Clearly John McCain is just the guy to lead this country. Turns out back in 1992 he responded to a playful jibe about his bald spot with, “At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt.” The playful jibe was from his wife.
Let me restate that. Within full view of campaign staff and reporters this man called his wife a cunt. Really! He has so little respect for the primary woman in his life that he would publicly call her a C-U-N-T. How does he treat her privately?
Not to mention the implications of a man with a temper like this running the country. The Raw Story puts it succinctly:
McCain’s excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days.
Perhaps we’re being harsh here. Perhaps in the past 16 years Mr. McCain has mellowed a bit. Maybe he has gained control over himself, and saved the potty mouth for private time.
Or maybe not. According to ABC News:
“F— you,” he shouted at Texas Sen. John Cornyn last year.
“Only an a—— would put together a budget like this,” he told the former Budget Committee chairman, Sen. Pete Domenici, in 1999.
“I’m calling you a f—— jerk!” he once retorted to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley.
With Cornyn, he smoothed things over quickly. The two argued during a meeting on immigration legislation; Cornyn complained that McCain seemed to parachute in during the final stages of negotiations. “F— you. I know more about this than anyone else in the room,” McCain reportedly shouted.
Cornyn chuckled at the memory of what he called McCain’s “aggressive expressions of differences.” The Texan has endorsed McCain.
“He almost immediately apologized to me,” Cornyn said last week. “I accepted his apology, and as far as I’m concerned, we’ve moved on down the road.”
Oh he apologized afterwards… that makes it OK then. I mean a man with a history of these kinds of outburst is perfectly qualified to, say, negotiate the thorny political landscape of the Middle East, or negotiate trade agreements with prickly and overbearing China, or navigate the partisan minefield of our own political system and effect change at home.
Yeah John-fucking-McCain for President.
