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Video: Meghan McCain describes how she cried when learning of Sarah Palin's nomination

Sarah Palin and Meghan McCain did not have a healthy relationship  during the 2008 campaign.
Sarah Palin and Meghan McCain did not have a healthy relationship during the 2008 campaign.
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Last night Meghan McCain revealed some more interesting details about Sarah Palin on the Jay Leno Show last night.  McCain made the appearance as part of the promotion for her new book "Dirty Sexy Politics," which chronicles her life as the daughter of the former Republican nominee for President, Senator John McCain.

In the interview with Leno, Meghan McCain claims that she cried when she found out that her dad picked then-Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin as his running mate.  McCain said her initial reaction was "Who the hell is Sarah Palin?"  McCain also calls Palin a "time bomb" for the campaign, and states she was worried that Palin would have skeletons in her closet.

As Meghan McCain revealed in the rest of the interview, she was never very welcome in the McCain campaign for various reasons.  Some of Meghan McCain's viewpoints, such as her support for gay rights, do not fit well with the Republican base.  In addition, advisers were worried about Meghan McCain's appearance and "distracting" quotes she might make.  As it turned out, Palin ended up providing some of the more costly gaffes of the 2008 campaign.

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Comments

  • Anonymous 1 year ago

    "Who the hell is Sarah Palin?" Here's a better question for Meghan "What the hell is a RINO?"
    A RINO besides other things, is someone whom will NEVER BE PRESIDENT! LOL

  • walrus 1 year ago

    and Sarah Square Pants is president?

  • Anonymous 1 year ago

    I'd have been happy to let her cry on my shoulder. She's certainly hotter than Palin!

  • MickNY 1 year ago

    Dude, she's 30 years younger, she should look hotter. But hey, for a granny, Palin is none to shabby, a real GILF.

  • Anonymous 1 year ago

    Dude, do the math....

    Sarah Palin: 2/11/1964
    Meghan McCain: 10/23/1984

    Palin just LOOKS 30 years older. She ain't aging gracefully.

  • Anonymous 1 year ago

    Starving children in Africa cried when Meghan McCain got her sausage-fingered meathooks on all the food trays backstage during John McCain's 2008 campaign stops.
    Conservatives also cried when the flip-flopping, pro-amnesty RINO daddy of this ignorant bimbo won the Republican nomination and went on to lose big to a community organizing, snakeoil/magic elixir peddling socialist.

  • Anonymous 1 year ago

    what a wide net you cast - You hate plump people, John McCain and Barack Obama.
    How exhausting!! - lg

  • Anonymous 1 year ago

    I don't hate all dopey fat girls, just the ones that eat all the shrimp and whine about the higher poll numbers their RINO daddy's campaign got by bringing a conservative on board before blowing an election.

    "what a wide net you cast - You hate plump people, John McCain and Barack Obama.
    How exhausting!! - lg"

  • Anonymous 1 year ago

    More dopey fat girls (beyond Meghan McCain) plus shrimp eaters and whiners. Are you close to getting tired? - lg

  • Anonymous 1 year ago

    after the katie couric interview, I cried too..."We're finally going to have a black man in the white house"...McCain cried at that very instant also, "We're going to have a black in the white house instead of me! And it's all WinkWink's fault over there!"

  • MickNY 1 year ago

    In the end McCain can only blame himself then really.

  • Anonymous 1 year ago

    after the katie couric interview

    Whos that?

  • walrus 1 year ago

    please don't interrupt....go play with your leggos and let the adults talk...when you get older, we'll tell you about politics and katie couric and jon stewart and stuff like that....in the meantime, don't worry your pretty little head about adult things.

  • walrus 1 year ago

    McCain had a good chance to win...then he chose WinkWink and lost...a republican friend of mine said after the Katie Couric interview, "Palin just lost McCain his chance to win the presidency"

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  • Jordan99 1 year ago

    They only book Megan so they can make fun of her valley girl act. She only embarrases herself.

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