Former Sen. John McCain, when selecting Sarah Palin as his 2008 presidential running mate, mimed shaking a pair of dice before telling his advisers, “Fuck it. Let’s do it.” The report comes from an upcoming book by New York Times political reporter Jeremy W. Peters. Axios confirmed the conversation with a top McCain source.
According to the book, Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted, the discussion occurred at McCain’s Sedona, Ariz., ranch in August 2008. Peters wrote, “Mark Salter, a longtime aide to McCain, cautioned him that voters could see a Palin pick as discordant with the message of readiness and experience that the campaign had been focusing on as a contrast with Obama, a forty-seven-year-old first-term senator. ‘There’s worse things, John, than losing an election. You could lose your reputation,’ Salter told…
