McCain's Mom Is Not Hopeful About the 2008 Election Results, Keeps it Real

As we await the 2008 election results, John McCain’s mom is over it, according to her twin sister Rowena Willis. Today The Daily Beast reports that Roberta McCain doesn’t really give a crap what happens and has stated her son would need a miracle to win. No one could accuse Momma McCain of nancying around that issue.

According to The Daily Beast:

A grueling and bitter campaign has taken its toll on family morale, John McCain's aunt, Rowena Willis, told The Daily Beast today in an exclusive interview.

 

According to the 96 year-old Willis, her twin sister, Roberta McCain, the candidate's mother, has become resigned to her son's electoral fate.

 

"She really doesn't care," Willis said of her 96-year old twin sister, who has campaigned for her son and recorded TV ads with him. “‘Let these bastards get in,’ she says, ‘I don't give a damn anymore. If these people want to buy votes and get their people in office, let them suffer for it in the way of high taxes.’”

 

In an interview earlier this month with The Daily Beast, Willis told me that McCain was losing. McCain's mother told supporters at the time to "pray for a miracle," and Willis said she was still praying for a victory for her beloved nephew, whom she described as "honest" and incorruptible.

 

"I'm hoping he wins, for the country's sake. I figure it will kill him, but he's going to die one day anyway, so he might as well do it there," she said, "But that man is honest—he has all the money in the world, he could do whatever he wants, even without his wife's money, which he does not have; they keep it separate. He has a good pension from the Navy and my father was very rich."

I’m not sure if Auntie Rowena is aware that McCain has been running his campaign by attacking Barack Obama as an elitist and appropriating blue collar Americana semiotics, but referring to Joe the Plumber’s old pal Johnny as wealthy hardly contributes favorably to his cause. It may explain McCain’s bizarre behavior during the final presidential debate, however, when he stared into the camera saying, “Hey Joe, you’re rich. Congratulations.” Perhaps calling people rich is just what the McCain family does.