 12:19 PM

I started wearing canvas Converse at about age 13 because leather sneakers absorbed my rank foot odor. You can just throw your Chucks in the washer. What began as good foot hygiene grew into a quarter century of buck wild fresh hotties* offering me free love 24/7 all because of my non-smelly Coverse clad feet. *-not actually true

Posted by joejoejoe | March 26, 2008 12:23 PM

The reason Meghan is so cool and wears converse is that the chick from the raveonettes is her father.

Posted by dave d | March 26, 2008 12:28 PM

Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good?

Can you imagine what it would be like to have McCain as a father-in-law? Here is how I envision it...

Me: (grumbling) "whatever you say old man"
JMac: "what was that you prick? Don't you know I am a war hero? When was the last time you ser.."
Me: "...I said YOU ARE RIGHT JOHN I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU"

Anyway, wouldn't a bad boy for Meghan be a puny vegetarian anti-war hedge fund manager?

Posted by AJ | March 26, 2008 12:29 PM

tattooed guys who wear Converse

Wow, she'd be totally into me, if I weren't a 53-year-old gay man.

Posted by rea | March 26, 2008 12:34 PM

Is she doing anything illegal? If not, who cares?
Get back to reading People, US and Star for real news.

Posted by CParis | March 26, 2008 12:37 PM

The reason Meghan is so cool and wears converse is that the chick from the raveonettes is her father.

Hey, you leave Sharin Foo out of this, dammit!

Posted by Seitz | March 26, 2008 12:38 PM

But I thought Cindy McCain was 23????

Posted by Monster | March 26, 2008 12:47 PM

Oh, Meghan, where were you when I was just another 23 year old tatooed, Converse wearing guy who wasn't getting laid...

Posted by Spike | March 26, 2008 1:03 PM

I dunno - how much of a badass was Chuck Taylor?

Posted by McKingford | March 26, 2008 1:12 PM

I never wore Converse because I stopped wearing sneakers outside of gym class by the age of 13.

Cripes. Wear a pair of real shoes! And pull up your pants! And get off my lawn!

Posted by Tyro | March 26, 2008 1:21 PM

You've got to remember that in the McCain family, the bar you have to reach to be considered a bad boy or a maverick is very low. Very, very low.

Posted by Ned | March 26, 2008 1:35 PM

She's thinking Maverick from "Top Gun". You know? Tom Cruise.

Posted by Jeffrey Davis | March 26, 2008 1:38 PM

In my mind I'm not picturing biker dudes, but the guys from Weezer. Meghan McCain likes guys who are TWEE AS FUCK.

Posted by Adam | March 26, 2008 1:40 PM

two words: smelly feet!

Posted by novakant | March 26, 2008 1:51 PM

"You've got to remember that in the McCain family, the bar you have to reach to be considered a bad boy or a maverick is very low. Very, very low."

That's not true at all. McCain's a grumpy old man now, but he's got a well-supported history of being a bad-boy maverick. He damn near drank & whored & fought his way out of the Naval Academy, for one.

I love that, "D.C.-looking guys." You know, douchebags.

Posted by too many steves | March 26, 2008 1:53 PM

Another reason not to vote for McCain - I don't want to have this silly woman forced on me for the next four years.

(Oh, don't get me wrong - of course I would! I mean "forced on me" in the news.)

Posted by Woody Bombay | March 26, 2008 1:55 PM

I wear converse mainly because I'm (mostly) vegan, and I'm (mostly) vegan because I have an uptight, puritanical, priggish sense of morality. No tattoos, though.

Posted by Julian Elson | March 26, 2008 2:31 PM

She's 23?! In the interview, she comes off like a sixteen-year-old. And not a very bright one at that.

Posted by Jamey | March 26, 2008 2:31 PM

"And then there’s Meghan’s prized tchotchke of the moment: a skull that, when you open its mouth, reveals a clock."

"You like?" Meghan asked "It's 100% handcrafted Iraqi. Dad got it on his last trip over"

Posted by AJ | March 26, 2008 2:43 PM

"We also learn that Senator McCain bought a condo for his daughter as her graduation present (nice!)"

So mocks Matt Yglesias, who put himself through Dalton and Harvard waiting tables, I presume.

The best part of this interview is where Meghan mentions that McCain's 96 year old mother got pulled over for driving 112 last year. When my dad was in his seventies, he would sit in the right lane going ten miles below the speed limit. Driving 112 at 95? Insane.

Posted by Fred | March 26, 2008 2:46 PM

Man, I can't wait to see her in a Girls Gone Wild video with her tongue down some other chick's throat. But the media will give St. John a pass, of course.

Posted by Egypt Steve | March 26, 2008 3:01 PM

“Mitt didn’t keep it real,” Meghan says, munching on a nacho chip.

Sometimes the night sky is filled with stars.

Posted by Jeffrey Davis | March 26, 2008 3:06 PM

Megalon isn't her father; we all know that...

...But as far as her guy preferences and shoe choices and the Symbology Of Meghan and all the rest of it, uh -- who cares?

Posted by Jemand von Niemand | March 26, 2008 3:26 PM

I guess Meghan can thank dad's tasty choice in women for her looks. But damn, wouldn't it be hard to date her? I mean you might think your gf's dad is a crazy, idiot and that would just be normal, but when he's a senator running for president? Seems like it would be a little different. Maybe the problem is that even though Meghan was a Kerry voter, she's pulling hard for dad this time. It's hard to blame her. But if your gf's stance is, 'yeah, my dad's a little crazy, but I love him anyway', that's one thing. It's another when he's running for POTUS, she's working on his staff and you start thinking, 'maybe she's crazy, too?'. Maybe it'll be easier after the election. Meghan will find a lot more Dems willing to converse than Republicans, that's for sure.

Posted by mpowell | March 26, 2008 4:26 PM

She doesn't like "D.C.-looking guys"? Does that mean chubby, beard, "Table" kinda guys?

Matt ain't getting any.

Not even from the "other" Megan.

Posted by Richard Steven Hack | March 26, 2008 4:26 PM

Hey, she must not be all bad. She like the "Raining McCain" video!

"Raining McCain"
POSTED BY MEGHAN
ON 03.25.08 9:05 AM

I just came across one of the weirdest, craziest, funniest YouTube videos I've seen. Be sure to watch to the end for the floating head and "fatherly" downpour... it's pretty hilarious!
http://www.mccainblogette.com/

Posted by Richard Steven Hack | March 26, 2008 4:32 PM

I'm liking those shoes.

Are they actually Converse (Chuck Taylor) low-tops with a leather upper, or are they something else?

Anyone?

Posted by Ty Lookwell | March 26, 2008 7:00 PM

I don't know about Matt, but I'd vote for Walter Sobchak in a heartbeat.

Shomer f**king shabbos!

Posted by SFS | April 1, 2008 5:07 PM

I don't know about Matt, but I'd vote for Walter Sobchak in a heartbeat.

Shomer f**king shabbos!

Posted by SFS | April 1, 2008 5:09 PM