2020 Road to the White House
Meghan McCain Slammed and Scolded for Telling Amy Klobuchar to Stop Speaking About Her Late Father When Campaigning

‘Using Your Dad’s Corpse as a Cudgel’
Conservative pundit Meghan McCain is lashing out at U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democratic candidate running for her party’s presidential nomination. McCain, the daughter of the late Senator John McCain, blasted the Minnesota lawmaker who was good friends with the former Senator from Arizona.
“On behalf of the entire McCain family,” Meghan McCain said on Twitter to Sen. Klobuchar, “please be respectful to all of us and leave my fathers legacy and memory out of presidential politics.”
Sen. McCain ran for president twice.
Klobuchar has invoked Sen. McCain’s name several times on the campaign trail, most recently sharing a favorable personal anecdote about him.
“The day when I sat on that stage between Bernie and John McCain, and John McCain kept reciting to me names of dictators during that speech, because he knew more than any of us what we were facing as a nation,” Klobuchar had said, referring to the inauguration of President Donald Trump. “He understood it. He knew because he knew this man more than any of us did.”
But Klobuchar repeatedly has invoked McCain’s name, going all the way back to 2012, just on Twitter:
A lot of interesting comments on Augusta, but when Obama, Romney & McCain all agree on something, maybe it’s time to change
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) April 9, 2012
And here’s a 2014 Facebook post from Sen. Klobuchar and her “friend Cindy McCain.”
It didn’t take long for many on social media to slam McCain, who frequently invokes her father’s memory:
In all honesty, this is not fair. McCain was a career politician, which is something that should not even exist. His daughter is making a living off his name. You cannot have it both ways. It is like a member of a royal family demanding both a golden crown and personal privacy. https://t.co/MPM3Ent7St
— Mike S. Adams (@MikeSAdams) May 27, 2019
Read: “Only I, the daughter of John McCain, get to use my father’s legacy for my personal gain” https://t.co/nTqSr0Ayb3
— Chance P. McMahon (@chancepmcmahon) May 27, 2019
I think under this system of protocol, presidential candidates would be limited to quoting only living politicians and fictional characters? No more Churchill, Teddy Roosevelt, Lincoln, or Kennedy? https://t.co/SeT1IBbQRG
— John Carvalho (@John_P_Carvalho) May 27, 2019
Imagine trying to score political points by accusing someone else of scoring political points…because they noted that your national hero father stood against fascism…and stood against America’s foreign & domestic enemies with every fibre of his being…unlike you…smdh. https://t.co/ymdD1s5Gsn
— DC Deejay (@dcdeejay) May 27, 2019
Even though @MeghanMcCain drags her family through presidential politics most days on the view. “But my Dad…..” (And, gee, I wonder if she’d have that job if she was not a “McCain.” # https://t.co/CUkpnXY6wr
— Denis Stearns (@denisstearns) May 27, 2019
1) You remember him running for President in 2000 and 2008? He’s part of the history of presidential politics.
2) Did you try calling/DMing @amyklobuchar instead of using your dad’s corpse as a cudgel for presidential politics?
3) I bet you were a disappointment to your dad. https://t.co/jQNauT0dbZ
— Gary M. Sarli♿️🎓🎲 (@GMSarli) May 27, 2019
He’s a public figure.
And we have a First Amendment.Nothing disrespectful here. Only your desire to always center yourself where you were… irrelevant. https://t.co/OtrwmnndHK
— Now The Work Begins (@tummler10) May 27, 2019
I think you use your father every single day! YOU ARE SUCH A HYPOCRITE.😠😠😵 https://t.co/a7Ss1iAIoJ
— Sherry Smolders (@SherrySmolders) May 27, 2019
“please be respectful… “, those words are weird coming out of your mouth. You don’t know what they mean because you would’ve been respectful in all the chances you got this year while talking about so many people, if you did https://t.co/dRY6a5FqJB
— lightbluegreen (@lightbluegreen1) May 27, 2019
What the fuck is this? https://t.co/jUsDGQTuor
— David Rothschild (@DavMicRot) May 27, 2019
Image by Public Relations Department of Parliament of Latvia/Ernests Dinka, Saeimas Administrācija via Flickr and a CC license
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