But now John McCain's daughter openly published a book about his experiences during the presidential campaign, and not everyone is happy. She has kind of sort of withdrawal after Sarah Palin, for one thing. She writes that she called Palin "Time Bomb."
"I was waiting to explode," writes Mrs. McCain. "There was a fine line between genius and madness, they say, and the choice of her as the running mate was beginning to look like a definition of that line."
Should we be surprised that the young McCain is not exactly the party line mouthing? I probably should not be - is not the daughter of a rebel? In addition, one of his personal mottos is "No secrets."
That's what she writes on page 31 of "Sexy Dirty Politics," anyway.
"Because one way or another, all things are revealed. I think," she writes.
In that spirit, here are some other good parts of the book:
Meghan McCain was obsessed with Mitt Romney. OK, so it was a "minor" obsession in his words, but in the weeks and months before her father locked up the nomination, Romney "was the politician to whom I most wanted to see and ridicule."
He liked to make fun of his stiff, perfectly coiffed, and the blinding whiteness of the teeth of the Romney family, apparently. However, she thought he was the leading candidate for the running mate of his father, before the actual election is done. "There was a slight possibility that it might be [the Governor of Minnesota], Tim Pawlenty, who had a great head of hair," McCain writes.
She cried the day Sarah Palin was chosen. This was not Palin per se, however. McCain, who was traveling with the campaign of his father as a person and overall blogger youth outreach, said the morning of the announcement of VP, because nobody told him who I was. This little demonstrated their relative position in the hierarchy of the campaign, he felt.
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