In her currently-being-promoted audio memoir, Meghan McCain criticizes those in her father’s 2008 presidential campaign who treated Sarah Palin “really horribly. Set her up for failure.” Actually, thank you Nicole Wallace of MSNBC, who was part of the McCain campaign. She facilitated the infamous interview of Palin by Katie Couric, which essentially unmasked Palin as an embarrassingly clueless candidate.
And let’s not forget the unforgiveable, which McCain’s daughter seemingly has. It was John McCain’s call to put the unconscionably unprepared, uninformed Palin on a ticket, which was flat-out dangerous, plus an insulting sop to female voters. The ripple-effect reality: McCain’s choice helped pave the way for Donald Trump. When the bar is subterranean low for a presidential-ticket candidate, anything is possible. Couple that with a Trump base-affronting African-American on the other ticket, we had the perfect storm–that we haven’t recovered from.