Mad John McCain — the Don Rickles of Politics

What a funny guy….Mad McCain’s latest TV ads mock Obama as too celeb and mock the Bible story of Moses…hey, rightwing bible-thumpers….what’cha think of that? Anyway, Mad McCain says the TV ads are just his way of injecting some fun into the campaign. A real jokester…remember McCain’s 1998 joke suggesting that Chelsea Clinton was ugly and Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton were lesbians.

“Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?” McCain said at a GOP fund-raiser in Washington. “Because Janet Reno is her father.”

“I have witnessed incidents where he has used profanity at colleagues and exploded at colleagues,” said former Senator Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican who served with McCain on the Senate Armed Services Committee and on Republican policy committees. “He would disagree about something and then explode. It was incidents of irrational behavior. We’ve all had incidents where we have gotten angry, but I’ve never seen anyone act like that.”

“What has struck me about McCain is that everybody underestimated the ability of his advisers and him to hypnotize the national media, because most of us in the media in Arizona thought of him as a guy who had a terrible temper, occasionally had a foul mouth, a guy who whined and pouted unless he got his way,” Murphy said. “McCain has a temper that is bombastic, volatile, and purple-faced. Sometimes he gets out of control. Do you want somebody sitting in the White House with that kind of temper?’….Pat Murphy, an editor at the Arizona Republic, 2006…

With Mad McCain’s documented history of foul-mouthed outbursts and on-the-verge of freakin-out temper tantrums, he wakes every day a shuffling, quivering surge of repressed anger barely contained by a variety of common meds that his staff fear he might forget to injest with his morning bowl of cream of wheat and prune juice.