I’ve enjoyed Meghan McCain’s blog, McCainBlogette, since I first became aware of it long before we started this blog. Its not your common political blog. Meghan McCain and a few of her cohorts write about life on the campaign trail from their point of view. She gives a lot of insight into what goes on behind the scenes. She shares a lot of pictures and you can tell she adores her daddy. She looks a lot like him too, I think … but that’s beside the point.

I think she has been a real asset to John McCain’s campaign in her own way. She’s down to earth, genuine, open and a very likable young lady. I’ll resist the temptation to go into the obvious differences in personality, availability, likability, openness, etc between her and any other political daughters in the same age group or a few years older that come to mind.

She recently set down with Greg Veis of GQ and gave an interview. Here are some excerpts:

Meghan McCain arrives at the door to her apartment out of breath and wobbly in calf-high boots. It’s a seventy-five-degree February afternoon in Phoenix, and the 23-year-old daughter of the presumptive Republican nominee for president is wearing a black leather jacket over a scarf and gray scoop-neck T-shirt. I extend my hand to introduce myself, but she knocks it down and wraps me up in a bear hug.

“I’ve never had anybody fly across the country for me who I wasn’t dating,” she says. “I’m so flattered!”

Meghan deftly maneuvers Veis away from her bedroom and into a restaurant (good girl!)

Alas, the tour stops here. Meghan won’t show me her bedroom—it’s too messy, she says. Besides, she’s starving, and she really wants to take me to lunch at one of her favorite restaurants ever, Garduño’s Margarita Factory.

The kind of guys she likes

“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.”

D.C.-looking guys?

“Journalist, yuppie, metrosexual guys. How’s that? You’re metro.”

“I’m an acquired taste,” Meghan says matter-of-factly. “I’m a daughter of a Republican senator. I started dating this guy, and he wouldn’t date me anymore because he found out who my dad was. He says, ‘I don’t agree with his politics.’ Isn’t that terrible? That’s why you’re dumping me? We only went on two dates, but still. Not everybody wants to go out with somebody so high-profile. If they do, they’re investment bankers. Seriously. Ugh! If you’re an investment banker, don’t hit on me. You can quote me. I’m not interested.”

She’s pretty feisty, kinda like her father

Meghan puts it more succinctly: “I’m almost incapable of bullshit. He’s the same way.”

What she thinks of Barack Obama

“He’s a rock star,” she says of the Illinois senator. “Everybody flipped out, but I think universally women find him attractive. Whatever.”

On the rumor she dated a Ron Paul Supporter

“That has been blown out of proportion in every way!” she exclaims. “What happened is that I dropped my coffee and he helped me with it and was like, ‘Do you want to go to Baja Fresh?’… Not that I would be against dating a Ron Paul supporter, but he turned out to be very strange. He collected Barbie dolls. I called my girlfriends after and was like, ‘That’s weird, right?’ ”

On the wild child gene that seems to run in her family

It’s clear that Meghan inherited her father’s devil-may-care streak.

“Yeah, he was a little rebel when he was my age,” Meghan says. “I’d rather that than if he were boring.”

John wasn’t the original McCain hellion, though. Meghan mentions her grandmother, 96-year-old Roberta McCain, who occasionally joins her son on the trail. Meghan calls her grandmother “crazy in a good way.”

“Nana drives fast,” Meghan says. “She got pulled over for doing 112 in Flagstaff about a year ago.”

You can read the rest at the GQ website.

I think I like the McCain family. They aren’t dull, that’s for sure.

h/t Gone Hollywood Outside the Beltway