The writer states: (Palin doubtless also feels that she's on solid factual ground with Going Rogue, but it has been dismissed by senior McCain staffers as "total fiction".)

    It's beginning to look like senior McCain staffers were so intent on attacking Palin they forgot they were supposed to be working for McCain.
    McCain himself proved to be a questionable judge of character: first with the people who spent all his money so he had to start from ground zero with fund raising, to the staffers who happily sandbagged Sarah Palin, to Palin herself.
    Putting Palin in play, like he did, was a lot like "the break" at the start of a game of pool, who knows where the balls will end up?