Hillary's VP pick will decide the election. The only person that I believe she can

[MADem]

168. I don't think McCain made any deal with Carol. He signed over his retirement to her

and their houses as a condition of the divorce, plus she gets alimony still and she is covered under TRICARE for Life as an unremarried military spouse. She is quite disabled as she was in a car accident (bad one, too--she damn near died) that crushed her legs and ended up costing her a great deal of her height. She was a former model when she married her first, abusive husband--McCain was not abusive (if you don't count infidelity as abusive, I guess), he adopted her kids--those "boys" of his from her are her ex-husband's-- but when he came home from Vietnam, he'd changed, she'd changed and it just wasn't happening. She knew he was screwing around, she just didn't think he'd want to move on, and that came as a surprise to her. There was sadness but no sustained hard feelings. It was 'over' way before Cindy, even though he diddle-daddled about getting the divorce. He was the Pig on the Hill when he was up at OLA--cut a wide swathe through the secretarial pool and left a lot of young ladies offended and pissed off, all the while playing the war hero card and networking. The wikipedia on Carol pretty much lays it all out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_McCain

She also continued to work after the divorce, and had jobs in the Saint Ronnie of Raygun presidential campaign effort (working for Nancy) as well as the White House and elsewhere. She was an early pro at the "Event Planning" game. She's retired now.

I will say this--there was a reason that McCain, unlike his father AND his grandfather, didn't make it to Flag rank, despite being a POW and from a family of Admirals. He should have been a shoo-in. It didn't have to do with his conduct running OLA (it runs itself, pretty much--there are a lot of careerists there) but it did have to do with his conduct "off duty" as well as his attitude after he came home. He was an asshole who didn't work and play well with others--and he didn't "fit in" with the rest of the senior leadership, he just didn't know how to rein it in.