In a very personal piece on Politico, Drew recalls how during the 2000 presidential primary race she felt great admiration for McCain and considered him a man of "principle and honor" who "voted his conscience, and demonstrated courage in bucking his own party and fighting for what he believed in."
Back then, she firmly believed in---and helped create--the image of him as a maverick in the Republican party.
But no more. In the last few years, Drew has been troubled by some of McCain's behavior: his fixation on "winning the war," his yielding to Bush on torture, his waning support for campaign finance reform (after it proved politically unpopular with Republicans).
But the final straw for Drew was McCain's "willingness to lie repeatedly (including in his acceptance speech) and to play Russian roulette with the vice-presidency, in order to fulfill his long-held ambition."
Drew, who has had more access to the man than many, has concluded that there is:
"a disturbingly erratic side of McCain’s nature. There’s a certain lack of seriousness in him. And he does not appear to be a reflective man, or very interested in domestic issues. One cannot imagine him ruminating late into the night about, say, how to educate and train Americans for the new global and technological challenges."
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