Meghan was a Punk Rocker

Well, in the United States, today is Election Day. And while this is a landmark day globally, it’s especially pertinent to me, as it marks the final destination for my favourite blog, McCain Blogette. While I’m going to miss the Blogette, I take comfort in knowing that Meghan McCain’s legendary playlists will live on forever in my Itunes library (with all tracks purchased legally, of course, from the Itunes store).

After tearfully reviewing the last several days of McCain blogging, it’s been brought to my attention, recently, that Meghan McCain is a devoted punk rocker. Per McCain Blogette, she possesses an intuitive understanding of punk rock– indicating that she is a long-standing enthusiast and a student of the punk rock form:

'Their ... was ground-breaking, as was their loud, fast-paced music. We might not have the "Guitar Hero" sensation of today were it not for The Ramones.'

And Meghan McCain, it appears, is quite the Ramones fan (writing that, in fact, her first kiss was to the backdrop of the Ramones; I am jealous, as my first kiss was a. not with Meghan McCain, and b. to the soundtrack of the Jonas Brothers' 'Lovebug'). She had spent the last week on the campaign trail with Linda Ramone, who, by my foggy recollection, was a member of the Ramones, the Buzzcocks, the Go-Gos, and 7 Seconds (being the primary songwriter on their iconic pro-lassie tune, 'Not Just Boys Fun'). And, it might surprise you to know that, in fact, both Linda Ramone and the affable Meghan McCain are, in fact, Republicans, campaigning for John McCain.

Now, due to punk rock’s ‘supposed’ longstanding liberal tradition, it might seem inconsistant that Meghan McCain can be both a punk rocker and a Republican. Embittered record store clerks, aging-yet-still-struggling musicians employed by music stores, those who have committed to neck tattoos at a much-too-tender age, and unemployed Liberal Arts graduates have long identified with the latent anger of punk rock; but, aside from perhaps the latter point, Meghan McCain is none of these things. But this nary matters.

The punk rock canon boasts plenty of notable conservatives – such as Dave Smalley of DYS, Dag Nasty, and Down by Law, Michale Graves, a notable mis-fitted Danzig-replacement, Johnny Ramone, and a deceased member of Cleveland punk-pioneers the Dead Boys.

N.B. Unfortunately, George Burdi, formerly of right-wing punk rock powerhouse Racial Holy War (Rahowa), can no longer be included on the list of notable punk rock convervatives. He has abandoned his conservative roots, espousing them for the logical end-result of liberal media inundation: inter-racial marriage and tantric sex. He now plays in a band called Novocosm, or Ubiquitous Synergy Syndrome, or some other such tantric band.

But Meghan, Meghan McCain, she is the future. She is the future of not just conservative punk rock, but punk rock period. She possesses the education, being a Columbia graduate, to step toe-to-toe in academic discourse with punk rock professor Greg Graffin (of Bad Religion) Dr. Milo Aukerman (of the Descendents), or Ph.D wannabe Dexter Holland (of the Offspring); media acumen that would make anarcho-performance artists Crass jealous; and she is better looking than Exene Cervenka.

I repeat: Meghan McCain is the future.

In the topsy-turvy world where heralded Obama supporter Common’s ‘daughter found emo (and him, the new Primo),’ it seems that McCain’s daughter has found freeganism, dumpster-diving, PCP, and the benefits of having as many mangy dogs as you have friends. On Election Day 2008, if Meghan McCain and her fellow Republicans march into the homeland of Ian MacKaye and the Revolution Summer, I fully trust that, like Rites of Spring, the ‘world will be their fuse’.

And, on that note, I leave you a video of Rites of Spring's 'Deeper than Inside.'

*** Despite the snarkiness, DYS and Dag Nasty are still some of the best hardcore bands ever.