The New York Times magazine has a brief interview with John McCain in which McCain is asked whether he would tap his wife's fortune for his struggling campaign:

  • Might you consider borrowing, say, $5 million from your wife, Cindy, an heiress to an Arizona beer-distribution fortune?

    I would never do such a thing. I don’t think it’s the appropriate thing to do.

    Why not? You’d consider it an insult to your masculine pride?

    No, it really isn’t masculine pride. It’s more that I think getting small donations is part of campaigning. It’s part of whether you can succeed or fail. I think that’s going to be the key to our success in the future, whether we can get the small-donor base.

    I’m sure you’re aware that your rival Mitt Romney just tapped into his personal savings to self-finance his campaign.

    Yeah, $9 or $10 million or whatever. I am not criticizing anyone else’s decisions, but I should be able to raise my own money from contributors or take matching funds according to the law, not dip into my wife’s assets.

    Did she ask you to sign a prenuptial agreement when you married her?

    Yes, yes. That was 27 years ago. We were married in 1980.