Running for president? Make sure your child is on side
McCain’s blog, produced with the help of another rich young blonde woman, Mary Anne Huntsman, daughter of the governor of Utah and grandaughter of a billionaire, has brought ridicule from some bloggers. There have also been unflattering comparisons with good girls such as Sarah Huckabee, who is field director for her father Mike Huckabee’s quest for the Republican nomination, and Cate Edwards, who is taking time out of Harvard law school to stump for her father, the Democrat John Edwards. And let’s not talk about the preternaturally well behaved Romney brothers - five of them, all safely married with children. The brothers have been blogging about their father’s campaign, and are regularly wheeled out at campaign events to assure Republican faithful that their dad is a fine upstanding family man.The display is meant to show up Rudy Giuliani, a thrice-married candidate whose own home life is such a mess that his own adult children rarely talk to him. His daughter, Caroline, 17, even briefly endorsed Barack Obama.But don’t be fooled. The younger McCain was once an intern at Newsweek and her blog is as much a part of her father’s campaign as the Romneys’ anodyne entries. McCain, at 71, is the oldest candidate in the race for the White House, and if his daughter can help him connect with younger voters and women, or play to his image as a maverick candidate who appeals to non-aligned voters, papa clearly feels happy to let his daughter preach.
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