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Meghan McCain Writes that Palin Brought 'Drama, Stress... Panic' to Campaign (Gawd help us)
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/exclusive-meghan-mccain-breaks-silence-sarah-palin/story?id=11521614 ^

Posted on 08/31/2010 7:09:21 AM PDT by cycle of discernment

Exclusive: Meghan McCain Writes that Palin Brought 'Drama, Stress... Panic' to Campaign

Sen. John McCain's Daughter: Sarah Palin's Rise Was 'Too Fast,' 'Too Easy'

Aug. 31, 2010—

For the first time since the end of her father's 2008 presidential bid, Sen. John McCain's daughter Meghan McCain spoke out about Sarah Palin, writing in a new book that Palin brought "drama, stress, complications, panic and loads of uncertainty" to the losing campaign.

Though she writes that during the campaign she wondered if the loss "was Sarah Palin's fault," McCain told "Good Morning America" today in an exclusive interview that Palin was not the reason the campaign failed.

"I do clearly state at the end that we did not lose because of her and I'm speaking out now because I do have conflicting feelings about her," McCain told "GMA's" George Stephanopoulos. "She brought so much momentum and enthusiasm to the campaign."

CLICK HERE to read an excerpt of Meghan McCain's book "Dirty Sexy Politics."

Before Palin came on board, McCain said she knew drama was brewing.

"I had learned a few things on the campaign already, and knew that change always brought complications and chaos and sometimes a little entertainment. Drama was inevitable on a campaign and created almost out of thin air. Tempers were always flying, and feelings were always being hurt. There was no question that a running mate would add to the confusion and upset. There would be less time for fun," she writes. "But I couldn't have predicted just how serious it was going to get."

McCain admitted that during the campaign she stumbled when asked whether she had doubts about Palin's presence on the ticket and in the book said that Joe Lieberman was her favorite pick.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010electionbias; abcdisneynews; antirepublican; bigmedia; boycottdisney; collusion; disney; dnctalkingpoints; hyperion; journolistgate; mccain4dnc; mccain4obama; mccainvsamerica; mccainvsgop; mediabias; mediagate; octobersurprise; payola; piglet; pravdamedia; rattricks; waltsrotatingcorpse; yellowjournalism; zogbyism
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To: cycle of discernment


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

21 posted on 08/31/2010 7:15:00 AM PDT by The Comedian
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To: butterdezillion

She is a priceless PR gift for the Progressive Fascist media machine and too stupid to realize it. She is a fat kid nerd who actually thinks “the in crowd finally like me, they really like me”

Poor deluded fool has no clue all they are doing is using her. If her dad had lost in the primary, or does lose in the election, it will be “”Meghan who” to these Leftist propagandists.


22 posted on 08/31/2010 7:15:02 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The problem with Socialism is sooner or later you run out of other people's money. Lady Thatcher)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Personally, I still wear my McCain/Palin 2012 t-shirt, with a big X marked through McCain’s name.


23 posted on 08/31/2010 7:15:30 AM PDT by KansasGirl (No, I do not proofread.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
There was no way in hell I was going to vote for McCain....

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So, you're one of those guys who takes his ball and goes home if he doesn't get what he wants and the hell with everyone else....real classy.

24 posted on 08/31/2010 7:16:10 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: cycle of discernment

Oink Oink...


25 posted on 08/31/2010 7:16:13 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: cycle of discernment
Hey Meghan! Show us your augmentation scars!
26 posted on 08/31/2010 7:16:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: cycle of discernment

She is a bimbo and just wants attention. If it hadn’t been for Sarah, McCain’s loss would have been even bigger.


27 posted on 08/31/2010 7:16:32 AM PDT by bamagirl1944 (That's short for Alabama, not Obama)
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To: cycle of discernment

I imagine she did bring panic and stress to the McCain “campaign”. There was a time there when it started to look like McCain/Palin had a chance to win. That must have scared the hell out of McCain and his band of RINO boys who were only running for president because it was their turn.


28 posted on 08/31/2010 7:16:46 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Help fight government obesity! Throw the bums out in November!)
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To: KansasGirl

2012 = 2008


29 posted on 08/31/2010 7:17:42 AM PDT by KansasGirl (No, I do not proofread.)
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To: wtc911

You are one of my favorite freepers. [/s]


30 posted on 08/31/2010 7:18:08 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: cycle of discernment

Excerpt from article:

One area where McCain does not stumble in the book is her take on Sarah Palin’s “disastrous” interview with CBS News’ Katie Couric ahead of the vice presidential debate when she couldn’t even state what newspapers she reads.

“Katie Couric’s interview with her before the vice presidential debate had been disasterous. Unhappy with her performance, Palin seemed to blame the interview on the campaign. And she continued to blame other poor interviews and snafus on the campaign too,” McCain writes. “Sarah Palin. She was turning out to be somebody who leaves a wake of confusion and chaos – to the point of dizziness – wherever she went.”

At first, the chaos was overwhelming, McCain said.

“She was not just an overnight success or even a political Cinderella story. She was a sudden, freakishly huge, full-fledged phenomenon. It seemed too much. And it seemed too easy,” McCain writes.

Now, McCain said she respects Palin as “a Republican feminist,” she stopped short of saying she would vote for Palin should the former Alaska governor end up on the 2012 presidential ticket.

“I really don’t like these hypothetical questions... It depends on the situation,” McCain said. “Anything can happen in the primaries... It’s going to be a very interesting election no matter what happens.”

“It’s no secret that I’m so unlike her,” she told “Good Morning America.”

(Name of Megan’s new book: “Dirty, Sexy Politics” puhleeeeze)


31 posted on 08/31/2010 7:18:21 AM PDT by cycle of discernment
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To: cycle of discernment

32 posted on 08/31/2010 7:19:06 AM PDT by Iron Munro (I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take any more beatings.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

You are not alone..I did the same thing I was not going to vote until Sarah come into the picture..

This chubby RINO needs to shut up and go away..


33 posted on 08/31/2010 7:19:25 AM PDT by PLD (When you receive a kindness,remember it;when you bestow one,forget it)
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To: MNJohnnie

Classless bitch. No Freepers buy this book, okay?


34 posted on 08/31/2010 7:19:53 AM PDT by GoCards ("We eat therefore we hunt...")
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To: cycle of discernment
Why won't anybody listen to me?!! I'm serious!!


35 posted on 08/31/2010 7:20:42 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: Iron Munro

She looks just like her Dad only fatter, IMO.


36 posted on 08/31/2010 7:20:45 AM PDT by KansasGirl (No, I do not proofread.)
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To: cycle of discernment

“I do clearly state at the end that we did not lose because of her”

My guess is that after some reflection, Meghan figured out that it might be more plausible to think people voted against McCain because they concluded someone with such a dimwit daughter might not be competent to serve as POTUS, than because he put Palin on the ticket.


37 posted on 08/31/2010 7:20:45 AM PDT by DrC
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To: cycle of discernment
"But I couldn't have predicted just how serious it was going to get."

Well dang. All this time I figured if anyone had their finger on the pulse of the mccain political campaign, it had to be that strategist extraordinaire meghan mccain.

Speaking of drama, the way her daddy declared that both parties should suspend their campaigns until they could come up with some sort of solution to address the economic meltdown was fricking brilliant.

38 posted on 08/31/2010 7:21:22 AM PDT by new cruelty
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To: cycle of discernment

Miss PIGGY defines “drama” again? (So like her Father.)


39 posted on 08/31/2010 7:21:58 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP ( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2!)
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To: cycle of discernment

Megan prefers to spend most of her time in the water. It helps to support her immense weight.


40 posted on 08/31/2010 7:23:15 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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