I have surged from a measly 76th place in 2009 to a glorious 40th place this year in the Total Politics 2010 list of the Top 100 right-wing blogs.

As a treat I offer you this review by Leon Wolf of the book Dirty, Sexy Politics by Meghan McCain. It is an account of her father’s doomed Presidential campaign as seen from the inside.

It is fair to say that Mr Wolf does not rate this book highly. Marvel as he warms to his task – and tears it limb from limb:

… it is physically impossible for Meghan McCain to describe a given scene or occurrence without describing in detail what everyone in the room was wearing (and how their hair was done), most especially including herself. I stopped counting the number of times she informed me that she was wearing UGG boots on a given occasion at five.

Dirty, Sexy Politics is 194 pages long; if you removed the descriptions of outfits and hairstyles so-and-so wore when such-and-such was going on, I doubt it would have scraped 120 pages. 

I wish I could say the preceding sentence was gross hyperbole, but if you have made it this far in this review, you deserve the truth: it isn’t.

Lots more where that comes from.

Phew.