The Most Scathing And Correct Review Of Dirty, Sexy Politics by Meghan McCain

What is it with daughters of some Republicans!! Reagan had Patty, Palin has Bristol who talks to celebrity media too much about her private family affairs (and who now will be on Dancing with the Stars) , and poor McCain has Meghan . Say what you can about the Bush daughters , but besides just doing average college stuff they rarely disgraced the family.

I was never anti Meghan McCain during the campaign. I thought she was amusing but I thought she had some lick of common sense. Then came her book Dirty, Sexy Politics. Good Grief!!

It is sad that Meghan McCain is the McCain child that has produced a book. I much rather had read a book from one of the McCain boys who followed their families tradition entered the service. A book by Jimmy McCain would have been a better read and showed a lot more honor to the aamily name that served this country for over a century. Jimmy enlisted in the Marines at 17 and was patrolling Iraq on the night of this dad's primary victory in New Hampshire. True it would not have been about the "campaign" but as we see we learn little about the campaign itself in Megan's book.

I disagree with Meghan's politics but I am most angry that a person that was so privileged to see so much history appears to be squandering it to get some cheap 15 minutes of fame.

The New Ledger has a painful but needed review of this garbage. I mean at the end of it one fears sorry for Meghan. See Meghan McCain’s Dirty, Sexy Politics.

OUCH OUCH OUCH. That was a tough but needed review. Hopefully it will be read before someone thinks Meghan McCain should occupy more of our time.

What is shocking is that Meghan it appears thought there was no need for an editor. Which perhaps shows her very big view of herself. The factual errors are horrid.

Again what a sad waste that a person that has seen Americans and American politics up close and personal but seems to have tuned most of it out.

Let me add I am most disappointed in her attacks on Huckabee. She might disagree with him and that is fine. However the fact is Huckabee showed great respect for her father. In the primary he never went for the juglar as to McCain and treated him with honor. In fact I thought he did quite well by Reagan's 11th commandment. Meghan pays this back by wrath. What is funny is despite being in the midst of it she seems to fail to see how Huckabee played a crucial role in it not being Romney as the nominee instead of her dad.

From the review:
Such substantial portions of Dirty, Sexy Politics are devoted to these and other unfounded delusions of persecution that a qualified practitioner could probably render a DSM-IV diagnosis on the basis of reading the book alone. However, when McCain turns from bemoaning the conspiracy to drum her out of the party to actual electoral prognostication, the wheels really come off the factual bus.

For instance, McCain devotes a lengthy passage to explaining how Mike Huckabee’s victory in the Iowa Caucuses ipso facto proves that the nominating process is broken. McCain claims that the first two contests which set the tone for the nomination are Iowa and South Carolina, which are “specifically conservative” (as opposed to generally conservative, which would presumably be less scary and ominous). Therefore, her “reasoning” goes, the process tends to lead to someone unelectable like Mike Huckabee getting the nomination.

Let’s unpack this a little bit. First, Iowa is a swing state. It went for Gore in 2000, Bush in 2004, and Obama in 2008. It is one of the few states in the entire country that swung to Bush in 2004, and then to Obama in 2008 (unless I am misreading my map, New Mexico appears to be the only other). Republican voters in Iowa have got some idiosyncratic tendencies (they tend to be very conservative on immigration and are big on ethanol pork), but it’s flatly erroneous to call Iowa as a state “specifically conservative,” insofar as we can safely assume that “specifically conservative” means “very conservative.”

Second, this narrative ignores the existence of the New Hampshire primaries entirely; an omission that is especially shocking given that McCain devotes an entire chapter of the book to how much she loves New Hampshire, and recounting both of her father’s wins in the New Hampshire primaries.

Third, and most importantly, the end result of Mike Huckabee winning the Iowa caucuses was… the eventual nomination of John McCain, who was probably the most moderate candidate in the field. Free advice to Meghan McCain: if you’re going to stake an argument for sweeping change on a single event in history, it’s helpful to pick an event that didn’t culminate in the exact opposite of the calamity your proposed change seeks to avoid. Just a thought.

Exactly!!! We get a sense of why dad, who no doubt truly loves her, made sure she had no real responsibility.

Again what a tragic waste. At 25 years of age she thinks she has knows so much about the world that she has burned a ton of bridges in a very bad book.

Looking back I wonder if John McCain secretly wonders instead of spending all that money on Columbia he should have just sent her to ASU.

On the positive note it appears that this mind will not be on the national scene much longer. If another McCain enters the political arena it will be his sons which I suspect have something beyond a cartoon version of the world.