“‘McCain looked like something out of The Shining, that part where Jack Nicholson goes GGGRRRRRR!’ confided one adviser from a rival campaign.”

Kathryn Jean Lopez

Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.