throw the ball through double cover an over the middle of the field with a head win, where all the elements were against us. john mccain was going to pick joe lieberman. >> i get a call from rick davis who was campaign manager for john mccain's presidential campaign in 2008. he said john would like to put you on the list of people that could be vetted to be his vice presidential running mate. i said, are you kidding me? he said no, i'm not. it was a bold idea. >> barack obama was beginning to walk on the mountain tops and you were not going to defeat him with a conventional campaign. >> in his book "the restless wave" mccain expressed regret for not having been talked out of it by campaign staff.