Only MTV can ask John McCain the hard-hitting questions about Jersey Shore:

“And I want to say to Snooki, I miss you. I hope you’re happy. I hope everything’s fine with your baby and I wish you’d get rid of some of those jerks you’re hanging around with,” he told MTV News earlier this week. “But that just comes from an old geezer that doesn’t understand a lot of that lifestyle.”

 McCain and Snooki go way back as they tweeted back in 2010 after she criticized the tanning tax now named after her. Even Mitt Romney was courting the Jersey Shore vote.

And Snooki shouted out right back at McCain!

 

“I love you, John McCain,” Snooki said. “And thank you for the shout-out and Lorenzo’s doing awesome, and you should come over and bring him a present.”