My People Will Be In Touch With Your People

But how do you do lunch with a ghost?:

The daughter of Sen. John McCain is being followed on Twitter by Karl Rove — and she’s finding the experience “creepy.” Not only that, but the Tweets she gets back from Rove in return strike her as “boring.”

“Karl Rove follows me on Twitter,” Meghan McCain writes at The Daily Beast. “That’s creepy. I joined Twitter a few months ago; so far, it has been a liberating way to transition from political to personal blogging. … But there’s also been a downside: I am now being followed by Karl Rove, and my local sheriff, and God knows how many other political pundits. We need to take Twitter back from the creepy people.”

McCain suspects that Rove’s own tweets may be the product of an assistant, or “ghost Twitterer,” since they reveal so little about him — unlike her own father’s far more personal twittering.

“Sometimes he takes questions,” she says of Rove, “other times he talks about his appearances on cable news and other shows. But he doesn’t say anything substantive. … And it’s a bit weird to think his people — not even Rove himself — are following me. I’d like to think it’s because they find what I’m saying entertaining, but I can’t help thinking they’re just trying to seem connected to young people.”

...“The Twitter creeps gets stranger,” McCain writes now. “My local Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (who, as the author of America’s Toughest Sheriff, is notorious in his own right, recently sent me a Tweet about an answer I gave a fellow Twitter follower. He tried to tell me to go easy on them. It’s really scary when the guy who houses his inmates in tents in the summer and whose most visible public relations success involves pink underwear, boxers, and handcuffs tells you to tone it down. The sheriff also inexplicably Tweeted me to say my mother owes him $10. Say what?”